CSN Recording Studio

	Solid State Logic AWS 900 Console (The Recording Mix-board) "SSL" is one of the premier manufacturers of recording consoles. To date, they have sold roughly 120 of these consoles, many to educational institutions. At this time in Nevada the only other AWS 900 is owned by Celine Dion. This console is of the "Analog-Digital Hybrid" variety, meaning that its design philosophy is to take advantage of the best of both of these technologies. Solid State Logic was recently purchased by the famous recording artist and technologist Peter Gabriel.
	Digidesign ProTools HD3/Accel/Mac G5 Computer Recording System This is the most "rocking" recording setup in the world today and is what the majority of the music you listen to is recorded upon. An Apogee 800 Rosetta is part of the other Digidesign hardware in this configuration, as well as an Apogee "Big Ben" master timing clock to optimize the overall digital recording process. In addition to this hardware system is about $11,000 of additional audio processing software (to provide reverberation, equalization, delays and all kinds of other creative sounds. Also, an audio restoration software package is in this new system, which "cleans-up" old recordings.
	Mogami Wiring and Neutrik Patchbays An often over-looked area of audio recording quality is the path the signal must travel from a microphone to the console, as well as the complex signal routing of everything else involved in the recording process. We have replaced the previous wiring and patchbays with the very best industry has to offer. Apogee 200 ADA Converter and Alesis Masterlink Once a multi-track recording is ready to be placed into a final stereo mix, the device used to "translate" this is crucial. The Apogee 200 is used as an interface for this is about 90% of the new music releases today, and the mix destination is the Alesis Masterlink. Microphones CCSN already had a great selection of microphones, and added to this list are a pair of Neumann U-87s, a Beyer M 160 ribbon microphone, a Shure Beta 52, a pair of Sennheiser 421s and several Shure SM57s (we now have a bunch of those last ones!). Outboard Gear This means some new stuff we have like the Manley Voxbox (an expensive tube microphone preamplifier with additional signal processing features), and a curious box called "Fatso Jr.", which can "warm-up" digital recordings (very popular today with Rock bands and other popular music styles).