studio

I’m fortunate to have a professional-level personal studio at my house in Upstate, NY. Beautifully designed and built by renowned builder Chris Harmaty in 2012, the studio features well tuned and isolated rooms throughout, all wired with Mogami cabling.

The Neve-centered control room is tightly focused, allowing for effortless dialing of production and mixing.

The live room has a nice medium ambience and houses a lovely Schimmel grand piano and Fender Rhodes.

The drum booth is again tightly focused, constructed with irregularly angled walls to avoid unwanted room resonances.

Two additional amp closets.

One extra live room configured as an echo chamber.

Large windows with gorgeous views of the Catskills!

Dedicated outdoor terrace for relaxing between takes.

Console & preamps

  • Neve 5465 with 16 channels of 34128 preamp/EQ
  • UA 6176 channel strip (2) - 610 preamp with EQ and 1176 compression
  • Great River MP-500NV (2)
  • CAPI vp26 (2)
  • CAPI vp25 (2)
  • CAPI bt50 EQ (2)
  • Goly PQ2 stereo mastering equalizer

    • Monitoring

  • Ex Machina Pulsar

    • Microphones

  • Flea 47
  • AKG 414 (2)
  • Microtech Gefell m300 (2)
  • AEA R84 (2)
  • Beyerdynamic m160 (2)
  • Stager SR-2N (2)
  • AKG D12 E
  • Beyerdynamic m201 (2)
  • Senheiser 421 (6)
  • Electro-Voice RE10
  • Shure sm7b
  • Shure sm57 (3)
  • Shure sm58

    • Converter & Recording

  • Lynx Aurora(n) 24 channel AD/DA converter, thunderbolt 3
  • Logic Pro X
  • Pro Tools standard
  • Ableton Live 11
  • Revox PR99 mkIII 1/4" 2 track tape recorder

    • Dynamics & Effects

  • Dramastic Audio Obsidian stereo compressor
  • UA 1176 (2)
  • UBK Fatso (stereo/dual-mono)
  • Space Echo RE-201
  • Demeter Real Reverb D Spring
  • Sony R7 reverb
  • MXR Flanger/Doubler
  • Marantz PMD222
  • Assortment of pedals...

    • Instruments

  • Schimmel grand piano
  • Fender Rhodes 73
  • Prophet 5 rev4 synth
  • Teenage Engineering op1
  • Moog Minitaur bass synth
  • Korg ms2000 synth
  • Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus 2
  • 70's Slingerland drum kit (22, 16, 13, 12)
  • various percussion
  • Fender Stratocaster
  • Fender Jazz Bass
  • Martin D-1R acoustic
  • Ibanez jazz guitar
  • Custom-made 4 channel Coron D8 drum synth
  • Korg Rhythm-55 drum machine
  • various brass intruments (trombones, flugelhorn, tuba, trumpet, euphonium)