Recording Lab
LAB RATES
Standard Rate – $50/hr or $400/day
ETSU Alumni – $40/hr or $300/day
ETSU Faculty/Staff & Students – Please inquire for rate.
All rates include engineer.
Please submit all recording lab inquiries to Benjamin Bateson:
bateson@etsu.edu / 423.439.7474
Officially completed in 2008, the ETSU Recording Laboratory is a state-of-the-art
recording studio on East Tennessee State University’s main campus. The recording lab
is a roughly 950 square foot facility that features a spacious main tracking room,
an isolation room, and comfortable control room. All of which is acoustically isolated
from the rest of the building. The rooms are well treated with diffusion and sound
absorption to make it an excellent sounding space for any type of recording for any
genre of music. Since the studio was first built it has always been outfitted with
high quality, state-of-the-art equipment. Please see the equipment list for more details.
ETSU students use the recording lab as a part of several audio production courses
offered by the ETSU’s Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country music studies program. In these
courses students learn about the physics of sound, studio signal flow, how to best
record acoustic instruments, and how to use a digital audio workstation. Pro Tools
Ultimate is the studio’s primary digital audio workstation and students learn to use
it effectively for recording, editing, and mixing audio.
In 2016 the recording lab received a grant to replace the studio’s aging Digidesign C24 control surface with an API 1608 analog recording console. The console is the heart of the studio and provides 16 channels of high-quality preamps as well as provides more flexibility when recording and mixing. It has been a needed and welcome improvement to the studio space and has been valuable learning tool for students.
The recording lab can be rented for an hourly fee. ETSU faculty, staff, students, and alumni can rent the studio at a discounted rate. All projects are welcome from EP’s, Album projects, radio spots, dialog for TV/film, and audio books. The recording lab is capable of it all. Please contact Benjamin Bateson at bateson@etsu.edu for rates and availability.
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Console
API 1608 w automation
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Microphones
AEA R84
AKG C451B x2
AKG C414 XLS x2
AKG C3000B
Audio Technica 4033 x2
Earthworks M30 x2
Neumann U87ai
Neumann KM184 x2
Peluso P28 x2
Peluso P12
Peluso 2247SE
Peluso TR14
Rode NTK
Sennheiser MKH8040 x2
Shure SM57 x4
Shure SM58 x3
Shure Beta 57a
Shure KSM32 x2
Shure KSM44
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Preamplifiers
API 512c x2
Grace Design m801
Speck Audio MP5.0 x2
Vintech Audio 473
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Compressors
API 525 x2
Daking FET III
Distressors EL8-X x2
Manley ELOP
SSL 611DYN x2
Tube-tech CL-1B
UA 1176 x2
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Equalizers
API 550a x 14
API 550b x 2
API 560 x 4
Manley Enhanced Pultec
Chandler Ltd Tonecontrol
RecPro Audio Pultec EQP-1A
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Conversion
Burl Audio B16 Mothership
Avid HD I/O 16x16 x2
Pro Tools HDX 1