The GSi Studio can be defined as a modern "professional home studio"
It was originally born as a home environment mainly for quiet computer works. Painted with warm and relaxing colors, bright, airy and comfortable,
with many light spots, mini-bar and air conditioning, it's a nice place to stay for a long working day with music.
Equipped with great modern and vintage gear, offers the necessary versatility for covering a fairly large number of different recording situations, but it
is mainly focused to jazz and pop recordings with small bands.
The new heart of the studio is a D&R Cinemix, a really fascinating analog console with a clean and transparent
sound and a powerful digital routing system, it has 32 mic inputs and a total of 36 channels which double to 72 inputs on mix. This console has been conceived for surround 5.1
mixing as it has a 6 channel master output and every mono input can be used with traditional L&R panning or LCRS sound positioning, or can be assigned to one of the two XY joysticks.
The digital recording is based on a Antelope Orion 32
computer interface for a total of
32 simultaneous tracks for recording, and 32 outputs for analog (OTB) mixing. The computer is a powerful Windows based machine running
Cubase versions 7.5 and Pro 8,
the control room monitoring system is based on a pair of
Adam A7x studio near field monitors plus two Yamaha HS-50M for more mid-range clarity,
while the recording room monitoring system is based on the new astonishing Behringer Powerplay 16.
But the strength point is the presence of a gorgeous and great sounding Hammond organ model A100 from 1963 equipped with a Leslie 147 and a Leslie 145.
And that's not all yet! Other fine instruments are a vintage Rhodes piano Seventythree Mark I from 1978, perfectly tuned and balanced, plus a
Sequential Circuits Pro~One, a Yamaha DX7, and other vintage and modern keyboards and effects.
Resident gear list (as of December 2014)
Recording:
- Mixing desk: D&R Cinemix, 32 mono + 4 stereo modules, 72 total inputs on mix, 10 aux sends, 24 buss, VCA automation with ALPS motorfaders, surround 5.1 mixing, dynamics on first 24 channels
- Near-field monitors: pair of ADAM A7x, pair of YAMAHA HS-50M, one 10" 250W Subwoofer (down to 32 Hz)
- Digital recording: Antelope Orion 32 (32 in, 32 out)
- Computer: Windows computer with Cubase 7.5, Cubase Pro 8, Wavelab 7
- Digital computer based FFT Spectrum Analyzer
- Custom built Studio MMC and SMPTE Display with Recording light and DAW control surface with motor-fader and motor-pots
Preamplifiers:
- Drawmer 1960
- Neve 1073 LB (x 2)
- API 512c
- SoundSkulptor MP-573
- Old School Audio MP-1
Compressors and EQs:
- Universal Audio 1176LN, FET Class A limiting amplifier
- Empirical Labs Distressor EL-8x
- Drawmer 1960, dual valve mic. preamp and compressor
- Drawmer DL241, VCA based stereo compressor, gate, and limiter
- 2x Summit Audio TLA-50, Tube Limiting Amplifier
- 2x D&R Compressor Limiter half rack format
- FMR RNC, stereo VCA (THAT 2181) compressor with digital control
- Elysia Xpressor, class A stereo buss compressor
- Lindell Audio 7X500, FET compressor
- TL-Audio 5013, valve dual 4-band parametric EQ
Reverbs and other effects:
- TC-Electronic M-One XL, digital dual multi-effect
- Lexicon MX-400, digital quad multi-effect
- Alesis Midiverb IV, digital multi-effect
- Roland GP-8, vintage analog guitar multi-effect
- Roland Chorus Echo RE-501, vintage tape echo machine with spring reverb and BBD chorus
- Various modern and vintage analog stomp boxes: MXR Phase 100, EHX Small Stone, EHX Memory Boy, etc.
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Other recording gear:
- Fostex R8, 8 track 1/4" 15 ips tape machine
- Revox A-77, 2 track 1/4" 7-1/2 ips vintage tape machine
- MOTU Midi Time Piece AV, Tape-MIDI-WordClock synchronizer and MIDI patch bay
- RMG, Quantegy and Zonal tapes
Microphones:
- Neumann U87
- Audio Technica AT4040
- AKG C414
- 2x Neumann KM 184 (matched pair)
- 2x Audio Technica AT2020
- 2x Rode NT-2a
- 2x Beyerdynamic MCE-530
- 2x AKG SE-300B with CK-93 capsule (condenser hypercardioid)
- 5x Shure SM 57
- Shure SM 58
- Shure PG 52
- 3x Audix F-90 clip microphones for drums
- AKG D-112
- Sennheiser E-606
- 2x AKG D190E
- AKG D310
- 2x Behringer UL2000B, wireless UHF lavalier or headset microphone
Monitoring for musicians:
- Behringer Powerplay 16, digital 16 channel personal monitoring for 5 musicians
- Behringer Powerplay HA-4700, 12 outputs headphone amplifier
- Headphones: 3x Sony MDR-7506, 2x AKG K-44, AKG K-240, Audio-Technica and Yamaha headphones
- FBT Jolly 3a personal monitor
Instruments:
- Hammond A100 + Leslie 147 + Leslie 145
- Crumar MOJO
- Rhodes Mark I Stage 73
- Moog MiniMoog
- Nord Electro 3
- Roland SH-201
- Yamaha DX7 and DX7IId
- Korg M1
- Roland D50
- Sequential Circuits Pro~One
- DSI Prophet 12
- Korg MS-20 Mini
- SM Pro Audio V-Machine
- Gretsch Catalina Maple, 6 pieces fusion drumset with various heads
- Turkish Classic and Vintage Soul series cymbals
- Various percussions and accessories
- Fender Hot Rod DeLuxe, guitar tube amplifier
- Ashdown EB 15-180 Evo II, 180W bass amplifier
- Pair of Wharfedale Titan-12, 300 Watts P.A. loudspeakers
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