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About the studio:

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We are a small studio for mixing, mastering, and overdubbing, and we generally begin our recording work at Mad Oak, New Alliance, God City, or Q Division, with Chris engineering. Because we don't have a dedicated live room, we are able to scale our productions up or down based on overall budget and vibe of the project.

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​Services and cost:

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Recording: starts at $400/day at New Alliance. For $600, we can do a full day at New Alliance plus a few hours for mixing and mastering at the Bunker. This is a great option for knocking out a demo or short EP on a budget.

 

Recording and mixing here at the Bunker is $40/hr. We can't publish our rates at the other studios mentioned above, but just ask for a quote.

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Mastering: Basic mastering optimized for streaming with high res versions for download/CD Duplication starts at  $250 for a full length (45 min) record. We can also master for vinyl, cassette, etc. Ask for a quote.

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Live location recording (ie: recording for streaming performances): Starts at $400/day on location at SUM Studios in Malden. Includes a one camera shoot and a quick mix and master for streaming, which looks and sounds like this.

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We are working on building our live recording/filming production capabilities further this year, but, as of now, we can come to you (or you come to us at SUM Studios) with a full studio-quality, 20 channel recording setup and a high quality digital camera for moving shots. Recently, we combined Chris' shots with the band Worshipper's phones and a couple Go Pros, and that looks like this. This particular edit was done by the band, but we have the ability to put this kind of edit together as well. This is the first one of these we've done and we are definitely looking to do more!! Drop us a line and we can discuss your ideas more in depth.

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Again, all budgets are considered, all ideas are welcome.

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Send us an email with any questions or to discuss any ideas you might have.

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About the engineer:

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Chris Johnson is a Grammy nominated bass player/vocalist/engineer with Deafheaven, Doomriders, Summoner, and others. Since 2008, Chris has spent countless hours working in one studio or another, helping to create dozens of albums over the years between tours and working in live sound. Formerly a co-owner of The Moontower Recording Studio, he has also mixed hundreds of live shows around the world for a variety of bands, worked everywhere from O'Brien's to House of Blues as an audio engineer, and won the first Boston Music Award for Live Sound Engineer of the Year in 2016. Today, Chris works as a staff engineer at New Alliance in between touring with his band(s).

Some of our gear:

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Instruments and Amplifiers:

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Bass:

  • Dunable Yeti - 2017

  • Fender USA Jazz - 2007

  • Kay Krafstman - 1960

  • Rickenbacker 4001 - 1978

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Guitar:

  • Dunable Cyclops - 2020

  • Fender Tele Delux

  • Gibson SG standard - 1992

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Amplifier

  • Fender Tweed cab - Steamboat spkr

  • Darkglass - Microtubes 900 v2

  • Traynor YBA3 Bass Custom - 1970?

  • Orange 0r120 - 1970

  • Orange 2X12 - Tone Tubby spkrs

  • Vox Kensington 1X15 bass cab - 1967

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Pedals:

  • Boss - Space Echo, Bass Chorus, TR2, HM2,

  • Chase Bliss - Dark World Reverb

  • Darkglass - Vintage Ultra, Alpha Omega Ultra, Harmonic Booster, Hyper Luminal comp, Microtubes X7

  • Dunlop - Crybaby wah

  • Eventide - Space

  • Fulltone - OCD

  • Ibanez tubescreamer - modded

  • Mr. Black - Super Moon

  • MXR - bass comp

  • Source Audio - Nemesis, Ventriss

Recording and mixing gear:

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Microphones:

  • AEA R84

  • AT 4033 pair

  • BeesNeez - M49 clone (hand built tube mic)

  • Beyerdynamic - M201

  • Beyerdynamic - M88

  • Heil PR 30

  • Heil PR 31

  • Heil PR 40

  • Rode NT5 pair

  • Shure - SM 57s modded, regular

  • Shure - beta 91, beta 58s, 58s, etc

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Compressors:

  • dBx 160 VU - x2 - 1970s

  • dBx 162 VU - 1970s

  • Empirical Labs Fatso jr

  • Universal Audio 2-1176

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Pre Amplifiers:

  • Heritage Audio '73 jr. x2

  • Neve 33801 x2

  • Sytek MPA4aii (4 channel)

  • Universal Audio 610 tube

  • Universal Audio 710 tube/ss

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Equalizers:

  • API 550b x2

  • Orban EQ

  • TK - TK-lizer

 

Monitoring:

  • Focal CMS 65s

  • Focal CMS subwoofer

  • Yamaha NS10 w/vintage Yamaha amp

 

Etc.

  • Black Lion Audio summing mixer

  • Lynx Aurora A/D converters

     

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