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Armin's studio
A small (5x4) but soundproof and fully airconditioned 32 channel studio built for danceproductions with separate singingbooth in a digidesign protools environment.
All the tracks, remixes and compilationalbums that carry the Armin van Buuren sign, have been produced in this area, using only this equipment and no engineer.
The studio was built and designed by Hans Koomans ([email protected]), finished early 2002 and recently updated (Feb 2004)
Computers and midi:
Apple G5 Mac dual 1.8 GHz running Emagic Logic Pro 6.4
Protools HD2 with 96 I/O
PC, running Soundforge, Ak.sys, and Recycle
Unitor8 and AMT8 for midi
Software:
Emagic Logic Audio Pro 6.4
Protools 6.2
Emagic Sounddiver
Spark XL 2.8.2
Reason 2.5
Ableton LIVE
Sonic Foundry Soundforge
Plug-ins:
Emagic EXS24, ES1, ES2, EVP88, etc.
Spectrasonics Trilogy, Atmosphere and Stylus
East West String Collection
Absynth 2
FM7
pHATmatik Pro
Virus Indigo
Waves GOLD
T-Racks
and many more
Mixer:
Analog 32 channel Soundcraft mixer.
Signex tiny palladium patchbay to which all in- and outputs are routed.
Monitoring:
Mackie HR824
Dynaudio 2
Yamaha MSP5
Singingbooth:
Focusrite Voicebox Green (Mic-preamp)
AKG414B-ULS Mic
Samson headphoneamp
Synthesizers:
Roland JD990
Novation Supernova II
Roland JV2080 expanded
Korg MS2000R
Alesis Andromeda
Access Virus A
Access Virus C
Yamaha FS1R
Yamaha TX81Z
Roland JP8080
Roland TR909
Clavia Nordlead 3
Roland JX8P
Roland JD800
Samplers:
Akai S5000 with 16 channel output
EXS24 (software)
Recording and playback:
Tascam DA45
Pioneer 9601
Midiman Digital Patchbay
Pioneer CMX5000 twin CD
Denon DRM 740 Tapedeck
Hardware effects:
Ensoniq DP4+
TC Electronics Fireworks
TC Electronics M.One
Lexicon MPX1
Drawmer Dl 241 compressor
Dbx 266XL Compressor/Gate
Electrix Filterfactory
Electrix Warpfactory
DJ-booth:
2 Technics SL1200mk2
2 Pioneer CDJ1000
1 Pioneer CDJ1000mk2
Dateq XTC mixer
www.arminvanbuuren.com/studio
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