xAbout Mercy Sound:

For "Bigger-than-Life" Recording, Mixing and Mastering

MERCY SOUND RECORDING STUDIOS

Mercy Sound is a 2000 square foot sound recording studio facility located on East 14th Street in Manhattan. Our acoustically balanced and soundproofed rooms are networked together with audio, video and ethernet/internet lines to allow maximum flexibility and range of services. Mercy Sound has New York's best environment for work and play with three control rooms, a live room and four vocal booths. In the lounge area we have cable TV and a kitchenette.

We also help people produce projects from concept through development, pre-production, songwriting, composition, arranging, recording, editing, mixing and mastering to CD artwork design and duplication. We have a large library of sound effects for film and video work and do voice overs and musical soundtrack writing as well as full album projects.
At Mercy Sound, you will be working with experienced recording engineers, mixers, producers and writers on the very best equipment ever made, ADM/API, Neve and Wunder Audio preamps and Wunder, Neumann, Bock, Soundelux and Royer ribbon microphones and ProTools HD Accel.

We invite you to come over for a tour of our Manhattan sound studios.

Contact Mercy Sound at 212-353-0076 or email: studio@mercysound.com

xFacility Information:

•Heavily soundproofed and acoustically treated private control rooms, iso booths and live room.
•Audio and video tie lines interconnecting rooms and booths.
•Excellent environmental air control. Each room with its own isolated A/C and heating system with fresh air introduction.
•Isolated and clean dedicated electrical circuit for all audio equipment.
•Broadband internet and wireless ethernet networking in all rooms and lounge areas.
•Mini ProTools editing suite for clients.
•In-house Mac tech support.
•Kitchenette, lounge, two rest rooms and lounge HD TV and lounge internet access.
•East 14th St. Greenwich Village / Gramercy location with great restaurants and nightlife.
•Easy subways, buses, easy parking, FDR Drive.
•24/7 access.



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Equipment List:

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Recorder
1 Mac Pro 8 Core 2.8MHz 10GB RAM, 3000GB storage w/ Large 30" Cinema Flatscreen Monitor
1 Digidesign ProTools HD|3 Accel with Digidesign 192 Interface 16in/16out
ProTools 7 or 8 with Elastic Audio stretching
Tons of Plug-Ins and Virtual Instruments (listed below) SSL, Waves Diamond TDM McDSP URS etc etc etc
Digidesign Control|24 Surface
Apple Logic Studio Pro 7 and 9 (with ESX24 MKII (160GB samples) and full TDM support
Reason, Digital Performer
Otari MX-5050 Tape Machine


Preamps and Eqs
4 Neve 1073 pre/eqs
1 Neve 1084 pre/eqs
2 Wunder Audio PEQ-1 pre/eqs
16 ADM 770 Discrete pre/eqs (1973 API)
2 Evil Twin Tube Direct Boxes (best DI in world:)
1 Mellenia Twin Direct TD-1 Preamp / DI (call to pre-arrange)
1 Avalon 737 (call to pre-arrange)
1 API 560 Graphic EQ1 API 560 Graphic EQ
1 MW1 Studio Tool Guitar/Stomp Box uber DI/Splitter/Re-amper by Creation Audio Labs
1 Emery Sound Bassbaby (point to point wiring) Tube Direct Box
1 Radial JDI Stereo Duplex Direct Box
1 Radial J48 Direct Boxes
3 Radial JDI Direct Boxes


Compressors
1 Gates 1957 Original STA-LEVEL compressor
2 Retro Instruments 176 Compressors - Stereo Linked (Universal Audio 176 super clones)
1 Universal Audio 2-1176 stereo UA 1176
1 Distressor Brit-Mod Compressor
1 Teletronix LA-2A (call to pre-arrange)
1 Cranesong STC-8 Stereo Discrete Class A Compressor Limiter



Microphones
1 Wunder Audio CM7 (the top Neuman U47 clone - $5 per hour rental)
1 Lucas Engineering CS-1 (251 & C12 hybrid) (matched pair ordered)
2 Neumann 87ai (call to pre-arrange full pair)
1 Neumann KM84
1 Neumann KMS 105
1 Neumann KMS 104
1 Soundelux Bock 195
1 Royer 121 ribbon mic
2 DPA 4006 (call to pre-arrange)
1 BPM TB-95 Tube Mic
2 ADK TC Tube Mic
1 ADK Hamburg Mic
1 Pearl TL-4 Stereo condenser
1 AudioTechnica 4033
4 Sennheiser 421
1 AKG D112
3 Shure SM-57
2 Audix OM3
1 Audix OM2


Monitoring
1 Legacy Audio Focus 20/20 Masteing Monitors (Mains) (can maintain their uniquely revealing detail and tight bass up to extreme sound levels)
1 Klein and Hummel 0300D Monitors
1 Yamaha NS-10M Studio Monitors
2 Aragon Palladium Monoblock Power Amps
1 Aragon 8008BB Power Amp
1 Q Mix 6 ch Headphone Distribution Mixer System
8 Studio Headphones


Instruments
1 High End Full Size 50in Upright Piano (sounds and plays similar to a baby grand piano)
1 Premiere 5 Piece Drum Set with Zildian "A" Custom Cymbals
1 Ludwig 1968 Supraphonic Snare Drum
1 Tama Swingstar Snare Drum
1 Hammond B3 with Leslie Speaker (special rental)
1 Wurlitzer (special rental)
1 Rhodes Piano (special rental)
1 Eavestaff Pianette Piano (always out of tune)
1 Fender Precision Bass '69
1 Acoustic Brand Black Widow Bass (call to pre-arrange)
1 Gibson Les Paul 1959 VOS Gibson Custom Shop guitar with *UNREAL* original 1957 Gibson PAF Patent-Applied-for Pickups (call to pre-arrange)
1 Gibson Les Paul 1958 VOS Gibson Custom Shop guitar with *AMAZING* original 1961 Gibson PAF Patent-Applied-for Pickups
1 Strotocaster Hamer Daytona Super Strat
1 Blueridge BR-163 Martin 000 size replica acoustic guitar Blueridge BR-163
1 Gibson Southern Jumbo Acoustic Guitar '69 with Amazing "Pure Western" DI Pickup
1 Yamaha Acoustic Guitar 1977 (call to pre-arrange)
1 ZTAR midi guitar controller


Instrument Amplifiers
2 Fractal Audio $2000 Axe-FX Ultra Rack based DSP amplifier modellers (the technology and sound is finally here...only in the Axe FX)
1 VHT Fryette Sig X all tube three channel multi-tone amp head
1 Emery Sound Bassbaby tube 'class A' bass amplifier and DI (B-15 on Steriods w/ point to point wiring)
1 Emery Sound Superbaby 12 watt 'class A' amplifier head (point to point wiring) with 15 tube experimentation kit
1 Emery Sound Microbaby 2 watt 'class A' amplifier head (point to point wiring) with 12 tube experimentation kit
1 Dr. Z Route 66 all tube amplifier head similar to Marshall JTM-45 but with KT-66 tubes
1 Fender Blackface Twin Reverb Combo Amp (call to pre-arrange)
1 Hughes & Kettner BassBase 600 Amp Head (call to pre-arrange)
1 Hughes & Kettner Bass Cabinet
1 Peavey Valverb real spring reverb and tremelo unit
Many different sought-after Celestion, Orange, Fane and Weber guitar speaker cabinet models.
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Pedalboard with Isolated power supply and Durham Electronics Sex Drive, Fulltone OCD, Xotic RC Booster, Zvex Box of Rock, Subdecay Quasar and Keeley compressor


Midi
1 Yamaha Motif ES8
1 Access Virus TI Desktop
1 Korg Prophecy
1 Korg Z1
1 Semi weighted 88 key midi controller
1 Korg MicroKontrol midi controller w/ Akai MPC 2000 type pads
1 Kat Drum Pads with bass pedal and hi hat pedal
1 Unitor 8 MKII Interface


Virtual Instruments
partial list - Digital Performer - Logic - Reason - Melodyne - Kontakt 3.5 - Native Instruments Komplete - all Digidesign A.I.R. VIs - Omnisphere - Trilian - Access Virus Indigo Synth - TH1 amp sim - Transfuser - Akoustik Piano - Stylus RMX - Structure - Eleven amp sim TDM - Amp Farm amp sim - POD Farm - Velvet electric piano - Strike - Toontrack Superior 2 w/ DFH Custom and Vintage Drums, Cocktail and Percussionist (90GB just drums) - Toontrack EZDrummer w/ expansion packs - ESX-24 Sampler w/ 160GB of samples - B4 II - Predator - Battery 3 - Reaktor 5 - Elektrik Piano 1.5 - FM8 - Guitar Rig 3 - Massive - Pro-53 - Hybrid - etc etc

Plug-Ins
partial list - Waves MERCURY Bundle TDM + SSL TDM - Auto Tune - 1176 - LA2A - CompressorBank - Filterbank - MC2000 - all Digidesign & A.I.R. plug ins - Drumagogg - Focusrite d2 + d3 - Massey L2007 (all Massey) - Melodyne plugin - Cranesong Phoenix - Reverb One - Revibe - TL Space- Smack - URS A & N & N12 Series EQ - SansAmp PSA-1 - VocAlign - etc etc etc

Waves MERCURY Bundle TDM + SSL TDM
L1 Ultramaximizer - L2 Ultramaximizer - L3 Multimaximizer - L3 Ultramaximizer- L3-LL Multimaximizer - L3-LL Ultramaximizer - MaxxBass - Linear Phase Equalizer - Linear Phase Multiband - TrueVerb - S1 Stereo Imager - Renaissance Axx - Renaissance Bass - Renaissance Compressor - Renaissance Channel Renaissance DeEsser - Renaissance Equalizer - Renaissance Reverb - Renaissance Vox - C1 - Parametric Compander- C4 Multiband - PS22 Stereo Maker - MetaFlanger - MondoMod - DeEsser - IR-L Convolution Reverb - Doubler Doppler - Q10 - Paragraphic Eqalizer - Q-Clone - AudioTrack - Paz Psychoacoustic Analyzer - Enigma - SuperTap - 2-Taps - Waves Tune LT - UltraPitch - SoundShifter - X-Click - X-Crackle - X-Hum - Morphoder - TransX Transient Shaper - DeBreath

"Also... if you need it, we will get it."



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