engineer, mixer, and producer of music recordings . programmer and composer of electronic music . college professor . international megastar

studio

The Eye Socket 01The Eye Socket is the name I have given to my personal studio space and the gradually evolving collection of stuff that I use to make records.  The central recording and mixing system is a Mac-based Logic rig with 24 channels of Lucid and 2 channels of Crane Song AD/DA conversion feeding an SPL analog summing mixer:

RME Hammerfall 9652 digital audio interface
(3) Lucid ADA8824 convertors (24 channels in/out)
Crane Song HEDD (2 more channels in/out)
Lucid GENx6 master word clock generator
(2) Universal Audio UAD-1 processor cards
Emagic Unitor-8 MIDI interface
Logic Control and XT control surfaces
and (2) NEC 1850E LCD displays.

Apple Logic
Bias Peak
Ableton Live
Audacity
Universal Audio
SoundToys
Abbey Road Plugins The Eye Socket 02
Native Instruments
GMedia
URS
Celemony
Audio Damage
Sonic Charge
Soundhack
PSP
Smartelectronix
et al

SPL 2384 analog summing mixer
Universal Audio 2-610 preamplfier
Empirical Labs EL8 Distressors (2)
Empirical Labs EL7 FATSO Jr
Kush Audio/ubk Clariphonic parallel equalizer
SPL 9946 Transient Designer
LittleLabs PCP Distro 3.0

Genelec 1031A monitors (2) The Eye Socket 03
A.D.A.M. S1-A (2) and Sub P monitors
Auratone 5C “Super Sound Cube” montitors (2)
Martinsound MonitorMAX stereo monitor controller

Emagic AMT-8 MIDI interface
Clavia Nord Rack 2 digital synthesizer
Waldorf Q Rack (32 voice) digital synthesizer
Waldorf Microwave XT digital synthesizer
Access Virus Indigo 2 digital synthesizer
Oberheim Matrix-1000 analog synthesizer
Hammond F-100 “Extravoice” analog organ/synth
Roland CR-78 analog drumbox with Kenton MIDI retrofit
Wurlitzer 555 “Funmaker” analog organ (with Orbit III synth)
Yamaha SS-30 analog string synthesizer
Korg DS-8 digital synthesizer
Kurzweil K2500RS digital sampler
Ensoniq EPS-16+ digital sampler
Ensoniq Mirage-DSK digital sampler

Klemt Echolette S tape echo The Eye Socket 04
Tesla Echolana 2 tape echo
Maestro Echoplex EP-3 tape echo
Master Room XL-305 spring reverb
Master Room CSR-3 reverb system
Great British Spring Reverb
Furman RV-1 spring reverb
Sherman Filterbank 2
Zvex Lo-Fi Loop Junky
Zvex Fuzz Factory
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff pi
MXR dyna comp

Royer R-121 ribbon (2)
Soundelux U195 condenser
BLUE Baby Bottle condenser
GB Equipments RVH ribbon
Schoeps CMC 5 condenser
Shure SM-7B dynamic
AKG D-11N dynamic
Turner 22D dynamic
Turner S22X crystal
Electro-Voice 611 dynamic
Astatic 77 dynamic
Astatic D-104 crystal
Philips EL 3784/00 dynamic

Technics RS-1500US 2-track analog tape recorder
Rheem Califone 70-TF analog tape recorder
Tascam DA-30 mkII DAT recorder
Tascam 302 dual cassette recorder
Yamaha MT100 4-track cassette recorder
Sony CDP-315 audio CD player

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