SECRET SAUCE

Some of the sound you hear on Brown Bag libraries comes from this strange and wonderful piece of analog machinery. Ok, it's not strange, it's a classic Studer A810. It weighs more than a Fiat but, when it comes to getting certain sounds, there is no substitute. It resides in a remote, semi-secret, temperature controlled location for completely fabricated security reasons.

Yes, tape is obsolete at radio stations and almost everywhere else,however, it still has a significant place in the recording biz. We look at it as a plug in. Whatever goes through it will absorb it's characteristics. There are parameters to tweak as well.

This baby does 30 i.p.s and has lots of extras. The speaker is perfect for checking your audio in mono and summed stereo. The VUs are great for mastering. Better than digital for sure. It's biased for 499 and calibrated at +6 so you can drive it hard.

We don't exactly fire it up everyday but, when we need it, nothing else will do. Software developers have been hammering away at tape emulation for years and have yet to nail the uniqueness of this magnificent beast.

Fun Fact: that sticker with the green dot in the upper right was placed there in 1999 by an engineer to signify Y2K compliance. That's way too cool for us to ever remove it.