madpan productions

Old Word Audio - "Amber" - custom channel strips

Rodney Davis at Old World Audio in Los Angeles, CA, constructed a custom rack of 16 channels of delicious preamps for our studio.  The raw modules were removed from a vintage Yamaha PM1000 board and completely modified including input and output transformer upgrades (Altran, St. Ives), recapping, EQ tweaks, and more.  The project, from conceptualizing to building and delivering it, took almost a year to complete.  The rack which has a retro golden tint finish -- hence her name "Amber" -- was well worth the wait.  The preamps are fully discrete, class A, with transfomer balanced ins and outs, and inductor EQs on every channel.  This custom rack truly exceeded our expectations and it's great to have a piece of gear which no other studio has.  Amber has an amazing rich and detailed sound which has been used to track almost everything since we received her less than a year ago.

  • Vox AC-30
  • Fender Twin Reverb
  • Fender Super Reverb
  • Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue
  • Fender Deluxe
  • Fender Blues Junior
  • Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier
  • Orange Tiny Terror
  • Kalamazoo Model One
  • Orpheum
  • And more...
  • SSL X-Desk
  • SSL X-Desk
  • Apogee Symphony I/O

DAW

  • Avid HD Native
  • Apple Mac Pro 2 x 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon, 8 GB of RAM
  • Retro Doublewide 500 Series compresor
  • Alta Moda AM-10 500 Series compressor/limiter
  • SSL XLogic X-Rack Dynamics Module - XR618 (x4)
  • dbx 160X x2
  • Inovonics Model 220 - Audio Level Optimizer
  • Bellari RP282 Dual Tube Compressor/Limiter (mod'd)
  • Alesis Micro Limiter
  • Standard Audio Level-Or 500 Series JFET limiter/distortion processor
  • Ensoniq DP/4 Parallel Effects Processor
  • Delta Lab Effectron II ADM 256 x2
  • Furman RV-1 Spring Reverb with Limiter
  • Roland SRV-2000
  • Rhodes Mark II Stage Piano
  • Harrington upright piano
  • Fender '79 Stratocaster
  • Les Paul '71 Custom
  • Martin acoustic
  • Alvarez acoustic
  • Rickenbacker 620
  • Glockenspiel
  • Yamaha CS1x
  • And more...
  • Neumann U87ai
  • Neumann KM84i x2 (vintage, sequential serials)
  • Groove Tubes Model 1 (x2, original run)
  • Mojave MA-200
  • Beyer M160 (vintage)
  • Shure SM7B
  • Sennheiser MD 441 (vintage)
  • Audio-Technica AT4021 x2
  • Audio-Technica AT4041
  • Oktava MK219 (x2)
  • RODE NT5 (pair)
  • Lots of Shure 57s and 58s
  • Shure Green Bullet
  • AKG D112 x2
  • Audix D6
  • Project Studio C4 (matched SDC pair)
  • Cascade Fat Head II-SP (stereo pair)
  • Beyerdynamic M 201
  • Apex 460 (mod'd)
  • CAD 412
  • Old World Audio 16 channel custom rack (class A, fully discrete, transformer balanced "Neve" style strips with inductor EQ)
  • API 512c 500 Series preamp
  • SSL XLogic X-Rack E Series EQ Module - XR425 (x2)
  • Shadow Hills Mono Gama 500 Series preamp
  • Dolby 361
  • Aphex Aurel Exciter 204
  • Whirlwind Selector A/B Box
  • Radial Big Shot ABY True-Bypass Amplifier Switcher
  • Radial JDI Passive DI
  • Boss ME-50 Guitar Multiple Effects
  • Maxon Compressor
  • Malekko Ekko 616 Analog Delay
  • Boss DS-1 Distortion
  • Boss DD-3 Digital Delay
  • Electro-Harmonix Little Big Muff
  • Danelectro Back Talk Reverse Delay
  • Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Reverb
  • Dynaudio BM-6A Active
  • Yamaha NS-10M
  • Crown DC-300A Series 2 Power Amp
  • Vintage Apple powered monitors (Badger series)
  • Hear Technologies Hear Back personal mixers

Pro Tools HD 10, Waves Gold Bundle, Waves SSL 4000 Collection, Waves API Collection, Waves Tony Maserati Signature Series, Waves Tapes Tubes & Transistors, Kush Audio UBK-1, Crane Song Phoenix, Antares Auto-Tune, Melodyne, VocAlign, URS Classic Console EQ + Compressor Bundle, SoundToys Native Bundle, Audio Ease Altiverb, Trillium Lane Labs Suite, UAD-2 (1176, LA2A, LA3A, Pultec Pro, Neve 1073, Neve 1081, Neve 33609, Neve 88RS, SPL Transient Designer, and more), Eleven, Bomb Factory BF76, Bomb Factory Pultec Bundle, Smack, Slightly Rude Compressor, SansAmp PSA-1, Avid Channels Strip, Avid stock and AIR plug-in suites, Xpand!, Hybrid, Maxim, Native Instruments Komplete 8 (Kontakt, Battery, Massive, Absynth, and more...), Slate Digital Trigger, Slate Digital FX-G and more…

  • Akai M-8
  • Fostex A2
  • Otari MTR-10
  • Testin