Member Since: 4/26/2005
Band Website: innovationstudios.net
Band Members: Mike Ofca (owner, chief engineer, and studio musician player) Kate Bennett (office Manager) Dan Bozek (engineer, studio musician) and Erik Kerr (studio musician.)
If you are thinking about recording, you have found the right place. Call (740) 283-2626 to schedule a free consultation and studio tour. We will be happy to work out an arrangement that fits your budget. We are confident that you will not find another recording facility that delivers our level of quality at our price point.
Influences: Equipment:
CONSOLES
Tascam DM-3200 48Channel digital board with flying faders, meter bridge, and HUI control for Protools
MONITORS
Mackie HR824 (2)
M-Audio Studiopro 3
VW Jetta stock car stereo
Piece of crap Radio Shack computer speakers
I-Pod Boombox speakers
Dan's Ford Focus
RECORDERS
Tascam MX2424 24-track HDR
Pro Tools LE 7.3 with Production Toolkit upgrade
Digi 003 interface
Sony PCM R-300 DAT recorder
Dual Core PC equipped with:
- 4 gigs of RAM
- 17" dual LCD display
- Echo Mia MIDI 24/96 interface
- also running Sound Forge 9.0, Acid 6.0, MXView
1 tera byte total hard drive storage
Sony 52x CDR-W
Teac V-390CHX Cassette Recorder
ANALOG DYNAMIC PROCESSORS
(2) Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor
DBX 160A Compressor/Limiter
DBX 163x Compressor/Limiter (2)
TIME PROCESSORS
Lexicon MPX1
Lexicon MPX 500
Yamaha REV500 Digital Reverb
Korg SDD-2000 Digital Delay
TC Works digital reverb
SOFTWARE PLUGINS
Too numerous to list them all, but here's some of the good ones:
Antares Autotune
Waves Diamond Bundle
Waves Vocal Bundle
Antares Filter
Antares Mic Modeler
Amplitube Guitar Modeling
Lexicon PSP84
Native Instruments Guitar Rig 2.0
Native Instruments B4 Hammond Organ Modeler
Propellorhead Reason 3.0
Sonic Foundry Plugin pack
D-sound and Beatmodel
Several gigs of Acid Loops
BFD
Drumagog
Har-Bal
MICROPHONE PREAMPS
(2) Neve 1272 by Brent Averill
Avalon VT 737sp single channel mic pre / compressor / eq
DBX 386 Dual Channel Tube Mic Pre w/digital out
Joe Meek VC6Q British Channel
(4) Presonus Blue Tube Dual Channel Tube Mic Pre
(16) Tascam onboard Mic/Line inputs
KEYBOARDS AND MIDI
Kork Triton 88 key sampler/workstation
Roland PC-70 Midi Keyboard Controller
Xpand! by Digidesign
Analog Factory
Gigastudio 3.0 Orchestra
Propellorhead Reason 3.0
M-Tron Mellotron
MICROPHONES
AKG C1000 (2)
AKG D112
Audix D1
Audix D2 (2)
Audix D4
Audix ADX-51 (2)
Audix OM-2
Neumann TLM103
Rode NT1
Rode NTX Tube
Sennheiser MD421 (2)
Studio Projects C4 (2)
Shure SM57 (3)
Shure SM 58 (2)
GUITARS - AMPS
Ernie Ball Axis Super Sport
PRS 22 fret, purple with a tremelo
Takamine Dreadnought Acoustic
Epiphone Riviera Hollowbody elecric
Ibanez S-series
Guitar Rig 2.0 with foot controller
Mesa-Boogie F-50
POD 2.0 Guitar Direct recording system
Carvin MTS212
Sansamp bass driver / DI
Hotbox active DI
2x12 cabs loaded with Celestion Greenbacks
Full assortment of stomp boxes from Boss, Ibanez, Carl Martin, Zoom
SIGNAL ROUTING
All equipment connected via 240 point balanced analog patch bay.
MISCELLANEOUS
Sony CDP-XE500 compact disc player w/digital out
Gourmet coffee & espresso (perhaps the most important studio tool)
Sounds Like: Listen to samples of our work on this page. If you would like to hear more you can request a FREE demo CD in the mail. Send us a message that includes your mailing address and we'll send it right out!
Type of Label: Indie