Equipment

Room with a view places at your disposal an array of top quality recording equipment, which includes the use of Steve's personal collection of extremely rare, original vintage guitar amplifiers, keyboards, organs and synthesizers. The latter is perfect for creating that authentic, warm, 'vibey', analogue sound that is so sought after in today's digital world.

Below is an abridged list of the control room's equipment and musical instruments at the studio:

Mixing console

• 40 Channel Soundtracs Solitaire with moving fader automation

Recording media & sequencers

• iZ Technology Radar — 24 track digital recorder (1)
• Otari MTR90 Mk II 2" 24 track analogue tape recorder
• Otari ST with SMPTE. Still rock solid after all these years! (1)
• Cubase VST running on a Personal Computer (1)
• Sony MDS JE640 Minidisk (1)
• Revox B77 Mk II (1)
• 3-head cassette decks (Various)

Outboard pre-amplifiers & graphic equalizers

• TLA Valve EQ (1)
• MXR dual 15 band equalizer (1)
• SPL Vitaliser (1)

Compressors, limiters & noise gates

• TLA Valve compressor (1)
• Drawmer DL211 compressor (1)
• BSS DRP402 compressor (1)
• Drawmer DS-201 stereo gates (2)

Reverbs & digital effects processors

• Lexicon PCM 91 digital reverb (1)
• Alesis Midiverb digital reverb (1)
• Yamaha SPX-90 digital effects processors (2)
• TC Electronics M One digital effects processor (1)
• Roland SBF-325 flanger (1)
• Roland Dimension-D (1)
• Roland SDE-2000 digital delay (1)

Microphones (Rental microphones available upon request)

• Neumann U87 (1)
• Neumann M58's - Vintage stereo pair (2)
• Audio Technica ATM-25 (2)
• Audio Technica ATM-4033 (1)
• AKG 414 B-ULS - Stereo pair (2)
• AKG D12 - Original version (1)
• Sennheiser 421 (1)
• Electro-Voice RE-20 (1)
• Shure SM-57 (1)
• Shure SM-58 (6)
• Beyer Soundstars - Vintage stereo pair (2)

Monitors

• Main: JBL 43400. Powered by a Yamaha amplifier.
• Nearfiled: Genelec 1029a. The Genelec 1029a is a 2-way internaly powered bi-amped studio monitor.

Keyboards & samplers

• Korg Trinity - Keyboard (1)
• Novation Nova II - Keyboard (1)
• Kastner - German upright piano (1)
• Akai S6000 - Sampler with extensive sound library (1)

Original vintage keyboards, synthesizers & drum machines

• Hammond C3 - Organ with 147 (1)
• Hammond X5 - Organ with 760 (1)
• Mini-Moog (1)
• Moog Taurus - Pedals (1)
• Oberheim Matrix (1)
• JL Cooper - Synchronizer (1)
• Sequential Circuits Pro One (1)
• Yamaha P-50-M (1)
• Roland TR-808 - Rhythm composer (1)

Vintage guitar amplifiers & pedals

• 1966 Vox AC30 with separate head (1)
• Selmer AP30 (1)
• Fender with 4x10 cab (1)
• Boss CE2 Chorus - Original (1)
• Boss OC-2 Octaver - Original (1)
• Storm 10 - Distortion (1)
• Ibanez - Phase Tone 2 (1)
• Jim Dunlop - Original 'Cry Baby' Wah-wah (1)