Long Play Recording

Long Play Recording studio is a world class professional digital and analog recording studio, located in Portland, Oregon.








Long Play Recording studio envokes a comfortable "at home" vibe to enhance your creative mood when getting the right take during recording. Catering to recording studio engineers, producers, and "gear savvy" musicians from all walks of the music engineering/production business. Long Play Recording features a large recording space with high ceilings, three iso booths and a proper control room. Well designed Rooms, exceptional maintained gear, trained recording engineers, low key vibe While maintaining technical functionality and a well maintained equipment, Long Play is a space to create with old fir floors, reclaimed barn siding, and natural light. Long Play boasts some of the greatest gear in the Pacific Northwest. From the Amek Neve designed Galileo console to the loaded Burl Mothership converters. This is your studio to create and work with ease.

Studio Buildout

Designed by acoustician Derek Trost.
Purpose built, with over 40 inputs to control room, three isolation booths (all with good sight lines to the main room) in addition to a lounge, a kitchenette and a mic room all wired for sound. The studio has separated electrical for audio with isolated transformer.

Cabling


Mogami throughout.
Tie lines, control room, mic/line, etc.

Monitoring

Control Room

  • Genelec 1031a Pair (powered)

  • Yamaha Ns10m Pair (vintage)

Studio

  • Westlake BBSM-10 Pair

  • Hear Technologies Hear Back System




Studio gallery tour




Instruments and Amps  

Long Play Recording studio has a vast array of instruments and amplifyers to choose from.



Available Instruments:

  • VintageMartin 000-18
  • Vintage Martin D28
  • Vintage Gretsch 6120 Chet Adkins
  • Fender P-Bass American
  • Fender Custom Tele-Sonic
  • 1973 Fender Tele Deluxe
  • MCI Guitorgan
  • Pump organ
  • Farfisa compact
  • Wurlitzer 206 electric piano
  • Roli Seaboard
  • Midi controller USB
  • By request; Behringer Model D synth

Organ:

  • 1958 Hammond B-3
  • Leslie 147

Piano:

  • Lesage Upright Piano
  • With transducer line out and reverb
  • (Grand Available at request/rental)

Studio Drum Kit:

  • Kirsch Maple Three Piece
  • Tama Hardware
  • 68' Ludwig bass drum 22"
  • 56' Leedy bass drum 24"
  • Assorted snares

Amps/cabinets:

  • Ampeg B-15N ('61-'62)
  • 1976 Fender Super Six Reverb
  • Yamaha T50 (Soldano Design)
  • Mesa Boogie 1x12 open back
  • Bag End Q10BXD 4 x 10 Bass Cab
  • Fender Twin
  • Vox AC 15 (blue alnico)
  • Supro Tennesseean (vintage)

Recording Studio Gear

Digital Recording/Mixing


Computers

  • Mac Pro
  • Avid Pro Tools HDX PCIe Card
  • Universal Audio Octo Accelerator PCIe Card



Converters

  • Burl Mothership (24in x 32out)
  • Lynx Aurora (16x16)



Software

  • Pro Tools 12 HDX
  • Logic Pro X



Plug-ins

  • Waves Diamond Bundle
  • Sound Toys 5
  • Universal Audio UA 2 Ultimate Bundle
  • FabFilter Bundle
  • Many More...

Analog Recording/Mixing


Analog Recorders
(Well Maintained)

  • Otari MTR-90III 2” (24 ch Dolby SR)
  • Ampex 102/104 2 track Custom
  • (2 penthouse, one original, one Waltzing Bear mod)
  • (Flux Magnetic Mastering Heads)



Mic/Line Pre

  • Neve Mic pre via console (40)
  • Focusrite Red quad (orig trans) (4)
  • Langevin Dual Vocal (2)
  • BAE 1084 with eq, (2)
  • BAE 312a (api) (4)
  • UA LA610



EQ

  • Amek 4-band Fully Parametric (40)
  • Plus swept HF & LF Filters




Dynamics

  • Retro Instruments Sta-Level (2)
  • UREI 1176 rev D (Vintage) (2)
  • Urei LA-4 (vintage) (2)
  • Geoff Daking FET Compressor (3)
  • Dbx 903/160 comp(Jensen trans) (9)
  • Dbx 904 gate (9)
  • Valley People Kepex II gate/exp (6)
  • Langevin comp (via dcv) (2)
  • Drawmer 1968 ME Stereo
  • Drawmer S3 Multiband
  • ADL 1000 (LA2 style C/L)
  • Chandler TG-1 limiter (2)



Reverb/Delay

  • Yamaha Rev7
  • Sony R7



ANALOG Reverb/Delay

  • Fairchild 658 Reverbotron Echoplate II Plate Reverb
  • AKG BX-10
  • Roland 201 space echo

Microphones



Condenser

  • NEUMANN U-87A
  • Neumann CMV563 (cardioid & fig-8)
  • Sony C38b
  • AKG C414 B-ULS P48 Matched Pair (2)
  • Mojave Audio MA-100 Matched Pair (cardiod & omni caps) (2)
  • AKG C34 Stereo
  • C12 clone by Royer
  • Altec Coke Bottle mic
  • By request; Neumann KM86i, m582

Dynamic

  • AKG D112
  • AKG C1000
  • AKG D12e
  • Sennheiser MD-421II (2)
  • Shure sm57 (8)
  • Shure sm58's (2)
  • Shure Beta58
  • Shure Beta52a
  • Shure 589s
  • Shure Beta 87
  • Electro Voice TE-20
  • Electro Voice ND468
  • Electro Voice ND408b
  • Heil Pr-30 (2)

Ribbon

  • Beyer Dynamic M500 matched pair (2)
  • RCA 74b Junior Velocity
  • Coles 4038
  • Coles 4038 matched pair (2)
  • By request; RCA 77DX with cloud lifter

Direct Injection

  • Neve RNDI (1)
  • Radial J48 (3)
  • Radial Pro passive (3)
  • Radial JCR REAMP
  • Radial passive reamp

Long Play Recording studio Contact

CONTACT US

Long Play Recording Studio
Phone: 503-732-0343

Hours of operation: 24/7

603 N Tillamook Street,
Portland, Oregon 97227


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