Our Equipment
Southwest Studios is proud to offer the best recording gear available. If there is a piece of gear you wish to use that is not currently on our list, please ask us if it can be made available as we are constantly updating and acquiring new gear.
Microphones
AKG C414xk-Ltd x3
AKG C451 Matched Pair
Audix D6
AEA 84 Ribbon Mic
Blue Baby Bottle x2
Blue Dragon Fly
Neumann M149 Tube
Neumann U87 AI
Rode NT1-A
Sennheiser MD-421 x5
Shure SM-57 x6
Shure SM-81
Console-Pre Amps-Outboard Gear
Apogee Big Ben Master Clock
Avalon VT37SP Tube Pre x2
Digidesign ICON D-Control 32 Faders
Digidesign 192 A/D x3
Empirical Labs Distressors x2
Universal Audio LA-2A
Universal Audio 610
MOTU 8x8 Midi Interface
Neve Portico 5032 w/eq x 16
Neve Portico 5043 comp/limit duo x2
Software
Digidesign Pro Tools HD3 8.0
MOTU Mach 5 v.2
Reason 5
Waves Mercury Bundle
2 Terabytes of LACIE dedicated audio drives
Monitoring
Aviom Personal Mixing System 4 Boxes (16ch each)
DT 770 Headphones
Genelec 8250 A w/Sub
Equator Q15 x2 (DSP)
Event Precision 8's
Yamaha NS-10s
Dual 50in Plasma Big Screens for Video Monitoring
Instruments
Fender Custom J-Bass
Full Sized Acoustic Bass
Martin D-16RCE
Taylor 410 CE w/expressions
Tama Custom 12-piece drum kit (By John A. Douglas)
Yamaha Baby Grand Piano
Yamaha S-90 Keyboard