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.

 
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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.

 
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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.