Member Since: 1/31/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/empirestaterecording
Band Members: Olde York - Brooklyn, NY.Reason Enough - Staten Island, NY.Straphangers - Queens, NY.Insane Fight - Queens, NY.Emmanuel.7 - Bristol, CTShiragirl - Brooklyn, NY.Groove Brothers - Brooklyn, NYHoy - New York, NYA.D.M. - Brooklyn, NYNorthern State - Brooklyn, NYPunk/Metal Karaoke - New York, NYPenfold - Brooklyn, NYThe Regular Unfortunate - Brooklyn, NYBorn/Raised - Brooklyn, NYDJ Ruby Red - Brooklyn, NYBezo - Brooklyn, NYGroove Bros. - Brooklyn, NY.Kate Bond - New York, NYBrown Ring International Experience - Preston, EnglandThe Hi-Scores - New York City, NYShiffia - Senegal, AfricaAutomatic - New York City, NYRat Wakes Red - Brooklyn, NYBlank Party - New York City, NYThe Whippets - New York City, NYSwami - New York City, NYKranky - Brooklyn, NYFLU - Willimantic, CTPolestar - Queens, NYAlmighty Love Noise - Queens, NYWaker - Brooklyn, NYCarlton Fisk - New York City, NYTreehouse 3 - Preston, EnglandRaymond - Boston, MAHelper - New York City, NY
Influences: Our equipment allows us to rapidly change between one task and another, or even switch between projects almost instantly. Because of this, we offer a level of flexibility and quality not often afforded to artists in this range. We also have the capability to do 5.1 surround sound and mixing for picture.Our console is a Mackie D8B digital console with dynamic moving fader automation running software version 5.0 (latest upgrade). It has four MFX effect processor cards installed (two independent stereo effects each) as well the Apogee sync/wordclock card.We record to Pro-Tools LE (version 7.4 with the Music Production Toolkit for 48 mono or stereo tracks running on a Windows XP Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 2GB memory, machine), through a Digidesign Digi-002 interface. The system is loaded with many plug-ins from: Bomb Factory, Waves, URS, Focurite, Izotope, Antares, IK Multimedia, Sony, and many others.Additionally, we have three Alesis ADAT Type II recorders (one XT, and two LX), a Panasonic SV-3800 DAT machine, and an HHB CDR-850 CD Burner. These are all interfaced digitally to the Mackie D8B, and clocked together with an Alesis ADAT BRC providing master sync (wordclock and MTC).Monitoring is done with Event BAS 20/20 bi-amplified monitors, as well as Sennhieser HD-525 headphones (eight pairs), Yamaha headphones (3 pairs), AKG K-270 headphones (one pair), and a Panasonic boombox for real world reference.Our microphone locker contains a wide variety of microphones to suit any recording application:Rode Classic Tube Microphone (one)Groove Tubes MD-1a Tube Microphone (one)Marshall Electronics 2001-xl Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphones (two)Marshall Electronics 601-xl Small Diaphragm Condenser Microphones (two)Earthworks TC-30k Small Diaphragm Omindirectional Condenser Microphones (two)AKG D-112 (one)Audio Technica ATM-4033 (one)Audio Technica ATM-4050/cm5 (one)Sennhieser e604 (three)Sennhieser MD-421 type II (one)Sennhieser e609 (one)Shure SM-57 (four)RCA "Green Bullet" (one)OUTBOARD GEAR:Amek 9098 DMA Dual Microphone Pre-AmplifierElectrodyne CA-700 CompressorRoger Mayer Stereo CompressorRidge Farm Gas Cooker Dual Tube Direct BoxLine 6 POD Direct Guitar Recording SystemMOTU MidiTimePiece AVFurman HDS-6 Headphone Cue SystemFurman HD-6 Mixing Stations (four)INSTRUMENTS:Peavy MegaBass Bass AmplifierPeavy Basic 60 Bass Amplifier (two)Yamaha 18" Bass CabinetPeavy Dual 10" Bass CabinetIbanez RB800 Roadstar BassMarshall JCM-800 Guitar AmplifierMarshall 1960 4x12" Guitar Amplifier CabinetEpiphone LP Junior GuitarSovtek Small Stone PedalVox Wah-Wah PedalCrybaby Wah-Wah PedalDOD Hard Rock Distortion PedalDOD Digital Delay PedalMXR Micro Amp PedalPremier Cabria DrumsetHammond CV OrganAkai OrganAlesis SR-16 Drum Machine
Sounds Like: The best recording you have ever done!
Type of Label: Indie