40 West Studio started as a flicker in Bart's eye, over two years ago. Bart designed all acoustic treatment from scratch and built it himself in the summer of 2006. The result is a fine-tuned live room with beautiful reflections and a rock-solid control setup.
40 WEST STUDIO
SURROUNDED BY THE COUNTRYSIDE TRANQUILITY OF SAINT-LAZARE FOREST, 15 MINUTES FROM MONTREAL ISLAND, 40 WEST STUDIO WAS CONCEIVED WITH THE CREATIVE PERFECTIONIST IN MIND.
Extra large drum room
Acoustically treated control room
Air-conditioning throughout
Variable live room acoustics
State of the art recording equipment
Private shower, lounge with Internet
Accompaniment service available
Console:
Harrison MR-3 (Vintage Class “A†console 24 inputs)
2 discrete headphone mixes available in the recording room
Converters and gear:
Lavry 4496, Apogee AD16 X (16 in), DA 16X (16 out), RME Fireface (10
in/10 out)
2 x Neve 1073 Pre
2 x Universal Audio 610 Pre
2 x Universal Audio 1176 Compressor
1 x ManleyLabs Massive Passive (Stereo)
4 x UAD1-e / All available plugins
FMR RNC
1x Radial JDV DI
1x Radial X-Amp
ENGL Invader Head
5150 (Original) Head
ENGL Pro XXL 4x12 V30
Custom XXL 4x12 Greenbacks
Marshall 1960 4x12 V75
Mesa 4x12 Black Widow
2x Sabian AAX 20†crash
1x Sabian Paragon 19’ china
2 x Paiste 14" and 16" Crashes
Vintage Farfisa Analog Organ
Microphones:
2 x AKG C414 matched pair
2 x AKG 451 matched pair
4 x AKG C418 (clip on)
3 x Sennheiser MD421
1 x Beyer m160 (Ribbon)
1 x Beyer M130 (Ribbon)
1 x AKG D112
4 x Shure SM 57
1 x Shure SM7B
1 x Audix I5
2 x MXL 603
10x DDRUM triggers:
(2x Kick, 6x toms, 2x snare)
Monitoring:
Klein and Hummel O300
KRK Rokit RP8
AKG K271, Shure E5
Processing Cluster
1 x QuadCore QC6700, 4GB RAM
1 x Dual-Core Opteron, 4GB RAM
Samples
East West Quantum Leap Complete Composers' Collection
Symphonic Orchestra Gold XP
Symphonic Choirs + Wordbuilder
RA
Colossus
Stormdrum
Percussive Adventures 2
EastWest/PMI Bösendorfer 290 Grand Piano
