(NOTE: Singlewide Studio is still lterally "under construction" - Stay tuned!)
This page serves to show pictures of the available space, plus information about the studio's equipment and capabilities, and links to audio samples. My name is Scottish McMillan, and after about 25 years as a singing, songwriting guitar slinger, most recently as the founder of the Chicago-area rock duo Right Rongly,
and almost a decade as a live-event audio engineer, I now focus largely on being a recording studio audio engineer. Singlewide Studio is located in Crossville, Tennessee, in an unincorporated area a few miles north of Crossville city limits. And yes, it IS a single-wide manufactured home, about 2/3 of which is a recording studio. The studio’s cozy feel allows players to relax and create comfortably in a "living-room" type environment, while attaining superb audio production quality, and quite affordably. Overnight stays can be accommodated with enough warning, but random overnighters can occasionally be accommodated. Unlike the super-polished coldness of so many "downtown" studios, this place feels like home, because it IS home -- MY home -- and I'm happy to be able to help other artists have fun making recordings they can be proud of! While players are welcome to bring whatever instruments or other equipment they please, Singlewide Studio’s greatest strength is its “plug and play” jam/recording setup. The “Living Room” includes a full drum kit, two different modeling guitar amps, and a bass combo amp, as well as a few decent electric and acoustic guitars and basses. ALL aforementioned amplifiers can be played “direct” and silently, allowing “live” jams to be recorded without ANY amps bleeding into the drum mics. If you prefer your own amp, it may still be possible to "go direct" using certain equipment. This gear is typically all set up and “ready-to-go”, so unless you need to switch something out or add something, you can just bring your drumsticks, guitars, basses and foot pedals, and get right into it!
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THE ROOMS:
“LIVING ROOM” (15’ X 16’) Record/Playback Room - most bands can fit all at once, including drums
“ISOLATION ROOM” (8’ x 10’) - For isolating amps or singers when necessary
“CONTROL ROOM” (9’ x 15’) – This is where the PC and my control equipment lives, but there’s plenty of room for tracking vocals, instrument solos, etc., as well as listening back on the Control Room couch, when convenient.
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STUDIO INSTRUMENTS:
(available for recording / rehearsals / jams)
CRUSH "SUBLIME" Maple 6-piece drum kit:
SNARE: 10-ply 13x7
KICK: 20"x20" deep kick, 8-ply
TOMS: 6-ply maple, w rim mounts; 10" x 7" (stand), 12" x 8" (stand), 14" x 13" (floor), 16" x 14" (floor)
Kick pedal: DW 7000 single/double
Hi-Hat stand: Tama Iron Kobra 2-/3-leg (super smooth/quiet)
Zildjian A 14" Master Sound Hi-Hat (vented bottom)
Zildjian A 21" Sweet Ride
Zildjian A 18" Medium Thin Crash
Zildjian 16" Medium Thin Crash
BASSES:
IBANEZ SDGR 4-string - Neck-thru body design, 24 frets, (2) active Bartolini P/U's, P/U blender, 3-band EQ. Modern tone.
1984 Cremer Custom Guitars “Fender Precision” style bass guitar, with Bartolini “P-bass” style pickups. Classic tone.
1981 KRAMER XKE 4-string - short-height frets, fretless above 11th fret, bolt-on aluminum "V-top" neck, (1) P-Bass-style P/U, tone & volume knobs. Classic tone with more sustain than most basses of its age. MONTANA (Kaman-made, in Korea) Acoustic bass guitar, jumbo body, passive piezo pickup
GUITARS (all great-playing axes - no junk):
FENDER COPY Strat-style guitar, (3) single coil pickups, 5-pos. P/U switch, "Gilmour" option switch (turns neck pickup on/off, regardless of P/U switch position)
FERNANDES REVOLVER (Strat style) with (1) single coil, (2) humbuckers, coil tap switch for humbuckers, and Sustainer switch, with high/low harmonics option
DANELECTRO BARITONE electric guitar, with 2 single coil "lipstick tube" pickups
1981 HOHNER 6-string acoustic guitar (great player - solid midrange - great for adding to a full band)
RAINSONG 100% carbon-fiber acoustic guitar, strung for baritone, but could switch to standard tuning, if needed. (Big sound, good for solo acoustic players)
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AMPLIFIERS:
BASS AMP:
TC ELECTRONIC BG250 w/TonePrint FX - 15" cone / tweeter, 250W, built-in overdrive circuit (foot switchable) uses free iPhone app to inject any one dozens of effects into amp thru P/U, 3-button footswitch
GUITAR AMPS:
VOX VT80+ - single-12" combo, 120W tube-driven modeling amp
FENDER MUSTANG III - 12" combo, 100W modeling amp, w/USB to load custom settings from PC
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RECORDING / MIXING / MASTERING PC:
Windows 10, 64-bit, Intel Core i7 Quad 3.07 GHz, 24GB RAM
UAD-2 Quad-Core PCIe card (audio plugin processing)
UAD-2 Octo-Core PCIe card (audio plugin processing)
AUDIO INTERFACE:
Behringer X32 digital mixer
DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATIONS:
Presonus Studio One Pro 4
Pro Tools 10
MICROPHONE PREAMPLIFIERS (24 Total)
(1) Behringer X32 digital mixer (at least 24 simultaneous microphone recording inputs)
(1) 4-channel Universal Audio 4-710d (totals 4 solid state/tube-driven channels, with UA's classic 1176 compressor circuitry built in) – this can replace up to (4) of the X32’s internal mic preamps, if desired. (1) Black Lion Audio B173, solid state (clone of the classic Neve 1073) - this can replace (1) of the X32’s internal mic preamps, if desired. STEREO HEADPHONE MIXES: (6) simultaneous mono mixes are available. Use of a smartphone or tablet allows players to control their mixes. Headphone amps feature a “More Me” knob for added convenience. House Headphones: (6) Sennheiser HD280 Pro, but feel free to bring your favorite headphones or in-ear monitors (IEMs). PLUGINS: (I have over 1750 different audio plugins, but here's a list of MOST of my Waves and UAD plugins)
WAVES PLUGINS:
Abbey Road Collection
Aphex Vintage Aural Exciter
API 550, 560, & 2500
Bass Rider
BSS DPR-402 Compressor
C1 Compressor
C6 Multi-Band Compressor
Center
CLA-2A
CLA Drums
CLA Guitars
CLA Unplugged
Cobalt Saphira (Harmonics/Overdrive)
Codex Wavetable Synth
dbx 160 Compressor/Limiter
De-Esser
Doubler
Dorough Stereo Meter
Dugan Automixer
Element (MIDI Instrument)
eMo D5 Dynamics
Enigma
GEQ
Greg Wells MixCentric
Greg Wells ToneCentric
H-EQ
H-Reverb Hybrid Reverb
InPhase
IR-L Convolution Reverb
L1 UltraMaximizer
J37 Tape
JJP Analog legends
The King's Microphones (Mic Modeler)
Eddie Kramer Signature Series
Eddie Kramer - Tape, Tubes, and Transistors
L3-L16 Limiters
Linear Phase EQ
Linear Phase Multiband Compressor
LoAir
Manny Marroquin Delay
Manny Marroquin EQ
Manny Marroquin Reverb
Manny Marroquin Tone Shaper
Manny Marroquin Triple D
Maserati DRM
Maserati VX1
Maxx Bass
Maxx Volume
Meta Filter
MetaFlanger
MondoMod
Morphoder
MultiRack Native
NLS Non-Linear Summer
One Knob Series
PAZ Analyzer
Q10 ParaGraphic EQ
Q-Clone
Redd 17 & Redd 51 Channel Strips
Reel ADT Vocal Doubler
Renaissance Axx
Renaissance Bass
Renaissance Compressor
Renaissance Equalizer
Renaissance Vox
RS56 Passive EQ
S1 Stereo Imager
Scheps 73 Channel Strip
SoundGrid Studio
Sound Shifter
SSL 400 Collection
Super Tap
Trans-X
TrueVerb
UM225 / UM226
Scheps 73
Vocal Rider
WLM Plus Loudness Meter
WNS Noise Suppressor
X-Noise
UNIVERSAL AUDIO 'UAD2' PLUGINS:
1176LN Legacy Classic Limiting Amplifier
1176SE Legacy Classic Limiting Amplifier
Ampex® ATR-102 Mastering Tape Recorder
Brainworx bx_refinement
Brainworx bx_saturator V2
Brigade Chorus Pedal
Cambridge EQ
Cooper® Time Cube Mk II Delay
dbx® 160 Compressor / Limiter
Distortion Essentials Bundle
DreamVerb Room Modeler
EMT® 140 Classic Plate Reverberator
EMT® 250 Classic Electronic Reverb
EP-34 Tape Echo
Eventide® H910 Harmonizer
Fairchild Plug-In for UAD-2
Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection
FATSO™ Jr./Sr. Tape Sim. & Compressor
Galaxy Tape Echo
Harrison® 32C / 32C SE Channel EQ
Helios™ Type 69 EQ
Ibanez® Tube Screamer TS808
Little Labs® IBP Phase Alignment Tool
Little Labs® Voice Of God Bass Resonance
Maag EQ4® EQ
Manley® Massive Passive EQ
Moog Multimode Filter Plug-In for UAD-2
Neve 1073 / 1073SE Classic Console EQs
Neve 1073 Preamp & EQ Collection
Neve 1081 / 1081SE Classic Console EQ
Neve 31102 / 31102SE Classic Console EQs
Neve 33609 / 33609SE Compressor
Neve® 88RS Channel Strip
Ocean Way Studios
Oxide Tape Recorder
Precision Buss Compressor
Precision De-Esser
Precision Enhancer Hz
Precision Enhancer kHz
Precision EQ
Precision Limiter
Precision Maximizer
Precision Mix Rack Collection
Precision Multiband
Pultec EQP-1A Legacy
Pultec Pro EQ Legacy
Raw Plug-In for UAD-2
RealVerb-Pro Plug-In for UAD-2
Roland CE-1 Plug-In for UAD-2
Roland Dimension D Plug-In for UAD-2
Roland RE-201 Space Echo Plug-In for UAD-2
Softube® Bass Amp Room
Softube® Metal Amp Room
Softube® Vintage Amp Room
SPL® Transient Designer
Studer® A800 Multichannel Tape Recorder
Studio D Chorus
Teletronix® LA-2A Legacy Classic Leveling Amp. Teletronix® LA-3A Classic Audio Leveler
Tonelux® Tilt EQ
Trident® A-Range Classic Console EQ
UAD 4K Buss Compressor
UAD 4K Channel Strip
Vertigo Sound VSC-2 Compressor
Vertigo Sound VSM-3 Mix Satellite
