Spleen Arcana

Studio – Le Refuge

Le Refuge is the place where I record and mix Spleen Arcana’s music, a project studio as we say these days. No Pro Tools, no Mac computer neither but various humble tools that I chose through the years and which fits my needs. As you may guess, this page is in constant evolution…

Pictures

Gear list

Computer

Intel Pentium 4 – 2,8Ghz (Bus 800 Mhz)
ASUS P4P800 SE
Corsair DDR 2048 Mo (PC3200)
HD Maxtor 120 Go SATA/8 Mo (recording)
HD Samsung F1 Spinpoint 250 Go SATA/16 Mo (system)
External HD 160 Go/8Mo My Book (back-up)
Matrox Millenium G450 dual-screen
RME Multiface II
EMU 0404 usb NEW NEW
Toshiba Satellite L505-10P NEW NEW
Magix Samplitude Pro 9 DAW
Universal Audio Project Pak UAD-1
Many VST plugins, some of my favourite are: Voxengo Elephant, Voxengo Polysquasher, Kjaerhus Audio Classic, Leftover Lasagne Pushtec EQ, Digital Fish Phone Blockfish, Stillwell 1973
Vstis: M-Tron from GMedia, E-piano from MDA, B4 from Native Instruments, Spectrasonics Stylus RMX

Recording

Soundcraft Spirit M8 mixer
Studio Projects C1 microphone
Oktava MK-319
Oktava MK-012 microphone x2
T-Bone RM700 Ribbon microphone
T-Bone EM900 microphone x2 (drum overheads)
Shure SM-57
T-Bone BD300 (kick drum)
T-Bone CD55 (toms)
Joemeek Studio Channel VCQ1 preamp
Johnson Jstation guitar preamp

Monitoring

Adam A7
Behringer Mini Mon 80
BeyerDynamic DT 770 Pro
Directsound Extreme Isolation headphone

Guitars & related

Custom 77 China Girl Raw Power
Fender Classic Player 50’s
Maison Les Paul copy
Yamaha LL16 acoustic guitar (solid spruce top, solid engelmann back and sides,solid Rosewood Mahogany neck)
Fame Baphomet IV 2004 Limited Edition bass (Ash body, maple flametop, MEC J/J mics…)
Fender Bassman 70 vintage head (1981) with Matamp 4×12 cabinet (V30 speakers)
Hora Portuguese I mandolin