THE
DECIBEL DEN
OUR MULTI-PURPOSE RECORDING STUDIO
The Apollo x8p is our mothership. Everything in our control room is centered around the workflow that it provides. The 8 unison preamps on the Apollo are the backbone of the majority of our drum recordings.
CONTROL ROOM
Softube Console 1 is another tool we use here in the Decibel Den. It allows for hands on control of some awesome channel strips—Saturation, Compression and EQ on every channel, right at your fingertips!
Some of our favorite songs of all time were recorded long before the days of ProTools, and there’s a unique sonic quality that those records have compared to those of the digital era. We like to chase that quality every chance we can, and we’re constantly running all sorts of sounds through our patchbay. The patchbay is basically a highway that you can direct audio traffic on, and we consider ourselves certified traffic movers ;)
ANALOG OUTBOARD GEAR
Our booth is a utility station. We’ve tracked so many different things in our booth, but 99% of the time it’s vocals and guitar amps—with good reason. It’s an awesome place to get some very intimate vocals or some ear busting guitars or bass.
RECORDING BOOTH
LIVE ROOM
A lot happens in the live room and boy is it LIVE. We love setting up stereo room mics and seeing how big we can get a drum recording but we’re just as passionate about recording a tight and dry drum sound too. We also do livestreams and live recordings in the live room as well, and when it comes to loud recordings, mic placement always comes in for the win.
Can you tell we love drums? #MakeDrumsGreatAgain(And Real)
Dynamic Microphones
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Electrovoice RE20 (x1)
Shure SM7B (x1)
Shure SM57 (x3)
Shure SM58 (x3)
Shure Beta58A (x4)
Shure Beta 57A (x1)
Samson Q6 (x2)
Audio Technica ST 90 (x1)
Fender P-51 (x1)
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Condenser Microphones
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Sennheiser MKE 600 (x1)
AudioTechnica AT2020 (x1)
Rode NT1 (x2)
MXL 770 (x1)
Shure BG4.1 (x1)
Samson C01 (x1)
Samson C02 (x4)
Studio Projects C1 (x1)
Aston Origin (x1)
Neumann TLM102 (x1)
Neumann TLM103 (x1)