Great Western Record Recorders is an analog recording studio located near Champaign, IL, dedicated to the creating of analog recordings of the highest fidelity. Owned and operated by Matt Talbott, GWRR offers free on-location lodging and boasts a great collection of class-A preamps, tube compressors, Studer and Ampex tape recorders for tracking and mixing, and plenty of vintage instruments and amps.
7-19-10
Hey, people. I have an important announcement: We've just agreed on the purchase of a Tonelux console for the studio!!! We'll have 32 inputs at mixdown, plus 4 stereo aux returns. You are invited to come visit and take it for a test drive! Check back for pics and installation updates.
7-7-10
Coming soon: two more channels of the Neve 1272 preamp clones. Again, these will feature original Neve input and output transformers. So we'll have four channels of Neve front end now. Delicious. These will arrive mid-July.
6-18-10
Recently completed mixing two songs for a 7" for Champaign's New Ruins. These mixes will be going to Abbey Road for mastering, Abbey Road being one of the few places in the world still using an analog process for copper plating for vinyl. (Most laquer cutters in use today are digitally controlled, which means you gotta convert your music to 1's and 0's to get a vinyl record made. Which makes me wonder, what's the point?) This 7" will be the debut relase for the studio's new analog recording label. It was recorded to 2-inch tape and mixed to 1/2 inch stereo on the studios vintage Ampex ATR 102. My newly acquired 102 is a gorgeous sounding instrument. I'm still getting my head around how pretty it sounds.
6-6-10
If you are interested in recording with my partner Aaron McCallister this summer, it's only $300/day (including lodging). Come and get it!
6-5-10
New arrivals at GWRR: Lexicon Primetime vintage digital delay. DeltaLab Effecton II vintage digital delay. (Apparently it's vintage digital delay month at Great Western.)
