Studio

Guitar, bass, drums and room mics are input into the Berhringer mixer for eq purposes then output to the Zoom 1608 for recording.

Steve uses a Hartke HA2500 bass amp and Hartke cabinet with 4 12" speakers

Digitech GNX2 effects processor and TC Helicon VoiceTone GXT

TAKE A PEEK IN OUR HOME STUDIO WHERE WE REHEARSE, RECORD AND RELAX

The Vibe rehearses and records in their underground basement studio located in Washingtonville, NY . When not giging out, The Vibe rehearses once a week usally on a Thursday or Friday night.

Welcome to The Vibe's Home Studio

Stock photo of Yamaha A12M 12" monitors. We use these for most of our gigs for our Mains. they are 300W PGM and 600W Max. at 8 ohms. When we use the Yamaha S115's for large venues we will use the A12M's as our personal monitors.

Steve's Effects:

Tech 21 Sans Amp Bass Driver and TC Helicon VoiceTone Create-XT

RECORDING

Chris uses a Fender Hot Rod Deville for larger venues and his Peavey Encore 60 fitted with a 12" Celestian (pictured) for the clubs

STEVE

Steve plays Ibanez ATX Series and Gio Soundgear bass guitars

Primarily used for outdoor gigs and large rooms. The S115iv are 500 W PGM and 1000W Max at 8 ohms

Yamaha S115IV

Mackie 1202 VLZ4 with Pro Onynx Pre amps

The Vibe performs basic recording in their home studio in order to create demos and personal recordings

CHRIS

Chris owns many guitars but favors his '91 American made Fender Stratocaster.

PERSONAL EQUIPMENT

The Zoom 1608 receives 8 individual inputs for separate eq for each as well as modifying each channel separately for recording.

The Vocals go directly in to the Mackie board due to it's Onynx preamps , The signal is then taken out of the Mackie and directied into the Zoom 1608.

We use a Zoom MRS-1608 CD Mulit Track Digital Hard Drive Recording Studio

Mackie 1202 VLZ mixer and QSC GX7 power amp. Each channel outputs 725W.

LIVE SET-UP

Most all recordings are done playing live in 1 take (sometimes 2, Ok, maybe 3) . We plug the vocals directly into the Mackie and out to the Zoom 1608. The amps are mic-ed and connected to the Behringer board then output to the Zoom 1608. We use the Zoom to record 8 tracks at once; 3 for Vocals, 2 for guitar and bass and the rest for drums and throughout the room.

BRIAN

Brian collects and builds vintage drum kits and uses Sonor, Tama and Ludwig drums and Zildjian cymbols

Chris. Brian and Steven layin it down in the studio.....

GOOD TIME..... GOOD MUSIC..... GOOD VIBE!!

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After step 3, The Zoom 1608 can mix down and burn a song or playlist onto CD

When recording, the mics are input into a Mackie board with Onynx pre-amps then sent to the Zoom MRS-1608. The Zoom 1608 can record 8 tracks simultaneously

We use Sure SM58 Microphones

Our live set-up is different than our rehearsal studio. Our live set-up is very basic and compact. We simply plug our mics into the Mackie board then out to a QSC GX7 power amp and 2 Yamaha speakers (15" for large venues, 12" for smaller clubs). Steve and Chris use personal powered spot monitor speakers

Rehearsal Equipment

Berhinger UB2442FX-Pro 24 Channel mixing board
Furman Power conditioner
dbx and Ibanez 31 band graphic equalizers .
Yamaha 15" Club speakers
Crown CE1000 and CE2000 power amps