Vinegar Hill Sound

Vinegar Hill Sound is quietly making a name as one of Brooklyn's most unique recording facilities. VHS occupies a distinct niche as an affordable but exceptionally well-equipped and welcoming work space. The studio is owned and run by producer/mixer/engineer Reed Black. VHS is centrally located near DUMBO, Brooklyn making it a quick cab, car, or subway ride from anywhere in the city. Schedule a studio visit and find out for yourself why Vinegar Hill Sound is one of Brooklyn's most exciting recording studios: www.vinegarhillsound.com.

Gear List:
MULTITRACK

Pro Tools 10/11 HD Native with 30 in / 32 out total

Burl B80 Mothership AD/DA with 12 in / 16 out

Burl B2 Bomber ADC for an added 2 in

Avid HD Analog AD/DA with 16 in / 16 out



TAPE

Otari MTR-12 ½” 4-track (Vintage, early 80's)

Fulltone Tube Tape Echo (Echoplex-type)



CONSOLE

Toft ATB 32



MONITORS

DynAudio BM15a’s

Yamaha HS-80m's

Avantone active mixcube



MICROPHONES

TUBE LDC’s

Bock 251

Soundelux U95

Audio-Technica 4060



FET LDC’s

Neumann TLM67

2x Michael Joly-modded Rode NT1 with K47 capsule

2x Audio-Technica 4033

CAD e200



SDC’s

2x Neumann KM184

2x Audio-Technica 4051

2x Michael Joly-modded Oktava MK12

Groove Tubes GT Convertible

2x Avenson Audio STO Omni Pressure Mic



DYNAMICS

Sennheiser e602 Kick Drum Mic

Sennheiser e609

Sennheiser MD441

4x Sennheiser MD421

Revox 3500 (Similar to Beyer M201)

3x SM57

Original American-made Shure SM7 (Vintage)

Newer Shure SM7a

Electro-Voice RE11 (Vintage)

Electro-Voice RE20

2x Electrovoice 635a (Vintage)

2x Placid Audio Copperphone

Placid Audio Resonator



RIBBONS

2x Coles 4038

2x Royer R121

2x Beyer M260 (Vintage)



PZMs

Shure Beta 91

Crown 6D



COMPRESSORS/LIMITERS

Pye 842678 Compressor/Limiter (Vintage, early 60's)

2x Neve 34628 (Fully discrete 33609 formatted for a console) (Vintage, late 70's)

SpectraSonics 610 CompLimiter

Retro 176 Limiting Amplifier

2x DBX 160 VU (Vintage, late 70's)

2x Chandler TG1 Abbey Road Special Edition Compressor/Limiter

Lisson-Grove R124 Limiter (EMI RS124 rebuild)

2x Distressor EL8-X with British Mod

Schmidlin Fed+ (Federal AM-864/U Compressor Rebuild)

2x API 2500 Bus Compressor

MNATS 1176 Blue Stripe/Rev. A

2x Ridge Farm Boiler ultra-compressor

2x FMR PBC-6A

2x FMR RNLA



EQUALIZATION

2x Aengus 501 Fully Discrete Thumbwheel EQs (Vintage, early 70's)

2x Sphere Eclipse 920 Inductor Thumbwheel EQs (Vintage, mid 70's)

2x Sphere Eclipse 910 Inductor Thumbwheel EQs (Vintage, mid 70's)

2x Sphere Eclipse 1014 Parametric EQs (Vintage, mid 70's)

Manley Pultec EQP-1A

32x Toft



REVERB

AKG BX10 Stereo Spring Reverb (Vintage, mid 80's)



OTHER EFFECTS

Roland Dimension D (Vintage, late 70's)

Orban 536a De-Esser

Orban 245e Stereo Synthesizer

Little Labs IBP Pro

Palmer 8Ω Load Box

Standard Audio Level-Or (Shure Level-Loc Reissue)

Furman Punch 10 Sub-Harmonic Generator

Dolby 361 with “Stretch” mod (Vintage, from Ocean Way Studios)

Chandler Universal Mix Control



PREAMPS

2x Vintage Neve 1272 racked by Brent Averill

4x Chandler TG2 Abbey Road Special Edition

Chandler TG Channel MkII Abbey Road Special Edition

4x API 312

API 512

Universal Audio LA-610 Channel Strip

Universal Audio Twinfinity 710

Summit Audio preamp

Chameleon Preamp

8x FMR Audio RNP

32x Toft



GUITARS

2008 American Standard Precision Bass

1990’s Fender Telecaster with Seymour Duncan Antiquity P90 pickups

1970's Alvarez 5056 "Tree of Life" Acoustic



PIANO

1907 Steinway Model O Grand Piano



KEYBOARDS

Fender Rhodes Suitcase Mk 1

Rhodes Piano Bass

Wurlitzer 200a

Nord Electro 2

Microkorg

Fatar Fully Weighted 88-key MIDI Controller



AMPS

1961 Ampeg B15n

1964 Fender Princeton Vibrato Blackface

1968 Gretsch Fury 6166

1990’s Fender Deluxe Reverb

1990’s Vox AC30

Vintage Ampeg Reverb-a-Rocket

Mesa/Boogie Subway Blues



DRUMS

DW Custom kit

Tama Superstar toms (Vintage, early 80’s)

Gretsch New Classic Maple Snare

Ludwig Acrolite Aluminum Snare

Beverly Kick

more soon...



PEDALS

1970’s Musitronics Mutron Phasor II (Vintage, mid 70's)

Lovetone Meatball (Vintage, late 90's)

SansAmp Classic Pedal (The one with the DIP switches)

Fulltone ’69 mkII Slight Return

Fulltone DejaVu Vibrolux-type

ZVex Box of Rock

Electro-Harmonix Memory Man Deluxe (Vintage, early 00's)

Electro-Harmonix Microsynth (Vintage, early 00's)

Electro-Harmonix Bass Balls

Black Cat Bass Octave Fuzz

Metasonix TM7 Tube Distortion Generator



PLUG-INS

Plenty

All AC power is balanced with a 20-amp Equitech Son of Q toroidal transformer