Gear & Toys

Gear & Toys

One of the benefits in being North Houston’s premiere commercial recording studio for over 40 years is that we have gathered alot of gear and wonderful toys along the way. From vintage recording machines and vintage microphones abs outboard gear to lastest tools of the trade we offer superior quality toys for you to get the sound you are looking for! Take a look at a sampling of our toy chest:

Console

The heart of any great recording studio is the audio console. The 4th Creation Recording Studio is proud to be the home to the Danish made D&R Cinemix 5.1 surround sound analog audio mixing console 32 channel i/o capable of mixing 64 channels into 5.1 surround sound.

Recorders and AD/DA Audio Interfaces

  • Soundcraft 762 2″ 24 Track magnetic tape recorder
  • Studer Revox C278 1/2″ 8 track
  • Otari MX-5050 4 Track 1/4″ magnetic tape recorder
  • Otari MX-5050 2 Track 1/4″ magnetic tape recorder
  • IZ Radar 24 track digital recorder with Classic Nyquist Converters Sample Rates 44.1 – 192 kHz
  • Ferrofish 32A Digital Interface 32 x 32 i/o 44.1- 384 kHz
  • Universal Audio Apollo 8 8 x 8 i/o Thunderbolt 2 (TB Upgrade Adapters) 44.1 – 192 kHz
  • Panasonic SV-3500 Professional R-DAT Recorder
  • DTR-8S Professional R-DAT Recorder
  • Alesis ADAT XT – Digital Tape Recorders 32 channels
  • Tascam D-88 24 Channels
  • Nakamichi MR2 Cassette Tape Recorder

Studio Monitors

  • JBL 4430
  • Yamaha NS-10M
  • Event Tuned Reference 8

DAWs for PC

While many of our guest producers/engineers provide their own PC or Mac computers to record their productions, we have our house PC available for our clients to use. Our custom PC (Windows 11) was built support the most demanding Digital Audio Workstations under extreme conditions. 64 GB RAM with 1 TB internal SSD drive. (It is recommended for all clients to provide their own SSD external drive for recording their productions to.) Through the years of audio production we have come to rely on the Magix Samplitude ProX 8 for mixing and mastering as it remains the defacto standard by the majority of mastering engineers worldwide, however every audio engineer prefers to use their DAW of choice therefore we currently offer the following DAWs for our client’s use:

  • Samplitude Pro X 8
  • Nuendo 13
  • Protools (Available upon Request)

DAWs for Mac (Coming soon)

  • Protools (Available upon Request)
  • Nuendo 13
  • Logic

Studio Personal Monitoring

  • Aviom AN-16ii with 10 Aviom 16i and Aviom 16ii Pods

Outboard Gear

  • Manley Stereo Electro Optical Leveling Amplifier
  • Aphex Aural Exciter Type B
  • Drawmer Dual Auto Compressor DL241
  • DBX 160 Compressor/Limiter
  • DBX 161 Compressor/Limiter
  • DBX 163 Compressor/Limiter
  • DBX 163 Compressor/Limiter
  • DBX 266XL Compressor/Gate
  • DBX 266XL Compressor/Gate
  • DBX 266XL Compressor/Gate
  • DBX 266XL Compressor/Gate
  • Omni Craft GT-4 4 Channel Gate
  • Omni Craft GT-4 4 Channel Gate
  • CBS Laboratories Audimax Stereo Level Control
  • Lexicon PCM-70 Multi FX Unit
  • Lexicon MX400 Multi FX Unit
  • Lexicon PCM 41 Digital Delay Processor
  • Yamaha SPX90 Multi FX Processor
  • Roland SDE-1000 Digital Delay
  • Dynafex D2-B Noise Reduction
  • Alesis D4 Drum Sample Module

Microphones

  • Neumann U47 Fet (pair)
  • Neumann M147
  • Neumann M149
  • Neumann KM184 (four)
  • Royer R-121
  • AKG 414 EB (pair)
  • AKG C1000 S
  • Audio Technica AT4050
  • Audio Technica AT813 (three)
  • Earthworks M30 (pair)
  • Sennheiser MD421 (four)
  • Sennheiser E865
  • Sennheiser E609 (pair)
  • Sennheiser E604 (six)
  • Sennheiser E 602
  • AKG D112
  • Octava MC-012 (four)
  • Shure SM58 (four)
  • Shure SM57 (pair)
  • Beyer Dynamic N69M
  • AKG D5 vocal Mic
  • An assortment of other LDC Microphones

Instruments

  • Young Chang (Wurlitzer) 6′ Grand Piano (circa 1982) with Bosendorfer Strings
  • Doublebass 4/4
  • Yamaha Recording Series Drum set
  • Various Electric Guitars and Acoustic Guitars