Temple of Becoming Studio

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	Temple of Becoming Studio Recording + Mixing + Mastering Year Founded: NA For more information contact: SAGE 1612 Oretha C. Haley Blvd. New Orleans, LA 70113 Tel: 504.524.3365 Last updated: 4/28/08

Temple of Becoming (T.O.B.) is a unique studio, as it offers an eclectic "artist's" vibe, as well as providing very professional and high quality sound production. SAGE, the Engineer, is also a recording artist himself. The equipment list is not large, but every piece of gear is "top notch" and specialized. For larger live tracking projects where more extensive equipment is needed, additional top notch gear can be rented for minimal cost (see "Rental Gear Available" below). T.O.B. provides "Big Studio" sound for a project studio rate, and many clients boast about getting $100-$150 per hour studio results for roughly a 3rd of that cost! Our studio produces all styles, but truly specializes in Hip Hop, Rap, R & B, and Alternative Rock. T.O.B. is not a "commercial" studio with the aim of making the most money; artists are treated with special care and attention. We provide full professional level tracking, mixing, and mastering services.

Recent Projects

Jason Marsalis, Alexander Fly, Focus 21, Lost, Trinity, G Quick, Raw Poetics, Euphenetics, Double C, Intoxicans, Paulbearers.

Location

The studio is housed in a large 2800 sq. ft. former retail/warehouse space that was built in 1895, located in historical Central City. The atmosphere is rustic and "eclectic", to say the least -- very "non-sterile"!

Room Dimensions and Sound

There are 4 total rooms, all with VERY DIFFERENT acoustical properties. The large downstairs chamber is 16 ft. wide x 120 ft. long x 18 ft. tall -- very "gothic" and cathedral like, with a very resonant and "lush" natural reverb. The main tracking room upstairs is 16 ft. wide x 60 ft. long x 12 ft. tall, with very thick wood ceilings and floors. Movable partitions are used to contour the room sound by altering its dimensions. The control room is 12 ft. wide x 15 ft. long x 12 ft. tall, contoured to professional specifications. And the last room is 15 ft. wide x 19 ft. long x 12 ft. tall -- a great room for a BIG, TIGHT drum sound or for Grand Piano. In famous producer Daniel Lanois' fashion, movable partitions are used to create custom vocal ISO booths.

Engineer

SAGE

Equipment

Recorder/Players
- 64 track Digidesign Pro Tools 24 Mix Plus TDM System, running on a Macintosh G4 450Mhz CPU
- Apogee AD-8000 24 bit A/D-D/A 8-channel converter
- Plextor 32X speed CDRW
- Dual 18gig 10,000 RPM Cheetah SCSI Drives
- Sony DAT Machine
Mixing Equipment
- 64 channel Pro Tools 24 Mix TDM
Monitoring Equipment
- JBL 4410A studio monitors powered via Crown Power Base 2
- Genelec 1029a small monitors
Mic Pre-Amps and Processors
- D.W. Fearn VT2 2-channel tube mic pre
- Neve 1272 mic pre 2-channel vintage solid state mic pre
- API 3124 4-channel solid state mic pre
- Demeter 2-channel tube mic pre
- (2) BSS AR-133 Active D.I. boxes
- Teletronix La2a Leveling Tube Compressor/Amplifier
- UREI 1176LN Blackface Compressors
- Altec 436c Vintage Tube Compressor/Amplifier
Microphones
- Lawson L47MP Gold Tube Condenser Microphone
- AKG C12a Vintage Tube Condenser Microphone
- B.L.U.E. Dragonfly Solid State Condenser Microphone
- Rode NT-2 Condenser Microphone
- AKG D12E Vintage Kick Drum Microphone
- (3) Sennheiser MD421 Dynamic Microphones
- (2) Shure SM57 Dynamic Microphones
- Shure Beta 57 Dynamic Microphone
- Audio Technica AT822 Stereo field DAT Microphone
MIDI, Keyboards, & Samplers
- Ensoniq TS-12 Weighted Keyboard
- AKAI S5000 sampler with 256megs RAM
- Opcode Studio 4 MIDI Interface
- Boss/Roland DR-660 Drum Machine
- Unity DS-1 Software Sampler for Mac, with 800 megs RAM and "direct-connect" into the Pro Tools TDM Mixer!!
- Over 200 "top notch" sound CD-ROM libraries for track production!!
Instruments & Amps
- Kawai CA-40 Concert Series 6 ft. acoustic Grand Piano
- Taylor 500 series acoustic guitar
- Warwick electric bass
- Paul Reed Smith electric guitar
- Les Paul vintage electric guitar
- Ibanez X-series "Metalhead" electric guitar
- Ibanez SR electric bass
- BIG Mesa Boogie 400+ Tube bass head, powering a single 18" and two 10"s (SUPER FAT!!!)
- (2) Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifiers, powering Mesa cabs
- Large vintage Pearl Drum Kit, well tuned
- Large assortment of FX pedals -- too much to list
Special FX - Basically every "high quality" plug-in software program made for the Pro Tools TDM mixing environment. All the following are "real time" TDM FX:
- Complete Waves Gold Bundle 3.0
- Channel Strip
- Aphex Big Bottom & Aural Exciter
- Amp Farm
- Antares Mic Modeler
- FilterBank EQs and CompressorBank Compressors
- Focusrite EQ and Compressor
- Complete BombFactory Plug-ins
- D-fi, D-Verb, D-fx, Dpp-1, and DINR
- Drawmer Dynamics
- DUY
- Waves Doppler and Enigma
- Generator X
- JVP
- LexiVerb
- Apogee Mastertools
- MDT
- Dolby Surround Tools
- Maxim
- Waves PitchDoctor, PitchBlender, and PurePitch
- QSYS
- RealVerb
- RectiFi
- SciFi
- Smart Pan Pro
- Speed
- Complete HyperPrism
- Sound Replacer
- Speed
- TC Master X
- TC Mega Reverb
- TC EQ Saturation
- TC Chorus
- TC VoiceStrip
- Time Blender
- Access Virus
Additional Rental Gear Available for Big Studio sessions (You can get results on the level of a $100-$150 per hour studio this way, for a "fraction" of that cost):
- Apogee AD8000-SE .. 8 ch. 24 bit, ad/da converter
- (2) AKG C12A vintage tube microphones
- AKG C24 Tube- Variable stereo tube microphone
- AKG C451EB w/ CK1 Unidirectional cardioid condenser
- (2) Beyer M160 Ribbon microphones
- Neumann CMV563 Tube Cardioid/fig8/Omni microphone
- (2) Neumann KM84s
- Neumann M49 Tube Variable pattern tube microphone
- Neumann M269C Tube Variable pattern tube microphone
- Neumann TLM193 Cardioid condenser mic
- Neumann U47 FET Omni/cardioid condenser
- Neumann U47 Tube Omni/cardioid microphone w/VF14 tube
- Neumann U48 Tube Omni/fig 8 microphone w/ VF14 tube
- Neumann U87 3-pattern condenser mic w/ shockmount
- RCA 44DX or 77DX Vintage ribbon microphone
- (2) Sennheiser MD421 Cardioid dynamic microphone
- Sennheiser MD441 Supercardioid dynamic microphone
- (2) Sony C37A Dual diaphragm tube microphone
- API 3124 MB+ 4 channel mic preamp + 2 channel mixer
- Altec 436C 1 channel tube compressor
- DW Fearn VT-2 2 channel vacuum tube mic preamp
- Gates Sta-Level 1 channel vintage tube compressor
- Lexicon PCM70 .... Multi-effects
- (8) Neve 1272 1 channel mic preamps
- Pultec EQH2 1 channel full range tube equalizer
- Pultec EQP1A 1 channel full range tube equalizer
- Pultec MEQ5 1 channel mid-range tube equalizer
- Roland SRV330 Digital reverb/MIDI
- Roland R-880 Digital reverb/MIDI
- Sony DPSV77 Digital Reverb
- (6) Telefunken (TAB) V76 Vintage tube 1 channel mic pre
- (6) Telefunken (TAB) V72 Vintage tube 1 channel mic pre
- Teletronics LA2A 1 channel tube leveling amplifier
- UREi 1176LN 1 channel limiting amplifier