The Paint Shaker, located at 777 N. Highland Ave., in the heart of Hollywood, California, is a 1700 ft.² facility containing three iso booths and a large warm room for: live ensemble recording with complete isolation, for individual tracking, or for commercial work. Complete album production can be achieved here with us from basic tracking to CD mastering and duplication.

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Information on Gear

The Board:
Sony DMX R-100 is one of the latest digital boards. It is fully automatable, has an internal patch bay (allowing you to quickly switch between different setups) and has powerful dynamic effects.

Recording Media:
  •  64 tracks of Protools
  •  E-magic Logic Audio

The Effects:
Eventide:
  •  Eclipse multi effects processor
Lexicon:
  •  LXP-1 multi effects processor
Roland:
  •  SRV 3030 digital reverb
  •  DEP-5 multi effects processor
  •  SDE 1000 digital delay

Speakers:
  •  Dynaudio BM15 nearfields
  •  Event 20/20 bas

Microphones:
Neumann:
  •  TLM-103
  •  KM-184 (2)
Sennheiser:
  •  421 (4)
AKG:
  •  D-112
  •  414
Audio Technica:
  •  4050 (2)
Shure:
  •  SM 57 (5)
  •  Beta 57
  •  SM 58
  •  SM 81
Beyer:
  •  M-88
  •  Beyer Opus 65
BLUE:
  •  Bottle tube mic
Earthworks:
  •  TC-30 (2)
Audix:
  •  D-3 (3)
  •  D-4 (2)

Mic Preamps:
  •  Dual Trident Mic Preamps
  •  Telefuken V672 Mic Preamps (4)
  •  Avalon 737 Tube Pre/Comp/EQ (2)
  •  Dual Siemens Tube Mic Pre

Other Toys:
  •  A variety of different guitar amps (Mesa Boogie, Kustom, and more)
  •  Korg X-5 Keyboard/Synthesizer
  •  Studio Logic SL-880 MIDI controller
  •  Stand-up Piano
  •  Rhodes Piano
  •  Boss DR-5 Drum Machine/Sampler
  •  Line 6 Guitar POD XT
  •  Line 6 Bass POD

If there is a certain piece of equipment that we do not have and you would really like to use, it shouldn't be difficult to get ahold of whatever you are looking for. (There are no promises and rental will be charged to the bill.)