Home Studio Registry: Jay McCarty

Future plans/projects

Just recorded a local musician named Jon Coleman .... working on Art right now .... hope to have his CD out by January 2003 ......... also finished a few demos ...... and recorded a song by Barry Damsky, a 911 tribute, that's being shopped in Nashville at this moment

Guitars

Ibanez, Takamine, Epiphone, Fender, Yamaha,

Keyboards

Casio CTK-671 Synth, Roland JX-8P Synth, Baldwin 2 tier Organ

Sound modules

None

Percussion

3 sets of drums: 6 piece Tama, 5 piece Pearl, 5 piece Royce, Zildian, Paiste, and Sabian cymbals

Effects

Cool Edit Pro Digital Signal Processing, DigiTech Studio Quad V2 FX, DoD R-825 Compressor, ART CS2 Compressor/Limiter/Gates, Nady CL-5000 Compressor/Limiter/Gates, Boss Gates, NEC 31 Band EQs, Alesis 31 Band EQs, SansAmp Bass DI Box, Boss ME-30 Guitar FX

Microphones

SuperLux Studio Condenser (1), EV 408B (1), EV 308B (2), Beyer Dynamic M260N Ribbon Microphone (1), AKG D1000E (3), Shure SM 57 (3), Audio Technica 362 (1),

Mixing

Mackie Mixing Board ( CFX 20 )

Tape decks

2 Teac dual cassettes

Monitoring

Berringer Head Phone Amplification, Mackie M-800 FR series power amp and Alesis Monitor One monitors for mixdown ...... Mackie 1400i power amp and Custom built cabinets ( 2 12" JBL's, 1 10" Jensen, and 2 4x10 horns per cabinet ) for over head monitors for Loud Mix

Computer

Homemade CPU ..... SpaceWalker Mother Board, with a AMD-K6 2 Processor, 320 megs of RAM, 200 Gigs HD, GeForce 2 64 mg video, Creative Labs Extigy DE Sound Card, Phillips Acoustic Edge PSC 706 Sound Card, NIC, and 17 inch monitor at 1280 x 1024 Res

Music software

Cool Edit Pro v. 2.0, 128 tracks, over 45 dsp, editing and mastering software, CalkWalk v. 9.0

Additional equipment

8x8' isolation booth with 8 channel snake ( XLR ) 3 headphone sends and 1 instrument sends

Additional notes

I've worked with Varied artists in the past ...... from 1984 - 1992 I worked in a Recording Studio called Millbrook Sound Studios( http://www.millbrooksoundstudios.com/ ). I was able to meet and work with Leslie West of Mountain and Peter Frampton just to name a couple

Primary use Secondary use
Recording Demos
Recording level MIDI level
High Above average
Commonly work (with) Completed songs/demos/jingles
Other musicians More than 100