Gear List

Jangada punches above its weight class. We have the comfort and vibe of a small project studio, but are lucky to have some incredible gear usually only associated with larger, more expensive studios. Even our headphone and headphone amp choices reflect our care for the best artist experience.  

In summary, our gear includes:

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A boutique converter, The Burl

Well known for its sublime conversion, the Burl Mothership (it sounds big, and it is!) imparts the sound of a high-end professional multi-track tape machine without the hassle and hiss, and without being heavy-handed at all; quite the opposite. It gives a hard-to-describe tone that's at once clear and accurate while imparting this beautiful sheen and authority to any recording. The more tracks recorded through it, the more its amazing sound emerges. It's such a joy! Who knew the converters mattered? Once I had a taste though, I was hooked. It's modular and expandable, and I recently added a mastering-grade converter to send out to my monitors ("Barefoot 01" 3-way) and to send audio out during mastering. And, its 16 ins and 20 outs are more than enough to cover small tracking jobs for solo, trio, ensembles, even small bands - only limited by space here rather than gear! The larger input count allows putting up multiple microphones to capture many positions, providing more sonic choices during mixing.

A large mic locker

Over two dozen microphones provide for a wide range of sonic choices and include products from Neuman, AKG, Chandler Limited, Soyuz, DPA, Earthworks, Beyerdynamic among others.

We’re especially thrilled with the amazing pair of Soyuz 017Tube mics that pretty much live on the piano. Also receiving high praise from top industry vets lately is the Chandler Limited REDD, a tube-based microphone with an integrated tube mic pre that’s an absolute beast on vocals, among other instruments.

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Tasty outboard mic pre's

Our outboard mic preamplifiers include tube and solid state, swiss-army-knifes and boutique one-trick ponies. Like the clean pristine Avalon 2022 for super accurate fast capture, or the Beatles Abbey-Road inspired tube beast, the REDD.47 great for bass or even to warm up vocals, the AEA RPQ2 - purpose built to handle the unique requirements of ribbon microphones, the UAD4710D workhorse with a compressor circut available on each of the 4 channels as well as a blend knob that blends between tube and solid state tone, and the 30lb LaChapell Audio 992 tube-based stereo mic pre, which can heat the studio in winter all by itself, plus it gives such a silky smooth tone to anything run through it. We also have on tap the eight clean UAD pre's inside the Apollo converter. The go-to for me personally on piano is the tube-based LaChapell which achieves beautiful tube-based saturation but with amazing clarity that together impart this 3D realism to the piano or anything else. Paired with the Soyuz017Tube, along with the inimitable Burl converter, the piano tone we’re getting here is just unreal! Plus on mastering, I'll run audio through the mic pre first, which instantly makes everything just sound that much bigger. That's one of my secrets right there!

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Outboard & mastering gear

We own the Neve Master Bus Transformer (the mix "bettermaker"), a mastering-grade EQ from Thermionic Culture called The Swift as well as compressors by Audioscape: an LA-2A, an 1176 and a VCOMP+. These are used both at tracking and mixing stages. We pack all of this best-of-the-best professional gear – and experience – into a section of our townhome we dedicated to recording, with 10’ ceilings and a beautiful space optimized for sound with elegant acoustic panels and unique wall treatments that sound great.

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