Show Us Your Studio #7: "I started with a couple pieces of high-end gear, flipped them for a little more than I paid and kept flipping until I have the collection I have now"
This is Show Us Your Studio, a chance for our readers to show off their set-up, shout about their gear and invite the world into their home studio. This week's studio shot has been submitted by MusicRadar reader Joshua Lutz.
Tell us a little about your studio set-up? What do you love about it?
"After two years of working around the clock to build my home studio, it’s finished. My dad and I floated the control and live room in my basement and even ran tielines throughout. I started with just a couple pieces of high end gear, a Neve 1272 from an old console and a Neumann U87. I flipped them for a little more than I paid and bought some other gear which I flipped for a little more than I paid, and just kept flipping my way up and saved from audio gigs until I have the collection I have now."
Tell us a little about your musical background and the music that you make in your studio?
"I was an Assistant Engineer at Electric Lady Studios for two years after graduating from the Conservatory Of Recording Arts and Sciences. I'm a multi-instrumentalist, I play over 35 instruments and am a visual designer as well."
What's your favourite piece of gear in your studio and why?
"The Altec 436C pair cause it is, to me and many other engineers, the very best vari-mu compressor ever made. It's instant Beatles on everything. Great for tracking, mixing, mastering and 2-bus."
What was the first bit of gear you ever owned?
"Tascam Portastudio 424MKII and a Shure SM58. I made hundreds of songs on it until I upgraded to a Roland VS880!"
What dream piece of gear would you love to own if money was no object?
"A Fairchild 670 or a Oberheim FVS-1."
Listen to Joshua Lutz's track Yasmin below.
Joshua's gear list
Neve 33609C
UA LA-2A
Altec 436C pair
Altec 1591A
RetroGrade Stereo Federal Compressor
Universal Audio 6176
Hairball Audio 1776 Blue Stripe
CBS Audimax pair
Demeter VTCL-2
Gates Dynamote
Binson Echorec, 2
Telefunken V672 racked pair
Neve V racked channel strip
Neve 1073
API 512C
Quad Eight racked pair
Neotek Racked pair
BEAG Racked pair
Studer racked pair
Eventide DSP4000
Distressor EL8X Pair
Stam SA4000
Chandler Limited TG1
dBX 160
Dolby 361 w/ Vocal Stressor mod
Apollo X16
Yamaha NS-10 pair
Ensoniq DP/4
Roger Meyer Gates pair
Neumann Racked Danner EQ pair
Dangerous Bax EQ
Moog Ladder
Roland RE-301
Magnecorder Custom Pre
Lexicon PCM90
Tubetech LCB-2
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