En Garde!-Steven Hall-The
Strugglers-Kingsbury Manx-The Ghost Of Rock-Ernie
Brooks-Milton-io-The Dents-Bill McCormack-Dana
Kletter-Butchwax-Cunaxa-Erie Choir-Majestic Twelve (Kenyata Sullivan & Co.)-My Code Name
Is Blue-J Love and the Janitors-Cold Sides-the
Mendoza Line-Rusty
Nails-Superchunk-Ashley Stove-Shark Quest-Sorry About Dresden-Milagro Saints-Strunken
White-Tift
Merritt & the Carbines-$2
Pistols--Aftertax-Adult
Film Makers-Ozone
Quartet-
the Foolish Things-the
Scaries-Bad
Checks-Regina Hexaphone-Jeff
Hart-White
Octave-Starpoint-Gerty-9 Minute Snooze-Portastatic-Crawdad PA-Boy Wonder Jinx!-Slow Change Madagascar-
Stigmata 3-Joe Knowlton-Bicentennial Quarters-the
Connells- the Bellbats-Kenny
Shore-David Kepford-John Gillespie-Lookwell-Brazilia-
Mark Ivanitch-Cole Guera-Algebra One -Question Rig-
Phil Lee & the Sly Dogs-Jim Jett-GrandPricks-Mark
Lewis-Bandway-Soccer-
Starry Wisdom Band-Finger-Benighted
Maestro-Polvo-Dish-Motorolla-June-Geezer Lake-theHusbians-
Erectus Monotone-Willard-Patty Duke Syndrome (featuring Ryan Adams)-Shiny Beast-Dillon
Fence-Hindsight-Vanilla Trainwreck-
and many others.
Equipment
The mainstay recorder is a MCI JH24
2" 24 track. This is a wonderful machine with a
recognizable tone - it sounds like your favroite records!
Cubase SX3 software and a Mark Of
The Unicorn 828 MrkIII interface are used for digital
recording. Although I prefer using the 2" analog
recorder, digital recording is here to stay. I can
transfer analog recordings to digital files in order to
interface with other studios or take advantage of digital
editing and mixing.
A Tascam MSR16 (16 track, 1/2"
tape, dbx noise reduction) and an ADAT-XT (8 track) are
also available. The ADAT can be used in sync with the
analog recorders.
A Mackie D8B digital console provides monitoring
and automated mixing. Plug-ins by Antares, Drawmer, George Massenberg, and
others.
Wavelab 4.1 software is used for
2-track mixdown and mastering. A Dbx Quantum supplies A/D
conversion and global equalization and multiband
compression and limiting. Files up to 24 bits and 96kHz
are supported. A Fostex DAT recorder and an Otari MX-50
(1/4" tape half-track) are also available.
Mics by Neumann (U87, CMV 563
tube), AKG (414s, 451), Microtech Gefell (UM70S), Beyer,
EV (RE20s), Seinhauser (421s), Shure (SM7B,98, 57s, 58) +
more.
Preamps by Universal Audio (LA-610),TL Audio (2 channels
tube compressor, 2 channels tube EQ), Toft Audio, and Sytek (4
channels solid state), Symetrix, and Presonus.
Other outboard gear includes
compressors by Urei, dbx, and RNC; EQ by Rane and Audio
Arts; Antares Auto-tune, gates by Valley, Behringer,and
Tristech.
Monitors by Dynaudio, EV, JBL, & Radio
Shack!
Effects by Lexicon, Roland, Yamaha,
Alesis.
Plus electric & acoustic
guitars, basses, amps, effects, mandolins, banjos, even a
violin & balalaika, vibes, Yamaha piano, synths,
samplers, drums, congas, a derbekee, dumbek, djembe,
& boxes of other fun percussion stuff!
Location
Beautiful Mebane, North Carolina!
15 miles west of Chapel Hill, 4.5 miles off of I-40/I-85
The number 8 is for the eighth location, starting as a
teenager back at my bedroom in my parents house in WV. I started
using Duck Kee Studio [from a CCR album cover + I was in a band
called Duck Theory at the time] when I needed to identify the
studio on the tapes I was sending out. The 7th location was in
Raleigh, NC & was where I started recording Chapel Hill &
Raleigh bands: wwax, 8 or 9 feet, the Angels of Epistemology -
there was an endless number of bands to record. I was befriended
at the old Schoolkids Records by Matt Matthews; together we
recorded the blackgirls, and word-of-mouth took it from there.
