Mirkwood Studio
Located just outside the historic town of Salida in the heart of the beautiful Rocky Mountains, Mirkwood Studio is a world-class recording studio that features the finest in equipment and rooms. Mirkwood's main live room is a 1,200 sq ft room with excellent acoustics. The 11ft x11ft isolation booth can be used for vocal tracking along with a live band recording, or for recording instrument with minimal room interaction.
The control room at Mirkwood is designed to support live tracking, mixing or mastering.
When combined with The Pinon Ranch vacation rental house, Mirkwood Studio can be used as a destination recording facility that can accommodate up to twelve guests for extended periods.
Equipment List
Mirkwood Studio utilizes a hybrid recording platform that uses the digital and analog domains to their specific strengths.
Analog Outboard Equipment
Digital Interfaces & Control
Compressors
Neve Master Buss Transformer x1
Retro Instruments 176 Limiting Amplifier x4
Retro Instruments Double-Wide Compressor x1
Warm Audio WA76 Limiting Amplifier x1
Hairball FET/500 Rev D x2
Smart Research C2 Program Compressor x1
dbx 160SL Stereo Program Compressor x1
dbx 160VU Compressor x4
Crane Song Trakker Compressor x2
Crane Song Falcon Compressor x2
API 527 500-Series Compressor x4
API 525 500-Series Compressor x4
Radial Komit Comp Diode Comp/Limiter x1
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Equalizers
Pulse Techniques Pultec EQP-1A3 x2
Empirical Labs Lil FrEq Equalizer x2
Classic Audio Products of IL LC53A EQ x2
A-Designs EM-PEQ Equalizer x2
Crane Song HEDD192 Harmonic Generator x1
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Reverb
Lexicon PCM81 x1
Lexicon PCM91 x2
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Miscellaneous
Tech21 SansAmp RPM
Tech21 SansAmp RBI
Little Labs Voice of God x1
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Fiber-optic Dante Network Audio backbone allows for fast, high-quality audio distribution throughout both the main house and the studio building. Allows for recording and playback in the main house as well as in any room of the studio building.
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Burl Audio B80 Mothership 3 with thirty-two channels of ADC and sixteen channels of DAC .
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SoundCraft MH4 console - forty channel analog mixing console​​
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