Just some of our great selection of gear.

The following is a list of the instrumentation, amplification and so forth available for clients to use while recording here at Cedar Street Studios.

Drums/Percussion:

Kits:

• 1973 Rogers Starlighter IV: 24″ Kick, 12″ rack tom and 16″ floor tom (also tonally matched 13″ dw rack tom)
• 1983 Yamaha Recording Custom (formerly of Sigma Sound): 24″ Kick, 12″ & 13″ rack toms, and 16″ floor tom
• 1986 Tama Granstar: 22″ Kick, 12″ & 13″ BIG rack toms, and 16″ floor tom
• 1990′s Tama Swingstar: 22″ Kick, 12″ & 13″ BIG rack toms, and 16″ floor tom
• 2007 Gretsch Catalina Club: 26″ Kick, 13″ rack tom, 16″ and 18″ floor toms

Snares:

• 1971 Ludwig Super-Sensitive, 5×14
• 1982 Ludwig Rock/Concert, 5×14
• Yamaha Maple Custom Absolute, 5×14, with Vintage hoops (wood)
• Mapex Pro Series Maple , 6×14
• 1986 Tama Granstar Powerline 6.5×14

Other Drums/Percussion:

• Late 1960′s Hayman Vibrasonic 16″ floor tom – usually match this with the Yamaha or Rogers kit for an extra floor tom
• Alesis D4 Drum Module
• Yamaha RM 50 Drum Module
• Various Latin, African, and Irish percussion

Keyboards/Pianos:

• c. 1912-1916 Haines Brothers (NYC) 5′ Grand Piano
• Francis Bacon (NY) upright piano
• 1978 Yamaha Electone C-40 Organ
• Technics SX-PX220 88 key weighted action keyboard
• Ensoniq SQ1 plus
• Korg MS200R (module)
• Yamaha TG 100 (module)
• Yamaha TG 500 (module)
• Hugh Tracey Kalimba (original) (2)

Guitars/Basses:

• 1998 Tom Anderson Drop Top Electric w/ Acoustic bridge
• 1999 Tom Anderson Drop Top Electric w/ Acoustic bridge
• 1993 Fender Stratocaster Custom Shop Electric
• 1990 ESP Mirage Custom Electric
• 2003 Fender Mustang Electric
• Danelectro Electric
• Ibanez “Yoo-Hoo” Electric
• Sigma DM-18 Acoustic
• Takamine Acoustic
• Ibanez 12 String
• Steinberger 4 String Bass
• Early 70′s Vox/Fender knock-off – This bass is Rock-n-Roll!

Amps/Cabinets:

• 1964 Fender Bandmaster Reverb, TFL 5005D
• 1998 Rivera Rake Custom 100W
• 1995 Rivera Knucklehead, 50W
• 1950′s Lafayette PA 645A (Mullard tubes), converted to guitar amp. Killer tone!
• Fender Deluxe 900 combo
• Gorilla TC-35 combo
• Fender SP-10 combo
• Smokey
• Mesa Boogie 400+ Bass head
• Mesa Boogie 4×12
• Mesa Boogie 2×12 (2)
• Carvin 4×12
• Ampeg 8×10
• Hartke 4×10 w/ horn

Other:

• Big Briar Etherwave Theremin
• Danelectro Daddy O, distortion pedal
• Danelectro Cool Cat, chorus pedal
• Danelectro Dan-Echo, echo pedal (2)
• Electro Harmonix Small Clone EH 4600, chorus pedal
• DOD FX25, envelope filter
• Ibanez MS10 Metal Charger, distortion pedal
• Electro Harmonix Big Muff, distortion pedal
• Electro Harmonix(Sovtek) Big Muff, distortion pedal
• Pro Co Turbo Rat, distortion pedal

Microphones:

Large Diaphragm

• Neumann U89i
• Cascade Elroy Tube (2) – consecutive pair
• sE Electronics 2200a
• Audio Technica 4033

Small Diaphragm

• Rhode NT5 (2) – consecutive pair
• Josephson Engineering C42 (2) – consecutive pair
• TOA K2

Ribbon

• Cascade Fathead (2) – stereo pair w/ blumlein bar, Lunahl transformers
• Cascade Fathead (original)
• Cascade X-15 (stereo)

Dynamic

• Beyer Dynamic M160 (3)
• Shure SM58
• Shure SM57 (4)
• Shure SM47
• Mercenary Audio SM57
• Audix D6
• Electro Voice 664 (2)
• Sennheiser MD 421 (2)
• Sennheiser 518
• Sennheiser e609
• Sennheiser MD 504 (2)

Tracking:

• DDA AMR24 large format recording console
• Tascam DM24
• AEA TRP (dual channel tube ribbon pre-amp)
• Mindprint DTC (dual channel tube channel strip)
• MCI 400 series channel strips (4)
• Anthony DeMaria Labs ADL 300G Stereo Tube DI
• API 2500 dual channel bus compressor
• Lynx Aurora 16 with Lynx AES16 mastering grade digital interface
• Apogee Ensemble
• MOTU 828
• Otari MX 5050
• Studer B67

Monitoring:

• Event Tria Monitor 2.1 system
• Bose Wave
• 2008 Kia Rondo
• multiple headphones