A selection of the gear we use at Invada
Rooms
All our rooms are well isolated and acoustically treated and feature wooden floors and fresh air ventilation.
Live Room – 42 square metres, natural daylight
Drum Booth – 12 square metres adjoining Live Room via bifold doors
Control Room – 42 square metres, split-level. Great lines of sight to recording areas
Recording and Monitoring
DDA AMR24 36/24 console
RADAR 24 track hard disk recorder
Mac Pro Quad Core running Pro Tools 12, Logic 9, complete UAD-2 plugin suite
Lynx Aurora – 32 ins/outs
Soundcraft Saturn 824 24 track 2″ tape machine
ATC SCM100A
ATC SCM45A
Yamaha NS10m
Beyerdynamic DT150/100/102 headphones
Outboard – Preamps, Dynamics
Thermionic Culture – Phoenix Compressor, Early Bird/Pullet, Kite, Rooster, Phoenix HG15 (can you tell we like Thermionic Culture!)
Hairball Audio – Lola x2
CAPI Audio – VP26 x 2
Gelnsound MX6
Overstayer – Stereo Voltage Control
Warm Audio – WA76 x 2
Foote Control Systems – P3sME Stereo VCA Mastering Compressor
Summit Audio – TLA 100A.
Tubetech – PE 1B
Smart Research – C1 Compressor
Triton Audio – Fethead
Other units from Glensound, DBX, Symetrix, Drawmer, TLA, BSS, Focusrite, SPL etc
Outboard – Effects
Various reverbs – EMT 140 plate Reverb, Yamaha REV 1, Great British Spring, Peavey Valveverb
Delays etc – Roland Chorus Echo – 301, 501 and 555, plus others from Dynacord, HH, Aria, etc.
Microphones
AKG C414 B ULS x2
Neuman U67
U47Feti
Coles 4038 x 2
Neumann KM84i
Beesneez Lulu FET x 2
AEG ‘The Ball’ Valve Microphone
Audio Technica ATM25 x 2
AKG D12
AKGD112 x 2
Sennheiser MD441
Sennheiser MD409 x 2
Electrovoice RE20
Beyerdynamic M201 x 2
Beyerdynamic M88
Shure SM7B
Shure SM57 x 3
Shure SM58s
Golden Age Projects ST-1 Stereo Ribbon
and many others from
Shure, Beyerdynamic, AKG, Heil Pro, Sennheiser, Electrovoice etc.
Instruments
Keys and Synths include – German Upright Piano, Vox Continental, Fender Rhodes, Farfisa Compact, Minimoog, Korg Poly Ensemble etc
Various (odd) guitars, basses, and assorted Amps/Cabs from Fender, Gibson, Kay, Musima, Laney, Farfisa, Leslie, etc
Get in touch if you’d like to see the full gear list.