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Elba Boutique & Vintage Recording Studio      |      0141 221 8867      |      bookings@elbaaudio.co.uk


Recording/Mixing at Elba Studio

At Elba we specialise in boutique and vintage gear with the convenience of a digital front end. We provide a unique collection of high end boutique and classic vintage microphones, pre amps and outboard to create a distinguishable, warm, fingerprint sound.

Recording & Outboard
Digidesign Pro Tools 8
Vintage Fostex b16 - 16 track reel to reel tape
Tascam DM3200 Mixing Console 
Vintage 1970's ADR Scamp Rack Modular system
Vintage 1970's SO1 Compressor x 2
Vintage 1970's S25 De Esser
Vintage 1970's F300 Noise Gate
Vintage 1970's SO6 Dynamic Noise Filter Gate
Vintage 1970's SO8 DA Module x 2
Vintage 1970's S23 Pan Module
Vintage 1960's Collins all Valve Preamp
Vintage 1960's Shure Brothers M67 Mic Pre x 4
 DBX 386 Valve Mic Pre x 2
Vintage Scintillator (Slap Back Audio)

Mic List
Beyer Dynamic MC740
Vintage Coles/STC 4021 "Ball & Biscuit" moving coil mic
Vintage 1960's Reslosound RBT/L "Red Label" Ribbon Mic
Vintage 1970's AKG D190e 
Vintage 1970's AKG D190c
Vintage 1960's Sennheiser MD421-N
Vintage 1970's Shure Unidyne III DY 45G
Vintage AKG d12
Rode M3 x 2
Shure SM57's

Monitoring
KRK Rokit RP6 G2 Active Monitors
Beyerdynamic DT 770 Headphones
Beyerdynamic DT 100 Headphones

Instruments
Fender Strat (Mod)
Fender Start
Fender DG Acoustic
Vox AC15vr
Vintage 1970's Peavy 260 Bass Combo
Antique 1920's William Sames Upright Piano
Pearl Export Kit
Korg Kontrol 49 Midi Controller

Mixing/Production (Underworld Studio)

All our mixing is undertaken at our RecordMixMaster affiliate studio Underworld Mixing & Production. Underworld Studio boasts the largest and most diverse collection of high end vintage and esoteric analogue outboard available in Scotland.

Mixing & Conversion
Audient Zen analogue mixing desk with mic pre / full automation pack
Prism Orpheus A/D convertors x 2
API A2D dual pre/convertor

Monitoring
Quested VS2108 active monitors
Genelec 8020B active monitors
Dynaudio BM5 passive monitors

Dynamics
API 2500 bus compressor
Neve 2254 compressor x 2
Urei 1176 LN compressor
Urei 365 Filter
Urei 365 Filter T Series
Skibbe Red Stripe compressor
SSL Super Analogue XR618 compressor x 8
Elysia Xpressor compressor
Empirical Labs Fatso Jnr
Shadow Hills Optograph compressor

Equalizers
Manley Massive Passive
Amek PM01 EQ x 10
API 560 EQ x 4
BBC Response Selection Amplifier EQ x 6
Orban 460b parametric EQ

Misc Outboard
Thermionic Culture Limited Edition Culture Vulture
Standard Audio Level-Or
Avedis MA5
Avalon U5

Effects Units
Eventide H3000 D/SE x 2
Eventide Eclipse
Jomox T-Resonator
Lexicon Prime Time
Schipmann Ebbe Und Flut
Sherman Filterbank II
Roland RE-301 Space Echo
Roland RE-501 Space Echo
TC Electronic Fireworx
Moog Moogerfooger
Wasp Filter
Korg KP3

Synthesizers / Keyboards
Moog Voyager
Moog Little Phatty II
Moog Source
Oxford Synthesizer Company OSCar
EDP Wasp
Roland Juno 106
Roland SH-101
Roland TR-808
Roland JV-1080
Roland JV-2080
Oberheim Matrix 6R
Nord Lead 2X
Nord 3 Rack
Sequential Circuits Prophet 5
Studio Electronics SE-1
Studio Electronics ATC Tone Chameleon
Alesis Andromeda A6
Alesis Micron
Korg MS20
Korg Kronos
Waldorf Pulse
Fender Rhodes 73 Mk 1
Yamaha DX7 FDII