Park Orchards Recording Studio

28/12/2025

Beautiful video from Anna Leeworthy at Park Orchards 👏🏼

11/02/2024

The RCA 77-D mics at Park Orchards.

Not often you need two, but occasionally just the ticket!

13/01/2024

Had old friend of the studio in during the week helping to put the Auditronics 110 console thru some paces.
He always comes up with a nice spicy meatball!

(*)vegetarian spicy meatball

17/11/2023

Working on final wiring for the Auditronics 110-8 console. Going for DB25 connectors to facilitate maximum compatibility/flexibility to patchbay (or other connectivity options).

16/08/2023

Super proud to be part of this project! Check it out!

The new single from Dan Warner & The Night Parrots: ST. PATRICK & ST MICHAELTickets to 'Long Gone Songs' single launch available NOW: https://tinyurl.com/4yk...

08/11/2022

Congrats Dan & all involved with this cracker album of cracker tunes.

Proud to have been involved at Park Orchards Recording, with Marce & Tim on the buttons.

https://danwarner.bandcamp.com/album/maybe-then

Dan Warner Music
Marcel Borrack
Tim Harvey

11 track album

13/04/2022

Design 2000 'B102' (opto) limiters (made in Ferntree Gully, 1970's) just in from a visit to Rob Squier at Pro Harmonics, with a clean bill of health & addition of Release time control on the front panel. Looking forward to trying these out!

21/07/2021

Melbourne Lockdown No5 Project No5 was to finally work out how to get this 1960's Danelectro 'Silvertone' ensemble going.

The 1448 "amp-in-case" valve amp is notoriously cheaply made & therefore also potentially rather dangerous.

It was purchased from San Francisco in 2015 (IIRC) and amp was not functional.

A few attempts were made over the ensuing years to work out which parts were missing or faulty, such as valves & an appropriate output transformer.

Lockdown times offered a bit more time to sit down & identify exactly which cap's & resistors were too far gone & replace them, getting to the point where it now made sound again!

The 6" speaker which had been installed at some stage was also not a good sounding match, so I changed it over to a more lively-sounding little Rola speaker.

The plan is finally to just add a (switching) speaker jack, so that you can easily connect the amp to a different speaker cab if desired.
But it sounds great with the onboard speaker, and amazing with a bit of extra drive, fuzz, or echo etc.

I'm not sure if the longer-scale "big sibling" other Danelectro 'Silvertone' guitar (included in second photo) would have also originally been offered with an amp-in-case package option, or perhaps the more serious player was expected to buy one of the larger Silvertone standalone amps to go with it?

That one was purchased in LA in 2010 from Craig's List. (back in the 'good old days' for guitar procurement, when $AUD was higher than $USD for a brief moment in history!)

This amp is now powered via a 240v to 120v step-down power transformer, which provides electrical safety isolation as well. Silver(tone) linings to another lockdown & associated interruptions!

Hope you're all keeping well out there.

TLDR: hey! A cool amp! -works again!
Nice chimey guitars.

17/02/2021

Built a nice little shelf for echo machines, DI’s, odds + sods.

31/12/2020

Well, I can’t say it’s been a busy 2020 at Park Orchards in terms of sessions, but some absolute corker music came out this year from incredible 2019 sessions:

Sampa’s album, Cut Copy, & Stevie Jean.

And plenty going on behind the scenes here, as always..
Here’s hoping for a good 2021 for everybody, and hope to catch you sooner or later at Park Orchards.
(-:

Bless!

12/09/2020

Cut Copy at PO.
(in the studio video)

13/07/2020

Looking back through some studio memories from 2014
- the early days!