Thad Kopec

The music of Thad Kopec.

My studio space has three rooms: the control room, main tracking room, and basement (extra tracking room), as well as a kitchen and bathroom. The space excels at facilitating live band recording and one-thing-at-a-time style recording alike. There are plenty of great sounding channels for tracking and all sorts of equipment and instruments to choose from, and lots of natural light :)

Gear List

Console


Studer 169 (10 channel)

Audioarts (12 channel) 

Audio Developments AD-45 (6 channel)

Audio Developments custom line-level (8 channel)


Mixers


Yamaha EM-100

Teac Model 2

Roland RX-62

Heil HM-1000


Pre-Amps


API 505

Magnacord Preamp

Shure M267

Shure M68


Mics


Condenser

Neumann u87 ai

AKG 414 B ULS

Sony ECM 45P (2x)

Groovetubes 5SM (2x)


Dynamic

Electro Voice 667A

Electro Voice 635A

Shure SM7 (1977)

Shure Unisphere I

Shure Sonodyne II (2x)

Shure Unidyne III

Shure Unidyne IV (2x)

Shure Beta 87a (3x)

AKG D112

Grundig (2x)


Ribbon

RCA 74-B

Shure Uni-Ron 330

Beyer MB-301


Compression


Dbx 162 (stereo)

Dbx 560A (mono)

Dbx 520 (mono)

Tonelux TX5C (mono)

Orban 412a (mono)

TCS LC-1 (stereo)

Audioarts VCA pair

Ashly SC-50 pair


Effects


Space Echo RE-150

Mutron Digital Delay

KNAS Ekdahl Moisturizer Spring Reverb

Soviet “Quero” (vintage echo)

Orbon Stereo Synthesizer

Dbx 510 Subharmonic Synth


Tape Machines

Teac 3340

Teac AR-405

Teac A1250S

Tascam Portastudio 424

Sony TC-D5M


Synthesizers


Dave Smith Prophet 08

Moog Mother-32

Moog DFAM

Omnichord OM-36

Casio CT-370

Casio MT-52

Casio MT-220

Yamaha PSS-150

Elektron Model:Cycles


Amps


Gibson GSS-100

Fender M-80

Fender Princeton Reverb

THD Univalve

Avatar G112

Rauland head

RCA head

Univox head

Altec 9477B

Torpedo Captor 8 (2x)


Pedals

~Rotating selection~


Guitars


Electric

Silvertone 1476 (60s)

Harmony Stratotone (60s)

Teisco unnamed 12 string (60s)

Truetone Rock Star (60s)

Fender Jaguar MIJ (1996)

Fender Stratocaster (2010s)

Gibson SG Standard (2008)

Gibson Les Paul Standard (2001)


Acoustic

Gibson C-1 Nylon

L.P. Pimentel & Sons Luthier Nylon

La Casa de la Guitarras Nylon

Harmony 12 string (60s)

Harmony Ukelele (‘60s)

Ibanez lawsuit Gibson (‘60s)

Takamine lawsuit Martin (‘60s)


Basses

Fender Musicmaster (1977)

Apollo lawsuit Hofner (‘70s)

Epiphone EA-260 (‘70s)

Drums

Premium kit (‘70s)

DW Collector’s Series Snare

Misc. cymbals

Misc. cheap snares


Misc. Stringed Instruments

Autoharp


Keyboards


Pianola upright piano

Lowrey organ

Magnus chord organ 

Bontempi organ


Computing/ IO

Apollo 8 Duo Core

Apollo Twin Quad Core

Apollo Satellite Octo Core

Ferrofish Pulse 16

Mac Mini


Controllers

Ableton Push 2

Arturia Keystep

Casio CDP-S110