Philip O'Keefe - Producer/Engineer

A studio's equipment is obviously very important, as is the acoustical environment and skill of the staff. Our gear philosophy is to purchase gear that is of high quality and capabilities but not so expensive that we have to charge our customers a huge amount of money to make the payments on the gear - we look for equipment that is high on "bang for the bucks". We've got a lot of gear here in the studio, and it's always being upgraded and added to, and new items are constantly coming through and being reviewed for EQ magazine and for my EQ magazine online forum, so a complete listing would likely be out of date shortly after we posted it to this site, so this list is subject to change and may not be current at the time you read this. Please feel free to contact us if you have any specific gear related questions.

Mixing Console: Yamaha 01V96 40 channel, totally recallable console with motorized faders, Yamaha 01X keyboard submixer.

DAW Controllers: Yamaha 01V96 / Digi 002 control surface for a total of 24 simultaneous faders for DAW software control. Frontier Design Tranzport wireless remote DAW controller. Yamaha 01X an additional 8 motorized faders for control of Sonar and Cubase.

Recorders: Software: Digidesign Pro Tools LE, Steinberg Cubase SX, Cakewalk Sonar Producer's Edition, Sony Sound Forge and Vegas. Hardware: Alesis ADAT, Otari MX5050 IIb analog half track, Tascam 202 Mk II cassette, Sony PCM-R300 DAT.

Audio Interfaces: Digi 002, M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 (2), Yamaha 01X and i88X.

Effects: Hardware: Ensoniq DP/4, DP/4+, Lexicon LXP-15, Yamaha SPX900 with remote. Four effects processors built into the Yamaha 01V96 console, with optional Yamaha add on effects packages. Software? Way too many plug in effects to list!

Outboard Equipment: Vintech Dual 72 (two channel Neve 1272 clone), modified Presonus MP20 with Jensen transformers and OPA627 op amp upgrade, 4 channel Cohen designed custom built preamp, Joemeek VC3Q [2], MQ3, Yamaha i88X, Aphex 106, Alesis AI-1, Lucid GENx6, Presonus Bluemax, Bellari LA120 [2], M Audio Digipatch 12X6, Vintech Neve 1272, Bellari MP110 [2].

Microphones: We have an extensive mic locker with over 50 microphones, including a good selection of both modern and vintage models. Large and small diaphram condenser and dynamic mics, as well as ribbon and tube mics are all well represented in our collection. Please call for more specific information.

Monitoring: ADAM S3-A nearfield / midfield monitors with three integral 150 Watt amps per speaker, modified, soffit mounted JBL 4412, Simon Systems CB4 cue / headphone distribution system, Crest FA901 and Alesis RA100 monitor amps.

MIDI and Keyboards: Fatar Studio 90 88 key weighted "piano action" controller, Ensoniq ESQ-1, E-MU ESI-32 with Glyph SCSI CD-ROM, Proteus/1 [2], Proformance/1+, Roland R-8M, GI-10 guitar MIDI interface, JV-30, U-220, Alesis Nanosynth, D4, Kurzweil SP88, KMX 8X8 MIDI patchbay, MOTU Micro Express, various computer "Softsynths".

Computers: Athlon 64 3400 with 1 GB of RAM, DVD+/-RW and CD-RW drives, three monitors. Pentium III 933 MHz dedicated "softsynth" / Gigastudio platform.

Guitars / Amps / Effects: Fender Strat, Telecaster, Epiphone Casino, Les Paul, Rickenbacker 610, Danelectro DC-12, Taylor 510, Carlo Robelli jumbo acoustic, Ibanez SR-400 and SR-1100 basses, Fender Princeton Reverb II, modified Super Champ, THD Univalve, Line 6 Pod XT, Bass Pod, Johnson J-Station, various stomp boxes and software amp simulators and effects.