Edit with a Bird’s-Eye View

Studio I is reserved for The Blackbird Academy, although it may be used as an editing suite when booking Studio A.

Studio I is a hybrid desktop recording, mixing, and mastering environment featuring Pro Tools HDX and 32 channels of analog summing from Dangerous Music. The second-floor studio overlooks Blackbird Studio A’s live room, which offers tunable acoustics and a Hidley-designed chamber with an adjustable ceiling to customize the reverb time. The patchbay, wired by Mike Rhodes at SkinnyFish Audio, includes enough guest panel I/O to handle the many outboard processors that visit the room on tracking and mixing days.

Studio I equipment list

CONSOLE:
  • 32 INPUT PRO TOOLS HDX WITH AVID ARTIST MIX
  • 32 CHANNEL SUMMING DANGEROUS MUSIC
Additional Mic Preamps/Channel Strips:
  • 1x AP1 512C
  • 1x BURL B1
  • 1x CAPI VP26
  • 1x GRACE DESIGNS M501
  • 1x RADIAL 6-PACK WORKHORSE
  • 1x AMI V72 STEREO-SONIC
  • 2x CHANDLER EMI TG2
  • 1x JDK 8MX2 (8 CHANNEL)
  • 4x JOHN HARDY JENSEN TWIN SERVO 990
  • 1x OCTO SHADOW HILLS MIC PRE (W/ ST. IVES IRON MOD)
  • 4x PRISM SOUND MASELEC MMA-4
EQ:
  • 4x API 550D
  • 1x DANGEROUS BAX-EQ
COMP/LIMITERS:
  • 1x EL7 FATSO JR
EFFECTS UNITS:
  • 1x AMS RMX16 REVERB
  • 2x VALLEY PEOPLE KEYPEX II GATE