The Ranch Recording Studio

~ The Ranch Recording Studio ~The Ranch Recording Studio is a fully equipped audio production facility combining state of the art digital equipment with time tested and proven audio essentials. It uses a custom built, brand new in February of 2006 Spectral RM7200, utilizing the new AMD Dual Core 4400+ processor with 4 gigs of Dual Channel DDR2 RAM. The hard drives are 500 gigs of internal storage and an additional 250 gigs of removable backup storage with an 80 gig 10,000 rpm program drive, and for viewing; two Dell 20.1" ultrasharp widescreen LCD's. And the second computer..... A Carrilon Audio Systems AC1 PC - 2.4 gig P4 with 1024 megs of Rambus Ram. The Ranch uses state of the art 32 track Pro Tools LE 7 software , a Digi 002 Rack, Waves Platinum Bundle, Propellerhead's Reason, and Sony's Acid Pro 6, along with a Presonus Digimax and a pair of the fabulous Eureka channel strips, the awesome Avalon Vt 737 sp vacuum tube powered channel strip, and various other tube preamps and compressors for it's 18 simultaneous inputs. Scott uses his entire ranch house as the studio, allowing full separation of the musician's amplifiers while they are still able to jam together, and even have their own headphone personal headphone mixs.~~~The Ranch has many different microphones well suited for any application including the world famous Neumann U87, a pair of Audio Technica's discontinued 4033a's, the mighty yet tiny atm 35's, Sennheiser's 421, Shure's sm 81, 58, 57's and many others by Cad, Shure, etc. The Ranch uses Event 20/20 studio monitors powered by a Hafler amp with the matching Event 20/20/12 powered subwoofer, so everything is heard crystal clear. As far as processing goes, Scott has a Quadraverb and a Midiverb, but mostly uses Pro Tools, Waves Version 5 Platnium Bundle with the Mastering , and Bomb Factory software plug inn's. In house at the Ranch Studio is a collection of acoustic and electric instruments including a perfectly tuned Kimball Piano and a classic Yamaha Clavinova for the real piano feel and a Yamaha DX7 for synth or organ feel. Scott is able to record, mix and master any band, solo musician, or group, even if they are on vacation and did not bring their instruments.~~As more and more musicians hear the buzz about the fantastic sounds coming out of "The Ranch" recording studio, better and more experienced musicians keep showing up for sessions. Martin Parker is a well known, long time Nashville session drummer who has several Grammy's under his belt from playing with Vince Gill and Patty Loveless, and he loves recording at "The Ranch" because of the comfortable atmosphere, the impeccable sound quality, and the dirt cheap rates. He has made himself available for session work at "The Ranch" and is doing amazing drumming work on all kinds of tunes for most all of the musicians recording at "The Ranch" at an extremely reasonable price. Tommy Hartley is another well known musician who has taken advantage of this jewel of a recording studio and is working on a compilation recording with Captain Moon Munden fullmooncharters.com of the Five Star Band and Out 'N The Cold Bentgrass Band, who have finished their 4 song demo outnthecold.com. Tommy has also brought in Clyde Mattocks, Pedal Steel Guitar wizard from the band "Super Grit."~Chuck Hodges has also recorded a full length album at The Ranch - "Minutes and Miles" is now available through his web site.~~Note: This page is maintained by Scott's management, however he does regularly read your comments and messages. Any personal correspondence should be directed to Scott's personal MySpace found below.~The Ranch Recording Studio is centrally located in Kill Devil Hills, on the beautiful Outer Banks of North Carolina!