Shane O'Connor Recording Blog

Gear List

This is the most current gear list of Barefoot Recording Studio. Shane has other instruments, toys, effects, and extranious recording equipment at his disposal that are not on this list. For a specific piece, email shaneoconnorrecording@gmail.com

Recording

ProTools HD 3 (v 7.3.1)
Logic Pro
24 Track Sony/MCI analog Tape
Mac G5 Dual 2.5
24 fader Digidesign ProConrol

Rooms

25′x16′ Mix Room w/ oak floors
25′x16′ Live Room W/ 16″ ceilings and Oak Hardwood Floor
16′x10′ Live Room W/16′ ceilings and HWF
Large Vocal/ iso Booth
Huge Lobby where sometimes drums are tracked
Long Halls outside the studio are also good for micing

Interfacing

Apogee AD 16
Swissonic AD 16
Benchmark DAC-1 Stereo monitoring IO

Mic Pre’s

Shadow Hills Gamma X8
API 3124+ X4
NoToasters Nice Pair X2 (Friggin Awesome!!!)
Chandler Germanium X2
Grace Designs 101 X2
Blue Robbie X1

Outboard Gear

Empirical Labs Distressors EL-8X X2
Manley Elop Compressor/limitors X2
Urei LA-3A Compressors X2
Tube Tech ME-1B Mid EQ X2
Joe Meek Meequilizer X2
Speck ASC 4 band EQ X2
AudioArts 4200 Parametric EQ X2
Roland Chorus Echo SRE 555 X2

Monitoring

NHT Pro A-20 mains
NHT Pro B-20 subs (stereo)
Yammaha HM-80
Beyer Dynamic headphones
12 channells of headphone distribution

Microphones

Neumann U-87 X2
Neumann KM 184 X2
Telefunken AK-47 tube condenser
AKG C-414 TLll X2
Royer R-121 Ribbon
Shure SM-7 X2
Shure Beta 57 X2
Shure 57 X4
Shure Beta 52
AKG D-112
Sennheiser 421 X2
Shure beta 91
More misc mics…

Drums

Pork Pie kit
22″ Kick
10″ Rack Tom
12″ Rack Tom
16″ Floor Tom
Pearl Masters Kit
24″ Kick !!!BOOM!!!
13″ Rack Tom
16″ Floor Tom
Snares
Pork Pie 13×4
Pork Pie 13×6 vented
Pear Chad Smith signature 14″
Slingerland 14×8 1962 vintage
Cymbals
Paiste Signature Series
Zildjan K and A customs
Assorted misc flat rides and splashes etc.
Assorted Percussion collection
Shakers
Tambourines
Other stuff I can’t name or spell correctly…

Guitars Guitars Guitars

Gibson Les Paul Historic 1959 re-issue flame top
Gibson Les Paul Signature Hollowbody gold top
Gibson ES 345 Hollowbody 1964 cherry
Gibson RD 1977 3 pickup W/ vibrola Blonde
Gibson RD 1977 3 pickup sunburst
Fender Telecaster deluxe 1973 mocha
Fender Telecaster American Standard W/ lollars
Fender Jazzmaster 1959 blue/green
Fender Stratocaster Custom Shop ’60’s Relic
Fender Stretocaster Masterbuilt Custom Shop ‘56
Fender Jazzmaster Baritone black
Fender Baritone /Bass 6 Jaguar
Paul Reed Smith Standard 1987 white w/ birds
Paul Reed Smith Studio model 1988 midnight blue w/ moons
Linhof Special Tele black w/ matching headstock (one of my personal favs)
Danelectro DC-2 Green

Acoustic Guitars

Breedlove Focus Maple Custom
Takamine Nylon classical

Basses

Fender P-bass 1979
Lakland Jazz bass w/ fralin pickups
Fender 5 active
Fender 4 fretless

Amps

Matchless DC-30 2×12 1994
Matchless Chieftain 2×12 1995
Vox HW AC-15 head and matching 1×12 cab
Marshall Plexi 50-w 1969
Marshall JCM800 Vertical input 1982
Fender Bassman 1963 cream tolex!
Fender Deluxe reverb reissue w/ tooled leather paisley tolex
Gabriel Voxer 18 Head and matching 2×12 cab (www.gabtone.com)
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Tremoverb head
Peavey 5150 original block logo head
Orange Rockeverb 50 head
Roland JC-120 stereo head and 4×12
Epiphone Valve Jr modded head and 2×12
Vox Brian May sig
Magnatone M-10 trem amp (1960’s)
Alamo trem amp (1960’s)
Ampeg V4-B Bass rig and 4×10 cab (1969)

Pedals

Z Vex
Super hard-on
Fuzz factory
ooh wah
Machine
Tremorama
Klon Centaur Overdrive
Moog Analog Delay
LastGasp Art Labratories Sick Pitch King
Death By Audio Total Sonic Annihilation
SuperPuma Trotski Drive
Dr Scientist Sunny Day Delay
Ibanez Ts-9 (1981) and reissue 808 Tube screamers
Crowther Hot Cake
Lovepedal COT
HAO Rust Booster
Paul Cochraine “Timmy”
Electro Harmonix Holy Grail
HoliER Grail
POG (polyphonic octave generatOr)
Rt 66 American Overdrive
Boss CS-1 comprssor/sustrainer
Line 6 Delay modeler
Modulation modeler
Roger Meyer Vision Wah
Pig Tronix Attack Sustain decay
Korg Kaoss Pad

Synths / Keys

Moog Voyager
Alesis Micron
Hammond KX-3 Organ
Hammond Leslie (vintage)
Knabe 5 1/2 foot grand piano

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