THE GEAR

We offer our clients professional signal chains for full-band, drums and vocal recording. With the same preamps, microphones, DI's and DAW's used to make Grammy-winning projects. Our mixing and mastering room is sound treated with multiple speaker systems we have years of experience with to get your sound where you want it to be. We also avail our collection of instruments, synths and amplifiers to clients to use as they like.

Equipment: Equipment

RECORDING MICROPHONES

Beyerdynamic M 160 Double Ribbon

Royer-R10 Ribbon

Warm Audio 87

Electrovoice RE20

Sennheiser MD 421-II (2)

Sennheiser e602 II

Sennheiser e609 Silver

Audix D6

MXL V63M

Shure SM57 (3)

Shure SM58 (2)

Shure 55SH Series II

Nakamichi CM100 (4)

Custom-made Sub-Kick

Radial JDI Transformer Passive DI (2)

Radial JDI Transformer Active DI

Reddi Tube DI

INSTRUMENTS & AMPS

We offer use of our instruments and amps we have tuned for recording for free.

Custom Maple Drum Set w/ recording tuned heads

Ampeg VST Tube Amp

Sunn 1969 Spectre Bass Tube Amp

Vintage 1970s Moog Prodigy Synthesizer

Vintage ARP Odyssey Synthesizer

Arturia Microbrute Analog Synthesizer

Vintage 19th Century Pump Organ

Lowery Analog Organ

Multiple Percussive Instruments, Shakers, etc.

Various additional Amplifiers

2 Stanton Mixing Turntable and Traktor D6 Mixer

Gibson SG-X Guitar

Washburn D10S Acoustic Guitar

Carlo Robelli Acoustic Guitr

Epiphone Thunderbird Bass

MONITORING

Up North Studios has been mixing with professional Alesis Monitor One MKII speakers for years complete with a 12" Polk Audio Subwoofer. We use an Auratone Monitoring speaker to check mixes and masters in mono. The system is powered by a Samson Servo 300 power amplifier. The equipment is housed on a custom-made maple desk in a digitally referenced and sound treated room. This experience and equipment makes the biggest difference in optimizing mastering abilities for clients who have mixes but need new ears and a high-quality setup to master the project.