THE NEW YORK STUDIOTM
a division of the Radio Foundation, Inc.
[Producer's Desk]
Secondary Studio
Portable ProTools
CD Duplicator
Clients include NPR, BBC, Vivendi Games, Doner (Alec Baldwin for Blockbusters), Microsoft, Jazz from Lincoln Center (with the late Ed Bradley), WFMT, WHYY, WBEZ, WBUR, Minnesota Public Radio, Marketplace Productions, ABC (Australia), Wisconsin Public Radio, KPCC, KCRW, KQED, The National Yiddish Book Center, and others.

Our floating studio sounds great and is totally soundproof

listen to actor John Lithgow reading the preamble to the Constitution in our studio.

listen to actor Alec Baldwin reading a baseball haiku from our studio

Designed by acoustician Alan Fierstein and professionally built by acoustic carpenter Chris Harmaty of Technibuilders. Our studio's four walls and ceiling (each composed of three layers of 5/8-inch sheetrock with Rockwool in the middle) are all supported on a floating floor.

Our experienced engineers will mix your session with dispatch and attention to detail.

Competitive rates and high-quality, well-maintained production equipment, including:

MICROPHONES
1-Schoeps CMC-6U with MK 21 wide cardioid and MK 8 figure 8 capsules
2-Neumann U87's
2-AKG C414B's
1-EV RE 27N/D, 2-RE 16's, many RE 50's

PROTOOLS 002 WORKSTATION
ProTools 002 (PT LE 7.3) operating on a Dual 1.25 GHz G4 with 740 GB of internal storage, four 120 GB Firewire Drives and a CDR/DVD-R burner,Waves Platinum Bundle.

Over 1.7 TB of disc storage or bring your own hard drive and plug it into our Firewire chain.

PROTOOLS PORTABLE WORKSTATION
ProTools Mbox (PT LE 7.3) operating on a Dual 1.25 GHz G4 PowerMac for editing. ProTools Mbox. Up to 750 GB Firewire drives.

CONSOLES AND SIGNAL PROCESSING
1-Mackie 1604 VLZ PRO, 1-Mackie 1402 VLZ PRO
1-Mackie 1402 VLZ, 1-Mackie 1202 VLZ PRO
1-Mackie 1642 VLZ PRO
2-DBX 166A Limiters;

CD, MD, CASSETTE & REEL-TO-REEL MACHINES
4-HHB 830 Plus CD Burners
2-Marantz PMD 331 CD Players
1-Denon DN-C680 CD Player
1-Marantz MD 301 MK II Mini Disc Recorder
1-Nakamichi CR 7A and 1-Nakamichi DR3 Cassette Decks
1-Otari 5050 BII Reel-to-Reel Recorder/Player with Dolby SR/A encoder/decoder

DAT RECORDERS
3-Sony DAT Machines: R500, R700 and PCM 2800 (all with confidence heads):
2-Tascam DA-P1 Portable DAT Recorders
1-Sony TCD-D7 Portable DAT Recorder

FLASH MEMORY RECORDERS
Marantz PMD 670 with 2-1GB Cards (portable)

MONITORS
2-Genelec 1031A 3-way powered monitor speakers
2-Genelec 1030A 3-way powered monitor speakers
2-Tannoy Reveal monitors
2-Fostex 6301B monitors
Lots of Sony & AKG pro earphones, ESE timers, ergonomic office chairs, and Radiolabs Master/Slave digital clock system.

COMMUNICATIONS
2- Telos Zephyrs and 2- ISDN lines* (main plus 2 backup)
4- Telos One telephone hybrids*
1- Prospect Electronics IFB 10M Custom IFB Units for Producer and Engineer to communicate with Host (Presenter) only, or with everyone in the studio, or with any of eight remotes (outside locations).

DUPLICATORS
Disc Robotics Hawk CD-5-PCI CD duplicator. 5-CD 52x automated CD duplicator system with Primera Signature Pro 2400dpi inkjet color label printer.
1-Kaba high-speed cassette duplication system: 1 cassette master + 4 slaves, 1X or 2X on C60's, C90's or C120's.

LEGACY EQUIPMENT
16-inch Transcription Disc Turntable
Webcor Wire Recorder (it works!)

FULL GRAPHICS DESIGN FACILITY
Adobe Photoshop 7.0
QuarkXPress 6.1
Adobe CS 3
In-house photo quality printing of CD labels (paper or on disc), booklets and traycards

A friendly, home-like atmosphere, and the best coffee & bagels in Manhattan!

For more information, or to book the studio call Larry Josephson or Deb at The Radio Foundation:


*Up to 4 remote connections: Any combination of 2 ISDN and 2 telephone lines. Back↑

Sylvester

Sylvester, Vice President for Operations and Engineering

(We can cat-proof the facilites for those allergic to felines, with advance notice)