staff:
John Briglevich; producer, engineer, guitarist, etc...
James Majors; producer, engineer, drummer, etc...
Michael Shurbutt; engineer, guitarist, etc...
Zachary Caplan, engineer, vox, gtr...
Ty Barksdale, engineer, vox, gtr...
Influences
any person or band that takes pride in performing their instrument and songs well...we do music recording here, and very little else!...rock, pop, blues, country, jazz, Classical, deathcore, whatever. As long as you play an instrument, we will make it sound good!
the SONICA studio....( sonicarecording.com )
a large tracking/recording facility with a laid back vibe. we have all the toys, analog and digital, to make your musical vision come to life...always committed to one client at a time....
Multiple recording spaces, featuring a large live room specializing in great drum sounds. 35' x 29' x 17'...the loud rompus room!
Three large, well appointed iso booths off the main live room. 9' x 10', 14' x 10', 9' x 10'.... All have windows for good line of sight communication. All three are deadened down and tight sounding, for very clean recording of drums, vocals, or loud GTR amps...
Vintage Marshalls( a JMP Plexi, JCM 800, JCM 900, Anniversary Blue) Fenders (Vibrolux, Super reverb, Bassmann, Princeton, Blues Junior), Ampeg Bass amps (SVT, B-15), two Vox AC-30's, Mesa Boogie Dual Recto, 50Cal., etc., PLUS tons of stomp boxes and madness for the bunch of guitars and basses we keep around.....Les Pauls, Strats, Teles, P-basses, j-basses, 12 strings, etc, etc.
We also have an acoustic piano (a Yamaha U-30BL), a Baldwin U-47 tube Organ, a Deagan vibraphone, a cherry 88-key Fender Rhodes , a Wurlitzer 200A, and a Hammond C-3 with a Leslie 145 (its got the extra preamp so you can record gtr's or vocals through it...)
Every musician in the tracking space gets their own 16 channel personal mixer, to have a killer headphone mix for the ultimate performance......
Record, the best of analog, with a Studer 827 2" 24 track machine, or go digital with the new Pro Tools 8 HD3 setup, featuring 24 i/o of 192 khz converters and tons of plug ins
....or combine the two!
Over 60 great mics to choose from, including, RIBBONS:(2) Coles 4038, (2) Royer 121, (1) Beyer 160, (1) Beyer 130...CONDENSERS: (2) Neumann KM 184, (1) Neumann U87, (2) Earthworks QTC-1, (2) Schoeps 221b tube, (2) Berliner CM33, (2) AT 4033, (5) AKG 451, (2) AKG 414 ULS, (1) B.L.U.E. Bottle w/B-6 capsule, (1) B.L.U.E. 8-Ball, (2) Gefell UM70, (2) Lawson U47 tube, (1) Soundelux E47 tube, (2) Soundelux ELUX 251 tube...DYNAMICS:
(6) Senn. 421, (1) Senn. 441, (6) Shure SM 57, (1) Shure Beta 57, (2) Shure SM 58, Shure SM 7, Shure Beta 52, (1) EV RE-20, (2) EV RE-15, (1) AKG D112, (4) Audix I-5, (1) Audix D6, (1) Senn. 609e, (1) Shure Green Bullet
Then pick your preamps, EQ's and compressors;
a Vintage 1972 API console is the centerpiece, with 32 excellent Mic pre's, with (24) 550A eq, (2) 560A Graphic eq, (8) 553 eq, (2) 525 comps....OUTBOARD PRE'S:(4) Vintech Neve 1073 clones, (2)Neve 1272, API 3124 MB+, Focusrite ISA-215, Universal Audio 4110, D.W. Fearn VT-2, Avalon 737, Karl Deihl QMP-4b.......DYNAMICS, etc: (2)UA 1176 limiters, (1) 2-1176 stereo limiter,(2)Teletronix LA-2A comprssors, (2) EL-8 Distressors, (2)Teletronix LA-3A, (1)Drawmer 1960, (1)Millenia NSEQ-2, (1) DBx 160x , LittleLabs IBP,
SansAmp PSA-1
please go to the website, sonicarecording.com, to check out all the specific stuff, and contact me, Johnny B., for any additional info....404-350-9450
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hey man!! sorry i couldn't make it to the show with ya the other night, I had to pick up over time this week to pay off some of those rock n roll bar tabs....We need to hang soon though man, its been too long. Deal? deal. :) miss ya brotha
Mr. Brigs it is time we do battle for the 1st and last time! What?! What's been going down? It's been awhile since i heard from you and even longer since I have been in the bat cave. We must unite for one more adventure in this town we call A town!
