UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY: Looking to partner my L.A. studio with someone...

[Dirty Halo]

So, I'm somewhat new to L.A. and own a pretty good HIGH-END personal studio. Space, TBD.

Up until now, the studio and gear has been privete for DIRTY HALO, but now that I'm down here, I think I (and a potential partner) may benefit from coming together.

Here is why... I have a well equipped studio, but it is only used for DIRTY HALO projects, which means there is a TON of time all this gear could be put to great use for a mixing and re-mixing business targeted to labels (it's quite HIGH-END for that concept, but not designed to step on great tracking studio toes.)

Let me begin by outlining what I have and take it from there (this list comes from a list I recently made for a potential wiring/patchbay guru, but that may change with a partnership concept...

SECRECY STUDIO GEAR LIST

SSL 4000 G/E console (custom made for mixing 16/32 channels) Built by Bruce at the Desk Docter. Almost finished.

Pro Tools HD3 based:

1. Digidesign 192 expanded (16 D/A & 8 A/D_
2. Apogee 16X D/A

(A total of 32 D/A outs)

I should mention (which will appear in another section) I also have the Neve DPD with the 2 A/D

When mixing, I/we will be using all 32 D/A, 16 of the Digi 192 and 16 of the Apogee 16 D/Ax, clocked to its internal Big Ben (always open to changes)

D/A & A/D :

1. Digidesign 192 (expanded to 16 D/A, as above)
2. Apogee 16x D/A
3. Neve DPD 2 channel A/D

COMPRESSORS:

1. Neve 33609c (stereo)
2. Fairchild 663 (racked pair by Boutgique audio with balanced XLX in/outs, stereo)
3. ADL 1000 (mono)
4. LA-2A (vintage) (mono)
5. Purple MM77 (1176, new) (mono)
6. Inward Connections Vac Rac (stereo)
7. Pendulum 6386 (stereo)
8. (2) Urei LA-3A (vintage) racked together (stereo)
9. Emperical Labs FATSO Jr. (stereo)
10. Federal AM-864/ u (vintage) (mono)
11. DBX 165 (vintage) (mono)
12. SPL Transient Designer (stereo)
13. Ashley SC55 (stereo ) (this may go)
14. SSL FX G384 racked (stereo) (not part of the SSL console, although it will be racked in it, it does have it’s own XLR ins and outs, I figure this will be permitely connected to the SSL board as the standard 2-buss compressor)
15. Neve 5042 Tape Emulater (pretty much dedicated to the Tascam DSD 1000) (stereo)
16. (A POSSIBLE ADDITION: An Elysia Alpha as a mastering 2-buss compressor, would need to come after the SSL 2-buss comp for mixdown... not a sure thing yet)

PRES:

1. Neve/AMS DPD (stereo)
2. Greg Hanks BA-660 (amazing and rare VERY high0en pre/compressor) (this is both a mic/line pre AND compressor) (mono)
3. Manley Vox Box (pre and compressor and EQ) (mono)
4. Chandler Germanium (mono)
5. Brent Averil (rack of 500 style pres with 2 Avedis 112 Op amp 312s) (stereo)
6. Trident 80B (someon’es home-made racked pair) (pres & EQ) (stereo)
(thinking of adding an A-Design Pacifica)

OUTBOARD FX:

1. Lexicon PCM 70 (mono in) (stereo out)
2. AMS-16 (mono in) (stereo out)
3. Lexicon PCM 42 delay (mono)
4. Roland SDE-330 delay (stereo)
5. Roland SRV reverb (stereo)
6. Ursa Major StarGate 626 (mono in?... sorry, can’t remember) (stereo out)
7. Eventide H-3000 (stereo)
8. Lexicon 480L (stereo)
9. Zoom 1201 (stereo)
10. Mo-FX Filter-Factory (stereo)
11. Thermionic Culture Vulture (fx distortion unit) (stereo)
12. Roland Dimension-D (vintage) (stereo)
13. Roland RSS-10 spatial reverb (stereo)
14. Aphex 204 (stereo)
15. Peavey Kosmos Pro (stereo)
16. Line6 Filter (stereo)
17. 17. Roland Space Echo RE-201 (not racked, self standing (mono)
18. SPL Vitalizer (stereo) (this may go)

KEYBOARDS & MODULES:

1. Moog (vintage) (mono) *
2. Jupiter 6 (mono) *
3. Jupiter 8 (mono) *
4. Jupiter 4 (mono) *
5. Ensoniq Mirage (stereo?) *
6. Juno 106
7. Ensonique Fizmo (stereo)
8. Dave Smith PolyEvolver (stereo) *
9. PPG 2.2 (stereo) *
10. PPG 2.3 (stereo) (one of these may go soon)
11. Hartman Neuron (stereo) (made for 5.1, but I never use it that way) *
12. Fairlight CMI III.MFX2 ( stereo) (able to do 8 or 16 outs, I only use it stereo... *actually I need to learn this thing ?
13. Synclavier (stereo) *
14. Waldorf Wave EX racked (stereo) *
15. Waldorf Micro Wave racked (stereo) *
16. Waldorf Micro Q racked (stereo) *
17. Waldorf Attack racked (stereo) *
18. Korg Micro Korg (stereo) *
19. Touched By Sound analogue clap Cusion racked (stereo?) *
20. Roland MKS-70 racked (mono?) *
21. Oberheim Matrix racked (mono)
22. Control Synthesis Deep Bass Nine racked (mono)
23. MonoWave racked (mono) *
24. Studio Electronics SE-1x racked (mono) *
25. Syntecno T303 racked (mono) *
26. Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 (racked by Studio Electronics) (mono) *
27. Crumar bit 01 (racked (mono) *
28. Korg Wave A/D racked (stereo) *
29. Yamaha Motif (racked) (stereo) *
30. Yamaha FS1R racked (stereo) *
31. EMU Audity racked (stereo) *
32. EMU X-treme racked (stereo) *
33. EMU Morpheus rakced (stereo) *
34. Sequential Prophet VS
35. Roland SH-101 (mono)
36. Wasp (mono)
37. Crumar (mono)
38. Korg Prophecy (stereo)
39. Oberheim Xpander (stereo)
40. Novation (bassstation) (this may go)
41. Roland 909 (used stereo)
42. Roland 808 (same)
43. Roland 606
44. MPC-60 (stereo)
45. Sequential 440 (stereo)
46. Wurlitzer

(Only the “*” pieces above are racked or on stands to be used regularly, the rest come out to play when needed, so I need something like a “guest” pair of ports or way into the pres for keyboards stored or drum machines that just come out once in a while)

OTHER GEAR TO NOTE, IF IT HELPS YOU OR IS RELEVANT:

1. Coleman Audio M3 (this is my monitoring switcher,w hcih I need to patch monitors and the SSL somehow)
2. Barefoot MM27 mains/nearfields monitor pairs
3. Yamaha NS-10 pair
4. Digidesign Command 8 (small 8channel fader controller
5. Equi=Tech power conditioner (all power runs through this, or at least, ideally)
6. Furman PL-8 in each rack (8 total, I think)
7. Rmasa amp for the NS-10s (the MM27 are active)
8. Gibon Les Paul, Gibson 330, couple of acoustics Warvick bass
(I use a lot of guitar and bass, but record direct with pedals or am simulators or a special enclosed mic’ed cabinet)

MICS:

(Only out during use... is this more than you wanted to know ? ?)

Manley, U87, Pearlman, SM57, Senheiser, etc.

2-TRACKS/MIXDOWN MEDIA/PLAYBACK:

Tascam DVRA DSD 1000 (coming)

Studer ATR 102 (new to me, came from the Hit Factory... will need help setting that up and aligning, if that’s also your thing)

Sony CD player racked

ADDITIONAL NOTES & MIS. :

Computer is a G5 with all the Pro Tools cards in an isolation case.

Because the SSL is a custom small 16 channel board (with a total of 32 outs or mixing, large and small faders and 16 inserts), there is no big noise power supply like a big board, although it is still impresive

I think that basically covers it.

Now, I'm looking to partner with someone who would want to build and focus on mixing and re-mixing business for labels.

It is a solid custom HIGH-END boutique studio for that job. I'd want a partner to work and grow that business with me.

It would be in Santa Monica with only occasional lock-out for DIRTY HALO work, but I am also gone for weeks at a time on the road, etc. Not to mention, the DIRTY HALO work does not require a tone of time even when I am in town, but is used to record and mix DH albums... Would look for help with that as a perk to me

Who would be interested?

You could have your gear and we merge or no gear and the desire to run the place with me.

Me... mellow guy, like to think I'm nice and polite Believe it or not, the above studio was collected over time from hard work, I'm not a richguy or a trust-fund baby.

Who's interested?

Andrews Jenkins
(310) 367-9389

DIRTY HALO www.dirtyhalo.com

andrews@andrewsjenkins.com

[AMIEL]

Andrew! great music and cool website!
too bad I am in Miami!
Wish you luck and I really like your music!!

[Led]

So is Dirty Halo slowing down a bit? That girl in the band's pretty cute. Good luck, just take your time to find the right partner. It's more full on than a marriage at times. I must say though, my partner is about as far away from the sort of person I am as possible, we certainly wouldn't hang in the same circle of friends, but the combination of opposites is what really seems to make the whole thing work for us. Of course, when I'm out of the studio and talk about "my partner Rod" everyone assumes I'm gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that......

[Dirty Halo]

Originally Posted by AMIEL

Andrew! great music and cool website!
too bad I am in Miami!
Wish you luck and I really like your music!!

Thank you for the very kind words! Well, move to L.A., we'd love to have ya

-andrews

DIRTY HALO www.dirtyhalo.com

[Dirty Halo]

Originally Posted by Led

So is Dirty Halo slowing down a bit? That girl in the band's pretty cute. Good luck, just take your time to find the right partner. It's more full on than a marriage at times. I must say though, my partner is about as far away from the sort of person I am as possible, we certainly wouldn't hang in the same circle of friends, but the combination of opposites is what really seems to make the whole thing work for us. Of course, when I'm out of the studio and talk about "my partner Rod" everyone assumes I'm gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that......

DIRTY HALO is going strong (not to mention I'm behind on owing an album to Radikal), but now I'm in one of the music capitols of the world (the rest of the band in Portland), it seems a waste to not put all this to great use... not to mention, even when we are busy, there's still plenty o' time really.

And what, I'm not cute? Yep, she's cool.

-andrews

DIRTY HALO www.dirtyhalo.com

P.S. I'm young and divorced... you're so right about "more than a marriage!"

[Ribbonmicguy]

If I'm in LA.....I'd jump at this opportunity....

hope u find a partner soon

[picksail]

Get in touch with username, theblotted.

He also, moved here recently.

He's a really good guy. I vouch for him.

[Led]

Aw well jeez, if I'd know the divorce had come through.......

[bobx]

pm'd ya!

[Dirty Halo]

Originally Posted by Ribbonmicguy

If I'm in LA.....I'd jump at this opportunity....

hope u find a partner soon

I've had some great response and I'll add...

By all means, please don't fel like I'm looking gor another musican "type." In fact, opposites attrack and may make the BEST partnership!

So, for those pure studio guys, mixers and wonderul tech geeks, if this is interesting to you, BY ALL MEANS, I woud love to hear from YOU too!

Regards and looking forward to speaking with you all,

Andrews Jenkins

DIRTY HALO www.dirtyhalo.com

[Dirty Halo]

Fresh newbie minds MORE than welcome as well. I'm truly open to the most established person looking for a new joint-venture or a hungry new person...

This could be a great shared opportunity.

The studio gear I'll bring to the table is top-notch... bring your talent, gear or not.

Thanks for the great response so far... by all means, I look forward to speaking any and all of you!

-andrews

DIRTY HALO www.dirtyhalo.com

[usblink11]

heya, i just sent you a pm. Im interested in doing mixes/remixes , and have a strong background for electronic music. I am here in west hollywood right now, hit me up anytime

[NathanC]

Threads like these make me wanna jump into the airplane and leave Europe behind me! I would take an opportunity like this if I lived in LA. In fact, I would even take the opportunity now if I were asked!

I hope you find the right person for the job soon

[imacgreg]

I'm in Santa Barbara, moving to LA within the year, I'm very interested in this. I've been engineering at a commercial recording facility for the past 5 years and designing boutique studio equipment for the past 2 years (will have my EE degree in 2 months). I'm interested in this sort of arrangement because I will have my own projects/records, but need a cost effective location to produce/track them.

Ian

[Jules]

I cant help thinking, with all that gear what do you need a partner for?

Why not lay it out so that a freelancer can use it without a huge instruction manual - then look for a handfull of cool freelencers to book the place from you..?

I dunno... just an idea...

[u b k]

Originally Posted by Dirty Halo

I think that basically covers it.

is there a room anywhere in that equation?


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[theflyest1]

Originally Posted by Jules

I cant help thinking, with all that gear what do you need a partner for?

Why not lay it out so that a freelancer can use it without a huge instruction manual - then look for a handfull of cool freelencers to book the place from you..?

I dunno... just an idea...

[UZZI]

Originally Posted by Jules

I cant help thinking, with all that gear what do you need a partner for?

Why not lay it out so that a freelancer can use it without a huge instruction manual - then look for a handfull of cool freelencers to book the place from you..?

I dunno... just an idea...

the guys that are looking for that opportunity may hate u now!!!

[Barish]

Jules is spot on.

If you can do without a partner, then do.

B.

[Dirty Halo]

I don't know... I've been in this situation long enough now to know that if I'm not doing 100% of it myself, nothing happens, hence the decision to entertain someone who wants to share in the idea of building a business...and not really looking to "hire" someone as an employee... in fact, we had that for a while, which was fine.

And because it is a privete studio (again, final location to be determined...since the move from Portland to L.A.), it isn't set up for a standardized freelancer type gig, it really is specialized and focused on mixing, re-mixng and composing...not really tracking, etc.

Does that make sense?

So far, some great responses, will start talking to a few people this evening, in fact.

One of the many reasons this is a great community which, hopefully, helps benefit each other.

-andrews

DIRTY HALO www.dirtyhalo.com

[Dirty Halo]

Have had great response so ar and a few genuine select possibilities... good people out there. I am looking to make the best decision possibile, so if anyone else wants to throw their hat into the ring, by all means...

WELCOME!

-andrews

DIRTY HALO www.dirtyhalo.com

[manthe]

I'm at the other end of the country, so I'm certainly out. BUT, I just wanted to say that your attitude is really, really refreshing. A lot of people would be very picky, anal and stand-offish about this, especially towards noobs or people with different approaches/recommendations (ESPECIALLY given the fantastic gear list you dropped on us!!). You have a wonderfully open mind, friendly demeanor and a positive attitude. You're gonna do very well!

[Dirty Halo]

Originally Posted by manthe

I'm at the other end of the country, so I'm certainly out. BUT, I just wanted to say that your attitude is really, really refreshing. A lot of people would be very picky, anal and stand-offish about this, especially towards noobs or people with different approaches/recommendations (ESPECIALLY given the fantastic gear list you dropped on us!!). You have a wonderfully open mind, friendly demeanor and a positive attitude. You're gonna do very well!

Thank you, that was truly kind!

-andrews

DIRTY HALO www.dirtyhalo.com

[djui5]

might help some, maybe?

http://recforums.prosoundweb.com/ind.../t/15162/2506/

[Jess Jackson]

Interested, I'll give you a call later on today.