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The Audio Technology Program currently maintains two fulltime recording studios, with a third on the way, a Pro Tools editing suite, a ten station computer lab for digital audio editing and music production (MAC and PC based systems), an electronics laboratory and an electronics workshop.

Studio A, the main recording studio, consists of two rooms: a 418 square- foot session room with a 311 cubic-foot isolation booth, linked by audio snake and video intercom to a newly-designed 202 square-foot control room . This studio is additionally linked via digital tielines with our electronic music studio.

For other information about our program, return to the Audio Tech home page.

Session Room
Microphones:

  • AKG C460, C414, D112, D125, D130, D190E
  • Audio Technica ATM31R, 4060
  • Beyer-Dynamic M500, M201TG
  • Earthworks QTCI
  • ElectroVoice PL20 , RE20, RE16, 635A
  • Neumann U-87
  • Realistic PZM
  • Sennheiser MD421
  • Shure SM57, KSM-32
  • Sony C-22FET

 

Monitors:

  • JBL

Control Room


Tracking, Mixing, and Monitoring:

  • DyneAudio BM15A studio monitors
  • Fostex D-5 DAT recorder
  • Mackie HR824 studio monitors
  • Pro Tools HD 6.2.3
  • Studer A80 24-track analog tape recorder
  • Yamaha NS-10 studio monitors
  • Yamaha DM2000 Production Console (96 channels)

Microphone Preamplifiers:

  • Earthworks 1022 zero distortion microphone preamplifier
  • Millenia Media HV-3D four channel high voltage microphone preamplifier
  • Scully 280 solid-state microphone preamplifier
  • Universal Audio M610 tube microphone preamplifier

Outboard Processing:

  • Alesis Quadraverb multi-effects processor
  • Aphex Aural Exciter harmonic enhancer
  • dbx 166 stereo compressor
  • Joe Meek C2 optical stereo compressor
  • Lexicon PCM-70, MPX 500 reverb and multi-effects processors
  • Orban Stereo Synthesizer 245F, Spring Reverb 111B,
    Parametric EQ 622B
  • Radius 30 tube compressor
  • Symetrix 522 compressor
  • Valley People Dyna-Mite compressor/limiter/gate
  • White Instruments 4400 graphic eq

Digital Audio Plug-In Software:

  • Amplitube
  • BombFactory
  • Cycling74 Pluggo Version 3
  • Waves Gold Bundle TDM
  • Prosoniq Orange Vocoder
  • Antares Auto-Tune 4
  • McDSP FilterBank

 

Sync and Interface:

  • DigiDesign Sync I/O


Electronic Music Studio
Synthesizers and Samplers:

  • Alesis D4
  • Alesis QS6
  • ARP 2600 (analog modular synthesizer)
  • Arturia Moog Modular Ver. II (virtual instrument emulation of the Moog)
  • EMS Synthi A (analog modular synthesizer)
  • EMU E6400
  • Ensoniq Fizmo (transwave synthesizer)
  • ESQ1 and ESQM
  • Kawai K5
  • Korg Wavestation
  • Native instruments Komplete bundle II (collection of virtual instruments)
  • Moog System 55 (analog modular synthesizer)
  • Sequential Circuits Prophet 600
  • Symbolic Sound Capybara 320
  • Waldorg Microwave (digital wavetable synthesizer)

 

 

 

 

Audio Recording, Mixing and Virtual Instrument System:

  • (2) 17'' Apple Flat Panel video displays
  • (2) Apple Macintosh Dual 2GHz G5s
  • DigiDesign Digi002
  • Digital Performer 4.12
  • Mackie 2408 analog mixer
  • MOTU MTP AV MIDI interface
  • MOTU PCI-424 and 2408 MKII
  • Panasonic SV-3700 DAT recorder
  • Pro Tools LE
  • Various public domain Macintosh applications

Studio Monitors:

  • Tannoy Ellipse 8

Pro Tools Editing Suite:
Editing and Mixing

  • Digi 002
  • Waves Gold Bundle
  • Mackie HR824 Monitor Speakers
 

 

Computer Lab :

  • The ATEC computer lab has multiple workstations equipped for digital audio editing and MIDI sequencing on both PC and Macintosh platforms



 


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