Welcome to LaRose des Sons recording studio…

The facility is located in Northern Quebec and was primarly built for Martin’s own recording projects. However, over the years, the studio has grown bigger and better gear-wise. We have state-of-the-art digital recording as well as killer preamps and mics.

List of equipment

Recording system

• 2 DELTA1010 soundcards (20 ins / 20 outs) (2)
• QUAD-CORE equipped computer 6 G of memory
• SONAR 8.5 recording software (Too many plug-ins to mention)
• Guitar Rig 3 and 4
• Neve 1073 preamps plugins

Preamps

• Great River MP-500NV API 500 style (2)
• FFS Sc-1 mk500 (2)
• M-AUDIO Tampa (1)
• ART TPS (2)
• YAMAHA PM-1000 channel strip (Neve-like) (1)
• TASCAM TDM-4000 automated mixer (used for preamps only) (16)

Microphones

• AKG 451
• Studio Projects C-1 (2)
• Rode NT-1 (2)
• Sennheiser 609 (1)
• Shure Beta 91 (1)
• Shure SM-57 (4)
• Shure SM-58 (2)
• Sunrise S-1 (handmade pickup…killer sound!) (1)

Outboard gear (We use mainly digital plug-ins for effects, reverbs, delays and compression, etc, but we still have a few analog goodies).

• DBX 266XL Compressor / Gate (4)
• Alesis NanoComp (1)
• Alesis Exciter (1)
• Alesis Gate (1)
• Rocktron Exciter (1)
• Yamaha R-1000 Reverb (This thing is ancestral but somehow has a killer sound) (1)
• Roland SDE-2500 (1)
• Roland M-BD1 (1)
• BOSS GX-700 (1)
• KORG A3 (1)
• Digitech TSR-24 (1)
• Furman PL-8 Power Conditioners (3)

Monitors

• JBL (2)
• Alesis (2)
• Headphone distribution
• Yamaha amp

Patching

• Seismic Snake board 16 channels (16x8x4x100) (1)
• Carvin 24×24 patchbay (1)

Other stuff

• Roland MIDI controller
• Ceriatone JTM45 Clone
• Peavey 6505 Tube amp
• Peavey 6505 cab (4×12)
• Peavey Windsor cab (4×12)
• Various stands and gizmos
• Killer Seaco espresso machine!!!