Library music and sound fx
The entire First Com Music Library is at your disposal. Literally
thousands of cuts of library music are available for your commercial
or long form project in every style and genre you can think of
(and then some).
Also, thousands of sound fx are available from the Sound Ideas
Library and others to bring your production to life.
Jingles and custom music For jingle and custom music production,
we can record the entire band simultaneously, including electric
guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, vocals and acoustic guitar.
Various techniques are utilized. Typically, two very quiet
Iso-booths are used for recording vocals and miking acoustic
guitar. We use direct recording techniques for bass and guitar
with virtual amp technology (listen to Amplitube
2 and Ampeg
SVX plugin demos). For drums, we use the incredible
Roland TD-20 (Their Flagship
Electronic Drumkit). This kit plays
and sounds like real drums - just listen to the demo! For piano,
B3 organ and all other keyboard sounds, we use an 88-key fully
weighted midi controller with several incredible virtual instruments
including Ivory for acoustic piano, B4
II for organ, and Lounge
Lizard for Electric Piano. Again, check out the demos you see
linked here. Also, recording direct has an added benefit of
being much cleaner and quieter. |
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Computer/DAW:
Nuendo 3.1 on a Mac G5 Dual
2 ghz with 4 gig of Ram, 2 Terabytes of hard drive space
(w/Glyph Raid setup)
24 channels of I/O including the Lynx
Aurora 16, and Nuendo/RME 24bit/96k 8 I/O More
info...
Nuendo Audiolink 24 channel interface,
Dual 19” LG monitors
ISDN Digital Codecs:
Musicam Prima 220
APT Worldnet Milano
(the studio has 2 ISDN lines w/4 ISDN #s)
Monitors:
Mackie HR-824
Microphones:
Brauner Phantom C More
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Neamann TLM-103,
Lawson L-47,
Shure KSM-32,
M-Audio Sputnik More
info...
SE Electronics SE-3 pair More
info...
CAD E-350
Sennheiser MKH-416,
Pre-amps:
A-Designs Pacifica (4 channels) More
info...
Focusrite ISA 430 More
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Mixer:
Mackie 24x8 Mixer (for monitoring only. All mixing is done inside
Nuendo)
Effects/Processors:
(2) Empirical Labs Distressor Compressors (w/British Mod) More
info...
Focusrite ISA-430 EQ/ISA-430 Comp/ISA- 430 Limiter/ISA-430 DeEsser More
info...
Neve Portico 5043 Stereo Compressor More
info...
Tape Machines/CD Player:
Fostex D-5 Dat Machine,
Marantz Pro Cassette Deck,
Marantz Pro CD Player
Instruments:
Roland TD-20 Drums Listen to demo...
Taylor Acoustic Guitar,
CME-UF8 fully weighted 88 key midi keyboard controller – works great with Ivory
Piano plugin!
Misc. Hardware:
Lucid SSG 192 Master Clock,
Z-Systems 16.16Digital Patchbay,
Mackie HMX-56 Headphone distribution System,
Equitech Balanced Power System,
Power Play Headphone Amp,
Hafler Power Amp,
Telos One Hybrid Phone interface,
MX-8 Midi Patchbay,
(2) 24 point Neutrik Patchbays
Video:
Hitachi 42” Plasma TV,
Panasonic Universal Format DVD player,
Sony Video Deck |
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Nuendo 3.21 Digital Workstation More
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Peak Pro 5.2 XT 2 track mastering software More
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Antares Auto-Tune 5,
Waves Platinum Bundle (includes L3 Maximizer, Linier Phase EQ,
Renaissance EQ/Bass/Comp/De-esser/Reverb/Vox, Linear Phase
Multiband Limiter, IR-L Convolution Reverb, Doubler, Super
Tap and many more).
Sonalksis EQ and Comp., More
info...
UAD Plugins (1176, LA2, Fairchild, Pultec, Precision Limiter Dreamverb
and many more),
Ampeg SVX Virtual Bass Amp and FX Listen
to demo...
Amplitube 2 Virtual Guitar Amp and FX Listen
to demo...
BlueTubes Bundle,
IK-Multimedia CSR Reverb Listen
to demo...
WizooVerb Reverb,
Ohmboys Delay,
PSP Mixpack and Vintage Warmer,
TrackPlug,
Sound Soap Pro, and others… |
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Ivory Virtual Piano Listen
to demo...
Native Instruments B4 II Organ Listen
to demo...
BFD Virtual Drums Listen
to demo...
Lounge Lizard Virtual Electric Piano Listen
to demo...
AMG Kick Ass Brass Listen
to demo...
Miraslov Philharmonik virtual orchestra Listen
to demo...
Sample Tank 2 (1,300 sounds) Virtual Sampler,
Sonic Synth Virtual Synthesizer (633 sounds) |
