Hey Darlin' Studio, Seattle, Washington

by Nathan Ackley
(Seattle, WA)

The approach to recording at Hey Darlin' Studio is client-oriented. Taking into the account the influences and moods that the artist hope to achieve. While also pulling on our staffs' lifelong experience as a musicians and performer to add an extra creative element to the mix. Using advanced multi-microphone techniques to capture every detail of the sounds in the studio. Overdubbing instruments to create a polished, professional sound. Employing sonic layering equalization to separate the tones in the mix, and automating special effects to help the music come to life.

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Hey Darlin studio is a purpose built, professionally constructed recording environment. Located in a secure and private residential area. There is on-site parking, a kitchen, and a restroom available to our artists.

The studio is ~700 sq ft. room-within-a-room with floated wood flooring, the vaulted ceiling is floated as well. The walls are 8 to 10 inches thick, double framed, insulated, and feature AURALEX resilient channel in between the multiple layers of drywall. The windows are double-paned and there are two panes installed in each of the iso booth and control room windows. The doors are hardwood and solid core, each doorway has two sets of doors, creating a solid separation between the recording live room and control room.

Because of the extreme attention to detail during initial construction of the studio. The end result is a recording environment with absolutely no noise floor. Allowing the studio the ability to capture the most intimate of sounds without extraneous noise entering the recording. This also works in reverse, as we can record the loudest of sounds without the source sound escaping the studio.


CALL 360-339-3962 to schedule a tour!
EMAIL sideshow-productions@hotmail.com


Our control room features the following list of industry standard equipment and microphones.

DAW Equipment -

Intel Core 2 Duo PC, 8 GB RAM, 3 TB (total) HDD
PRO TOOLS HD v7.3 HD2 Accell, A/D conversion by Aurora & Apogee, 24 Simultaneous i/o, 144 playback voices

HUGE collection of plug-in DSP, Waves, Massey, McDSP all latency-free TDM
We have sound replacer & auto tune too!

Secondary Editing DAW runs a digi 002 rack with Pro Tools v8.1 with advanced Elastic Audio editing capability (housed at an off-site workspace)


Patchbays -

96 point ADC & 96 point Redco TT patchbays connected with CANARE and MOGAMI GOLD audio signal cabling.

Audio Signal Processing-

MIDAS VENICE console - 24 microphone preamps w/ parametric EQ
Pendulum Quartet tube mic Channel w/ eq, compressor, de-esser
Pendulum SPS stereo mic pre/di
Presonus ADL 600 tube mic pre/di
ORAM MWS "brit" stereo mic pre with parametric eq
ART pro MPA stereo tube mic pre (we have 3)
DBX 166 stereo compressor (we have 3)
ART pro VLA stereo tube compressor
DW Fearn Vt-7 all tube compressor (Fairchild 670 clone)
Gates Stereo summed to mono all Tube Mic Preamp


Microphones

Mojave MA 200 Tube large diaphragm condenser x2 (LDC)
Cascade Fathead ribbon x2
SE Electronics Tube LDC
CAD VSM1 Tube LDC
Sterling ST66 (groove tubes clone) Tube LDC
Shure SM7b dynamic
Shure SM 58's and 57's
Sennheiser e609 guitar mic x 3
Sennheiser e604 drum mic x 6
Cascade M139 matched pair and V57 condenser set
CAD Trion ribbon
Audix Fusion drum mic x 4
Audix small diaphragm condenser pair (SDC)
Shure sm94 SDC pair
Audio-Technica 4041 SDC pair
Audio-Technica 4050 LDC
Audix D6 kick/bass mic x 2
Shure Beta 52 kick/bass mic
NJJ STUD KIK sub impulse kick mic
AKG C1000 SDC



Headphones & Studio Monitoring -

Presonus Monitor Control Station, speaker switching, mono summing, volume control.

Yamaha HS80M powered monitors, KRK 6000 passive monitors, Event 20/20 active monitors (attached to editing daw)

2 headphone mixes powered by Rolls and Behringer headphone amplifiers


CALL 360-339-3962 to schedule a tour!
EMAIL sideshow-productions@hotmail.com for samples
Headphones from Sennheiser, Fostex, Behringer, and Pioneer