ELECTRIC CITY SOUND

MAJOR LABEL SOUND - INDEPENDENT PRICING

- 5 floating floors
- 4 isolation rooms ( sound lock, vocal booth, drum room, main tracking room)
- Isolated central machine room
- Acoustically correct control room environment
- Hardwood maple floors, birdseye and flamed maple throughout
- 52 inputs off the floor

World Class facility designed by renowned studio design firm Westlake Audio. The studio features near-silent acoustically correct isolation rooms, a comfortable and creative atmosphere, and some of the finest vintage and modern boutique equipment available.

The facility is equipped to record 24 off the floor simultaneously to DAW, 2 inch 24 track tape, or a combination of both.

PICTURES AND FLOOR PLAN

EXPERIENCED EARS - FRESH APPROACH

In todays market you simply can't afford to waste time and money on lackluster results. Why pay more for crap? Come check out ECS and pay less for major label quality! Weather you need to track a Jazz trio live off the floor, produce a grammy winning Pop single, or anything in between, the ECS team has what it takes to deliver. Operations managers Aaron Scoones and Matt Gibbs have a combined 30 years experience spanning multiple genres and some serious ears to boot. With a vast array of multi-talented musicians, composors, mixers, engineers, and producers at our disposal including the recent addition of Grammy winning Producer/Arranger/Instrumentalist Ron Thaler ECS is capable of delivering the very best.

Aaron Scoones

Studio Manager
Musician
Composer
Engineer

Matt Gibbs

CEO
Mixer
Producer
engineer

ANALOG PHAT - DIGITAL PERCISION

ECS is outfitted with both the best vinage and boutique analog gear from manufacturers such as SSL, API, and AMS NEVE, as well as industry standard Digital Audio Workstations such as Pro Tools and Logic Audio

Our unique integrated approach gives you the best of both worlds. No need to sacrifce sonic excellence for speed and ease. Enjoy all the goodness of analog without any of the hassle.

FULL EQUIPMENT LIST

DIVERSE SERVICES - ONE ROOF

More than just a world class recording studio, ECS is a full service production house covering everything an artist needs to launch a project from start to finish.

  • Recording
  • Mixing
  • Mastering
  • production
  • artist development
  • video
  • multi media development
  • Internet marketing
  • Industry representation


3273 Tennyson Ave. Victoria, BC
Telephone: +1 250 590 8558
facebook.com/electriccitysound
info@electriccitysound.com

Gear List

STUDIO FEATURES

- 5 floating floors
- 4 isolation rooms ( sound lock, vocal booth, drum room, main tracking room)
- Isolated central machine room
- Acoustically correct control room environment
- Hardwood maple floors, birdseye and flamed maple throughout
- 52 inputs off the floor between all rooms (24 simultaneous)

CONSOLE

- Speck Lilo 48 Channel ( boutique analog console hand built in the United States)
- 2x Euphonix MC Mix and 1x MC Transport (for advanced Digital Audio Workstation Control)

MONITORING

- Genelec 1038A (active three-way soffit-mounted mains)
- KRK V8 Series I (active two-way midfield)
- Avantone MixCubes (passive one-way near-field)

CONVERTERS

- SSL Alphalink (24 Channels I/O @ 96k)
- Apogee Duet (2 Channel I/O @ 96k)

TAPE

- Otari MTR-100 24 track 2inch reel to reel

PRE AMPS

- 8x Vintage Calrec UA 8000 "Polar" pre amps (from the famous Polar desk at ABBA's studio, considered one of the best sounding consoles ever made)
- 2x Fink Audio Putnam 610 type Tube pre ( Boutique pres using the identical circuit design to the famous putnam 610 hand made in the United States by veteran URIE design engineer Denis Fink)
- 4x API 3124
- 2x FMR RNP
- 1x Universal Audio 610

OUTBOARD EQs

- 8x Vintage Calrec UA 8000 "Polar" EQs (from the famous Polar desk at ABBA's studio, considered one of the best sounding consoles ever made)
- Kush Audio Clarphonic paralel EQ (boutique EQ handmade in the United States)
- 2x Fink Audio Pultec Style EQs ( Boutique EQs using the identical circuit design to the famous Pultec EQ hand made in the United States by veteran URIE design engineer Denis Fink)

OUTBOARD COMPRESSORS

- Kush Audio UBK Fatso (A custom modified version of Dave Derr's famous Fatso, 2 channels)
- 2x Fink Audio 1176 style compressor ( Boutique EQs using the identical circuit design to the famous 1176 compressor hand made in the United States by veteran URIE design engineer Denis Fink)
- FMR RNC (2 channels)
- SSL G series master bus compressor
- 1x Universal Audio 610

MICROPHONES

- 2x Advanced Audio CM-47 (Boutique Neumann U47 remake)
- 2x Advanced Audio CM-54 (Boutique Neumann KM47 remake)
- 1x Advanced Audio CM-47 fet (Boutique Neumann FET47 remake)
- 1x Advanced Audio CM-87 ( Boutique Neumann U87 remake)
- 1x Neuman TLM103
- 1x Neuman KMS150
- 2x AKG 414 XL-II
- 1x AKG 414 TL-II
- 1x AKG D12
- 1x COLES 4050 stereo ribbon pair
- 1x Shure SM7B
- 1x Shure BETA57A
- 4x Shure SM57
- 2x Sennheiser 421

SOFTWARE

- Logic Studio 9
- Sound Toys Bundle
- Air Windows
- Melodyne DNA
- Antares Autotune EFX
- Native Instruments Komplete
- East/West Goliath

HARDWARE SYNTHS/SAMPLERS

- Dave Smith Prophet '08
- Korg Triton
- Roland MV-8000
- AKAI MPK 88

HVAC

- Dual Isolated 3 ton Trane air handling unit
- Triple filtered ventilation and air conditioning in all rooms (operating below hearing threshold)

AC

- Technical power in all rooms
- Return neutral and ground on all tech power
- Individual 15 amp breaker for each receptacle

CABLE

- Mogami Gold Audio cable used throughout
- Neutric Connectors on all ends