Oakwood Sound Design - Equipment List

OSD's philosophy on equipment is simple: Buy great gear, master it, and use it to it's fullest to produce a wide range of sounds for our clients!

We believe this philosophy is reflected in the list below. Of particular note are the Neumann, Schoeps, and Royer microphones, outboard preamps, and the TC Electronic System 6000 multichannel processor.

If you are looking for a facility with a particular piece of gear, please don't hesitate to contact us! We have certainly been known to buy a piece of gear for a particular project! And just about anything can be rented.

Equipment List
Microphones
- Neumann M147 Tube - Shure SM5b - (2) Schoeps CMC64 - Royer R-121	- (2) AKG C414B-ULS - AKG SolidTube - AKG D112 - AKG D3700	- (3) Sennheiser MD421 - (2) Earthworks Z30X - (4) Shure SM57
Outboard Preamps
- (2) Millennia Media STT-1 Origin – dual topology channel strip (choose between solid state or tube at every stage) – absolutely amazing sound & extremely versatile! - API 3124+ – four channels of that punchy API sound - Universal Audio 2-610 – two channels of warm, vintage tube sound - Avalon AD2022 – two channels of smooth, pristine sound that only a high-voltage Class A design offers - Presonus MP80
Mackie Digital 8 Bus recording console
- 72 channels - Full dynamic and snapshot automation w/ motorized faders - 12 channels of internal FX by TC Electronic, Acuma, and Mackie - Compressor, Gate, and 4-band EQ on 48 channels - Apogee sync and UV22 digital word reduction processing
Outboard A/D conversion
- Apogee Rosetta – great clean industry standard sound – excels at rock/pop styles - TC Electronic System 6000 using ADA96 cards w/ multiple response filters – wonderful sound & extremely versatile, from perfectly linear to vintage sound at the touch of a button!
Studio Recorder
- ADK computer w/ RAID hard drive array – This machine was custom made by ADK, a company renowned for building audio PC’s. Tested at 200 tracks of simultaneous playback, this PC includes an RME HDSP 9652 card set offering 56 physical channels to/from the console. It also incorporates a Universal Audio UAD-2 DSP card/effects bundle, TC Electronic Powercore Firewire, many VST effects, and virtual instruments (see below).
Location Recorders
- ADK laptop computer – many of the same features of the "monster" PC we use in the studio – this enables us to record concerts and live sessions that don't need the higher track count the MDR (below) offers in the same format as we are using the studio – just come back from the gig and transfer the project via the network to our main PC and we're ready for post production! - Mackie MDR2496 24-track – stand-alone recorder with analog and digital I/O and removable hard drive bay – great for recording live events when many channels are needed!
Effects - Outboard & VST
- TC Electronic System 6000 – Incredible multichannel FX processor; Industry-leading reverbs, multiband compression, & mastering tools; industry standard delay and chorus; cutting-edge noise reduction and automatic up/down-mixing to/from mono to/from 6.1 surround. This processor has been used as one of the primary FX boxes for countless commercial albums and films! - Universal Audio UAD-2 Bundle – DSP card in computer, offering amazing digital recreations of popular hardware like the Empirical Labs Fatso, Manley Massive Passive EQ, Cambridge EQ, the venerable LA-2A and 1176 compressors, and Pultec EQ – all mainstays at high end commercial facilities. It also includes digital models of the rare Fairchild 670 program limiter and the vintage EMT 250 plate reverb machine. Evolving beyond it's beginnings, updates have featured stunning models of Neve gear and other pieces of vintage goodness! The technicians and top producers who developed this card at UA dare you to hear the difference from the analog units! In fact, they brought in several high-profile producers and engineers and you know what?... they couldn't tell the difference either! - TC Electronic Powercore Firewire – more great TC processing done on dedicated outboard DSP chips and folded into our editing environment as VST plugins; includes many great effects and virtual instruments, plus it's been upgraded to include some of the processes from the System 6000 so we can run even more instances of those incredible VSS3 reverbs or MD3 mastering processes and have total recall automatically the next time we load your project! - Waves Diamond Bundle – wide array of effects, from the standards to the bizarre - Audioease Altiverb sampled reverb – Put your tracks inside real rooms such as French cathedral, a warehouse, a small bathroom, the inside of a jar, or anywhere in between. - Audioease Speakerphone – Play tracks through a huge variety of speakers, from guitar cabs to telephones, phonographs, radios, and toys - Melodyne – amazing, natural-sounding pitch & time manipulation - Antares package – Auto-Tune, Harmony, AVOX, Microphone Modeler, Filter, & The Tube - Voxengo AnalogFlux Suite – versatile analog tape simulation, from smooth and silky to dowright gritty - IK Multimedia Amplitube - IK Multimedia T-Racks 24 – mastering suite; top-notch digital modeling offers a beautiful "analog" sound! - PSP Audioware Vintage Warmer - BIAS SoundSoap Pro – amazing restoration toolset - GRM Tools - Lexicon, Prosoniq, Akai, & Ohm Force suites - Apogee UV-22HR dithering - much, much more!
Monitors
- Klein & Hummel O300's Full-range 3-way Powered Studio Monitors - Klein & Hummel O800 Powered Studio Subwoofer - Mackie HR824's - Audio-Technica ANC7 Noise-Reduction Headphones – if you want to get into your own world when you're recording, these are the headphones for you! - AKG K301 studio headphones - Sony MDR-7506 tracking headphones - A variety systems – when creating a final master, to make sure the mix sounds good in the outside world
MIDI Rig
- Kurzweil K2500XS – master controller, synth, and sampler w/ huge sample library - Korg Triton – synth/sampler - Korg O1/Wfd – synth - Steinberg Midex8 – MIDI interface - Virtual instruments – including FX Expansion's amazing BFD acoustic drums,Toontrack's EZ Drummer with several drum kits available; Drumagog (plugin for creatively replacing/combining miked drums with other samples on the PC or synths), Propellerheads Reason instruments, Antares Kantos, Access Virus, TC Electronics Power 01, Steinberg Groove Master, Native Instruments B4, and others!
Additional Outboard Gear
- Furman power conditioning and headphone distribution systems - M-Audio DigiPatch digital patchbay - Tascam PB-48 TRS patchbay - Switchcraft XLR patchbay - Tascam 3-head master cassette recorder - Gemini turntable - Akai X800 reel to reel & 8-track tape decks Line 6 HD147 – We prefer to mic cabinets for guitar tones but have actually gotten some pretty convincing results using this unit when used in conjunction with either the punchy API pre or the warm, buttery Universal Audio tube pre, plus sometimes a nice "goo-ey" Pultec tube EQ. Works well for high gain tones, certain clean tones, and cabinet simulation. Gibson GA-5 Skylark – This tube amp built ca. 1964 works great for blues tones or any tones that require a more subtle amounts of overdrive and break-up.
Cabling
- Mogami - ProCo	- Canare - Neutrik	- Monster Cable - Switchcraft