OCTANDRE Recording Studio - Equipment

The OCTANDRE 'project studio' is located in two locations, with different aims:

• Studio rosso - is mainly devoted to arrangement, composition and preproduction plus some acoustic recording.
• Studio blu - is used for mixing and advanced audio editing and processing.

Red Studio

The professional equipment used in this studio is the following:

• Ableton Live 8.3
• Propellerheads Record 1.5
• Propellerheads Reason 5.0
• Sony Acid 7.0
• Steinberg Cubase 5.5 (Windows / Mac - large set of plug-ins NI, TC Native, Wave ...)
• Computer PC (i7 2.8 Ghz : 8 GByte RAM, 6 TByte HD Raid - NVidia board two monitors)
• Computer PC (Quad Core 3.2 Ghz : 4 GByte RAM, 4 TByte HD Raid - NVidia board two monitors)
• Notebook Apple Mac-Pro 15"
• Notebook Apple Mac-Pro 13"
• Notebook HP Envy i7 - 17"
• Notebook Toshiba Tecra - 15"
• Mixer Yamaha 01V
• Nuendo Audiolink 96 board
• MOTU Litewire board
• Event Gina 24 board
• Analog/Digital converter Swissonic AD8
• Digital Recorder Alesis ADAT LX20 (x2)
• DAT Marantz SV-2100
• Reverb/Multieffects Processor Boss SE70 Pro
• Reverb/Multieffects Processor Boss ME-20
• Reverb/Multieffects Processor Lexicon LXP1
• Multieffects Looper/Modeler Line 6 JM4

Piano, keyboards, synthesizers and expanders:

• Acoustic piano TOYO
• Analog mono synth Crumar DS2
• Analog poly synth Elka Synthex MkII
• Analog semi-modular Korg MS-20
• Analog modular synth Korg MS-50
• Expander Korg M3R
• Expander Korg 03R/W
• Expander Roland JV1080
• Expander Roland JV1010
• Expander Roland U220
• Expander Yamaha TX-802
• Synth Korg TRITON PRO (+ Exp. Virtual Synth MOSS)
• Synth Korg WAVESTATION EX
• Synth Yamaha EX5
• Synth Yamaha DX7
• Sampler AKAI S2000 (32Mb) x2
• Workstation Iris MARS
• Line mixer Yamaha MX802
• MIDI/Synch interface MIDIQuest 8
• MIDI/Synch interface Nuendo

Main VST Instruments:

• Arturia - Arp2600 V
• Arturia - CS80 V
• Arturia - Minimoog V
• Arturia - Modular V
• EWQL Symphonic Choirs + Choirs extension
• EWQL Symphonic Orchestra Platinum
• Linplug - Albino 3
• Linplug - Sophistry
• MOTU - Ethno II
• Native Instruments - Komplete 7 (24 instruments)
• QL Fab Four
• QL Gipsy
• QL Goliath
• QL Pianos
• QL MOR
• QL Ra
• QL SD2 + SD extension
• QL Silk
• QL Voice of Passion
• Spectrasonics - Omnisphere 1.3
• Spectrasonics - Stylus RMX 1.9
• Spectrasonics - Trilian 1.3
• Steinberg - HALion 3

Microphones:

• Microfono AKG C2000B
• Microfono AKG C1000 S
• Microfono Shure Sm 57 x2

Monitors:

• Hadphone AKG 3x
• Speaker Mission 2 vie
• Speaker B&Wi 2 vie
• Speaker ESB 2 vie

Guitars and ethnic pluk instruments:

• Amplificatore Ibanez IBZ-10
• Chitarre elettrica Epiphone SG 400 (diavoletto)
• Chitarre elettrica Line6 Variax 600
• Chitarre acustiche Yamaha
• Kanum
• Oud

Large array of ethnic instruments:

• Darbuka
• Duduk
• Kalimba
• Ney
• Riqq
• Shanay
• Udo drums

Blue Studio

The professional equipment used in this studio is the following:

• Mixer Yamaha 02R - V.2.0
• ProTools LE System (Su Windows XP - 32 tracks - large set of plug-ins)
• Logic Audio Platinum
• Computer PC (Athlon XP 1.8 Ghz - two monitors)
• Computer Macintosh G3
• Computer laptop Toshiba S3000
• Sonorus Studi/o board
• Audio Emagic Emi 2/6 interface
• Digital Recorder Alesis ADAT LX20 (x2)
• Analog Recorder Tascam MSR-24 (1") + MMC Synch
• DAT Recorder Panasonic SV-3700
• Minidisc Toshiba
• Processore Riverbero TC Electronic M-One
• Processore Riverbero Sony R7
• Processore Riverbero/multieffetti TC Electronic TC-Unity (interno Yamaha 02R)
• Processore Riverbero/Spazializzazione Roland RSS-10
• Processore Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro
• Preampli digitale Line6 Pod XT

• Interfaccia Midi/Sincronizzatore MOTU Midi Timepiece AV
• Expander Korg Wavestation A/D
• Expander Yamaha MU-128 (+ Exp. Analogico Scheda Plug-In PLG150-AN)
• Synth Roland JD-800
• Campionatore AKAI S2000 (32Mb)
• Master keyboard/controller Midiman Oxygen 8
• Line mixer Spirit Folio Rack-Pack

• Microfono AKG C2000B (x2)
• Microfono Audio-Technica AT4050
• Microfono BeyerdYnamic M380
• Microfono Shure Sm 57
• Microfono Neumann KU-81 (testa olofonica)
• Microfono AKG C-1000 S

• Speaker Peavey 3vie, Tannoy 2 vie

• Amplificatore VOX AC30 (1964)
• Amplificatore VOX AC30 (1976)
• Amplificatore Marshall Super Lead 50 (1970)
• Speaker Load/Emulator Marshall SE-100

• Chitarre Elettriche Fender, Gibson, Guild, Danelectro
• Chitarre Acustiche Taylor, Yamaha