Overview

Sweetheart Studios was designed by Jimmy and Ryan and built from the ground up to be a high quality recording facility. The 1,600 sq ft foundation was poured in the Summer of 2021 and the finish-out work began in the Fall of 2022, with Jimmy and Ryan completing the construction themselves.

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Facilities

Tracking Rooms

The “A-Room” is our main live-tracking space. Its specially designed ceiling and angled walls offer an ideal place for sound waves to blossom.

This room includes an attached isolation booth as well as upright and parlor grand pianos.

The “B-Room” is a smaller tracking room to provide additional isolation. This room also houses our amplifier collection.

The “A-Room”

“A-Room” Isolation Booth

Being an analog/digital hybrid studio, our Control Room is very versatile. Sitting front and center is our 1980’s Trident Series 24 console.

In addition to our PC running Pro Tools Ultimate, we have two tape machines: the classic eight-channel Tascam 388 (1/4 inch) , and a sixteen channel Fostex B-16 (1/2 inch), that can be used in tandem with or independently of the digital setup, allowing us to tailor an analog recording experience just for you.

Control Room

Gear List

Microphones

Condensors:

Peluso 22 47 (x2)

AKG 414 (x1)

Oktava MK-012-01 (x1)

UA SP-1 (x2)

Dynamics:

Sennheiser MD421 (x3)

Senheiser e609 (x1)

Unidyne 545 (x1)

Shure SM57 (x5)

Shure SM58 (x4)

Shure Beta 52 (x1)

Shure 55SH (x1)

AKG D112 (x1)

Heil PR40 (x1)

Placid Audio Copperphone (x1)

Ribbons:

Coles 4038 (x2)

Royer R-121 (x1)

Fathead II (x2)

Control Room Gear

Console/Recording Machines:

1985 Trident 24 Series - 24 Channel Board

Custom built PC with Pro Tools Ultimate

Tascam 388 - 8 Track 1/4” Tape Machine

Fostex B-16 - 16 Track 1/2” Tape Machine

Outboard Pre-Amps:

Demeter H Series Tube PreAmp (2 Channels)

Westhills Pacifica (2 Channels)

Vintage Audio M12 (4 Channels)

Revive Audio Modded HHB Radius 10 Tube Preamp (4 Channels)

Focusrite OctoPre MKII (8 Channels with compressors)

Outboard Compressors:

UA 2-1176 (2 Channels)

Hairball Audio 1176 Blue Stripe Clone

ART PRO VLA II (2 Channels)

Revive Audio Modded DBX 1046 (4 Channels)

Effects Units:

Fulltone Echoplex EP3 Tape Echo Clone

Fulltone “That 80’s” Rack Chorus

Weird Soviet flanger unit

Wide variety of FX Pedals

Instruments

Drum Kits:

1960’s Ludwig Club Kit (4 Piece)

1970’s Ludwig Kit (4 Piece)

1990‘s Fibes Kit (4 Piece)

Behringer RD-8 Drum Machine

Congas

Bongos

Wide Variety of Percussion Instruments

Amplifiers/ Speaker Cabinets:

1965 Fender Twin Reverb with JBL d120f Speakers

1972 Fender Bassman 100

1974 Fender Bassman 10

2008 Marshall 1987x 50w Plexi

1960’s Sears Silvertone 1482

1960’s Magnatone MP3

Leslie Model 971 Rotary Speaker

Vox AC4

Fender Superchamp XD w/ Celestion Alnico Gold Speaker

1970’s Fender Bandmaster 2x15 Cabinet with Altec Lansing 421A Speakers

Fender 2x12 Cabinet with Celestion Creamback G12M-65 Speakers

1960’s Shure Vocal Master PA

Keyboards:

1950’s Hazleton Bros Parlor Grand Piano

Kawaii Upright Piano

Korg CX-3 Clonewheel Organ

Moog Grandmother Analog Synthesizer

Roland JU-06 Polyphonic Synthesizer

Roland JP-08 Polyphonic Synthesizer

Roland JX-03 Polyphonic Synthesizer