audio studio equipment
We love older gear and spend more time than we should making it work to it’s best so these things deserve to be mentioned…
reel to reel tape
- 2 x Sony APR 5003 with a JRF Magnetic Sciences modified head assembly for 4 track and 2 track stereo tapes.
- Studer A80 RC with a JRF Magnetic Sciences modified head assembly with DIN (butterfly) and NAB repro heads also drilled for easy azimuth adjustment.
- Studer A80 R customised for winding of fragile tapes with no fixed guides only roller guides.
- 2 x Tascam BR20 decks
cassette tape
- Nakamichi RX505 3 head deck
- Nakamichi 680 3 head deck with half and normal speed options
- Nakamichi 670 3 head deck
- Marantz PMD 502 x 3 with balanced outputs
- Tascam 122 Mk III 3 head deck x 2 with balanced outputs
- Tascam 234 4 track multitrack deck with dbx
- Tascam 238 8 track multitrack deck with dbx
- Teac C-3X 3 head deck with normal and double speed options
noise reduction
- Dolby A-301
- 2 x Dolby 361 units
- Dolby 363
- Nakamichi NR-200 external Dolby B and C encoder / decoder
- Bel BC3 16 channel
digital
- Benchmark Media Systems ADC1 2 channel 24bit 192 kHz A/D converter
- Benchmark Media Systems DAC1 2 channel 24bit 192 kHz D/A converter
- 2 x Sony 7030 timecode DAT
- Sony PCM 2600 DAT
- Tascam DA30 MkII DAT
- Tascam DA45HR High Resolution 24 bit DAT
- Tascam DA78HR DTRS 8 track digital multitrack tape
- Fostex D5 DATs x 3
- Denon DN-951FA Broadcast CD Cart Player
- Denon DN-990R Broadcast Minidisk Recorder
- Tascam 350 MiniDisk Recorder
- 3 x RME HDSP 9632 analogue and digital audio interface cards
patching / metering / monitoring
- Balanced B-Type patchbays for analogue audio
- Rane BB 44X 8 channel transformer based unbalanced <> balanced converter
- Alice Broadcast Solutions Matchpak 2
- BES BNC / Musa Patchbay for S/PDIF Digital Audio
- RTW 1206D
- RME DIGICheck metering software
- Tektronix SAM
- Adcom GF-545 power amp
- Quad 405II power amp
- AR 18S loudspeakers
- PMC TB2 loadspeakers
test / service tools
- Nakamichi T-100 Audio Analyser
- Leader LFM-3610 Wow / Flutter meter
- Philips PM3055 Dual Trace 50Mhz Oscilloscope
- Lindos LA101 Audio Oscillator / LA102 Audio Measuring Set
- Information Terminals M300 cassette gauge
- Tentelometer tape tension gauges
- Various Spring Gauges
- MRL 1/4 test tapes
- Teac / Nakamichi / Abex cassette test tapes