The Upstairs at Figure 8 features a sun drenched, Neve centered control room, reclaimed wood clad live room featuring a 1960’s Yamaha grand, two isolation rooms and two amplifier closets. Artists and engineers also enjoy access to our lounge with full kitchen and private backyard.
Downstairs at Figure 8 Recording features intimate and well equipped control room, cork and felt clad live room stocked with vintage synthesizers, iso room built from reclaimed wine barrels and three amplifier closets. Artists and engineers also enjoy access to our lounge with full kitchen and private backyard.
Day rates do not include an engineer. Our house engineers are amazing and range from $300 to $550 per day. We highly recommend hiring them for your session. We also have a list of approved guest engineers that have worked at Figure 8. If you choose to bring in your own engineer, you are required to hire one of our assistant engineers. The fee is $250/10 hour day.
Neve 5316 with 30 channels of 33114 preamp/EQ
Ampex ATR-102 1/2″ 2-track Apple iMac 2016 Avid Pro Tools 12 HD Avid Artist Mix Korg MR-2000S stereo DSD recorder Mytek 8×192 ADDA (4) Mytek Stereo 192 DSD DAC Universal Audio UAD-2 Satellite Thunderbolt OCTO
Focal SM9 pair Auratone 5C Super Sound Cubes pair Audio Technica ATH M50 (6) Aviom 320 (6) Beyer Dynamic D770 Pro (2) Direct Sound EX29
API 2500 stereo compressor Collins 26U Collins 26U-2 Custom built LA2A Daking FETII (2) dbx 160VU (2) dbx 902 de-esser (4) dbx 904 gate (3) Empirical Labs Distressor EL8X (2) Empirical Labs DocDerr Neve 32264 (2) Pendulum OCL 500 Pete’s Place BAC 500 RCA BA-6A Smart C1-LA stereo compressor SPL Transient Designer 4 Standard Audio Level-Or Teletronix LA2A UREI 1176 silverface UREI LA 22 UREI LA3A (2) Valley People Dyna-mite (2)
A-Designs EM-PEQ AEA RPQ Aengus Graphic EQ (4) Altec 1567A tube mixer Altec 458 (4) API 550A (2) APSI Graphic EQ (2) ART Dual MP Bogen RP-2 Classic API VP26 (2) Collins 26C Electrodyne 501 Empirical Labs Lil’ Freq (2) Greg Hanks Design BA-660 MXR Stereo 15 Band EQ Neve 1073 Neve 31102 (2) Pultec EQP-1A3 (2) Siemens V276 Siemens W295B (2)
Allison Labs 2-A passive filter Allison Labs 2-B passive filter AMS RMX16 AMS DMX 15-80s AMS Keyboard Interface/Chorus Controller Binson Echorec dbx 906 Flanger+ Delta Labs Effectron II Demeter RV-1 stereo spring reverb EMT 140 plate reverb EMT 250 reverb Eventide DDL-500 Eventide H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer EXR EX3 Exciter Hi Watt Custom Tape Echo Lexicon PCM 42 Lexicon PCM 91 Lexicon Primetime II MicMix Master Room MXR Flanger/Doubler Peavey Kosmos Pro Peavey Valverb Roland RE-301 Chorus Echo SPL Vitalizer Tech 21 Sansamp PSA-1 (original)
Casiotone 401 Formanta UDS drum machine Hammond M3 tonewheel organ with Leslie 147 Mellotron M400 Moog Rogue Oberheim SEM 2 Voice Roland Juno 106 Roland MKS-7 Super Quartet Yamaha G3 6’1″ grand piano
SSL AWS 900+ with Delta upgrade Neve Kelso Langevin AM301
Apple iMac 2016 Avid Pro Tools 12 HD Mytek 8×192 ADDA (4) Mytek Stereo 192 DSD DAC Tascam 388 1/4″ 8-track Universal Audio UAD-2 Satellite Thunderbolt OCTO
Focal Twin 6 pair Dynaudio BM6 MkIII pair Dynaudio BM9S II subwoofer Auratone 5C Super Sound Cubes pair Audio Technica ATH M50 (6) Aviom 320 (6) Beyer Dynamic D770 Pro (2) Direct Sound EX29
API 2500 stereo compressor Aphex 9651 (2) Chandler Limited TG1 Custom built LA2A dbx 163X (2) dbx 165A Decca stereo limiter/compressor Empirical Labs Distressor EL8X (2) Eventide Omnipressor Lombardi LCOMP2 Neve 33314a compressor (2) Orban 526A de-esser PreSonus ACP-8 Purple MC77 (2) SPL Transient Designer 4 SSL G-series bus compressor Standard Audio Stretch (2) Standard Audio Level-Or Valley People Dyna-mite (2)
20th Century Fox stereo tube preamp Ampex 351 Ampex MX 10 tube mic mixer Bogen RP2 Electrodyne 511 Elysia xfilter 500 stereo EQ Metric Halo ULN-2 stereo preamp Neve 1272 (8) Neve 33114b (2) Neve 33118 Retro Instruments 2A3 stereo tube EQ Retro Instruments Powerstrip UREI 565 Little Dipper UREI 567 EQ/crossover White Instruments 4400 passive EQ
Effects
Allison Labs 2AB passive filter AMS RMX16 Biamp MR-140 spring reverb Binson Echorec ELI Analog Echo Eventide Eclipse Eventide H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer Eventide H949 Harmonizer EXR EX3 Exciter Hiwatt Custom Tape Echo Ibanez AD202 Ibanez UE405 Ibanez HD 1000 Lexicon MPX1 Lexicon PCM91 Lexicon Prime Time Mu-Tron Bi-Phase Peavey Kosmos V2 Peavey Spectrum Analog Fiter Peavey Valverb ProCo Rat R2DU Realistic Stereo Reverb Roland RE-101 Space Echo Tech 21 Sansamp PSA-1 Watkins Copicat
Aelita mono synth ARP Odyssey ARP Omni-2 Arturia Microbrute Buchla Music Easel Critter & Guitari Pocket Piano Critter & Guitari Septavox Doepfer (etc) extensive Eurorack modular synth setup Elektron AnalogRytm Elektronika EM-26 vocoder EMI RITM-2 Faemi 1M synthesizer Marsh UDS drum machine Moog Etherwave Plus theremin Moog Rogue Moog Satellite Moog Taurus foot pedals Moog Taurus II Oberheim SEM 4 Voice Polivoks mono synth RMIF Elsita drum machine Rokton UDS drum machine Roland Juno 60 TOM 1501 string synthesizer TTSH Arp 2600 Clone Wurlitzer 140B electric piano Yamaha U1 Piano
12 Gauge Green12 (2) 12 Gauge Red12 (2) AEA KU4 (2) AEA R84 AEA R92 AKG C 414 EB AKG D 224 (4) AKG C 28 Ampex 702 B&K 4004 (2) B&O BM 4 (4) B&O BM 5 (2) Beyerdynamic M160 Beyerdynamic M 260 (2) Beyerdynamic M 201 (5) Beyerdynamic M 88 N (5) Beyerdynamic M 380 (2) Beyerdynamic MC 740 N Beyerdynamic Soundstar Blue Encore (2) Blue Mouse Blue Woodpecker (2) Brauner VM1 KHE (2) Clock Audio C 008E-RF boundary mic (2) Coles 4038 (4) Electro Voice 634B Electro Voice 635A (2) Electro Voice N/D308 Electro Voice RE15 Electro Voice RE20 Gefell M71 Heil PR30 Heil PR40 Josephson C42 (2) Josephson C700S JZ Blackhole Lafayette Lombardi Melodium 42b Mojave MA 101 Neumann KM56 (2) Neumann M269 Neumann M49b Neumann SM69 Neumann KM88 Neumann SM2 Oktava MK012 (2) Philips EL6112 Philips 9522 Placid Audio Carbonphone Placid Audio Copperphone Radio Shack Boundary Mic 3022 RCA 44-BX RCA 77-DX RCA BK5A Royer R-121 (2) Schoeps CMC 6 with MK4 capsule (2) Sennheiser 421 (2) Sennheiser 441 Sennheiser boundary mic Shure Beta 57 (2) Shure Beta 58A (2) Shure Green Bullet Shure PG 48 Shure SM56 Shure SM57 (3) Shure SM7B Sony C-37A Sony C-38 (x2) Sony C-48 Telefunken Ela M 260 (2) Toshiba Type A Toshiba Type G Toshiba Type H (2) Vox-o-Rama U47 (2) Western Electric 639A (birdcage) Wollensak B-162 boundary mic
Bigsby Bigstrum guitar Epiphone P 90 guitar Fender Mustang guitar Fender Jazz Master guitar Fender Musicmaster guitar Fender Telecaster guitar Guild Aristocrat electric guitar Guild Freshman electric guitar Hagstrom 12 string electric guitar Jerry Jones sitar guitar Martin steel string acoustic guitar National hollowbody electric guitar National resonator guitar Stella Harmony 12 string guitar Teisco electric guitar Yamaha classical guitar
Carl Thompson fretless electric bass Fender Precision bass Fender Mustang bass Guild Aristocrat bass Guild hollowbody bass Hagstrom 8 string bass Hofner Club bass
1960’s Gretsch 3 piece (22″ kick/16″ floor/13″rack) 1960’s Ludwig 3 piece (22″ kick/16″ floor/13″rack) 1960’s Rogers Holiday kit (20″ kick/16″ floor/13″ rack/12″rack) Gretsch wood snare Ludwig Supraphonic metal snare Slingerland deep wood snare Assorted cymbals + percussion
Ampeg B-12 Ampeg B-15 Danelectro Honeytone Fender Bassman 135 head Fender Princeton Gibson Falcon Gibson GA-20 (3) Gretsch combo Little Lanilei Model 33 Magnatone small combo Masco guitar head Mini Z combo Music Man 4×10 Oliver PA100x bass head Oliver Powerflex 500 Olmstead Audio Cassius Sears Silvertone Twin Twelve head Supro Corsica Traynor YSR-1 Custom Reverb head Vox Cambridge Walter Woods bass head
Klon Centaur Silver Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble And dozens of pedals by: Moog Electro Harmonix Death by Audio Pete Cornish Strymon Zvex And more
To learn more, schedule a tour, or book a session send an email to [email protected]
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