40 min from Albany NY • 2 hrs from NYC • 3 hrs from Boston
Under a big sky, surrounded by Catskill forest and mountains, Beet Recording Studio is an intimate space for musicians, songwriters, duos, and groups to play and create, to grow songs, ideas, experiment together, conceptualize and capture a vibe into a recording.
Gear
Drum Kits & Guitars/Basses
The big BOOM, 70’s Ludwig Vistalite, 24, 18, 14, 13.
50”s Ludwig Transition badge for that retro sound, 20, 16, 13.
The Workhorse of the studio, Ludwig Classic Maple, 20, 14, 12.
Modern tone: Yamaha Maple kit, 22, 16, 12, 10
Fender P-Bass
60’s Fender Mustang guitar
90’s Fender Squire Strat
90’s Gretsch Electromatic
90’s PRS custom
80’s Hohner The Jack 5 string bass w/Steinberger bridge
Snares & Bass Drums
Custom Rathkamp Drums, Ribbon Mahogany segmented shell, 8 lug for a classic deep fat tone, 8 x 14
Custom Rathkamp Drums, Bubinga segmented shell, 10 lug for a loud bite and attack, 5.5 x 14
90’s Ludwig Black Beauty hand hammered 5.5 x 14
70’s Ludwig Supraphonic 6.5 x 14
70’s Ludwig Acrolite 5 x 14
50’s WFL maple shell 5.5 x 14
90’s Pearl Piccolo free floating maple shell, 3.5x14
90’s Tama Birch 8 lug, open classic sounding. 5 x 14
1940’s Ludwig parade drum, perfect for mallet work 14 x 22
1920’s WFL parade drum, amazing kick drum sound, HUGE! 14 x 26
Yamaha mahogany kick for jazzier or bebop sounds 16 x 18
Percussion
Lots of Conga drums.
2 Cajon’s, 2 Bongos.
Djembe, Doumbek, Bodhran, Udu drum, Frame drums & Washboards.
Tons of small hand percussion shakers, woodblocks etc. And an extensive tambourine collection Ha!
Chimes, bells, whistles, chains, cowbells, agogo bells and lots of other metal percussion.
Microphone Preamps & Guitar/Bass Amps
2 Avalon 737SP’s
4 Vintech Audio X73i’s
2 Milllennia HV35’s
2 Focusrite ISA
4 UA 710
4 WA-412 (API clone)
Ampeg PF50T all tube bass amp
Ashdown 15” bass speaker cab
80’s Roland JC120
90’s Fender Princeton Reverb
70’s Fender Bassman 50 w 2/12 cab
Ampeg SVT micro w 4/10 cab
Fender Blues Jr
Microphones
Match pair of Cascade Fat head 2 ribbons with Lundahl transformers.
Cole 4038 ribbon mic
AEA R-92 ribbon mic
Beyer Dynamic M-201-TG
Match pair of Neumann KM84’s
2 Sennheiser 421’s
EV 635A
Neumann TLM 103
4 Shure SM57’s & 4 SM58’s
Soyuz 023 Bomblet
Pelusso 2247 LE, (U-47 clone)
Cascade X-15 stereo ribbon mic with Lundahl transformers
Shure SM7B
Beyer M88TG
3 Sennheisser E-604’s
Audix D6
Sennheisser e906
Shure Beta 91-A & 52-A
AKG D112
Beyer Dynamic M-99
Audio Technica AT8010
Beyer Dynamic Opus 88
2 Beyer Dynamic Opus 83
Warm Audio WA47 (U-47 clone)
WA (fet-47 clone)
2 Warm Audio WA14 (414 clone)
Keyboards and Sound Modules
Roland Gaia SH-01 Synthesizer.
Vocoder (reissue, clone)
80’s Roland RE-501 Chrs/TapeEcho
Knabe Baby Grand Piano.
Moog Minitaur.
Moog DFAM.
EMU Px7 Command Station.
Roland SPD-SX Pro.
Piano lives in the live room. Drums most of time is in that room as well but sometimes the booth. Amp isolation rooms are through the control room and patched back as is the booth.