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STUDIOS

Tommy Gun Recording is a professional recording service and small studio located in downtown San Jose, CA. Our company partners with larger studios within your area to get you the best studio. This gives you special access to studios that will fit your budget and project perfectly. We work only with the best equipment for what each project needs. Check it out!

Our Studio

Our Partner Studios

INSTRUMENTS

  • Drums:

  • 1990's Sonor Force 1000 High Gloss Red Poplar Wood

  • Snare drum: 6 1/2" x 14" tuned lower

  • Snare drum: 6 1/2" x 14" tuned higher

  • High Tom: 10" x 12"

  • Medium Tom: 11" x 13"

  • Floor Tom: 16" x 16"

  • Bass Drum: 16" x 22"

  • Sabian AXX Stage Ride 21"

  • Sabian B8 Pro China 18"

  • Sabian AXX Studio Crash 17"

  • Sabian AXX Studio Crash 16"

  • Sabian AXX Studio Stage Hit Hats 14"

  • Sabian AXX Splash 10"

  • All Remo heads 

  • Remo Timbales

  • Remo Mondo Djembe

  • Drum Sticks: Vic Firth 5A, 55A, 5B, Steve Gadd, Dave Weckl, Timbale Salsa Marc Quinones, Hot Rods, Acousticks, Vic Firth HB Brushes, and Vic Firth Plastic Brushes.

  • Cow Bell, Wood Blocks, Tambourine, Shaker, Practice Pads 

  • Keyboards/MIDI:

  • Casio MK-200 

  • Bass:

  • Yamaha RBX Custom 5 string John Myung Limited Edition

  • Guitars:

  • Fender USA Black Jaguar Special Edition HH

  • Fender USA Stratocaster

  • Epiphone Les Paul Standard with Upgraded Pickups

  • Art & Lutherie Custom Full Body Cedar Acoustic

  • Amplification:

  • Bugera Vintage 55HD Tube Head with full stack speaker

  • Fender Mustang 1 Solid State

  • Peavy TNT 150 Bass Combo Solid State

  • Stone keyboard speaker

  • Any instrument can be special ordered upon request with a small studio fee

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MIXERS

  • Apple Mac Pro Desktop for home studio editing, tracking, mixing, and mastering with 16 GB of onboard memory. 2 Terabyte of onboard harddrive and 1 Terabyte of external memory.

  • Macbook Pro for live recording, editing, mixing, and mastering with 16 GB onboard memory. 2 Terabyte of onboard harddrive and 1 Terabyte of external memory.

  • ProTools Ultimate with Ultimate Plugin Bundle

  • Logic Pro with full Plugin Suite

  • Reason with full Expansion Racks

  • Ableton Live with full Plugin Suite

  • GarageBand with full Plugin Packs

  • Plugins from Universal Audio, Waves, Native Instruments, Sound Toys, iZotope, Slate Digital, IKMultimedia, Superior Drummer, EZ Drummer, Virtual Drummer, Rupert Neve, API, and much MORE!

  •  Any plugin can be special ordered upon request with a small studio fee

MONITORING

  • Speakers:

  • Vintage 1950's Walnut Optimus Large Mastering Speakers

  • Yamaha NS10

  • Philips Reference Speakers

  • Headphones:

  • Extreme Isolation EX25 Drum Headphones

  • Sennheiser Headphones (5)

MICROPHONES

  • Microphone 

  • Rode NT1 Large Diaphragm Condenser 

  • Rode NT 5 Matched Pair Small Diaphragm Condenser 

  • Shure 55SH Dynamic 

  • Shure Beta52A

  • Audio i5 (3)

  • Shure SM57 (4)

  • Sennheiser e609 (3)

  • Custom Subkick with attenuator 

  • Microphone Stands:

  • Atlas Sounds Weighted Boom Stands (2)

  • Weighted Proline 

  • Tall Telescoping Stands (10)

  • Tall Straight Stands (10)

  • Short telescoping stands (6)

  • Microphone Cables:

  • Mogami (16)

  • Monster (16)

  • Prolinks (16)

  • Snake:

  • Seismic Audio 16x8x50

  • Any Microphone can be ordered upon request with a small studio fee

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GEAR LISTS
RECORDERS

  • 16 Presonus XMAX Class A Preamplifiers

  • High Voltage - The XMAX preamplifier runs on power rails of 30V. Most off the shelf op amp based designs run on power rails of 10V to 18V. Higher voltage power rails deliver more headroom, deeper lows, smoother highs and an overall fuller sound.

  • Discrete - No op amps. Only transistors, resistors and capacitors. Op amps add noise, coloration and harshness to a signal. Discrete designs deliver ultra low noise and transparency.

  • Class A - When a circuit is running in Class A mode the circuit is always in an "on" state operating at its optimal voltage requirements. Class A mode has zero crossover distortion and delivers purer, clearer and more musical sonics than class A/B designs which are found in most op-amp circuits.

  • The net result of the XMAX preamp design is high headroom, low noise, wide dynamic range and wide frequency range, and most importantly, musicality and transparency - smooth highs, solid deep lows, and everything in between.

  • Digital Converters and JetPLL Sync 

  • 8 AVID Class A Premaplifiers

  • Avid provides professional- quality mic preamps and 24-bit/192 kHz analog- to-digital and digital-to-analog converters.

  • Avid provides up to eight discrete channels of input and up to eight discrete channels of output.

  • Discrete - No op amps. Only transistors, resistors and capacitors. Op amps add noise, coloration and harshness to a signal. Discrete designs deliver ultra low noise and transparency.

  • Class A - When a circuit is running in Class A mode the circuit is always in an "on" state operating at its optimal voltage requirements. Class A mode has zero crossover distortion and delivers purer, clearer and more musical sonics than class A/B designs which are found in most op-amp circuits.

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