Gear | DBW Productions | Recording Studio Los Angeles | Los Angeles Recording Studio | Full Music Production for Singer/Songwriters

It's the Ears not the Gear (but the gear helps)!

Good gear is only part of the equation when it comes to getting a great sound. The main thing is good ears and years of experience, of which we have both. We're proud to feature Logic Studio, Digital Performer, Pro Tools 9, and Reaper software combined with the Apogee Symphony system for pristine sound quality and musical creativity. It's a winning combination.

Recording Gear

Microphones

Monitors

Outboard Gear

Plugins

Softsynths

Keyboards

Guitars

Amps

Logic 9.1.3
Digital Performer 7.22
Pro Tools 9.01
Reaper 3x
Mac Pro 8-core processor 2.8 ghz computer/10 gbs of ram
Apogee Symphony system with AD16XDA
Benchmark DAC 1 for monitoring
Mackie Digital 8 Bus 56 input digital mixer
2 MOTU 2408's
Digi 002R using Apogee conversion
8 Tracks ADAT XT
Panasonic sv3800 DAT
Sony Casette Recorder

Royer 122 ribbon mic
Peluso 2247LE tube mic
Charter Oak 538 tube mic
AT4047
Rode Classic tube mic
AKG 414 bls (Jim Williams mod)
2 AKG C460 B's w/ck61 capsules
2 SE3's
2 Oktava 319 (Michael Joly mod)
2 Shure SM 81's

2 Shure SM 98's
2 Shure SM 58's
3 Shure SM 57's
Shure Beta 57
Shure Beta 52 kick drum mic
EV RE20
3 Audix D4's
Audix D6 kickdum mic
Sennheiser MD 409 U3
Sennheiser 421

Focal Twin 6's and sub woofer
KRK Krok monitors
Auratone monitors
Sony Boom box
Radio shack bookself speakers
AKG and Audio Technica headphones

2 Neve 1272 Mic pres
API 3124, 4 channel Mic Pre
A-Designs Pacifica stereo Mic Pre
A-Designs Red DI Tube DI-great on Bass
Universal Audio 2-610 stereo tube Mic pre
Lexicon PCM91, Lexicon MPX 500
TC Electronics M-One
DBX160XT (Jim Williams mod)
Distressor compressor
ART Pro VLA stereo compressor
Lucid Gen EX 6 Master Clock,
Radial J48 DI, Tube Works DI, Countryman DI
Radial X-Amp reamping box

This is a partial list....
URS Classic Console Strip
Altiverb reverb-the best reverb, period
Audioease Speakerphone
Amplitube3, NI Guitar Rig 4, SVX Bass amp sim
Izotope Trash
UAD-2 Quad card with Studer A800, LA2A, 1176, Fairchild and Pultec, (to name a few)
Melodyne Editor and Autotune Evo for pitch correction
Zplane Elastique for pitch transposing audio
Hydratone and Valvtone EQ's-great emulations of real hardware EQ's
PSP Audioware plugs "Vintage Warmer, Nitro and Lexicon delays"
Slate Virtual Console, "The Glue" compressor
Slate Trigger (for embellishing or replacing drum sounds)

This is a partial list....
Reason 4 soft synth-great for dance music production
Quantum Leap Orchestra Gold- the best orchestral library available
Quantum Leap RA, Gypsy, Stormdrum 2 and Fabfour
Native Instruments Komplete 7=wide range of synths
Motu Ethno2
BFD2 Drums-some of the best drum samples on the planet!
Omnisphere
Stylus RMX-very hip drum loops and percussion
Trilian-amazing bass samples
Kontakt 4 with gigantic library

Yamaha S80 88 (weighted) key synth / controller
M Audio Trigger Finger Drum pad
Roland XV 3080 with Session, Orchestral, Bass and Drums, and Hip Hop cards
Alesis DM5 drum module
2 MOTU MTP AV's

Gibson Les Paul Standard
Fender Telecaster USA
Fender Ultra Strat
Starr Guitars strat
Agile Les Paul Junior
Taylor 510 acoustic
Taylor GS acoustic
Takemine Nylon String
Guild 12 string
Gibson Dobro
Washburn Mandolin
Music Man Stingray 5 string bass
Agile Lap Steel

Fender Blues Deville
Fender Deluxe Reverb Vintage Reissue
VHT Deliverance 60
Peavey Classic 30
Avatar 2x12 cab loaded with one V30 and one G12H
Various boutique pedals by Xotic, Keeley, etc plus a vintage modded TS9!!
Blackstar HT5

Great Acoustics

DBW's control room is acoustically treated to provide a very flat listening environment. This means that "what you hear is what you get", which, in this case, is a good thing! As we record we can make better decisions on microphone choice and position and in mixing I can really hear the bottom end correctly and make it fat without being overbearing.