Steve Skinner’s studio is built in the sunroom of his home in
Montclair, NJ. The room has excellent acoustics and provides a
bright, sunny work environment. It has two listening orientations,
one optimized for arranging and recording, the other for accurate
mixing. He has developed and built a unique system of recording
electric guitars that allows the artist to quickly try various hardware
amps and settings before or after the part has been recorded.
Recording Gear
- ProTools 11 HDX
- Avid 196 i/o
- Mac Pro
- Command 8
- Amek 9098 mic pre’s
- Amek 9098 compressor
- Adam and Genelec monitors
Guitars and Amps
- 1960s Gibson Explorer Guitar amp
- Marshall, Blackheart, and Vox 5-watt heads
- Late 70s Japanese Fender Strat
- Les Paul Studio
- Taylor Acoustic
- Hurdy-Gurdy
Software Instruments
- BFD3
- Ivory2
- L.A.S.S.
- Komplete
- Slate Drums
- Omnisphere, Trillian, Stylus RMX
- Reason
- AIR instruments – Hybrid, Loom, Vacuum Pro, Transfuser, Structure, Strike
- Papen Predator and Punch
Hardware Instruments
- Roland A90 controller keyboard
- Novation Supernova synthesizer
- Minimoog with midi retrofit
- Simmons SDSV with midi retrofit
- 2 Oberheim Matrix 1000s
- Roland D550
Microphones
- Rode Classic
- Peluso 22 251
- Audio Technica 4047
- Audio Technica 4050
- Shure KSM44
- Shure SM7
- Shure SM57
Mix Software
- Waves Mercury
- All Sound Toys
- Slate FG-X and VCC
- Maag EQ
- Antares Auto-Tune
- URS Classic EQs and Compressors
- Metric Halo, Softube, Blue Cat, Focusrite, brainworks. IK
