The Supreme Reality provides audio recording services.
Rich Wells, Proprietor Irregular
Portland, Oregon

audiorecording@thesupremereality.org or (503) 236-8529









record/playback/monitor:

Dual 1.25 MHz G4 running Logic 6.3.3, 250 GB storage, dual video monitor (17- and 19-inch displays)
RME Hammerfall 9652 PCI card
32-channel Soundcraft Ghost
Tascam MX-2424 for recording or just A/D/A
Tannoy Limpet monitors
Realistic Optimus 7 monitors
Furman and VansEvers power conditioning
Otari MX-55 1/4-inch stereo reel-to-reel recorder
Rare Otari MX-5050 1/4-inch mono reel-to-reel recorder
Marantz PMD670 field recorder






outboard:

Two-channels of API 312 with Avedis 1122 op amps, Jensen JT-1110K input transformers, API 2503 output transformers
Trident MTA A-Range 2-channel mic pre/4-band EQ
Drawmer 1969 2-channel mic pre/compressor/DI
BLUE Robbie mic pre
dbx 162 stereo compressor
UREI LA-4 compressor (blackface)
Two-channel custom-racked Calrec compressor
dbx subharmonic synthesizer
RNC compressor
dbx 118 '70s era home stereo compressor/expander (it's nice)
Homebrew 2-channel tube distortion
Furman RV-1 spring reverb
Alesis Wedge






mics:

(2) Neumann KM84
Neumann UM57 tube mic ('70s era)
(2) SE Electronics Z5600A
(2) Red Type B
SE Electronics ICIS
BLUE Bluebird
(3) Sennheiser 421
(2) E-V 635A (as used by the original Lawrence Welk singers,
      not that current crop of candyass retards)
Audio Technica 4033
Audio Technica ATM25
Audio Technica AT825 stereo condenser mic
(2) Audio Technica small-diahragm cardioid condensers
Lots of 57s
A 58 and a Sennheiser dynamic mic
Trash mics
Grundig GDM 19
Astatic ham radio/radio dispatch-type mic
Astatic CB trucker mic, 10-4, what's your 20?






instruments:

(Mo)Lester gutted player piano
Wurlitzer 200A electric piano
Farfisa organ
Hammond M-3 tonewheel organ w/ built-in tube amp
Pearl/Yamaha drum set
Various percussives
IEDs
Lots of tube and solid-state amps
Story & Clark organ modified to be a guitar amp
Homemade '40s-era-technology tube theremin (four years in the making!!!)
Homemade '70s-era clavichord (not made by me!!!)
Various guitars and basses
Oscillators aplenty
Irv Memorial Boombox
Walter Family Band fucked trumpet
Martin Freres B-flat clarinet
Alesis SR-16 dork box






amenities:

Ground level shop/load in area in studio building, just roll up
Space for storage
Bathroom
(3) iso booths
DSL, laptop, and multiple ports for more laptops
Refrigerator
Comfy couch
Studio dog
Ping pong
Gnomes! (courtesy loan from Air Studios, London)






4 short blocks from:

Spendy hippie grocery store
Hipster bars, dive bars, white trash bars, wine bars
Great hot dog place with meat and veggie dogs
Good Indian restaurant
Good Italian restaurant
Supposedly good all-meat Cuban restaurant
Hippie breakfast place (can take forever for no reason)
Other not-so-great restaurants
Totalitarian coffee shop






2 blocks from:

Record store
Corner market