THE GARAGE Studio is located in Arezzo, right in the heart of the Chianti country, just a 40 minute drive from Florence.
In addition to being a State-of-the-Art recording studio, our property also has two historical, country houses with eight comfortable, well-appointed bedrooms, each with their own private bathroom which can accommodate up to sixteen guests.
We also have three media rooms, a reading room, a pool room and patios.
The twenty-five acre garden has a large swimming pool. The atmosphere, the colors and the perfumes here are natural creativity boosters which help make THE GARAGE Studio experience unique, addictive and unforgettable.
The core of THE GARAGE Studio is a beautiful Solid State Logic SL9000J 56 channels large format custom console with Ultimation® moving faders automation. It is unnecessary to describe how this beauty sounds, it is enough to mention that most the top international Hits are mixed on it.
The main monitors are Genelec 1034b system with 7073a subwoofer while the nearfields are a pair of KRK V88 biAmp speakers beside a standard Yamaha NS-10 Studio monitors amped with a NAD. A Tivoli Audio Model One is also available for mono checkings.
The DAW recording system is a Pro Tools® 10 HD4 with 192 blue series ADA converters for a total of 32 Ins and 56 analog Outs. A second DAW system used for masters is based on a SoundBlade® Sonic Solution software. This makes possible to print the mix in a standard Hi resolution format (up to 192KHz @24bit stereo) whatever the original PT session frequency and depth is. Both digital systems are clocked by an Antelope Isochrone OCX masterclock generator. We have almost all the plug-ins available in commerce, including the Waves Mercury Bundle, Brainworx, FabFilter, Sonnox, Sound Toys, PSP and many more. Two Universal Audio UAD-2 Quad core cards with complete plug-ins bundle are also installed.
OUR GEAR
MIXER
SSL9000J 56 Mic / 56 Line / 56 Bus Input - 24x2 Bus // 4x Stereo Bus // LCRS Bus - 56 + 8Grp SSL Ultimation Faders - 9000 Series Bus Compressor
Sony DMXR100
AUDIO MONITORS
Genelec 1034b
Genelec 7073a (subwoofer)
KRKV88
KRKV8
Auraton
Tivoli
Yamaha NS10
RECORDING / EDITING SOFTWARE
Pro Tools HD10 - 32 IN/ 56 OUT
Antelope Audio Isochrone OCX Master Clock Generator
Logic Pro X
SYNC INTERFACE
Digidesign Sync I/O
OUTBOARD
LBDBX 165A (2)
Chandler TG1 EMI special edition
Universal Audio 1176 (2)
Empirical Labs Distressor EL8X (2)
Summit Audio TLA-100
Tubetech CL-1b
SKNote Vastaso
Chandler Germanium compressors (2)
Avalon 747SP
Shadow Hills Dual Vandergraph
Shadow Hills Mono Gama (2)
Maag EQ4 (2)
API 512 pre (2)
API 550A Equalizer (2)
IMG 7448API 527 compressor/limiter (2)
SKNote Ferro
BAE 1073D (2)
Dolby 365 w / Cat. 22 card (3)
Bricasti M7
Lexicon 480L, 300L, PCM 70, PCM 42
Roland SDE 3000 (2)
Yamaha SPX1000
Ams DMX 15-80s
Aphex 286A
Neve 1073LB Equilizer
Neve 2264 ALB comp/limiter
Sonum H2O Evolution II pre amp
Sonum SUM Eight summing
Radial J48
MICROPHONES
micropianoNeumann U87Ai x2
Neumann U47 FET
Neumann Km184 stereo set
AKG C-414TL x2
AKG D-112
AKG C451 x4
AKG C567 x2
Sennheiser MD421
Sennheiser MD521
Shure SM57
Shure SM58
Shure Beta57
Electrovoice PL20
Rhode NT2
Yamaha SubKick
AUDIO DIGITAL INTERFACE
Digidesign 192 I/O x4
Digidesign 96 I/O
Apogee Rosetta 800
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