Studio Tools

Gear is only as good as the performance that it’s capturing and the person using it. You’ll see all the expected names below. Only the combination of a great performance, engineer, and gear can make great recordings.

Hardware

Barron Studios studio recording gear

DAW and Conversion

  • ICON D-Command
  • ProTools|HD II - 8
  • Auora Lynx 16 mastering converters
  • Power Mac G5 dual-core 2GHz / 4 GB RAM
  • UAD-1
  • ProTools 002 rack (mobile recording)
  • Auora Lynx 8 mastering converters (mobile recording)
  • Monitors

  • ADAM P-33a monitors
  • Yamaha NS-10M monitors
  • Yamaha MSP5 monitors
  • BeyerDynamic DT990 headphones
  • BeyerDynamic DT770 headphones (3)
  • Preamps

  • Neve 1073 DPA (4)
  • SSL Alpha VHD (4)
  • Trident S20 (2)
  • UA Solo 610
  • Dynamics

  • SSL X-logic G-Series Bus Comp
  • UA 2 - 1176
  • dbx 160A (2)
  • Equalizers

  • Empirical Labs Lil Freq
  • Reverb/Delay

  • Roland RE-201 "SpaceEcho"
  • Software

    Barron Studios studio recording gear

    Equalizers

  • McDSP Filter Bank
  • McDSP Channel G
  • UAD Neve 1073
  • UAD Neve 1081
  • UAD Cambridge
  • Dynamics

  • McDSP Compressor Bank
  • McDSP Channel G
  • UAD 1176
  • UAD LA2A
  • McDSP ML4000
  • Other

  • UAD SPL Transient Designer
  • Antares AutoTune 5.0
  • McDSP ChromeTone
  • McDSP Analog Channel
  • SynchroArts VocAlign
  • Trillian Labs TL Space
  • Trillian Labs Drum Rehab
  • Sound Toys Echoboy
  • Digidesign Reel Tape Suite
  • NI Komplete 4 (Akoustik, Battery 3, FM8, Kontakt 2, Electrik Piano, B4 II, Guitar Rig 2)
  • Microphones

    Barron Studios studio recording gear
  • BLUE Bottle - B6 & B7 caps
  • Neumann U87 Ai
  • AKG C414B-XLS
  • Royer R-121
  • BLUE Woodpecker
  • Rode NT2
  • Rode NT5 (2)
  • Oktava 219 - modified by Michael Joly
  • Shure SM7
  • Shure SM57
  • Audix i5 (3)
  • Audix D6