florida keys nyc
we make records in ridgewood, queens; florida keys of new york city.
1820 Bleecker St, 2nd Floor * Ridgewood, NY 11385 | info@floridakeysnyc.com | L to Dekalb, M to Seneca
| Rooms | |
| Control Room | ~250 ft2; good sounding, adjacent to roof deck, has colorful jesus |
| Big Room | ~600 ft2; live-ish; ceiling ranges from 14' to 11' |
| Booth | ~150 ft2; very dead |
| Kitchen | ~250 ft2; live. convenient to track guitar overdubs in |
| Console | |
| Neotek Series II | 32 inputs, 28 with EQs/pres. We have equipped ours with an Enya button. |
| Recorders | |
| Otari MTR-90 MKII 24 tk. 2" | New rollers, new tension arms, new lifter sleeves. Usually run 15ips CCIR. |
| Pro Tools HD w/ Lynx Aurora 16 converters | The same thing everyone else has. |
| Ampex ATR-104 1/2" | This is our 2-track deck. All four channels have been Spitzified. We own 4-track heads but have never used them. |
| Pioneer RT-707 1/4" | This is our go-to deck for tape echo, out of tune tape loops, and for listening to Jesus recordings from the 70s. |
| Assorted Weird Things | A cassette |
| Monitors | |
| B&W 805S | They don't sound like a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier like many other studio monitors. |
| Mics | |
| BeyerDynamic M-88 | (2) Fantastic dynamic mic |
| Audio-Technca ATM450 | (6) Side address, small-diaphragm condenser |
| Audio-Technca Pro 37R | (2) Small-diaphragm condenser |
| AKG 451 | (4) Small-diaphragm condenser. These are the real ones, not the new ones. We have an omni pair and a cardioid pair. |
| AKG D-112 | (1) |
| Sennheiser 421 | (2) |
| Crown GLM-100 | (1) |
| Audio Technica 4060 | (1) A nice large diaphragm tube mic |
| Assorted random dynamic mics | Mostly by Shure |
| Outboard | |
| Normaphone Jensen Pres | Retardedly nice preamps Greg Norman from Electrical Audio made for us. |
| Skibbe Electronics LA-2A | An awesome tube opto-compressor Bill Skibbe made for us. |
| RNCs | They are named Really Nice Compressors and they are. |
| RNLA | These are named Really Nice Leveling Amps. |
| Valley People Dynamite | A wild compressor/gate. |
| Drawmer Gates (4) | Really good gates. |
| Ashley Gates (4) | Really okay gates. |
| Allison Labs Filter | Wild filter |
| Autek Filter | Wildest filter |
| Intersound IVP | Very powerful EQ/instrument preamp with unique distortion channel |
| Altiverb Reverb plug-in | Expensive-sounding digital reverb |
| Ibanez 405 and 400 | Analog rack effects-- compressor, eq, delay, phaser, etc. All weird/cool sounding. |
| Digitech IPS-33b | A very cool pitch-shifter / delay. |
| Furman RV-1 Spring Reverb | This has a limiter and an EQ in it; it also sounds great. |
| Assorted digital reverbs and multi-fx units | I have been buying too many of these. Yamaha Rev 7, Roland SRV-2000, Sony DPS-V55, etc. |
| More stuff | There are other things as well, but you get the idea. |
| Instruments | |
| We have a ton of guitars, amps and drums lying around, a bunch of samplers, a few synths. We encourage you to bring your own stuff, though. It's your record-- oughtn't it sound like you? We have a very nice baby grand piano in the apartment next door, to which we have tie-lines connected. If you need to use it, let us know. | |
| Rates | |
| Our day rate is $450. When the Forms are on tour, we might work something out for unattended sessions. Email us. | |
| Recent Projects | |
