the studio
Bobby's studio, affectionately called 'Catbeach', is located in Rancho Palos Verdes, and is an imaginative environment conducive to the creative process. It consists of a main tracking room and two smaller iso rooms along with a central control room. The studio is filled with both vintage and modern equipment, loads of guitar gear, a vintage Slingerland drum kit, an optagon, an upright piano from the late 1800's, and random toy instruments for the kids at heart.
For the recording gear heads, here are
a few select items that are used regularly:
- 1950's Neumann U67
- Coles 4038
- Various new and old ribbon mics: Royer, Beyer, RCA
- Shure Bullet Mic
- Brent Averill 1272's and 312's
- Ampex 351 mic-pre's
- Chandler Limited TG Channel Mark II mic-pre's
- Helios mic-pre's
- Telefunken mic-pre's
- Urei 1176 Blackface compressor
- Manley Massive Passive EQ
- Shure Level Loc
- Gates Sta-Level
- Pro-Tools HD3 rig