Home Studio Registry: Vance Dylan

Future plans/projects

Now located 10 minutes outside of Dartmouth. Sonic Valley Productions have opted to stray from the mundane studio techniques of putting clients in a dark stale room seperated by glass. Our home studio overlooks the Salmon River located on over 20 acres giving clients a pure artist retreat. We offer three private guest rooms as well as airport and local transportation services for our out of town guests.

Guitars

Olympic 4 piece Drum Kit, Mesa Boogie Studio Series 25W combo amp, Mesa Boogie 50 Calibre Head with 4x10 25th Anniversary Marshall Cabinet. Full PA and headphone monitor system for rehearsals.

Percussion

Effects

FX From Q Sound to Wave

Microphones

Two Marshall MXL 2001's large diaphragm condsensor mics NEW, Marshall 603s condsensor mic NEW, AKG D112, Audio Technica 4031 condensor(pair), Audio Technica 813 condensor, Shure SM57, Shure SM58, Various headhones by AKG, Sony and Koss

Mixing

Yamaha 01V, 24x8x2 digital recording console with 22 onboard compressors,Four bands of fully swept EQ, dedicated 24bit stereo effects and moving fader automantion.

Tape decks

Teac Half Track Mastering Deck and DAW

Monitoring

Behringer dual channel tube mic/line pre-amp, Alesis 3630 dual channel compressor, 10 band EQ with Analyzer, Amplification via Hafler DH-101 power amp and monitors by Advent - B2R Amber series...250 watts per side. DA/AD - Delta 1010 NEW, Turtle Beach Tahiti and Multiwav Digital Pro audio cards for 14 combined inputs and outputs. (Of which 8 outputs feed a separate mixer where clients create their own headphone mixes.)

Computer

Most recording is done in a PC Digital Audio Workstation enviroment interfaced with the mixing console. Our Daw is currently an PIII 966, 512mb ram with over 100gb of storage.

Music software

Cool Edit Pro 1.2 (64 tracks) Steinberg Nuendo, Cubase VST/24 (24 tracks) Sound Forge 4.5 with CD Architect, Wavelab 3.0 and a wide selection of various plug ins such as the Antares Mic Modeler, Revalver (incredible amp emulator) Aural Activator, Optimizer and Studioverb from the DSP Pack. L1 Ultramaximizer, C1 Compressor series, Paragraphic EQs and True Verb from the Waves Native Power Pack. Other goodies include, Q Tools, Real Producer Plus and Audiactive Production Studio to name just a few of the many tools we use.

Additional equipment

Sound Cards from Multiwav Digital and Turtle Beach as well as the Delta 1010. Some outboard gear includes a Behringer tube mic/line pre-amp and Alesis 3630 compressor/limiter. Various mics from Sennheiser, Marshal,Audio Technica, Shure and AKG. Headphones by AKG and Monitor amplification via the Hafler DH-101 powering a pair of Advent B2R series speakers.

Additional notes

Sonic Valley produces custom audio for Games. Visit us at www.sonicvalley.com

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