Studio Facilities:
AI-assisted mixing, mastering and media management systems, which reduce times and cost, while providing new options, unique in Arizona.
Recording areas include nine (9) different rooms and other areas across several studios and related areas including:
• A highly damped 400 square foot ISO recording room, suitable for vocals, drums and amplified acoustic or electric guitar
• 500 sq. foot Live-End, Dead-End (LEDE) recording and control studio, with integrated tracking, monitoring and mixing, with ISO vocals area
• A 1,600 sq. foot highly acoustically optimized studio, with 4K – 8K video, music video and stills, as well as full tracking, mixing and control
• VR studio, with augmented, VR and simulation custom and commercial hardware and software.
•. A reverberant large shower-style 8′ x 9′ recording area, with integrated remote AV monitoring, tracking and control
• 950 sq. ft Dolby ATMOS / Dolby Vision screening room with 3D, VR and 4K
• An 200 sq. foot intimate non-parallel walls parlor-acoustics area
• A 24,000 cubic foot open at the ends room with 14′ ceilings and mass-loaded walls
• 2,200 sq. foot recording area – non-parallel walls, moderately live room with non-parallel walls and 14′ ceilings
• A sequestered private, beautifully brick walled outdoor courtyard, with 1,500 sq foot sheltered space facing Granite mountain.
Music and Audio Recording Studios
Our facilities:
The core facilities were designed using approaches, and is widely considered the most advanced studio in Arizona — and we have enhanced that core set of capabilities with AI that increases creative options, while reducing the time and complexity of creating media.
Recording, mixing and mastering hardware, as detailed in diagrams below:
256 channels of RedNet, DANTE-enabled channels at up to 192 KHz 24-bit Analog/Digital sampling, with up to 64-times oversampling options.
64 channels of Apollo/ UAD with full Satori analog summing options
24 Analog Channels of concurrent, to analog and digital mixing consoles
Microphones (evolving set, with new ones and replacements typically every few months, as well as Slate and UAD modeling Mics)
(2) Shure SM-58
(2) Shure SM-57
(2) Shure SM-57 LC
Shure Beta 52A
Shure SM 7B
Sennheiser MD 421 Mk II
Sennheiser E 935
Sennheiser E 865
Sennheiser E 609
Sennheiser E 604
ElecroVoice RE20
ElectroVoice 767
AKG P220
AKG P420
AKG C12
AT 2020
AT 4040
AT 2035
AT 4045
Rode Ambisonic Soundfield Tetra and full suite
Zylia Ambisonics with Pro, Music and Ultima suite
Sontronics Solo
Sontronics Apollo 2
Sonotronics Corona
Sontronics PodcastersSchoeps MK4
Heil PR40
NeumannU47
Neumann U49
Neumann U67
Neumann M7
Neumann 269C
Telfunken ELA M 251 E
SONY C800
SONY C37A
SD 451
Coles 4038
Slate Digital VMS
Slate full range mic suite– large and small dynamic, and condenser suite
Townsend Sphere L-22 Mic with UAD and Ocean Way Recording Studio plugins
Slate Digital Virtual Recording Studio, interfaced to Dante backbone
Antelope Edge matching mics / Preamp
Earthworks drum set DK/50Pro (7) drum mic set
Earthworks SR40V
Earthworks 314
Earthworks Icon
Earthworks Piano Mics
Video and Wireless Microphone Systems
Dozens of different LAV, boom, Handheld, on/off camera and other video mic’s including:
Shure Wireless digital Mic system
Countryman Lavs
Panda Lavalier System
ZOOM F8, 8 Channel field recorder
ZOOM F6 RAW Video recorder (ordered May 25 2019), for no levels set, 200dB dynamic range, -160dB S/N level recording.
Sound Devices Mix-Pre 6Mae Channel field and Musician OVDB Recorder
Sound Devices Mic Pre 10 VII 32 bit 10 channel recorders
Tascam DR70D 4 channel mix recorder
Wireless G3/G4 Sennheiser XLR Mic and wireless Lavaliere mic system
(2) Azden SM30 Video Mic
(1) Azden SM25 Video Mic
Rode Stereo Video Mic X
Rode Video Mic Pro
SONY Cyber DCS Microphone
(2) Rode VideoMic
Rode NTX Mic
Blue Yeti Mic
Blue Mouse Mic
Sennheiser ME66 shotgun Microphone
Sennheiser ME64 shotgun Microphone
Sennheiser 416
Sennheiser MKE 600
Rode SmartLAV+ Lavaliere mics
Rode Rodelink Wireless mic system
Rode Recorder Field mic system
Specialty Mics and related Systems
Sound Shark Long Range Parabolic Microphone system
Earthworks FW730 FW 30KHz Matched Mics
Complete 10 user talkback and control system with belt packs
Sennheiser EW 100-ENG G2 Wireless Lavaliere Microphone System,
Projection Systems
2 SONY DolbyVision Pro certified Screening areas with 4K, 6K, and one with 8K, 3D, VR and augmented reality supported in-house, with seating for up to 12 in a screening room.
Software
Video
(3) Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 17 Edit bays
(2) Blackmagic Fusion 17 VFX suites
(3) Final Cut Pro X Edit bay
(3) Adobe Premiere, After Effects and rest of full Adobe suites
LUT Creator 3D
Over 100 other apps and utilities for video shooting, recording, effects and post work
Stills
Full Adobe Suite
Capture Pro 21 Tethered Shooting and Automated Backup system
Instant iPad and mobile session viewing
LR TimeLapse
Affinity Photo
Affinity Designer
Set.a.Light 3D Modeling shoot VR system – Setup and review for shot
Photomatix
Timelapse 6
Over 100 other photography apps and utilities
DAW’s
Ableton 11 Suite – Ultimate Version
Pro Tools Ultimate
Logic Pro 11
Reaper 6.x
Mainstage
Studio One
Audio
Slate Digital Suite – All Plugins
Waves Mercury Bundle (169 Waves plugins and instruments) – Full List: https://www.waves.com/bundles/mercury
UAudio UAD – 64 Plugins
SoundToys – Entire Bundle
Superior Drummer 3
Pianoteq Pro
Sound Radix Surfer EQ2, PI, PowAir, Auto-Align, Drum-Leveler
Vienna Instruments- Symphony Suite / Synchron Player Orchestral System
IK Multimedia – SampleTank, several other IK plugins and utilities
BIAS FX 2 and AMP2 Platinum set
Equator
Cypher 2
Strobe
Kontakt Audio Bundle
Adobe Audition
AVID Sibelius
Dozens of other music, audio and related software applications and plugins.
Astrophotography / Landscape Astrophotography
Celestron 8
Skywatcher Pro
Printing
We have full in-house archive / museum grade printing facilities, which includes top quality acid-free canvas, linen, pulp and specialty paper. We also have full matting capabilities, using 200+ year grade products
Canon ProGraf 1000 and 2100 Giclee (“Museum grade” capable)
In-house matting and cutting
Virtual Album creation software
Hardware
Computers/Networking
(3) Macintosh AV Edit bays with 12-Core XEON 3.0GHz Mac Pro 5.1’s 64GB RAM, Nvidia Titan X, with BlackMagic 4k/8K Extreme 12G interface cards, 6Gbps on-board SSD RAID-0 arrays, multiple Hard Drives with 10GB, 34″ LG UM-95 Monitors
(3) Macintosh 16GB i7 MacBook Pro 14.3’s
(4) Macintosh 2020 16GB Mini’s
(1) Macintosh 2020 3.7 GHz 32GB RAM, 3 TB
(2) 10-bit Calibrated 34″ monitors, with integrated realtime calibration system
(1) Asus Zenbook Pro Duo 32GB RAM, dual 4K screen i(
(1) Dual Gold XEON, dual NVidia 3090, 384 GB RAM, 8 TB RAID-1 SSD plus NVMe, water-cooled AI transcoder running Windows 10 and Ubuntu.
(1) 2019 Mac Mini – i7 3.9 GHz 32 GB RAM – 1TB/6TB SSD, SDHD and HD
(2) Windows 10 based 12-Core i7 7700 4.2GHz Liquid Cooled PC’s, 64GB RAM, dual SSD, Nvidia 1080Ti video cards, Samsung 49″ CHG90 Monitors
QNAP HERO QUTS, 108 GB TVS16888 XEON based NAS, dual 10 Gb to studio
Dual 10 Gbit Ethernet Backbone for networking and Dante AV
Dual 1Gbit Ethernet Dante isolated Subnets for Dante audio
DANTE Backbones – (2) 128 x 128 Channel Dante Audio Backbone, with dual redundant Gbit remote managed switches to 8 different Record rooms
Studio Monitors
Focal Trio 6Be monitors
Avatone Active Cubs
PreSonus R80 Monitors
QSC 10.2
QSC KW 181
ADAM A7X Monitors
Mobile IK MSM monitoring system
Preamps/DAC’s/DI’s
UAD Apollo 8P Preamp, DAC Accelerators
Focusrite RedNet 8 Dante-enabled Preamps, DACs
(2) Focusrite RedNet X4P remote monitoring and mixing control systems
Slate Digital Mix Rack Interface
XIAudio (“11-Audio”) Formula S, Sagra and Powerman
FIIO Q5S THX and Diablo
Modeling Hardware
Line 6 SoundScape Digital Mixer M20d
Line 6 L3S Active Emulation Subwoofer
(2) Line 6 L3T Active Emulation Monitors
Line 6 Helix Simulation, Emulation and Effects system Floor
UAD Townsend Sphere L22 Modeling Mic (July 2019)
BIAS FX 2 Elite, Bias Amp 2, Bias Pedals
Headphones
Master & Dynamics MH40 headphones
Abyss 1266 TC Phi with 11 Audio ‘Formula S’ headphone amp, Sagra DAC and Powerman external power
Focal Clear headphones with FIIO Diablo and Q5S THX DAC/HP-AMPS
(5) ATH M50 headphones
(2) Sennheiser HD202 headphones
Sennheiser HD 600 headphones
Hifiman Sundara magnetic Planar headphones
(2) Sennheiser HD 280 headphones
(1) Neuman NDH20 headphones
(3) Sennheiser HD-25 Mk II headphones
Sennheiser iSine 20
Musical Instruments
Fender Elite P-Bass, Active/Passive
Fender Telecaster Elite Parallel Universe Nash (trip-picks)
Line 6 James Tyler Floyd Rose Variax Guitar
PRS McCarty 24 Guitar
Martin X1AE Guitar
Roli Seaboard 49 Multi-expression controller keyboard
Roli Songwriter keyboard, lightCube and Control modules
Yamaha P116 Keyboard
Nord Electro 2 keyboard
Dave Smith Prophet Rev2 16 Voice Keyboard
Pearl, DW 10 piece set
Alesis Strike Pro E-Drum Set with Pearl P-3002D Eliminator Demon Drive Double Bass Drum Pedal
Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol S4 MK2 DJ Controller
Jackson Ampworks McFly Custom 2
Fender Twin Reverb
Music Production Hardware
Slate Digital Raven Dual MTiX Control
Townsend UAD Sphere L-22 Dual Capsule Emulation Mic
Slate Digital VMS Virtual Mic Emulation System
Antelope Satori Analog Summing, Monitoring and Talkback systems
UAD Apollo 8P
UAD Apollo Twin
UAD Apollo Quad Mk II
Ableton Push 2
Coleman Audio 5.1
Dual LA-2A Compressor (Hybrid)
Plugins Over 1,400 plugins, 4 TB Samples, 118 virtual instruments, including:
Realtime UAD-enabled Antares Autotune system
UAD – 67 Realtime plugins
Waves Tune
Waves Plugin Suite – Mercury Bundle
Celomony Melodyne 4
Revoice 5 Pro
BIAS FX 2 Elite, BIAS Amp2, BIAS Pedals, etc
FAB Filter Complete Set (Q3, L2, R, C2, MB, Saturn, Twin, Timeless, Volcano 2, Pro-DS, Pro-G)
Altiverb 7 XL
Superior Drummer 3
iZotope – All Plugins (Ozone 8, RX 7, Music Production Suite 2, RX Post Production Suite 3, Neutron 3, Creative Suite, etc)
Serum
Native Komplete Full
Spectrasonics Trilian
Helix Native (and Helix Floor Hardware)
Binson Echorec Magnetic Drum Delay
Eventide Elevate Bundle
Overload GEM bundle
Reference 6 plugins
Dozens of other Plugins, with new ones add and upgraded regularly
SoundRadix – Surfer EQ 2 Pro, Auto Align, PI, Drum Leveler, PowAir
Additional Systems
DJI Phantom 4K 60fps Drone
DJI Mavic Pro 4K drone
Ronin S Gimbal
Nighttime Sidereal Tracking system (astro and landscape/astro)
Playback / Screening
Three screening areas, viewing for up to 15 people — 4K video, calibrated 10-bit monitors of video, realtime stills review (i.e. direct from camera in-shoot)
Tethered content review during acquisition, 3D video support, Virtual Reality, Augmented reality.
Realtime photography, video and stills acquisition as it is happening, so that we can more efficiently create content that everyone hopefully loves.
Our entire network support realtime 10/40 Gbps audio and video communication, which is unique in allowing us to setup most any type of studio recording configuration in moments, and without the need to move hardware, drag equipment around, patch cables and all of the other frustrating, time-consuming things that studios typically have to deal with– and with their customers have to wait around to happen, while paying for that time.
Other – supporting viewing, playback and review
75″ 4K LG LED TV with integrated teleconferencing, Mac Mini and Apple TV
55″ QLED Samsung 8K
(3) 55″ 4K LG LED TV with Apple TV
(2) 31″ 10-bit Color Grading 31MU-97C Monitors
Atomos NEON 10-bit ProRes RAW Async recorder
Atomos Sumo 19″ 10bit, ProRes RAW asynchonous recorder
Arial 7.1 Surround Channel System
Klipsch 5.1 Surround Channel System
Dolby ATMOS 52 speaker Surround system
Analog
SOTA Star Saphire Turntable
Nakamichi Dragon 2 Track analog deck
SSL Dual Stereo Channels and Compressors
Pioneer Laser Disk Player
(2) Marantz AV8805
(2) OPPO UDP-203 Ultra-HD Universal Blu-ray DVD Player
Dolby Vision HDR-10 Processor
Dolby ATMOS CP-850 Audio processor
Video related cameras
We have an extensive set of studio, run & gun and broadcast gear with 4K, 6K anamorphic and 8K recording support. All gear has complete wired, wireless and remote power support for field use.
(2)Blackmagic Production Camera 4K, with integrated talkback
(2) Blackmagic Micro 4K
Blackmagic Production Cameras 4K
SONY A7III
SONY A7SIII
SONY Alpha 1 50 Mbit
Canon 5DSR
Panasonic GH5
Panasonic GH5S
Stills/Video
Canon 5DSR 51 MP Camera
SONY RX10 MIII 20MP 24 – 600mm f/2.4-4.0 with 25x Camera
Panasonic Lumix GH5 28MP Camera
Panasonic Lumix GH5-S Camera
Panasonic Lumix G85 16MP
Video Support
Atomos Shogun Inferno 12G SDI 4K 60FPS ProRes
BlackMagic Resolve Full Control Surface for DaVinci Resolve
BlackMagic 8K ATEM enabled I/O
Titan 11K 3D/360 10-bit video and stills capture system
Lenses
All Full frame Canon lenses have power-adapted SONY and Micro 4/3 support via,
A growing set of over 50 lenses, which currently includes:
SONY G-Master lens suite (9 lenses, from 14mm, 24mm, 35mm, 85mm, 135mm, 200-600mm, 70-200mm, 200-600mm, 600mm f/4)
Canon 24mm Tilt-shift 2.8 lens ISM II L
Canon 70mm-200mm f/2.8 ISM II L
Canon 70mm-200mm f/2.8 ISM III L
Canon 300mm f/2;8 L
Canon 200mm f/1.8 L
Canon 50mm F/1.8 STM
Canon 35mm f/2.0
Sigma 14mm f/1.8 EF DG Art
Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EF
Sigma 105mm f/1.8 FE and EF DG Art
Sigma 30mm f/1.4 Art
Venus Optics Laowa f/14 22mm Prime Probe Lens
SONY FE 90mm f/2.8
SONY FE 50mm f/1.8
Canon EF 1.4 x Mk II Adapter
Canon EF 2.0 x Mk II Adapter
Canon EF 1.4 x Mk III Adapter
Canon EF 2.0 x Mk III Adapter
Rokinon Cinema 100mm T3.1
Rokinon Cinema 85mm T3.1
Rokinon Cinema 35mm T1.5
MFT Lenses
Panasonic LUMIX G X VARIO II PROFESSIONAL LENS, 12-35MM, DUAL I.S. 2.0
Panasonic LUMIX G LEICA DG NOCTICRON LENS, 42.5MM, F1.2 ASPH
Panasonic LUMIX G LEICA DG VARIO-ELMAR PRO, 100-400MM
Panasonic Lumix G II Vario Lens, 45-200mm, F4.0-5.6, Mirrorless
Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital ED 45mm F1.8
Panasonic LUMIX G LEICA DG SUMMILUX LENS, 25MM, F1.7 ASPH
Panasonic LUMIX G LEICA DG SUMMILUX LENS, 15MM, F1.7 ASPH
Panasonic LUMIX G Vario Lens, 40-150MM, F4.0-5.6 ASPH
Panasonic LUMIX G Vario Lens, 14-140MM, F3.5-5.6 ASPH
Rokinon Cinema 85mm T1.5
Other
Aperture Lens Regain EF system to support full line of MFT lenses
Ronin-S Gimbal System / Stabilizer
DSLR video stabilizers
(4) iPhone DJI Stabilizers
Avid Artist Pro Surface
Avid S3 Mixing surface
3D Connection 3D Fusion Controller
Euphonix Music Shuttle
Strobe/Flash, Continuous, specialty lighting and modifiers
Our entire Studio has CRI 98 color-balanced throughout, with adaptive LED support for 3200K to 6500K. We have extensive 16′ x 14′, 8′ x 8′ and portable green screens, black-drops, saturated grey and cloud chamber (white) for still and video production. A full range of DMX controlled lighting and control systems enables us to support everything from rapid production workflow for p
Top, back and side lit product table
Rotolight AEOS’s Strobes and continuous LED system– capable of 60 shots per second– great for modeling, corporate and families alike)
Rotolight Titan X1
Rotolight NEO II’s LED
GODOX A1 Smart Flash
Flashpoint 600 Watt-Sec Monolights
GODOX AD200 Strobes
GODOC V860 II Flash
(3) 250 Watt IceStick 3200K – 6500 field lights
Apurture 300D (2K Watt equivalent) with Fresnel, Lantern and flood modifiers
(2) 18″ x 60″ row modifier
36″ Octobox modifier
48″ Octobox modifier
65″ Parabolic Light focuser and shaper
Dozens of different types of lighting gels, snoots, reflectors, diffusers, spills and related modifiers.
Astrophotography / Landscape Astrophotography
Skywatcher Pro
Celestron 8
Specialty Photo/video Hardware and related
Liquid Drop Photography System
Lightning capture systems
Motion capture system
Green suits
