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John Widgren putting down some Steel for Chris Koch
We love pedal steel at Hoboken Recorders. This is a picture of John Widgren playing on Chris Koch’s current work in progress. Every once in a while we get to record a really great Steel player and Widgren is definitely one of those. This steel is a Mullen, built in Colorado. A beautifully machined [...]
Killer string section…
Yesterday we had the pleasure to record a string section with (from left to right in the picture) Jenny Sheinman on Violin, Mazz Swift-Camlet on Viola, and Marika Hughes on Cello. If you don’t know who they are… look them up and hear for yourself. suffice to say it was an excellent string section. Since [...]
A Live Room for All Occasions
Hoboken Recorders offers a kind of live room environment that most other studios in the NYC area can’t provide. Our 3,000 square foot main live room is comfortable and sounds incredible, but that’s only part of the story… There’s a smaller live room with a 6-foot wide glass door in full view of the large [...]
DAW/Computers
8-Core Intel Mac
Dual-core PPC Mac
Protools 7.4
Reason 4
Harrison Mixbus
Synthogy Ivory Piano sample library (the best)
Finale 2009 (and an in-house orchestrator)
Garriton Professional Orchestral sample library
We have a lot of software. Please call for any specifics.
Testimonials – Sean Kerly
We all expect a studio owner and engineer to know how to push the play and record buttons,
at Hoboken Recorders, Alan Camlet and Pete Thompson go lights years beyond this by offering
first class percussion skills, in depth, on the spot, renaissance like knowledge that enhances the possibilities for your songs.
Sean Kerly – Kerly Music Corporation [...]
Testimonial – Kathleen Fee
From the moment we entered Hoboken Recorders, we felt right at home. We are a 7 piece band including drums, bass, guitars, mandolin, banjo, accordion, violin and many vocals. Needless to say, this was not an easy group to work with. Alan and Pete were extremely professional and their studio is completely state of the [...]
Testimonial – Chris Koch
I have trustworthy and well-equipped ally that supports me in my effort to convert musical ideas into listenable reality. This alliance gives me access to technical expertise that I have never had the desire, patience or capacity to acquire, to wisdom in terms of arrangements and sound-crafting and to a pool of excellent musicians [...]
Drums
1951 Slingerland Radio Kings
Premier Signia Maple 6-piece
Ludwig hand-hammered Superphonic 6 1/2 x 14 w/ wood hoops
Ludwig Black Beauty 5 1/2 x 14
Gretch wood 5 1/2 x 14
Ayotte 6 x 14 steel w/ wood hoops
DW 6 x 14 Maple w/ wood hoops
10 x 8 popcorn snare
Console
Amek Angela Original Blue Series
36 Mic Pres and Line Inputs
72 inputs at mixdown
24 buss
6 aux sends per channel
6 stereo return busses
Transformer balanced main buss out
The Amek Angela Blue Series is a large format analog console built in 1980. Ours was originally owned by Rob Mounsey, who used it on the first two Madonna recordings. [...]
Outboard Gear
Mic Pres
Rebuilt Amek Angela X36
API 512 X2
Avalon 737
OSA 1272 x2
Chandler Labs Germanium Mic Pre & Germanium EQ
D.W.Fearn VT1
Compressors
Purple Audio MC77
Avalon 747 Stereo Compressor/EQ
Drawmer 1968 Stereo Compressor
Empirical Labs Distressor
Gates Sta-Level Limiter
DBX 160X,
DBX 160XT (w/transformer)
DBX 160A X3
Art Pro VLA Opto-Tube Dual Mono Compressors X2
Valley People Dynamite Stereo Compressor
Ashley SC50 blueface compressor X2
FMR RNC Stereo Compressor
FMR RNLA [...]