Gear

Vintage Trident Series 80B 32x24x2

No matter how much high-end outboard gear a studio boasts, a lifeless mixing board can drag down even the most lively and colorful performances. At the heart of my setup at Relay Recording is a 32-channel Trident Series 80B console- a rare and acclaimed centerpiece engineers have relied on for adding nuance and warmth to sessions for almost four decades.

The 80B was the workhorse behind genre-defining records like Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction, Fleetwood Mac’s Tango In the Night and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Into the Great Wide Open, and the EQs and preamps of each individual channel have been highly sought-after tools for studios of all sizes ever since.

CONSOLE

Pro Tools

Pro Tools Ultimate HDX recording system with hundreds of plugins by Waves, Plugin Alliance, Sound Toys, T-Racks, and tons more.

Outboard

John Hardy M1 Jensen 990 Mic Preamps (7)

Neve 1073 Pre and EQ (2)

API A2D 312 Mic Preamp and 2 channel converter

Maag PreQ4

Stam Audio Stamchild Fairchild Compressor SA-670

Comex 1960’s tube limiter

dbx 165A Compressor

Manley Massive Passive Tube Equalizer

Maag EQ4

TK Audio BC2 ME Mastering Edition Stereo Buss Compressor

Avalon 2044 Stereo Opto Compressor

Empirical Labs Distressors with British Mod (2)

Empirical Labs PUMP

Lindell Audio 17xs FET Compressor (2)

Urei 7110 Compressor (3)

Little Labs IBP Analog Phase Alignment Tool

Monitoring

Focal Twin6-BE

ADAM S2-A monitors

ADAM Sub10 Powered Subwoofer

Audix PH-5 monitors

Yamaha NS10 monitors

Drawmer MC3.1 Monitor Controller

Microphones

Neumann M49b (formerly of the Power Station, NYC) Lawson L47MP tube condenser mic Lewitt LCT 840 multipattern tube condenser mics (matched pair) Stam Audio SA-87 (Tim Campbell Capsule Upgrade) AKG C414EB Earthworks TC30k (matched pair) Royer R121 ribbon mics (matched pair) Neumann KM140 and KM150 (matched pairs) JZ Microphones BB29 (2), V11 (2), BT 202 (2) Sennheiser MD421 (4) Roswell Mini k67x Dachman DA-87, DA-47 Audio Technica 4033 AKG D112 (2) Crown cm700 (2) ElectrovoiceN/D 468 (2) Electrovoice N/D 408 Beyer M201 (2) BLUE e200 Shure Beta 57 Shure SM57 Shure Green Bullet