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CONSOLE / MONITORS / MICROPHONES

Mixing Console:

(2) cascaded Yamaha 02R V2 consoles with 80 inputs. These consoles feature 8 aux sends per channel with full dynamics, EQ, and F/X sends, fully automated with moving faders. The automation is second to none. Virtually every move you make can be recorded and recalled in an instant, saved and recalled at a later date. With the power of this automation in a console you get all the flexibility in a DAW but also the ease and efficiency of doing all your moves on a tactile surface. Sometimes volume curves, pan, etc. can be time consuming if 'drawn' in with a DAW via software. Having ALL of the parameters controlled by the console leads to unparalleled efficiency.

So, whether you have tracked your project here or at another studio,
the mixdown ability Nexus offers is absolutely second to none!!!

Monitors:

Control Room:
  • Event 20/20 bas powered near field monitors
  • UREI 813 large format, monitors

    Studio:
  • EV Sentry 500 "Time Aligned" monitors

    Editing Room:
  • Event 20/20 Passive near field monitors

    Microphones:

    The studio has a variety of microphones which are constantly being added to.

    Neumann:
  • (2) U87
  • (2) TLM103

    AKG:

  • (1) EB414
  • (2) C3000
  • (5) 451
  • (1) D112
  • (1) D224E
  • (2) P400
  • (1) D1000

    Electro Voice:
  • (1) RE20
  • (5) RE15
  • (2) 666
  • (3) 635A

    Sennheiser:
  • (5) MD421

    Shure:
  • (5) SM57

    Beyer:
  • (1) TGX-50

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    Audio Recorders

    RECORDING DEVICES:

    MultiTrack Tape Decks:

    • Tape Based Digital Multi-Track:

    (7) Alesis Type II 20 Bit ADAT's; (5) in the control room for 40 digital tracks, and (1) in the editing room and (1) spare. Control Room units controlled via BRC remote control. Although these units are not used as our primary recording medium, they are used for project transfers and backup of ADAT projects to hard disk.
    (See     Computers for digital hard disk based multi-track)

    Digital and Analog 2 Track Mastering Decks:

    • Digital 2 Track decks (DAT's):

    We have (4) DAT machines; (1) Tascam DA30MkII in the control room for mixdown, and in the digital editing room we have (1) Tascam DA-30 and (1) Tascam DA50.

    • Analog 2 track:

    For Analog mixing, we have a Tascam ATR-60-2N 1/4" 15/7.5 ips or 30/15 ips operation. The ATR has a dbx150X type I noise reduction system.

    • Misc. Decks:

    We have a Pioneer RT909 10.5" 1/4 track reel to reel, a HK TD395 cassette deck, a couple of Sony cassette decks, a Sony CDP-570 CD player, a Sony TC2710 Beta HiFi unit with PCM hookup, a JVC HiFi VHS deck and a variety of DVD players and recorders.

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    Computer Devices

    COMPUTER EQUIPMENT:

    Nexus uses Mark of the Unicorn Digital Performer as its primary recording program running on a Apple Mac G5 system. For some years I ran a Digidesign ProTools III system, which was a great system, but realized that with the level of outboard gear I already had, coupled with a fully automated console, the dependency on a DSP assisted DAW was not necessary. What was necessary was a DAW with maximum uptime with extremely stable operations and all if not most of the editing capability of ProTools. I found this in Digital Performer................Pat Lilley, Owner, Nexus Recording Studio Ltd.

    Control Room Computers:

    • Mac G5 Dual Core PCI, 10.5G ram, Dual 24" Monitors
    • Mac G4 2G ram
    • Pentium 4 3Mhz 512k ram, Dual 19" Monitors
    • Pentium 3 (dedicated to MIDI system & O2R backup operations)
    • Mac 8100 Power PC (dedicated to monitoring DSP)

    Control Room Computer Interfaces:

    • (1) MOTU 2408MKIII
    • (2) MOTU 2408KMII
    • Digidesign Audio Media II
    • M-Audio 8X8 MIDI Interface
    • Music Quest 8Port/SE

    Miscellaneous Computer:

      A Mac G4 PowerBook for remote recording, a 64 bit AMD powered PC laptop for remote recording and video editing, over a terabyte of storage, Plextor 2448 CD writer, Plextor PX-810UF DVD writer as well as legacy backup devices, Iomega, Bernoulli, Iomega Jaz and Zip drives, SyQuest drives, etc.

    Editing Room Computers:

      The primary computer in this room is an Intel Dual core with 2G ram, a Matrox Parhelia triple head graphics card for 2 editing 24" monitors and 1 preview monitor for WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) preview for video editing running Adobe Premier video editing software. Also in this room is a SCSI based P3 computer for transfers and a Mac G3 Rev B for transfers and interface of legacy devices.

    (For software, see Software / Processing Software under Signal Processing)

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    Effects & Processing Rack

    SIGNAL PROCESSING UNITS / MASTERING SOFTWARE:

    • FOCUSRITE Red 8 Dual Channel Mic Preamp
    • AVALON 737sp Tube Microphone Preamp
    • DRAWMER 1960 Dual Tube Mic Preamp / dual tube compressor
    • SUMMIT TMP-200B Dual Tube Mic Preamp
    • DRAWMER M500 Digital Control Dynamic Processor
    • ART MP PRO Dual Tube Mic Preamp
    • DRAWMER DL241 B Dual Auto Compressor / Limiter
    • BEHRINGER COMPOSER Mdl MDX2000 Dual Audio Interactive Dynamic Processor
    • BEHRINGER INTELLIGATE Mdl XR2000 Dual Interactive Class A Expander/Gate/Ducker
    • (2) Dbx 161 Compressor/ Limiters
    • (2) Dbx 263X De-Essers
    • (l) Dbx 150X Type I noise reduction units
    • (2) OmniCraft GT4 4-channel noise gates
    • BBE 822 Sonic Maximizer
    • WAVES Ll Ultramaximizer Peak Limiter/re-quantizer Mastering Software
    • WAVES Q10 10 band parametric mastering EQ
    • Intelligent Devices AD-1 Spectrum Analyzer/Phase Meter mastering software
    • ENSONIQ Paris 3 with MEC and ADAT I/O card
    • ROXIO Toast Pro CD authoring software
    • MACDRIVE 7 Mac to PC software for PC
    • STEINBERG Wavelab Audio Editor

    EFFECTS UNITS / SOFTWARE:

    • LEXICON 300L Digital Reverb with LARC Controller
    • ROLAND R-880 Digital Reverb w/ GC-8 Graphic Controller/ Digital I/0
    • RSP lntelliverb 24 bit Digital Virtual Room Digital Processor/ Reverb
    • ENSONIQ DP/4 24 bit Digital Dynamic Parallel MultiEffects Processor
    • ALESIS QuadraVerb 2 Digital Effects Processor
    • KORG DRV 3000 Dual Digital Effects Processor
    • ALESIS MidiVerb III Digital MultiEffects Processor
    • (2) ALESIS MidiVerb II Digital Effects Processors
    • ROLAND SDE-2000 Digital Delay

    Audio/Video Equipment

    REMOTE AUDIO/VIDEO RIG:

      Nexus is "venturing" into remote recording including 3 camera video - we are not going to scare the major video houses with this, but with so many bands needing decent audio and video of live gigs for YouTube, web site videos, etc., at an affordable price, we decided to put something together to satisfy this need. This setup is also good for training videos, events etc. The basic rig includes:

    Audio: Mac G4 running Digital Performer and Audio Desk 2, (2) MOTU 8 Pre's for 16 channels of mic-pre, 4 channel headphone amp in a roll-about remote rack.

    Video: (3) Panasonic PVGS500 3 CCD matched video cameras, AudioTechnicia wireless mic, Rode shotgun mic, tripods etc.

    MISCELLANEOUS:

    • (3) RANE HC-6 Headphone Distribution Amp
    • Crown DC 75 Power Amp
    • Sampson Servo-240 Power Amp
    • (2) TASCAM LA4MK 11
    • Alesis D4 Drum/Trigger Module
    • EMV Proteus 1/XR Tone Module
    • Alesis Nano Piano Tone Module
    • Roland 88 key, weighted Digital Piano
    • KAT Drum Triggers
    • SAE 2800 Parametric EQ
    • COUNTRYMAN / Misc Direct boxes and Di's (12)
    • TOSHIBA 20" Color Video monitor (C.Room)
    • Mitsubishi 25" Color Monitor (Studio)
    • BOSS TU-1 2H Chromatic Tuner
    • (21) Pair Headphones
    • (5) Solid (4) Glass Gobos

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