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Tiny Telephone

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About Me

Tiny Telephone is $350 a day. Engineers are (usually) $200 a day. For booking, please call 415-334-1970.
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Tiny Telephone was opened in September of 1997 to provide affordable hi-fi recording to San Francisco's independent music community. Inside you'll find a spacious live room, a game room/lounge (ok, it's only got a tv and a PS2) and, in our control room, the city's most comfortable couch. You'll also find an automated, discrete Neve 5316 and a Studer 827, one of the finest 24-track recorders ever made. We've collected an arsenal of keyboards, including a Yamaha C3 grand piano, a Rhodes, Hammond B3 with Leslie, Wurlitzer 200A, and numorous classic synthesizers. We're right in the Mission in a gated, private compound with easy parking.
The studio is about 1700 sq. ft., with an isolation room, two rock-solid amp lockers, and a Bob Hodas-tuned control room. Since I am painfully addicted to buying audio gear, the following list will only improve.
Go to our FAQ to get detailed information about rates, directions and deposit info.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/17/2006
Band Website: tinytelephone.com
Band Members: Jamie Durr (Grateful Dead)
Steve Fisk (Unwound, Soundgarden, Low)
Joel Hamilton (Frank Black, Sparklehorse, Unsane)
Phil Manley (Trans Am, The Fucking Champs, Oneida)
Alex Newport (At the Drive In, Mars Volta, Two Gallants)
Jay Pellicci (Erase Errata, Dilute, Deerhoof)
Ian Pellicci (Deerhoof, 31Knots, Rumah Sakit)
Justin Phelps (Jolie Holland, Omar Sosa, Cake)
Aaron Prellwitz (Sun Kil Moon, Neil Young, Hella)
J Robbins (Jets to Brazil, D-Plan, Murder By Death)
Scott Solter (Spoon, Mountain Goats, Okkervil River)
Chris Walla (Death Cab, Hot Hot Heat, Decemberists)
Bob Weston (Idlewild, Archers of Loaf, Sebadoh)

Influences: Multitrack: Studer 827 2" 24trk

Console: Neve 5316, all discrete 50 input console, with 30 33114 EQ/mic pre channels, 8 aux sends, 8 groups, 16 monitor. Completely transformer balanced, uses 438 and 440 op amps and 33415 line amps throughout. Audiomate moving fader automation. Recapped in June 2002.

Mixdown: Ampex ATR-102 1/2" (restored by Mike Spitz at ATR Service), Ampex 440C 1/4"

Monitoring: Meyer HD-1, Yamaha NS-10

Pro Tools: Mix Plus 24 system with 3 888s, SMPTE slave driver, 24 I/Os, and an extra DSP card. It has tons of TDM plug-ins, and it's fully patchable with the Neve console.

Mic Preamps/Eq:
Neve 33114 (30)
Neve 1089 (2)
Millennia Media TD1 (2)
Millennia Media NSEQ-2
Ampex MX10
Ampex 350
Bogen RP-2
API 550A (2)

Dynamics
Alan Smart C1
Urei 1176 (2)
Urei LA3 (2)
Urei 1178
Tube Tech LCA-2B
dbx 160
dbx 162
dbx 902 (2)
Spectrasonics 610
Empirical Labs Distressor
Shure LevelLoc
Dolby 301A
Aphex 622
Kepex II (2)

Effects
EMT 140 w/remote
Ampex 440C 1/4" w/ modified VSO
Eventide H3000
Studer Revox 1/4"
Ibanez AD202
Roland SPX 90
Lexicon Super Primetime
Lexicon MPX 550
Lexicon PCM 60
MXR Flanger/Doubler

Microphones:
Microtech-Gefell UM70 (2, matched pair)
Neumann SM 69 (stereo FET)
Neumann TLM103
AEA R84
Schoeps 221/934b (2)
Schoeps CMC 65 (2, matched pair)
Coles 4038
RCA BK5
Beyer M88 (2)
Beyer M160 (2)
Beyer M201
Beyer M500
Beyer TGX50
Audio Technica 4033 (2)
Audio Technica 4060
Audio Technica 4047
Audio Technica Pro 37R (2)
Sennheiser 421 (3)
Sennheiser 409
Sennheiser 441
AKG 451E (2)
AKG D12
AKG D112
EV RE 15
EV RE 20
Shure Beta 98 (2)
Shure SM7
Shure Unidyne 545
Shure Beta 57a
Shure SM 57 (3)
Shure SM 58 (2)

Keyboards:
Yamaha C3 grand piano
Hammond B3 with Leslie
Hammond Spinet
Wurlitzer 200A (rebuilt by Matt Cunitz)
Rhodes 73
Rhythm Ace
Moog Source
Moog Prodigy
Sequential Circuits MultiTrack
Crumar Performer
Roland Juno 60

Amplifiers:
Gibson Falcon
Gibson GA-20
Supro 10-Watt amp Fender Bassman (2, both blackface)
Masco MA17 (modified by Skip Simmons)
Masco "Audiosphere 6" (modified by Skip Simmons)
National/Valco 12-watt Amp
Vox AC15 Reissue
Ampeg V4B
Ampeg VT-22

Sounds Like: Alaska!
Beulah
Richard Buckner
Cex
Court and Spark
Death Cab for Cutie
Deerhoof
John Doe
Erase Errata
Jolie Holland
Mates Of State
Mountain Goats
Roger Moutenot
Nada Surf
Nedelle
Matt Nathanson
Numbers
Okkervil River
Portastatic
Preston School of Industry
Chuck Prophet
Spoon
Sun Kil Moon
Trans Am
Two Gallants

Record Label: 4AD, ANTI, Barsuk, 5RC, Matador, Merge, Sub Pop...
Type of Label: None