Welcome to Cavern Recording

We are a 24-track analog and digital audio recording studio located in central Maine. Cavern offers a full plate of services including both studio and remote on location multitrack audio recording, production, instrumentation and digital mastering at low prices - with articulate ears and passionate precision. In business since 1991, we have 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 right with meticulous care.

A word about remote (on location recording). We need to be clear. This is not the same thing as the sound engineer pushing a two track send from the console to a recorder to burn a cd. What you will get from that most likely will include vocals that are way too loud and guitars and cymbals that are not loud enough for starters. Sound quality then usually degrades from there. This is a cmpletely adjustable and expandable 24 track recording of your live performance. Here's how it works. We take the signal from each microphone and send it to it's own transformer isolated splitter. One signal from each microphone is sent to our mic preamps and then to our recorder. The other signal for each microphone is sent to the pa console and is not effected by our split.

Oh and please keep in mind, if you don't normally use microphones on some instruments of your live performance, we can provide whatever is needed from the studio selection.

Once the recording is done, we offer a number of options. Optimally, we can bring the live tracks to the studio for full mix capabilities including of course additional overdubs, signal processing, mixdown and mastering. Alternatively, for a small download fee, we can download the tracks to your external hard drive and you can do whatever you wish with them. We will prvide the drive for it's cost if that's your choice.

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:

• Quad core PC with 4 gig of RAM and two terrabyte storage
• PC includes Sonar, Soundforge and Waves Platinum plug in software
• 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.

Guitar amps:

• Vox AC-30TB
• Lazy Mary The Floydster 15 watt custom hand wired with Celestion Alnico Blue
• 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

Analog Keys Room

This room is separate from the rest of the studio. It now houses the Gordon upright piano and my vintage 1960 Hammond C3 organ. Either or both can be recorded live as part of an ensemble. Available Leslies - 145 (Tube), 722 (solid state). Also available - Hammond Porta B

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.

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Send questions and comments to cavernrecording@gmail.com