Shiny Things Studio is my 750-square foot recording studio bordering Bed Stuy and South Williamsburg, with a generously sized live room, amp isolation room, and a vintage Neotek Elite console as the centerpiece. Below is a list of equipment at Shiny Things Studios. I’m constantly adding more gear, so if you don’t see something, just ask!
Interfacing/Monitoring
(2) Universal Audio Apollo x16
Ex Machina Soundworks Quasar monitors
Little Labs Monotor
(4) Hear Back Pro 16-channel personal mixers
Microphones
(2) AEA N22
AEA R88
AKG D12e (vintage)
AKG D58
(2) AKG 414 XLS
Audix i5
(2) Audix SCX25A
Beyerdynamic M88
(2) Coles 4038
Custom C12
(2) DPA 4006
(2) EV 635A (vintage)
EV RE20
Heil PR31BW
(2) Neumann KM84 (vintage)
(2) Neumann U67
Ohma Ribbon Microphone
(2) Oktava 012 (With cardioid, omni, and hypercardioid capsules)
Revox M3500 (Beyerdynamic M201) (vintage)
Sennheiser 421
Sennheiser 441N (vintage)
(2) Shure SM57
Various contact mics and lo-fi mics
Preamps
(16 channels) Millennia HV316
(4 channels) API 3124
(4 channels) Universal Audio 4-710D
Dynamics
(2) API 525
(2) ELI Distressor w Brit mod
(2) Pete’s Place BAC
Schmidlin FED+ (Federal AM864 Vari Mu Compressor)
Serpent Audio SB4001 Buss Compressor
Shure Level Loc
(2) Standard Audio Level-Or
Undertone Audio Unfairchild 670M II
EQ
(2) Avedis E27
Chandler Curve Bender
(2) Chandler Little Devil EQ
(2) Maag EQ2
(2) Moog Ladder Filters
Guitars and Basses
PRS Custom 24
Silvertone Bobcat (1960s)
Gibson J-50 Acoustic (1964)
Martin J-1
Fender P Bass Mexican Standard
Warwick FNA Jazzman
Keyboards and Synths
Dave Smith Instruments/Oberheim OB-6
Knabe Upright Piano with Mute Rail
Korg Mono/Poly
Moog Grandmother
Moog DFAM
Omnichord OM-84
Stylophone
Schoenhut Toy Grand Piano
Teenage Engineering OP-1
Wurlitzer 200A
Drums and Percussion
1968 Ludwig Standard 3-ply maple drum kit – 22″ kick, 14×5 snare, 12, 13, 16 toms
Ludwig Supraphonic 6.5″
Various vintage and new cymbals and hi hats
Amps
Fender Princeton Reverb blackface reissue, modded (12″ Celestion speaker, more wattage)
Fender Bassman 1968 Silverface with original cabinet (Vintage)
Magnasync Moviola
Orange Microcrush
Supro Comet
Vox AC30CC (head/cab)
Pedals, Effects, DIs
Black Arts Toneworks Pharaoh
Boss DD7
Boss CS3 Compressor (modded)
Earthquaker Devices Pyramids Flanger
Earthquaker Devices Sunn O))) Life Pedal
Earthquaker Devices Tone Job
EHX Big Muff
EHX Cathedral
EHX Harmonic Octave Generator 2
EHX Small Clone
Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water
Fuzzrocious Empty Glass
Hotone Soul Press
Ibanez TS9 (Modded)
Klon KTR
Korg tuner
Line 6 DL4 mkii
Malekko 616 Dark
Malekko 616
Meris Ottobit Jr
Morley ABY
MXR Dynacomp
Noisekick FX Laser Cat Fuzz
ProCo Rat
Roland Funny Cat (vintage)
Smiletone Audio Disco Brick Phaser
Strymon El Capistan
Ebow
Cloud Cloudlifter CL-2
Little Labs Redeye
Radial ProD2
Radial SGI
Rupert Neve Designs RNDI
Whirlwind passive DI