Vinegar Hill Sound is quietly making a name as one of Brooklyn's most unique recording facilities. VHS occupies a distinct niche as an affordable but exceptionally well-equipped and welcoming work space. The studio is owned and run by producer/mixer/engineer Reed Black. VHS is centrally located near DUMBO, Brooklyn making it a quick cab, car, or subway ride from anywhere in the city. Schedule a st
udio visit and find out for yourself why Vinegar Hill Sound is one of Brooklyn's most exciting recording studios: www.vinegarhillsound.com. Gear List:
MULTITRACK
Pro Tools 10/11 HD Native with 30 in / 32 out total
Burl B80 Mothership AD/DA with 12 in / 16 out
Burl B2 Bomber ADC for an added 2 in
Avid HD Analog AD/DA with 16 in / 16 out
TAPE
Otari MTR-12 ½” 4-track (Vintage, early 80's)
Fulltone Tube Tape Echo (Echoplex-type)
CONSOLE
Toft ATB 32
MONITORS
DynAudio BM15a’s
Yamaha HS-80m's
Avantone active mixcube
MICROPHONES
TUBE LDC’s
Bock 251
Soundelux U95
Audio-Technica 4060
FET LDC’s
Neumann TLM67
2x Michael Joly-modded Rode NT1 with K47 capsule
2x Audio-Technica 4033
CAD e200
SDC’s
2x Neumann KM184
2x Audio-Technica 4051
2x Michael Joly-modded Oktava MK12
Groove Tubes GT Convertible
2x Avenson Audio STO Omni Pressure Mic
DYNAMICS
Sennheiser e602 Kick Drum Mic
Sennheiser e609
Sennheiser MD441
4x Sennheiser MD421
Revox 3500 (Similar to Beyer M201)
3x SM57
Original American-made Shure SM7 (Vintage)
Newer Shure SM7a
Electro-Voice RE11 (Vintage)
Electro-Voice RE20
2x Electrovoice 635a (Vintage)
2x Placid Audio Copperphone
Placid Audio Resonator
RIBBONS
2x Coles 4038
2x Royer R121
2x Beyer M260 (Vintage)
PZMs
Shure Beta 91
Crown 6D
COMPRESSORS/LIMITERS
Pye 842678 Compressor/Limiter (Vintage, early 60's)
2x Neve 34628 (Fully discrete 33609 formatted for a console) (Vintage, late 70's)
SpectraSonics 610 CompLimiter
Retro 176 Limiting Amplifier
2x DBX 160 VU (Vintage, late 70's)
2x Chandler TG1 Abbey Road Special Edition Compressor/Limiter
Lisson-Grove R124 Limiter (EMI RS124 rebuild)
2x Distressor EL8-X with British Mod
Schmidlin Fed+ (Federal AM-864/U Compressor Rebuild)
2x API 2500 Bus Compressor
MNATS 1176 Blue Stripe/Rev. A
2x Ridge Farm Boiler ultra-compressor
2x FMR PBC-6A
2x FMR RNLA
EQUALIZATION
2x Aengus 501 Fully Discrete Thumbwheel EQs (Vintage, early 70's)
2x Sphere Eclipse 920 Inductor Thumbwheel EQs (Vintage, mid 70's)
2x Sphere Eclipse 910 Inductor Thumbwheel EQs (Vintage, mid 70's)
2x Sphere Eclipse 1014 Parametric EQs (Vintage, mid 70's)
Manley Pultec EQP-1A
32x Toft
REVERB
AKG BX10 Stereo Spring Reverb (Vintage, mid 80's)
OTHER EFFECTS
Roland Dimension D (Vintage, late 70's)
Orban 536a De-Esser
Orban 245e Stereo Synthesizer
Little Labs IBP Pro
Palmer 8Ω Load Box
Standard Audio Level-Or (Shure Level-Loc Reissue)
Furman Punch 10 Sub-Harmonic Generator
Dolby 361 with “Stretch” mod (Vintage, from Ocean Way Studios)
Chandler Universal Mix Control
PREAMPS
2x Vintage Neve 1272 racked by Brent Averill
4x Chandler TG2 Abbey Road Special Edition
Chandler TG Channel MkII Abbey Road Special Edition
4x API 312
API 512
Universal Audio LA-610 Channel Strip
Universal Audio Twinfinity 710
Summit Audio preamp
Chameleon Preamp
8x FMR Audio RNP
32x Toft
GUITARS
2008 American Standard Precision Bass
1990’s Fender Telecaster with Seymour Duncan Antiquity P90 pickups
1970's Alvarez 5056 "Tree of Life" Acoustic
PIANO
1907 Steinway Model O Grand Piano
KEYBOARDS
Fender Rhodes Suitcase Mk 1
Rhodes Piano Bass
Wurlitzer 200a
Nord Electro 2
Microkorg
Fatar Fully Weighted 88-key MIDI Controller
AMPS
1961 Ampeg B15n
1964 Fender Princeton Vibrato Blackface
1968 Gretsch Fury 6166
1990’s Fender Deluxe Reverb
1990’s Vox AC30
Vintage Ampeg Reverb-a-Rocket
Mesa/Boogie Subway Blues
DRUMS
DW Custom kit
Tama Superstar toms (Vintage, early 80’s)
Gretsch New Classic Maple Snare
Ludwig Acrolite Aluminum Snare
Beverly Kick
more soon...
PEDALS
1970’s Musitronics Mutron Phasor II (Vintage, mid 70's)
Lovetone Meatball (Vintage, late 90's)
SansAmp Classic Pedal (The one with the DIP switches)
Fulltone ’69 mkII Slight Return
Fulltone DejaVu Vibrolux-type
ZVex Box of Rock
Electro-Harmonix Memory Man Deluxe (Vintage, early 00's)
Electro-Harmonix Microsynth (Vintage, early 00's)
Electro-Harmonix Bass Balls
Black Cat Bass Octave Fuzz
Metasonix TM7 Tube Distortion Generator
PLUG-INS
Plenty
All AC power is balanced with a 20-amp Equitech Son of Q toroidal transformer
