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Total Access Recording

About Me

Total Access is a professional recording studio located in beautiful Redondo Beach, CA. Over the past thirty years the studio has played host to bands such as, Sublime, No Doubt, Slightly Stoopid, Pennywise, Black Flag, The Descendents, Black Sabbath (Heaven & Hell), Dokken, Great White, Guns 'n Roses, Minutemen, Duran Duran, Unwritten Law, Pepper, and many more.
Studio Details
Some of our Cool Stuff:
AMEK G2520 In-line console. 52 Channels with Uptown Mix automation.
8 Neve 1272 Mic/Line Preamps
Large collection of vintage and modern microphones including 2 AKG C-12's
2 AMPEX ATR-124 2" Analog tape recorders for the best analog sound
Pro Tools HD3 with 24 In/40 Out
Some of our Signal Processing:
(2) Teletronix LA-2A's
(2) Urei LA-3A's
(3) Urei 1176
(1) SPL Transient Designer
(2) SSL XLogic Bus Compressors
(1) API 2500 Stereo Compressor
(2) dbx 165a's
(2) dbx 160
(1) dbx 160x
Instruments
Amps:
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Road King w/ Road King 2x12 Cab
Mesa Boogie 100/50 Watt Stilleto with EL34 Tubes
New and Vintage Marshall Amplification
1954 Fender Bassman
Early 90's Marshall JM 900
Marshall 50 watt Blues Breaker
Roland JC 120
1980's Marshall with Lee Jackson Mods
Yamaha Grand Piano
Guitars:
A collection of new and vintage acoustic/electric guitars from Martin, Guild, Gibson, Santa Cruz, Ibanez, and Fender
Drums:
Tama Starclassic Drum Set
Classic and Modern Snare Drums from Ludwig, Pearl, Brady, and Pacific
Additional Features
11000 Cubic ft. Live room with variable acoustics.
Medium 20x30x10 "dead" room with large iso booth.
Spacious control for elaborate setup.
Multi-channel cue system for personalized headphone mixes.
Award Winning staff of engineers and assistants with a wide range of project experience.
All the free Coca-Cola beverages you could want!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 02/02/2007
Band Website: www.tarecording.com
Band Members: Wyn Davis - Owner/Producer
Mike Sutherland - Engineer/Producer
Adam Arnold - Engineer/Assistant Engineer


Influences: Anything that rocks.
Sounds Like: Sublime
No Doubt
Pepper
Long Beach Dub All Stars
Slightly Stoopid
Black Flag
The Descendents
Husker Du
Pennywise
98 Mute
Frenzal Rhomb
Unwritten Law
Minutemen
The Ziggens
Duran Duran
Dokken
Dio
Great White
Guns 'n Roses
Pink Noise Test
TRW
Eastern Youth
Gary Wright
Michael Thompson Band
Terry Bozzio
Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds
Phathom
Needmore
Paul Chesne
Inhale
The Binges
Moon Sassafrass

Record Label: Recording Studio

My Blog

Heaven and Hell / Black Sabbath Mixing Complete

Mixing for he upcoming "Heaven and Hell" album tentatively titled "The Devil You Know" is complete. Ten new songs. The process with Ronnie, Tony, Geezer and Vinny has been amazing. I could not have as...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:52:00 GMT

Heaven and Hell / Black Sabbath

Members of the legendary band Black Sabbath have been in the studio working on an upcoming album under the name "Heaven and Hell". Heaven and Hell is the same line up of musicians as the second incarn...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:57:00 GMT

Recent Projects

So... The past 5 months have been busy. Slightly Stoopid came in for about a month and a half in a few different sessions to work on their new record. Phathom returned in January to finish their recor...
Posted by on Sat, 12 May 2007 23:30:00 GMT