The EQ section of the STT-1 is virtually identical to the EQ that is in Millennia’s NSEQ-2. Millennia’s EQ features a 4-band parametric EQ that enables you to choose either a class-A vacuum tube signal path, or a more transparent, class-A solid-state...
In most professional recording studios there is a baseline mic pre—a starting point, a preamp that typically always works, gives you a sound that you can rely on and trust, and a preamp by which all of the other mic pres in your studio are judged. In our studio,...
There seems to be a cult following for Tyler Guitars that we find to be present with collectors, studio musicians, and on guitar forums. Check out a Tyler thread on the gear page, and you’ll find words of praise, lust, and, of course, tons of pictures of Tylers owned...
We are pretty spoiled at Sound Pure Studios, to be honest. For outboard gear, we have a little bit of everything under the sun. An ADL 670 (Fairchild compressor clone), CharterOak SCL1, Tube Tech Multiband Compressor, Great River Mastering EQ, Avalon 2055… the list...
Here at Sound Pure Studios we have a nice healthy choice of tube microphone preamps: Presonus ADL 600, Millennia Origin, Avalon 737, A Designs MP2A, etc. But one of our favorites is the Sebatron VMP series, and we own the Sebatron VMP 4000e, which is the 4 channel...
The CharterOak E700s are becoming one of our go-to microphones for recording at Sound Pure Studios, and for great reasons. With a very large 1.2” diaphragm, you get amazing low end from this microphone (as heard on our piano videos). But what is truly remarkable is...
On almost every large session here at Sound Pure Studios there will be complicated microphone setups or situations where we really need to be able to maneuver microphones into tight places. We always pat ourselves on the back for spending a little more on our...
While we will be the first to admit that a new patchbay is not the sexiest of studio upgrades, it very well may be one of the most important! In short, a patchbay is your central control for interfacing every input and output between each and every analog component in...
It’s a mistake to say any one microphone is good for every task. However, microphones can shine in places where you wouldn’t ordinarily think that they would—it sometimes just takes a little extra care to have them performing their best. We recently...
Todd Atlas from Sound Pure Studios sits with Casey from Bricasti Design to discuss adding reverb to drums using the M7’s very simple presets. The Bricasti M7 is the world-shaking reverb processor that has proven to be, among the top recording engineers and...
