Studio Gear:

At White Noise Studio, we have acces to a healthy amount of microphones, instruments and supplemental gear.
If needed, we can arrange other gear easily.
Here’s an overview of all the gear White Noise Studio has:

The White Noise Studio has the following microphones:

• Sennheiser MD421 (2)
• Sennheiser MD21 (2)
• Sennheiser MD402
• Sennheiser MD409
• Sennheiser e602
• Neumann TLM103
• Shure SM57 (2)
• Shure SM58 transformerless mod (2)
• AKG D1000C
• AKG D190 (2)
• AKG D200C
• AKG D12 clone
• Audio Technica 3525 (2)
• Grundig GDM313
• Pearl DM 9500
• RØDE  NT5 x2
• RØDE  NT1 kit
• Yamaha Subkick
• BPM CR76 ( excellent Neumann U67 clone)

Monitors are soffit mounted Adam S2A’s, Munro Sonic Egg 150 and Auratone 5c.

Recordings are done in Steinberg’s Cubase 9 Pro, mastering in Cubase 9 and  Wavelab Elements 9.

Used AD-DA’s and pre amps:

• D&R Stylyx mixer
• RME multiface
• RME HDSP 9652
• RME Octamic
• RME ADI-1
• Yamaha ML7a ( heavily modded)
• Presonus Digitube
• Mindprint DI port

A Presonus Faderport is used for transport control and whenever a motorized fader is needed.

The Plugins used are made by Waves, Native Instruments ( f.i Massive), Elysia, SPL, Ohmforce, PSP, DDMF, Eareckon, Delamancha en Brainworkx, Sonnox, Audio Damage and Wavemachine Labs ( Drumagog).

Outboard :

DBX160a compressor
AKAI GX 260-d Tapedeck
Lexicon LXP5
Accutronics Spring Reverb

I tend to use a lot of natural ambience and room reverb  in the music. Sounds better then almost any digital reverb. My recording room is my tool.

Studio instruments:

Drums:

Pearl Masterworks Maple Drumkit:

Bassdrum: 22″ x 18″.
Toms: 10″ x 8″, 12″ x 9″, 14″ x 12″, 15″ x 14″.

Pearl BLXall birch drumkit

Bassdrum : 22″ x 16″
Toms: 10″ x 10″, 12″x 10″, 13″ x 11″, 14″x12″, 16″x16″ Floortom

Customized Pearl drumkit:

22″ x 14″‘ Bassdrum
Single headed toms – 10″x 4″ – 12 x 6″ – 13 x 8″ – ”that” 70s single headed sound.
16″ x 14″ Floortom

Pearl CZX maple bassdrum 24” x 18”

Tama Rockstar 22″x16″ Single Headed.

Snaredrums:

Mapex Black Panther Brass Master Snaredrum : 14″ x 5,5″
Pearl Masterworks Maple Snare drums : 14″ x 5″
Pearl Free Floating Steel 14” x 6,5”
Pearl Steel 14″ x 6,5”
Purecussion Headset Snare

If you mix this all up, which we tend to do, you can choose from 5 bassdrums, 13 toms and 5 snaredrums if you don’t your to use own drums or want a different flavour.

DW 9000 chain Twinpedal
DW5000 chain single bassdrum pedal
Pearl belt drive pedal
DW 5000 Hihat pedal
DW 5000 Remote Hihat
Pearl H950 Hihat pedal

Cymbals:

Rides:

• Zildjian A Custom 20″ Ping Ride
• Zildjian 18″ Breakbeat Ride
• Ufip 19″ Ping Ride

Crashes:

• Zildjian A Custom 18″
• Zildjian A Custom 16″
• Ufip 16″
• Paiste 400 Series 18”
• Zyn Super 16”

Hihats:

• Tosco 14″ ( Old italian handhamered, think of pre-ufip, zildjian K etc.)
• Zildjian / ufip 16” combo
• 10” noname fx hihat.
• Zildjian ZBT hihat

Other:

• 18″ Wuhan China
• 18″ Wuhan China + 12″ Wuhan flat crash stack
• 18” Stagg China

Several drumstands, snare stands and toms stands

Percussion includes beatrings, shakers, cowbells, triangle.

Guitar amps:

• Fender Champ 25 combo – 1×12″ Speaker Tube amp
• Marshall Modefour MF350 Amplifier head

Bassamps:

• Sound City Mark 2
• Ampeg Micro VR head
• SWR Black – 15” Speaker  – Tube preamp.
• Laney Linebacker L50B – 15” Speaker

Speaker Cabinet:

• Oversized ( Orange cabinet size)  2 x 12” WNS cabinet with Celestion seventy 80 and Celestion g12t -100

Synthesizers:

Roland Synthplus 60 ( juno 106 with a different paintjob)

Tuners:

• Korg Pitchblack Pro
• Behringer BTR2000

Mooer DI pedal, Palmer Re-Amp
Headphone monitoring during tracking with small samson and behringer mixers and headphone amps , AKG K172 and samson headphones.