TRC's racks of outboard gear and patch bays, lit up

The room and the gear.

Studio Five has a lounge-like control and creation room and a large, comfortable booth. Here’s what Mike mixes on.

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Built for mixing.

Studio Five was designed by Steve Durr and Matt Schlachter. Here’s what Mike mixes on.

  • Custom monitors

    Altec “Voice of the Theater” designs with Altec and TAD drivers, built by Travis Smith.

  • Avid S6

    An M40 with 32 faders, display modules and 9 knobs per channel.

  • Studer tape

    An A827 24-track and an A807 2-track, both expertly reconditioned.

  • Analog color

    Rupert Neve, Avalon, Trident 80B and Universal Audio channel strips.

The Avid S6 console at TRC Studios

32 faders under Mike’s hands.

Thanks to Michael and Eddie at Avid for including us in the Pro Tools and S6 beta programs. The S6 keeps getting better.

Studio Five floor plan: the creation room with the console, the Studer 827 and the 2-track, and the iso-booth

A lounge to create in, and a big booth.

Studio design
Steve Durr and Matt Schlachter
Main monitors built by
Travis Smith
Audio wiring
Jake Saghi
Technical audio consultant
Terry Palmer
Studer A827 reconditioned by
Steve Smith

The full list.

Open a category to see everything in it. Numbers in brackets are how many we have.

Monitors5
  • Main monitors custom Altec “Voice of the Theater”: Altec 515 woofers, 511 horns with TAD-2002 drivers, designed by Steve Durr, built by Travis Smith
  • Subwoofer Bag End ELF processor with a D12E sub
  • Signal chain by Mike Schatzlein and Jake Saghi: Trinnov crossover, amps from CLA and Crown
  • Nearfields Focal Trio6Be and Yamaha NS-10M
  • Routing MTRX and DADman monitor and cue routing
Console and converters4
  • Avid System 6 M40-32-9-D 32 faders, display modules, 9 knobs per channel
  • Burl Mothership HDX 32 I/O channels
  • Avid MTRX 16 channels of DAD converters
  • Avid HDX and UAD-2 Shark Octo hardware DSP
Tape3
  • Studer A827 24-track under 5,000 hours, reconditioned by Steve Smith
  • Studer A807 Mark II 2-track reconditioned by Jake Saghi and Matt Sepanic
  • Dolby A and Dolby SR 16 channels, for decoding
Condenser mics10
  • AKG C414B (2)
  • AKG C451B (2)
  • Audio-Technica AT4033/CL (2)
  • Beyerdynamic MC930 (2)
  • Blue Kiwi (2)
  • Miktek CV4 Tube (2)
  • Neumann KM185 (2)
  • Neumann M149 Tube
  • Neumann U87ai (2)
  • sE sE4400a (2)
Ribbon mics5
  • Cloud 44A
  • Rode NTR
  • sE RNR1 (2)
  • sE VooDoo VR2 (2)
  • RCA 77-DX vintage
Dynamic mics4
  • AKG D12 VR kick drum
  • Sennheiser e609 Silver (2)
  • Shure Beta91A kick drum (2)
  • Shure SM57 (5)
Analog13
  • Rupert Neve Master Bus Processor
  • Rupert Neve Portico II (2)
  • Avalon VT-737sp
  • Trident 80B (2)
  • Universal Audio 6176
  • LaChapell tube (2)
  • Cloudlifter CL-1 (2)
  • Soyuz Analog Launcher
  • Line 6 Helix
  • MXR Bass DI+ pedal
  • Focusrite Scarlett (8)
  • DI boxes many types
  • Guitar pedals many types
Instruments and amps10
  • Yamaha Montage M6
  • Kurzweil 2600 88 weighted keys
  • Martin DXM six-string
  • Fender Twin Reverb tubes, ’65 reissue
  • Fender Mustang
  • Gibson Les Paul Studio 70s Tribute
  • Gibson Les Paul Melody Maker
  • Roland V-drums mesh heads, TD-50 module
  • Jamstik Studio MIDI guitar
  • Paiste crash and ride cymbals
Plug-ins

Hundreds, from Avid, Universal Audio, SSL, Antares, Celemony, Eventide, Focusrite, FabFilter, iZotope, oeksound, HOFA, Native Instruments, Plugin Alliance, Vir2, Softube, Eiosis, Soundtoys, Slate, Sonnox, Synchro Arts, Audio Ease, Empirical Labs, Sound Radix, Mastering the Mix, Relab, Wave Arts, PSP and many others.

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Hear your song in this room.

Send Mike one or two songs and he’ll tell you what he hears. The evaluation is free.

Send Mike your tracks Or call 423 888-8663