STUDIO SPECS

Tucked away amongst the tall redwoods of the Santa Cruz mountains, Phase 3 studio offers a quiet creative environment perfect for development of music and ideas. The interior of Phase 3 was designed for comfort and ease of use so that the creative process would not be limited. Both control and tracking rooms are 15ft. wide by 20' deep with 14' vaulted ceilings. Independent 6" thick maple hard wood floating floores were installed in both rooms to aid in the isolation of sound energy between rooms. Two sheets (1 1/2") of gypsum board cover the walls and cilings of the entire studio. Separating the two rooms is a 15" thick slanted wall which has been retrofitted with a custom two pane 7' X 3' observation window frame and STC 51 acoustic door by Overly Door Co. For acoustical treatment the rear of the control room has a diffusion pannel system by RPG while the front of the mixing environment has a custom bass trapping system. The studio is wired entirely with Mogami cable.

PRDUCTION NOTES

quilted fish records offers the best of both analog and digital worlds. With the use of mic preamps by Grace and Summit and our collection of reference mic's we are capable of delivering an extremly clean signal to the 24Bit Apogee A/D converter. Furthermore tube Compressors and EQ's by Summit are utilized to add additional analog warmth to the digital signal. The Apogee A/D converter is capable of preserving the original analog signal as it is sent digitaly into ProTools. ProTools is a very powerful editing and mixing tool which makes almost anything possible in the studio. Mixing at Phase 3 is done exclusivly within ProTools with the ProControl digital interface. The monitoring environment in the control room is sonically reveiling. Tannoy AMS10 near field reference monitors coupled with a Dual 15 sub and Aria controller expose subtle details in the music that help bring out full range imaging in the mix. Our production philosophy begins with correctly recorded tracks. Good basic tracks lend themselves to easy and comfortable mixes.