What's the point of having a great sounding kit if most of the world can't hear it?
That was the thought that went through Sean's head when he first starting building his studio. More than a decade later and spending enough on studio gear to triple the cost of his kit, Sean now has a project studio worthy of his drums.
Sean goes into detail on the decision making process in buying gear for his studio in the below four part blog series:
- Drum Recordings Part 1 - Sounds Cards & Outboard Gear
- Drum Recordings Part 2 - Software & Computer Gear
- Drum Recordings Part 3 - Close-Miking Drums
- Drum Recordings Part 4 - Cymbal and Kit Miking
Microphones
- Royer R-121
- Advanced Audio CM47se
- Earthworks TC30k (pr)
- Rode NTK
- Rode NT1-A
- Rode NTG-2
- Shure SM7B
- Shure SM58 x2
- AKG C414 XLII
- AKG C451 B/ST
- AKG D112 MkII x2
- AKG C430 x2
- DW The Moon
- Electro-Voice ND44x2
- Sennheiser MD 421 II x2
- Sennheiser e604 x4
- Beyerdynamic Opus 88 x6
- Beyerdynamic Opus 99
- Beyerdynamic M 201 TG
- Heil Sound PR-20UT
- Tascam DR10L
Outboard Gear
- BAE 1028
- API 3124V
- API 3124+
- Avalon VT-737sp
- A Designs Pacifica
- Universal Audio 6176
- Empirical Labs Distressor EL8X x2
- dbx 166XL
- Behringer Tube Ultragain T1953 (tubes replaced with Tung-Sol 12AX7 Gold Pin)
- PreSonus HP60
Interfaces
- MOTU 1248
- MOTU 896HD
- MOTU 8Pre
- Univeral Audio Apollo Twin USB
- Behringer Ultramatch Pro
- Zoom H5
Software
- Cakewalk by Bandlab
- Sonar X1 Producer
- FabFilter Mastering Plug-in Bundle
- Melodyne Editor
- Waves
- Horizon Bundle (v14)
- API Collection
- Abby Road Chambers
- dbx 160 Compressor / Limiter
- Echo Sphere
- Eddie Kramer Guitar Channel
- Lofi Space
- Lil Tube
- COSMOS Sample Finder
- Universal Audio UAD-2 - QUAD Core
- Additional Plug-Ins
- Ampex ATR-102 Mastering Tape Recorder
- Fairchild Tube Limiter Plug-In Collection
- SPL TwinTube Processor
- SPL Transient Designer
- Little Labs IBP Phase Alignment Tool
- Cambridge EQ
- Cooper Time Cube MkII Delay
- Neve 1073 Preamp & EQ Collection
- SSL 4000 E Channel Strip Collection
- UA 610-B
- Oxide Tape Recorder
- Softube Amp Room Half-stack and Softube Bass Amp Room 8x10
- RAW
- Helios Type 69 EQ
- Soundtoys 5.4
- Blue Cat Audio - FreqAnalyst 2
- Tokyo Dawn Records
- Feedback Compressor II
- VOS SlickEQ
- Guitar Rig 4 LE
Miscellaneous
- Focal Shape 65
- Kali LP-6
- Beyerdynamic DT 770 headphones x2
- Beyerdynamic DT 990 headphones
- Direct Sound EX-29
- Mackie Big Knob Studio+
- M-Audio BX8 Monitors
- Furman Power Conditions x3
- NetworkSound Mamba XDB x2
- Behringer X-Touch
- Hosa PDR-369
- Auralex
- ProMAX
- DeskMAX
- Mopad
- Venus Bass Trap
- Designer 114
- Primacoustic
- CrashGuard
- CrashGuard 421