Welcome to Cavern Recording and B.A.T. Mastering
Phone: (207) 873-1988

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Cavern Recording Studio

We are a 24-track analog and digital audio recording facility located in central Maine. Cavern offers a full plate of services including audio recording, production, instrumentation and digital mastering at low prices - with articulate ears and passionate precision. The studio has been in business since 1991 and has built a reputation for high quality, a comfortable setting and relaxed atmosphere to assist you in creating your masterpiece.
Whether your goal is to create an album (CD), demo, jingle or voice over, we'll get it done rightwith meticulous care.
The studio is laid out with five rooms. The heart, of course, is the control room. A large couch and lots of carpeting makes listening relaxing and enjoyable.

Equipment includes:

• Tascam 1" 24 track analog machine (MSR 24) with DBX noise reduction
• 2 Alesis 24 track Digital Recorders (HD 24) synced up at 24 bit by 96 khz
• Tascam M3500 32 channel mixing console
• Event 20/20 and JBL Control 5 with subwoofer monitors
• QSC, Ashly, and Crown power amps
• SWR Bass Pre-Amp
• Empirical Labs Distressor 2 channel compressor
• DBX 6 channels of compression
• Langevin (Pultec type) EQ
• Neve, Universal Audio, Focusrite and DBX microphone preamps
• Effects by Eventide and Lexicon,

Microphones include:

• Royer Labs R 122 ribbon condensor
• Soundelux U99 tube condensor
• Neumann TLM 49
• Neumann tlm 103s (2)
• MicroTech Geffel M930 (2)
• E V RE-20
• AKG 451s (2), C4000 (2), C3000s (2), C1000s (3)
• Sennheiser md421s (4)
• Shure Sm58s (3) and 57s (2)

Drum room:
Completely isolated with full view of the rest of the band through two large glass doors.
Equipment includes:

• Premier projector 5 piece or Signia 6 piece drum kit in house and ready to go.
• Cymbals by of course Zildian, Paiste and Sabian.
• Timbales, djembe, tabla, conga, dumbec, roto toms and assorted percussion tools.

The Main Room:

This room includes guitar amp bins and full view of drum room, isolation booth and control room.

Isolation Booth:

Completely isolated from the studio, this room has full view of the control room, main room and drum room. Also housed in the isolation booth is a mint condition Hammond C3 organ. Available Leslies 145 tube and 722 solid state. Also available - a Hammond Porta-B organ and a great sounding Gordon acoustic upright piano

Guitar amps:

• Vox AC-30TB
• Fender pro-reverb vintage 1973
• Fender 75 with EV 15" speaker

Keyboards available:

• Yamaha Motif Rack and Kurzweil micro piano modules with M_Audio keystation Pro 88 controller

B.A.T. Mastering

This room is separate from the rest of the studio. It has room to seat four observers comfortably. It consists of an AlienWare 3 gig Hz PC, a MOTU PCI 424 interface with Sonar, Vegas Soundforge software including noise reduction and Waves plug-ins including Renaissance, Max Bass and Trueverb. Monitoring is by EV and the final product is your mastered CD. Oh yeah, this room is especially designed to be cool - fitted with red fabric on the walls and even a lava light.

From beginning to finished master CD, our goal is to make creating your masterpiece highly professional, comfortable and fun and because our overhead is very low, full services can be offered for very reasonable prices.

Send questions and comments to cavernrecording@gmail.com