FANTAIL Recordings

Music / Production Studio / Wildlife sounds


Studio Kit List

RECORDING

Tascam TM-D1000 mixer – provides:

                        8x inputs analogue inputs

                        8x digital inputs / outputs via TDIF-1

1x stereo digital input  - SPDIF / AES/EBU

2x stereo digital output – SPDIF / AES/EBU

4x group busses

3 band EQ on all channels (Low and High shelf / sweepable mid)

Internal digital effects

Sanyo Integrated Stereo Amplifier – JA222 (100watts)

Sony Integrated Stereo Amplifier – TA-FB940 R (120watts)

Sony CD D-E330 Compact Disc Player

Technics SL-PG490 Compact Disc Player

Yamaha CRW161040 Compact Disc Recorder

LG/GSA-H22NSBB DVD/CD Recorder

Tascam DAP-1 portable Stereo DAT recorder

Sony MZ-N707 portable minidisc recorder

2x Sony MZ-R35 portable minidisc recorder

2x Sony MZ-R3 portable minidisc recorder

Yamaha MT50 4-Track recorder

Fostex X-15 4- Track recorder

Technics RS-TR474 cassette recorder

Sanyo RD222 cassette recorder

 

 

 

COMPUTER (connected to Tascam TM-D1000 via TDIF)

Intel Pentium 2.4 GHz PC running Windows XP pro

60GB hard drive & 200GB slave drive

1 GB system RAM

Soundscape Mixtreme

Realtek AC97 Audio

Acer 19’ TFT Flatbed monitor

 

Running : Cubase VST32, Soundforge v.7.0, Acid Pro v.3.0, Nero 6, 
Soundscape mixer v.4.2
Extensive non-destructive editing capabilities for recorded sound
Virtually unlimited number of midi tracks

 

 

MONITORING

Spirit Absolute 2 passive monitors

 

 

 

KEYBOARDS AND MODULES

Yamaha CS1X control synthesizer

Roland U220 (+ additional voice cards)

Casio CZ1000 synthesizer

Casio HT-6000

Casio SA-2

 

 

OUTBOARD EFFECTS

Realistic electronic reverb

 

 

 

MICROPHONES

Shure SM58

Shure SM57

AGT 200 EPM acoustic guitar pickup

2x AKG C1000s condenser (matched pair)

AKG C1000

3x Realistic PZM boundary mic

Realistic 33-1060 electret condenser

A0I UD-130 dynamic mic

Entex uni-directional dynamic mic

Sennheiser ME67 shotgun

Telinga Pro.5 stereo omni mic (maybe used with or without 56cm parabola)

Telinga Pro.4 pip mono omni mic (maybe used with or without 56cm parabola)

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Seiko SAT500 Chromatic Tuner

Sennheiser HD25 headphones

Wide selection of useable special effect and natural ambient sound effects

A selection of percussion including:

13” Gambian made Djembe

8” Turkish Doumbeck

10” & 7.5” Egyptian Doumbecks

10” Bodhran

LP wood-frame bongos

6” Talking drum

10” frame drum

12” Ocean drum

7.5” Balinese Gong

5”, 6" & 6.5” Tibetan singing bowls (pitched at F, C and G#/A respectively)

Bclasico Spanish guitar

Washburn, G.W. Lyon acoustic guitar

Tambourines etc.

 

(+ a selection of hot and cold drinks served throughout the day)