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Contact
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Virtual Audio Recording Studio
Recording + Mixing + Mastering
Year Founded: 2008
For more information contact:
George Piazza
2717 Massachusetts Ave., Metairie, LA 70003.
Tel: 504.214.1374
E-mail: virtualaudio@aol.com
www.myspace.com/georgepiazza
Last updated:
4/12/10
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Recent Projects
Mastering: Ticklefish - Stay a Kid; Greezy, Tabula Rasa
Recording: FivenNO, Greezy, Aram, Tabula Rasa, Bwana D.
Previous studio work
Down, Rigid, Fire, Banda Logun, Mardi Gras Indian Singers, Buttermilk, Tabula Rasa, Machine Screw, Irene and the Mikes, etc.
Room DimensionsControl Room: 13x16; Main Recording Room: 25x34; Drum & Amp Iso Room, raised & floated 13x9; Amp Iso Room: 7x6; Vocal Iso Room: 9x12, - average measurements; all rooms are offset & acoustically treated, including angled cedar panels, absorption, bass traps and movable gobos. Other various recording spaces and amenities (Kitchenette, two-room bathroom, etc.)
Staff
Management - George Piazza, Mike McCormack
Engineering - George Piazza, Chuck Booksh
Assistant: Austin Matherne
Equipment
- Recording System
- RME Multiface II interface/converters (2 units - 36 ins and outs)Focusrite OctoPre LE w/ ADAT card
- Studio Projects 828 w/ Brown Burr Op Amps
- PreSonus Digimax FS
- M-Audio Tampa Pre amp w/ optical compression
- Mackie 32 channel mixer
- PreSonus Central Station monitor router
- PreSonus HP60 Headphone Amp
- UAD-2 Duo Card w/ Neve, LA-2A, LA-3A, 1176LN, EMT Plate 140, Precision EQ, MB & Max,
- Pultec, etc
- Cubase SX3 Multitrack Recording DAW
- Wavelab 6 Mastering and Wave Editing Workstation w/ Spectral Editing, Montage & Surround
- Algorithmix Red Linear Phase EQ
- K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Processor
- Izotope: Ozone 4 w/ mid-side processing, Spectron & Trash
- Voxengo Elephant 3 Limiter
- Voxengo Pristine Space Convolution Reverb w Sonic de and Samplicity Impulse Responses
- (TC6000 & Lexicon 960)
- Voxengo Soniformer Spectral Dynamics
- Voxengo Crunchessor 2, LF MaxPunch, Voxformer 2, PHA-979 V2 Linear Phase Rotation
- Waves Renaissance Compressor
- Halion 3 Sampler
- Synthology Ivory Grand Piano
- Other assorted plugins
- DBX 163 compressor (2)
- Windows XP Pro - Core 2 Duo E6750 PC w/ 2gigs Ram, 3 monitors (1 for main room)
- Plextor PX-750A CD/DVD Burner
- TDK 4800 CD burner
- NEC/Sony Dual Layer DVD burner
- Panasonic SV3800 DAT machine
- Instruments
- Kurzweil PC2x w polyphony expansion, orchestral and classic keys
- Kurzweil K2000 VAST
- Roland K550 keyboard amp
- Fernandes Revolver Elite guitar w/ sustainer and Floyd Rose tremolo
- Rogue ES 335 modified
- Epiphone SG
- Shecter Telecaster
- Fender Deluxe Guitar Amp
- Orange Guitar Amp
- Kingston FET guitar amp
- Marshall MG 4x12 Cab
- Peavey guitar amplifiers
- Line 6 Pod 2.0
- Steinberger Bass
- Fender 5 String fretless Jazz bass
- Trace Bass Amp w/ 2x10" & 15" ported cabs
- Woodwinds: Soprano & Tenor Sax; Oboe,English Horn, Flute
- Tama and DW Drums
- LP Congas
- Assorted Stomp Boxes, including Line 6 M13, Big Muff Pi, RockTron & SansAmp
- Microphones
- Sennheiser 421 dynamic (2)
- AKG D112 dynamic (2)
- Shure SM87A beta dynamic (3)
- EV RE-20
- Shure SM57 dynamic (6)
- Shure SM58 dynamic (4)
- Shure SM 68
- Shure Beta 52
- AKG C-414 'gold' (2)
- Shure SM81 (2)
- Rode NTK Tube Condensor
- Cascade Fat Head Ribbon
- Shure C3000
- AudioTechnica 4030
- Audix D2, D4, D6 & 521s
- Behringer condensor (2)
- M-Audio Solaris
- EV 257 (2)
- Monitors/Amps
- JBL 4328s
- Alesis M1 Active 620
- Yamaha NS10's
- Advents
- JBL HR series
- Crown D202 Amplifier (for talkback/playback)
- multiple Headphones (Sony, AKG, Sennheiser, Beyer)
- Primacoustic Recoils & MoPad isolation
