Issue No. 1, Volume MMVIII

Studio 'A' at Electric Lady Studios

ELS Studio A Tracking Room Built on Classic Foundation

As part of recent renovations, Electric Lady Studios has revamped their legendary Studio A. Staying true to the original spirit of the room, the SSL 9080J was replaced with a beautifully restored vintage Neve 8078. Originally from Clinton Recording, this classic console was completely restored and recapped by Vintage King Audio - then, outfitted with Martin Sound Flying Faders II.

The ELS Neve has a long, rich history - which includes album recording for Bob Dylan’s Love & Theft and Modern Times, Steely Dan’s Two Against Nature, and film score recording for The Aviator, Dream Girls and No Country for Old Men. During installation, the room was completely rewired for the new desk and received vintage inspired cosmetic treatments throughout.

STUDIO A:

Live Room - 38' x 35' with 18' ceiling
Control Room - 16' x 26' with 11' ceiling
Neve 8078, 32 Buss, w/ Martin Sounds Flying Faders II
Broadband Internet Wireless 802.11 B/G 10/100 Ethernet

Main Monitors:

Custom Ausperger 2-Way Monitor System
(Dual 15” TAD TL-1603 and TL-4001 horn-loaded compression driver)
BSS FD-366T 96k Omnidrive Digital Crossover
Bryston 4BST and 7BST Amplifiers
Hafler Pro 5000 Amplifiers

Nearfield monitors:

Yamaha NS-10M Studio
Auratone 5C Super Sound Cube
KRK E8t
Meyer Sound Labs HD1
ProAc Studio 1 MkII
Mackie HR824

Recorders:

Digidesign Pro Tools HD3 Accel
Digidesign Sync I/O w/ (4) Digidesign 192
(48 ch analog output, 48 ch analog input)
Apogee R200 Rosetta AD/DA Converter
Apogee Big Ben 192K Master Clock

Outboard Gear:

1 Lexicon 224x w/LARC
2 Lexicon PCM 41
2 Lexicon PCM 42
1 AMS DMX 15-80S
1AMS RMX-16
1 Roland Dimension-D
1 Eventide DSP 4000 Ultra Harmonizer
1 Eventide 969 Harmonizer
1 Lexicon PCM 70
1 Lexicon 300 Digital Effects System
1 Yamaha SPX 90
1 Yamaha REV 7

Additional Outboard: (Available on Request)

ADR Panscan
Aphex Aural Exciter
2 API 550b
2 API 512
Ashly Audio SC-50
Eventide H910
Eventide Phaser
Klark Teknik DN-22 Graphic Equalizer
Klark Teknik DN-27 Graphic Equalizer
Lexicon 480 w/LARC
Lexicon 960L w/LARC

Headset Monitoring:

Furman HDS-16 Multi-channel Monitoring w/ 8 Furman HRM-16 mix stations
2 Stereo Cue Channels

Studer A820 ½” 2 Track Analog Recorder
Studer A827 2” 24 Track Analog Recorder*
Studer A810 ¼” 2 Track Analog Recorder*
Panasonic SV-3800 16 bit DAT Recorder
HHB CDR-850 CD Recorder

1 Empirical Labs EL-8 Distressor
1 SSL Logic FX G384
2 Drawmer DS 201 Dual Gate
1 DBX FS900 w/ (2) FS902
1 DBX 160 XT Compressor
2 Pultec EQP-1A3
2 Pultec MEQ-5
2 Teletronix LA-2A Compressor/Limiter
4 Focusrite ISA 110 Pre/EQ
16 Neve Vintage 1081 Pre/EQ
2 Universal Audio 1176LN Black
2 (1 Pair) DBX 160 Compressor

MXR Auto Flanger
MXR Auto Phaser
MXR Flanger/Doubler
9 Neve Vintage 1081 Pre/EQ
2 Neve Vintage 1066 Pre/EQ
Publison Infernal Machine 90
Pultec EQP-1A3
Pultec MEQ-5
Urei 1176
White 4303 EQ
White 200 EQ

Neve 8078

The Neve 8078 was the last of the "80 series" hand-wired analogue mixing consoles designed and manufactured by Neve Electronics for high-end recording studios during the 1970s. Each console took several months to build using over 2,500 hours of highly skilled labour and top quality components - it would now be uneconomic to manufacture such equipment to this standard.

Electric Lady is among very few studios worldwide to operate a vintage Neve console in perfect working condition almost 30 years later.

Features:

40 ch. x 24 buss
cue sends
32 monitor x 4 buss, x 2 cue sends x 2 reverb sends
40x Neve 31105 preamp/EQ modules
6x 32264 comp/lim
32423 aux modules
32425
Martinsound Flying Faders
Consistently serviced and maintained, fully functional, in top condition since commissioned.

RYAN ADAMS: Easy Tiger, which Time Magazine hailed as “a career breakthrough"; Cardinology, a concise and focused collection that Rolling Stone Magazine calls, “a near-classic” and goes on to say, “Drunk on melody, high on musical history, but all his own, the record throbs with great playing and singing - [instantly one] of his best"; and Dear Impossible (unrealeased) -- all recorded and mixed at Electric Lady Studios.