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Technical Specs and Info 

Space and Equipment at 50 Church Street Studio

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Facility

  • AES-67/Ravenna AoIP network
  • SNS Evo media storage network
  • 12G SDI video infrastructure
  • Control/NDI network
  • DMXe network

Audio control rooms, performance stage, iso booths and podcast studio feature room-within-a-room mechanically isolated construction

Main studio seen from the Spirio Piano Iso booth
Control Room with mixing board in the foreground and a couch for clients in the background

Control Room A

  • Avid S4 console
  • Merging Technologies HAPI MkII microphone preamps and conversion
  • Merging Technologies Pyramix DAW
  • Avid ProTools DAW
  • iZotope plugins
  • Neumann KH 310 7.1.4 immersive audio monitoring
  • Kii Audio Three stereo monitoring
  • DAD Ax Center monitor control
  • Bricasti M7 outboard reverberation
  • Hear Back Pro user-mixed cue system
  • (2) stereo cue systems via Redco Little Red Cue Box

Performance Stage

  • 1,100 ft2 main room with 128 ft2 iso booth
  • Soundlocks and adjoining podcast studio also available as iso booths
  • Steinway Spirio | r Model D grand piano
  • Microphones by Neumann, Schoeps, DPA, Royer, Bock, Coles, Sanken, Sennheiser, AKG, Pearl, etc. – detailed mic list available upon request
  • Gretsch Brooklyn drum kit
  • Nord Stage 4 keyboard
  • Amplifiers from Fender, Mesa Boogie, Markbass, Roland
  • custom gobos, acoustic absorption and diffusions
  • Canon C300Mk III and UE160 cameras
Large main studio space with open floor space, drum kit, Spirio Piano in Iso booth and a view of windows into control room A and the podcast studio
Control room with audio and video recording equipment

Control Room B

  • Avid S3 control surface
  • Merging Technologies Pyramix DAW
  • Avid ProTools DAW
  • Neumann KH 310 and Kii Audio Three stereo monitoring
  • Merging Anubis monitor control

Podcast Studio

  • Neumann BCM705 microphones
  • Shure SM7B, EV RE20, Neumann TLM170 microphones also available
  • Merging Technologies HAPI MkII microphone preamps and conversion
  • GlennSound Dante headphone amplifiers
  • Sony MDR V6 headphones; others available
  • Panasomic UE160 camera
  • Podcast can also function as an iso booth with the Performance Stage
Podcast studio featuring a table for four, display screen, and a window into the main recording studio.
Control room with audio and video recording equipment

Control Room C

  • Avid S3 control surface
  • Merging Technologies Pyramix DAW
  • Avid ProTools DAW
  • iZotope plugins
  • Neumann KH 310 7.1.4 immersive audio monitoring
  • Bowers and Wilkins 802 D4 with Emotiva XPA1 monoblock stereo monitoring
  • DAD Ax Center monitor control
  • Bricasti M7 outboard reverberation

Video Control Room

  • Ross Video Carbonite switcher and router with Ultrix engine
  • Plura and Panasonic broadcast monitors
  • AJA KiiPro recorders
Video control room featuring four seats in front a bank of display screens for monitoring video production in the main studio.
Editing bay with screens for audio and video editing

Video Finishing

  • BlackMagic Design Davinci NLE
  • Adobe Premiere Pro NLE
  • Apple MacPro computer
  • Tangent Wave2 color control surface
  • Presonus FaderPort 8 audio control surface
  • Neumann 5.1 surround and stereo monitoring
  • Trinnov monitor control
  • Plura color monitor

Studio photography by Joseph Janisheski