STUDIO A - Colorado Sound

Colorado Sound’s Studio A offers a fantastic recording environment for professional quality recordings. Artists are free to fully express their creativity in this comfortable space. It is a room with a history, hosting local and international clients for nearly four decades.

Studio A is equipped with beautifully maintained vintage analog gear, a large format console and professional digital recording technology. With two live rooms visible from the control room, Studio A offers the flexibility of isolating large ensembles and providing different acoustics for different applications. The microphone collection offers the greatest variety of choices in the Denver metro area, with more than 85 microphones in our closet. The well-designed room allows our engineers to run the sessions seamlessly, fostering a space for the artist’s creativity to bloom.

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Studio A Equipment List

Studio A Console

Rupert Neve Designs 5088 Shelford Console - 32 Channels
Sonnet Technologies xMac Pro Server
5.1 Surround Sound Mixing
Brainstorm Talkback
(7) Mytek Private Q Headphone System Units

Digital Workstation

Mac Pro 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 / 3.5 GHz Processor/ 16GB RAM
Avid Pro Tools Utlimate 2021.12.0 Ultimate
Avid Pro Tools HD I/O w/ 32 Inputs and 56 Outputs
Up to 192 Tracks of 24-bit, 192 kHz, Digital Audio
Ableton Live 11 Suite
Logic Pro X 10.7.8

Tape Machines / Recorders

Otari MTR-90II: 24/16 track w/ Dolby SR
Ampex ATR-104: 2 track 1/2” & 1/4” Formats
Tascam DA-3000: DSD Master Recorder
Brainstorm SR-15+: Time Code Distripalyzer
HHB 850: CD Recorder
Pioneer DV-414: DVD Player

Plugins

Acon Digital: Acon Digital Deverberate 3
AIR Music Technology: Boom, Chorus, Distortion, Dynamic Delay, Enhancer, Ensemble, Filtergate, Flanger, Frequency Shifter, Fuzzwah, Hybrid, Kill EQ, Lo-Fi, Mini Grand, Multi Chorus, Phaser, Talkbox, Vintage Filter, DB33, Multi-Delay, Non Linear Reverb, Spring Reverb, Stereo Width, Structure Free, Reverb, Vacuum, Xpand!2
Antares: AutoTune Live, Autokey, Autotune Pro, AVOX Mutator, AVOX Punch, AVOX Sybil, AVOX Throat, AVOX Warm, Harmony Engine, Mic Mod, Frequency Shifter
Audio Thing: Hand Clapper, Things Texture
Audio Ease: Speakerphone
Avid: 304C, 304E, BBD Delay, BF-2A, BF-3A, BF-76, Big Bottom, C1 Chorus/Vibrato, Channel Strip, D-Verb, Dither, DownMixer, Dyn3 Compressor/Limiter, Dyn3 De-Esser, Dyn3 Expander/Gate, DC Distortion, EQ 3, Fairchild 660, ff d2, ff d3 Compressor/Limiter, Flanger, Graphic EQ, Grey Compressor, Green JRC Overdrive, Impact, MasterMeter, Maxim, Mod Delay III, moogerfooger Analog Delay, moogerfooger Lowpass, moogerfooger Phaser, moogerfooger Ring Modular, Orange Phaser, Pitch II, POW-r Dither, Pro Compressor, Pro Expander, Pro Limiter, Pro Multiband Dynamics, Pro Multiband Splitter, Pro Subharmonics, Pultec EQH-2, Pultec EQP-1A, Pultec MEQ-S, Purple Audio MC77, Reverb One, Eleven, Lo-Fi, Recti- Fi, Reel Tape Delay, Reel Tape Flanger, Reel Tape Saturation, ReVibe II, Roto Speaker, Sans Amp, SansAmp PSA-1, Smack, SE Rewire, Space, Studio Reverb, Sci-Fi, Tape echo, Tel-Ray Delay, Time Adjuster, Tri-Knob Fuzz, Vibe Phaser, Voce Chorus Vibrato, Voce Spin, Waves ReWire, White Boost, Signal Generator
BDL: Little Foot
Celemony: Melodyne
Devious Machines: Texture
Eventide: H3000 Factory, Instant Flanger MK II, UltraReverb
FabFilter: Micro, One, Pro-C 2, Pro-DS, Pro-G, Pro-L 2, Pro-MB, Pro-Q 3, Pro-R, Saturn, Simplon, Timeless 2, Twin 2 ,Volcano 2
Flux:: BitterSweet v3
Goodhertz: Vulf Compressor 3
Izotope: Izotope Ozone 6-11, RX 10, DDLY, Insight, Meter Tap, VocalSynth, Relay, Tonal Balance Control 2, Vocal Doubler
Lancaster: Pulse
Line 6: Echo Farm
Liquid Sonics: Seventh Heaven Professional
MOK: Wave Razor
Nativ Instruments: Absynth 5, Battery 4-AAX, Choral, Driver, Flair, Fm8, Guitar Rigs-AAX, Komplete Kontrol, Kontakt, Massive, Massive X, Phasis, Reaktor 6, Replika, Solid Bus Comp, Solid Dynamics, Solid EQ, Supercharger, Transient Master
Newfangled Audio: Equivocate
Okesound: Soothe, Soothe 2
Plugin Alliance: Black Box Analog Design HG-2, bx_digitral v3, bx_digital V3 mix, bx_rooMS, bx_tuner
Polyverse: Wider
PSP Audioware: PSP Triplemeter
Relab Development: LX480 Complete, Sonsig Rev-A
Schwa: Bitter
Sessionwire: Sessionwire Receive, Sessionwire Send
Slate Digital: FG-X2, Fresh Air, VBC GF-Grey, VBC F6-MV, VBC F6-Red, VBC Rack
Sonnox: Oxford 3 Band EQ, Oxford 5 Band EQ, Oxford EQ+Filters, Oxford filters, Oxford Inflater, Oxford Inflator Direct, Oxford Limiter
Sound On Digital: Mix to Mobile Sender
Sound Radix: Auto-Align, Muteomatic
SoundTheory: Gullfoss
Sound Toys: Radiator, Sie-Q, Little Plate, Effect Rack
Source Elements: Source-Connect Link AAX, Source-Nexus I/O
Spectrasonics: Trillian, Stylus RMX, Omnisphere 2
Steven Slate: Trigger 2
Sony: Oxford Inflator, Oxford EQ
Sound Toys: AlterBoy, Decapitator, Echo Boy, Filter Freak, PanMan, Phase Mistress, Tremolator, Crystallizer, Pitch Blender, Devil-Lok, Micro Shift, Little PrimalTap
Synchro Arts: VocALign
TC Electronics: Clarity M, Master X3, Polytune
Toontrack: Ez Keys, Superior Drummer 3
Two Big Ears: FB360 Spatializer, FB360 Stereo Loudness
u-he: Satin
Universal Audio: 1176 Rev A Compressor, 1176AE Compressor, 1176LN Rev E Compressor, API 2500 Bus Compressor, API Vision Channel Strip, Brigade Chorus, Century Tube Channel Strip, dbx 160 Compressor, Empirical Labs Distressor, Fairchild 660 Compressor, Fairchild 670 Compressor, Galaxy Tape Echo, Hitsville EQ, Hitsville EQ Mastering, Hitsville Reverb Chambers, LA-2 Compressor, LA-2A Gray Compressor, LA-2A Silver Compressor, Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb, Manley Massive Passive EQ, Manley Massive Passive MST, Oxide Tape Recorder, Pultec EQP-1A EQ, Pultec HLF-3C EQ, Pultec MEQ-5 EQ, Pure Plate Reverb, Studer A800 Tape Recorder, Studio D Chorus, Waterfall Rotary Speaker
Valhalla DSP LLC: Valhallasupermassive, Vintageverb
Waves: Abbey Road Reverb Plates, Abby Road Chambers, Abbey Road Saturator, Aphex Vintage Exciter, API-2500, API-550A, API-550B, API-560, Center, Renaissance Reverb Compressor/ EQ,Linear Phase Multi-band Compressor, Linear Phase EQ Meta Flanger, Axx, Bass, Channel, DeEsser, Vox, LT, Convolution Reverb, Tune, Puig 670, Maserati VX1, Reel ADT, TG12345, CLA-2A, CLA Bass, CLA Drums, CLA Effects, CLA Guitars, CLA Unplugged, CLA Vocals, Doubler, Dorrough, EKramer VC, F6, GTR Solo Tool Rack, GW Piano, GW, PianoCentric, GW VoiceCentric, GW Voice, Trans X, H-EQ, H-Delay, H-Reverb, H-Reverb long, IR-L efficient, IR-L full, IR1 efficient, IR1 full, J37, JJP Bass, JJP Vocals, Kaleidoscopes, Manny M Tone Shaper, Manny Reverb, MaxxVolume, MetaFlanger, OneKnob- Brighter, Driver, Filter, Louder, Phatter, Pressure, Pumper, Wetter, Ovox, PuigChild 670, RBass, RChannel, Rcompressor, RDeEsser, Renaissance Axx, REQ 6, Rverb, Rvox, Scheps 73, Scheps Omni Channel, Scheps Parallel Particles, Sibilance, Sibilance-Live, Smack Attack, SoundShifter Pitch, SSLChannel, TG12345, Waves Harmony, Waves Tune, Waves Tune LT, Waves Tune Real-Time, WLM Meter, WLM Plus, X-Noise, Z-Noise
Youlean: Youlean Loudness Meter 2