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