Had a blast recording Michael Morales performing the classic Pink Floyd song “Comfortably Numb” and our cameras were there to capture the entire process!
Comfortably Numb
Mic Mod to World Class!
Performed surgery on a pair of Russian mics today. Upgrading some select components made this pair of small diaphram condensers go from really good to world class phenomenal that easily compete with our Neumanns!!!
Best Buy says Bye Bye to CDs!
Best Buy to stop selling CDs, Target wants consignment only as streaming/downloads take over the distribution of music.
Analog Nirvana!
Tracking vocals today the old school way! Custom tube mic into a Neve 1081 into a Urei LA-3 and then over to our Sony MCI JH-24 24 track 2 inch analog tape recorder at 30 inches per second. SSSSMMMMOOOOOOOOTTTTTHHHHH!!!
Analog and Digital Mixing
A firmware update provides touchscreen mixing for our AD/DA interfaces. This gives immediate zero latency monitor mixing while tracking.
Truth Revealed!
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words 🙂
World Class Audio
How do you like your audio? Big, fat, and juicy? Here are some world class custom made channels that feature Neve 1081 pre-amps, followed by Sontec mastering EQs and finishing up with La3a optical compressors. YUM!!!
Fountain Street Church
Recorded the Hope Heralds at Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, MI. During my teenage years I had the pleasure of attending many concerts here including The Moody Blues, The Byrds, Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, Humble Pie, Spirit, Dave Brubeck, and of course, the inimitable Virgil Fox. I also had an opportunity to play their 5 manual pipe organ!
Our 1980 Stratocaster goes to work
Daniel Paul used our 1980 Fender Stratocaster to lay down some guitar overdubs on his new song “Final Request (The Fishing Pole Song)”.
Neumann U-67 Tube Mic
Take a new Neumann U-87ai, replace the FET electronics with an exact recreation of the Neumann U-67 tube electronics, and you end up with a brand new Neumann U-67 tube mic! Max Kircher in Austria has produced an exact replica of the famous U-67 electronics that reproduces every detail including the tertiary wound B-12 transformer, EF-86 tube, negative feedback circuit, and even exact placement of every component on the circuit board. Its as if you opened a time capsule from 1960 containing a brand new Neumann U-67!. Known for its smooth, silky sound, the U-67 was designed to replace the famous U-47 when Neumann was informed by Telefunken that the VF-14 tube would no longer be available. Eventually, the solid state FET U-87 would replace the highly sought after U-67. The currently produced Neumann U-87ai along with Max’s electronics make this new U-67 tube mic possible. This Neumann U-67 joins our other vintage tube mics here at Fast Trax providing West Michigan’s most comprehensive vintage tube mic collection.
Package arrives from Austria!
Rarely does the arrival of a package here create this much excitement!!! This one is from Austria!
Welcome to our new website!
Fast Trax Recording Studio, a West Michigan recording studio, is proud to introduce a new look and feel on our website. Established in 1986, our website needed updating so this new site should be fast and informative no matter what type of device you are viewing it on. And yes, it’s phone friendly!
Another 500 rack
Finished assembling the 4th 11 space 500 series rack giving us 44 spaces for 500 series modules. At least there’s a couple slots open now.
Keep your capacitors clean
Leaky capacitors… time to rebuild the power supply to our Chandler Abbey Road TG-2 two channel mic preamp. Result… clean power = quiet, clean, and punchy like never before.
Added a Pair of Coles 4038 Mics!
Just arrived from across the pond, a factory matched pair of Coles 4038 ribbon mics! Originally designed by the BBC, these are one of the world’s best known ribbon microphones and are heard on thousands of classic recordings. We’ve got a rather large selection of world class ribbon microphones, but we wanted to add these beauties because they have a British sound all their own.