Designed to serve as a professional-quality state-of-the-art recording and teaching facility, the Dennis Riese Family Recording Studio on the 5th floor of 194 Mercer Street can accommodate 30 students in its control room, and 65 students or 35 musicians (in orchestral format) in the studio. The live room features sound absorbing interior wall finishes with wood accent panels and adjustable acoustical doors, diffusive ceiling elements for sound absorption, and an acoustically treated wood and slate floor designed to eliminate noise transmission. The control room is equipped with a professional 48-channel API Vision recording console, capable of stereo and 5.1 surround mixing, computer and analog based recording, and an extensive array of sound processing equipment.
Studio 510 Gear List
Console
• API Vision console with 212 preamps and 550B & 560 EQs, 36 channels
Recorders
• Studer A827 2” 24-track tape machine
• Pro Tools HD Accel system
• Tascam DV-RA1000 high-definition DSD/CD master recorder
• Sony PCM-R300 DAT recorder
Outboard
• Lexicon 480-L reverb processor
• Lexicon PCM 91 effects processor
• Lexicon PCM 42 delay (2)
• Tube Tech PE1C tube EQ
• Drawmer DS201 gate
• Emperical Labs EL-8X Distressor compressor/limiter (2)
• Universal Audio 1176 (2)
• Universal Audio LA-2A (2)
• dbx 160X compressor/limiter
• dbx 1046 gate/compressor
• Urei/JBL 7110 compressor
• Radial JD6 multi-channel DI (2)
Software
• Pro Tools
• Logic Studio
• Reason
Plugins
• Waves Gold bundle
• Antares AutoTune
• Access Virus Indigo
• BNR LE
• Bomb Factory classic compressors
• Roger Nichols Inspector
• Sony Oxford Limiter
• Fairchild 660/670
• Impact
• Line 6 Amp Farm
• Maxim
• PSP MasterComp
• PSP Neon
• PSP Vintage Warmer
• PSP Xenon
• Purple Audio MC77
• Reverb One
• Sans Amp
• Sound Replacer
...and more from Digidesign, Waves, Bomb Factory and Trillium Lane Labs
Other
• Aviom personal monitor system
• Digidesign MIDI I/O
• Four flat panel video monitors
• PMC DAD-M100 pro nearfield monitors (2)
• PMC MB2 main monitors powered by Bryston amps (5.1)
• Media playback supporting, CD, DVD, SACD, LaserDisc VHS, LP, DVD-Audio and cassette tape
In addition to the extensive gear list already identified above, the department has an equipment check-out room,
stocked with floating gear available for students to reserve for studio
sessions.
Floating Gear Highlights
Mics
• Neumann U 87 (2)
• Neumann TLM 49 (2)
• Brauner VM-1
• AKG C 414 (4)
• Schoeps CMC 6 (8)
...as well as other mics from AKG, Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, Shure, Coles and Audio Technica
Guitars and Basses from Gibson and Epiphone
Amps from Marshall, Fender, Gibson, Epiphone and Roland
Drum machines and synthesizers from Moog, Akai, Korg, Roland, Yamaha, Boss and many more...
