Tempo House Recording

New custom made bannister courtesy of Derrick Donahue- Artaworks. It's as handsome as it is code compliant.

Snapshots from a session with Pearl. Photos by Mary Dwan

Epic session from last summer! (from left to right) Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa improvising with Zach Utz, Tiffany Seal, David Jacober and Rod Hamilton. (not pictured: Andrew Bernstein)

The Drum Witch sitting on her throne

Animal Collective lighting it up

Final mixing session for the new Lifted record. 

It's done! Now to wire it up....

Very excited about the new equipment rack for the control room being built by Emmanuel Nicolaidis. Check out his superb work at emmanuelnicolaidis.com

AKG D 112 Type: Dynamic Amount: 1

Josephson E22s  Type: Condenser Amount: 2

Sennheiser MD 421  Type: dynamic Amount: 3

Coles 4038 Type: ribbon Amount: 1

Utilitarian compressor with very precise controls. Although still analog, the detection is microprocessor controlled so the signal stays clean and quiet. Normal mode is fast and responsive, “Super Nice” mode internally routes the signal into three compressors in series with increasing ratios in order to minimize any artifacts.

Smooth optical compression with 5 selectable ratios, each with a slightly different envelope characteristic. All of ours have had their signal paths upgraded for better fidelity. Perfect for vocals and bass but also good on pretty much anything that doesn’t need super fast action. 

Focusrite ISA 428 - Mic Preamp

Similar design to the RNC but with different software controlling the detection so attack and release envelopes react differently.  Log Rel lets more transients through during compression. Sounds good on toms, drum buses and synths I don’t know what to do with.

500 series recreation of the preamps found in the custom console Dan Flickinger built for Sly Stone. You can read more here.