Studios Babel
Acoustic designed by Christian Malcurt
Location and equipment
Stage
Capacity : 30 to 35 musicians
Possibility of 3 independent stereo headphones circuits (35 headphones)
Video Circuit : 2 LCD screens 32 inches
20 lighted musical stands, 30 chairs
Separate room for percussion soloist
5 acoustical panels
Studio room
Designed around a HD5 PROTOOLS Workstation
Plug-in (Sony Oxford, waves, Flux, GML, Altiverb, ect...)
All studio peripheral devices are prepatched on the Protools' interfaces.
Computers
MAC PRO 3 Ghz 4 cores, 4 gigabytes of RAM.
Converters and Interfaces
Digidesign : 2 x 192 I/O, 2 x 192 D, 1 MIDI I/O, 1 SYNC I/O
Magma expansion chassis
Apogee : 2 x 8000 AD, 2 AD x 16X, 1 x DA 16X
Mixing console
Dcontrol Digidesign ICON 32 channels
Loudspeakers
5.1 GENELEC : LCR 3 x 1037, surround 2 x S30, 2 x 1030
DYNAUDIO : 2 x BM5
Preamplifiers
Millennia : 2 x HV3D (2 x 8 channels) - 2 x STT1
GML : 2 x 8304 (8 channels)
Manley : 1 x Vox Box
Avalon : 2 x Vt 737 sp
Vintech Audio : 2 x X73i (1073 clone)
Universal Audio : 2 x 6176, 1 x 610
Summit : 1 x TPA200B (2 channels)
Compressors
Empirical labs : 2 x Distressor
GML : 1 x 8900 (stereo)
SSL : 1 (stereo)
Tubtech : 1 x CL2A (stereo)
SPL : Transient designer (4 channels)
Equalizer
GML : 1 x 8200 (stereo)
Manley : Massive Passive (stereo)
Effects
Lexicon : 1 x 960L
TC Electronic : 1 x M6000 system
Eventide : 1 x Eclipse
SONY : 2 convolution reverbs DRE - S777
EMT : 1 EMT 240
Thermionic : 1 Culture Vulture (stereo)
Projection
Avid Mojo or Canopus ADVC 100
Screen basis 2m.
Projector Screen JVC HD DLA1
Midi
A station Logic Pro 8
Bank of sounds for EXS24 and VSL Vienna Ensemble
Mac Pro 3 Ghz
1 Apogee symphony card with 1 AD Apogee 16X an 16X Apogee DA
Command keys and Roland XV 88
Ability to use a Logic station as recorder
Microphones
3 Neumann M 149
2 Neumann TLM 103
2 Neumann U87 Ai
3 Neumann U 87
6 Neumann KM 184
1 Neumann TLM 170
2 Neumann U89
1 Neumann BCM104
4 Schoeps MK 4
3 DPA 4003 (Black and white grids, sphere and Nose Cone)
2 DPA 4022
1 DPA 4041 (1 valve, 1 transistorised 130 V Power Supply)
3 DPA / B&K 4007
2 DPA / B&K 4060
1 AKG C414B-ULS
3 AKG C414B-XLS
1 AKG C419
1 AKG D112
4 Shure SM 58
5 Shure SM 57
2 Sennheiser 441
2 Sennheiser MD421
1 Electrovoice RE20
2 Crowley&Tripp Naked Eye Ribbon
2 Charter Oak M 900 (capsules Omni, Cardio and Hypercardio)
1 Blue Kiwi Large Diaphragm (9 directivities)
2 Oktava MK-012-01
2 SE Electronics Z 5600
Instruments
Steinway piano B series
Various analog and digital Keyboards : Moog, Access Virus, Nordlead, Novation, Alesis Andromeda, Roland 5080, Akai Z8, and so on.
Guitars
Fender Stratocaster US S-1
Fender Telecaster Custom Shop Andy Summers
Fender Jaguar Baritone
Gibson Les Paul Custom
Gibson ES335 Custom Shop Lee Ritenour
Gretsch 6197
acoustic Gibson Elite
acoustic Martin D28
acoustic Martin J12-40 (12 strings)
resonator National
manouche Maurice Dupont Cognac
electroacoustic Godin Multiac
banjo Deering (4 strings)
banjo Goldstar (5 strings)
Drums
Drum set SONOR Maple SQ2 seven drums
Charley and ride Istambul
Ride Zilidjann Series K
Paiste crash
