John Schwab Recording features some of the best recording equipment in Ohio! Below is just a taste of the great gear that awaits you in our studios. You can also take a virtual tour of the studios here!
General information Five separate rooms are available in over 2,500 square feet of studio space! The main studio offers a rich, warm sound that is equally suited for a band trying to capture that studio gloss or going for a big "live" sound. All of our studios are wired using top of the line Mogami cables, ensuring that your signal is recorded as clean and pure as possible. Mogami is the industry standard in high quality, pure, audio cabling. Our studios are fully acoustically treated and optimized recording. All of our clients are also able to use Hearback headphone systems by Hear Technologies. The Hearback system lets each player dial in their own individual monitoring mix, making sure you hear what’s most important when recording. No more yelling at the guitarist to turn down or asking for more vocals! Now you can dial in the mix YOU need to play your best while recording. Our Pro Tools systems also include top plugins bundles from Waves, McDSP, Digidesign, Antares Audio Technologies, Bomb Factory, Line 6 and more! Our Studios are also outfitted with a wide variety of vintage preamps, compressors, EQ’s and processors from industry leaders like Urei, Universal Audio, Manley, Drawmer, Avalon, Eventide, Presonus, JBL and DBX. The studios' microphone closet features new and vintage mics from top manufactures like Neumann, Shure, Sennheiser, Coles, AKG, Audio Technica, Electro Voice and more! |
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Studio A features a 32 channel Raindirk Symphony console (one of only six like it in the country!) that
 features an incredibly low noise floor. (On the Symphony console,the mix noise from 24 channels is an incredible -90dB ref to 0VU. This with the console in line input status and all faders at 0dB!) Raindirk consoles have been used by such artists as The Who, Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, Fleetwood Mac, Paul McCartney and Wings with Band on the Run, Genesis, Dire Straights, Phil Collins, The Animals, Pavarotti, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Abba, Rod Stewart, Prince, Madonna, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty and many other exceptional artists. Our console's pre-amps were even taken from a vintage console used at the historic BBC Studios in London! Studio A also has an Otari MTR-90 24 track, analog 2” tape machine! This particular model of tape machine has been an industry standard for many years, know for its ability to capture warm, tape saturated tones, all while being a solid workhorse. Outfitted with the latest version of Pro Tools HD along with a Digidesign HD3 Pro Tools rig, Studio A delivers the best in modern recording technologies. Pro Tools HD/TDM is the standard for the professional recording industry. It’s powerful recording, mixing and editing tools can help give clients the polished sound of a professional recording. Combining Pro Tools with our analog mixing console and tape machine and you’ve got an unbeatable sound! |
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Studio B is also outfitted with a great Pro Tools TDM system that gives clients an edge when recording. Apogee converters, great preamps, mics and more help you achieve the sound you hear on professional level recordings. Ideal for singers, songwriters, editing and mastering, studio B can help you get the clean professional sound you’re looking for.
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John Schwab Recording also has a variety of instruments available for clients, including our famous 9’ Estonia Concert Grand Piano.
The Estonia Concert Grand Piano Estonia’s are known for their amazing sounds, rivaling that of legendary Steinways (in fact we used to have a Steinway before our Estonia!). The Columbus Dispatch even printed a story recently about the quality of these fine instruments.  “It doesn’t get any better,” said Paul Graves, chief executive officer of Graves Piano & Organ Co. when discussing Estonia pianos. “Estonia pianos have a memorable tone, and hearing them is just like the first time you heard Frank Sinatra sing,” he said. “There are lots of fine instruments, and all have a unique characteristics, but Estonia has one of those memorable ‘voices’ you never forget. - From the Columbus Dispatch, July 13, 2008. Click here for the full article in Adobe PDF format. Several of our piano tuners have said our Estonia piano is the finest in the city. Classical and jazz pianists as well as various music conservatory faculty have come from all over the state come to record on our Estonia. Other instruments John Schwab Recording Studios also features a wide variety of vintage, boutique and modern hand crafted instruments from guitars and basses to mandolins and amplifiers from Gibson, Guild, Fender, Ampeg, Demeter, Egnater, Schecter, Rickenbacker, Line 6 and more. Please let us know if you would like to use one of our fine instruments on your session! Demeter TGA-2 (The best Boutique Marshall ever. Used by everyone from STP to Bonnie Raitt) Egnater TOL 50 (Used by artists like Steve Vai, Megadeth and Chicago) Mesa Boogie 2x12 cabinet with Vintage 30's Ampeg SVT-3 Pro Ampeg 4x10 Cabinet Roland JC120 Pod Pro 2.0 Amp Farm Pod XT Fender Blues Deville Schecter Pete Townsend Model Rickenbacker 12 string Fender Custom Stratocaster Guild D-55 Acoustic Fender 53' P Bass Reissue Custom hand built mandolin Gibson Flying V Vintage Hammond M3 Tube Organ |
