Hoboken Recorders

Tracking - Mixing - Editing - Video Production

66 Willow Ave.    Hoboken NJ    201-484-7997

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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
Gretsch Round Badge 7x 14

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 [...]

Keyboards

Fender Rhodes Fifty-Four suitcase model
Steinway B Concert Grand Piano (available on request. tuning and rental fee required)
Wurlitzer Electric Piano
Kurzweil K2000
Novation Bass Station
Synthogy Ivory Grand Pianos
Korg Triton 88-key with hammer action keys

Pedals

Electro Harmonix

POG
Memory Man
Holy Grail
Hot Tubes Distortion
Pulsar
Hoax Stereo Flanger
Micro Synthesizer
Black Finger
Vintage Big Muff
New Stock Big Muff
English Muf’n
MXR
micro-amp
blue box
Phase 90
Dyna Comp

Boss

Digital Delay
Distortion DS-1
Metal Zone
Over Drive OD-3

Other

Moogerfooger 12-step Phaser
Matt Wells 5:00 Shadow Fuzz
Rodent Distortion
Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
Ibanez Tube Screamer
Ibanez Compressor/Limiter
Jim Dunlop Crybaby Wah
Jim Dunlop Crybaby Wah Jimi Hendrix
Fulltone FullDrive II MOSfet

Chris Koch – “Scenes from a Coastal Evacuation” pressed

Chris Koch’s record, Scenes from a Coastal Evacuation is finished and pressed. Koch and Hoboken Recorders Engineer Pete Thompson have been hard at work on this far-reaching record for quite some time. The final product is available through cdbaby and other outlets.
There are lots of clips, some videos and info on where to get [...]

Delphian Jazz Orchestra – Tales of Pan and Eyes of Argus released

Available now from Fresh Sound records!

“The Delphian Jazz Orchestra performs music that stretches outside of the typical parameters of a traditional big band. The music drastically morphs styles that fall anywhere from the influences of Ellington and Monk to Stravinsky and Frank Zappa. Hoping to free itself from the confines of formal structure, The [...]

Microphones

Wunder Audio Cm7gt Large diaphragm tube condenser
Neumann TLM103 Large diaphragm condenser
Stereo Pair: Mojave MA200 Large diaphragm tube condensers
Shure KSM 137 small diaphragm condenser
Peluso R14 Ribbon
Sennheiser MD 421 X2
Sennheiser MD 441
Sennheiser E609
Audio Technica 450 Side aliress small diaphragm condenser
Heil PR30 Large diaphragm dynamic
BeyerDynamic M201
BeyerDynamic M160
Groove Tubes GT44 small diaphragm tube condenser (stereo pair)
Shure SM57 X3
Shure Beta [...]

Guitars

PRS McCarty
1986 Les Paul
Heritage Eagle

Amps

Fender Showman blackface ‘63 head
Fender Bassman 70 head
Musicman HD One-Thirty head
Mesa Boogie Mark IV combo
Ampeg Jet
Fender Twin Reverb
Sears Silvertone
Ampeg Reverborocket 2
Rivera Thirty Twelve
Modded Epiphone Jr. 5w tube head
Modded Fender Hot Rod Deluxe
Custom built 1×12 open back cab with Weber Blue Dog Alnico
Custom built 1×12 closed back cab with WGS Vintage 30
Custom built 1×10 closed back [...]

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