A Tale of Two Cities - Free - Session - A Tale of Two

Home-Fry's Recording Booth, Lone Butte near Santa Fe NM.

room type: 3/4" plywood constructed recording booth with two layers of acoustic sound board floated 2 inches apart. Treated for diffusion largely with book shelves and drapery. Floor is brick with a throw rug in center.

room dimensions: 6x8x8

room acoustics: Fairly flat sounding this home made booth exibits a little resonation in the upper-mid frequency range which is fine for relatively soft spoken audio book narration work.

notes:

microphone: AKG C-3000 w/popstop and Electro-Voice RE-20

preamp: Mackie 1202-VLZ Pro and PreSonus TubePre

tracking compressor Behringer Tube Composer

recorder: Tascam DA-20 DAT recorder at 48khz

headphone: Sony MDR-7506

transfer: Behringer SRC-2496 light-pipe to Linux MHWaveEdit capture

edit station: Linux Cinelerra A/V desk. mastered outboard: via Linux ecasound --> lightpipe --> Focusrite TTPro Compressor --> Behringer DEQ2496 EQ --> hard disc.