Magnetic Recording is conveniently located in Downtown Pontiac Michigan, 25 miles North of Detroit and seconds away from I-75, Woodward, Telegraph, and M-59.
The Control room at Magnetic is well balanced and powerful. Utilizing Custom Augsperger designed cabinets with 15" TAD 1603s for the lows, combined with a TAD 4001 / Northwest 340 horn combo for the highs. The cabinets are bi-amped using Bryston 4Bs and 3Bs respectively. Actively crossed over with a BSS FDS-366 digital crossover, and voiced by Bob Hodas.
Console
Amek Mozart. Module microphone preamps have been getting changed over to Graham Langley 2500 type Mic amps where desired.
Recorders
Ampex MM1200 2 inch 16 track with take-up reel tension mod with an Adams Smith 2600 system for Sync Reference and SMPTE lock-up
Otari MTR 90 III 2 inch 24 track with an Adams Smith 2600 system for Sync Reference and SMPTE lock-up
Otari RADAR Digital 24 track with Exibyte backup, Internal SMPTE and Sync Reference. AES/EBU and Adat optical
Alisis HD-24 Digital 24 track with Digital i/o and 1394 Fireport for exchange and transfer
Scully 280 1/4 inch 2 track with Dolby SR
Sony 7030 PCM DAT with AES/EBU and Sync option.
Degausser Christie automatic magnetic tape degausser for 2" tape can completely erase tape to within a db or two of new stock. No bumps or thumps, zero.
Outboard Microphone preamps
Tore Seem (70's) MB1000 with modern op-amp cans (2)
Tore Seem (80's) MB 2000 with NTP M-100 op-amps (2)
RCA BA-73 all original re-capped (3)
Microphones
Shure SM7
Sanken
Telefunken Elam 251 (F) (1)
Neumann Gefell 586 with M-62 capsule (1)
Neumann U-87 (3)
Sony C-38P (1)
Revox M-3500 single coil (2)
Beyers M-201 (1)
AKG D-19 (1)
AKG D-20 (1)
AKG D-110 (2)
AKG C460B Transformerless Jim Williams mod (2)
Sennheiser MD-421N (2)
Sennheiser MD-421 (1)
Schoeps CMIT-5 Shotgun Mic (1)
Electro-Voice RE-20 (2)
Coles 4030 Ribbons (2)
Shure SM-57-58 (8)
Dynamics & Processing
AMEK CL-02 compressor limiters with VCA link buss (3)
Orange County Vocal Stressor G4 100% refurbished and quiet (1)
DBX 903 DeEsser with Jim Williams mod (2)
Valley People Gain Brain II (6)
Valley People Kepex II (2)
Valley Int'l Gatex expanders (8)
NTP 179-400 Limiters (6)
ADK CLA-1 (1)
Langevin Mini Massive EQ (2)
Little Labs phase alignment tool (3)
Effects
Custom built tape echo machine with Dolby SR built on an Ampex Model 300
9x13 foot Echo Chamber
1957 EMT 140 Echo Plate with Martech Stereo solid state upgrade. 90db s/n
