Brian O'Neill_Studio Submission

[Brian O'NeillParticipant]

Brian O'Neill
I'm located in Northern Virginia not too far from Washington DC.

I'd consider myself a very serious hobbyist at playing guitar and recording/mixing/production.
I've been playing guitar for over 30 years. I have a good collection of guitars, amplifiers and effects.
I have recently started to learn drums, but it's for the sake of learning recording techniques and getting sounds.
I have been interested in studio stuff for almost as long as I've been playing guitar.
I've had 4 track cassette recorders, ADAT's, Digi 001, etc.
My studio is in the unfinished basement of my house. I do not have a separate control room from my live room. I would love a separate live room, control room and a vocal/acoustic guitar/cab booth.
I also dabble in photography, videography/editing, model rail-road, cooking and sci-fi toy collecting (Star Wars/Transformers).
I'm an IT professional for my day job ;-D

My DAW of choice is ProTools.
I use a Windows PC and have used Nuendo, Reaper, Studio One.

I have mainly worked on my own bands/projects. That tends to be Progressive Rock wading a bit into Metal here and there.
I am reluctant to open to others, but have done so, but not recently.
I've done Hip Hop/Rock, Christmas music on a Piano in a church (remote location), Pop, Country (Camp Fire songs), Acoustic Singer Songwriters.
I like just about anything, but don't much gravitate to County (I know there is good stuff).

I have a ton of plugins. I probably have to many and it's probably detrimental.
I use the Slate VMR more than anything, followed closely by the Sound Toys Decapitator.
I also have:
Slate (All Access/Trigger/SSD)
McDSP (all)
Sound Toys (all)
Waves (a lot of them)
Re-Lab (all)
Valhalla
Eventide (Anthology)
iZotope/Exponential  (most of them)
Arturia (FX and Synch bundles)
Apogee Clearmountain Domain
a bunch of others

I've never used an AVID HD system or high end converters. I don't like spending on tech hardware as I'm typically not getting returns.

I build my own Windows based PC's - currently Intel i9 9900K, 32GB RAM, SSD OS and Audio drives.
Lynx Aurora (n) 24 TB3.
I also have a PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2 board which connects via Firewire. 24 inputs - the preamps go straight to the DAW.
Focal Alpha 65, Mackie HR824 monitors
Blue, Beyerdynamic Dynamic DT 770 Pro, Presonus, AKG and Sony headphones.
Pres: Great River MP2NV, API 3124+, Presonus ADL-600,  RETRO 500 Pre, 5x CAPI VP-25's, 2x Fredenstein Artistic 500, Yamaha MLA8
Outboard: Klark Teknik KT-2A, 2 KT-76's, 2 KT EQP's, 2x DBX 160A's, ART PRO VLA II, FMR RNLA, Eventide Eclipse, Lexicon and Alesis effects etc.
Mics: Warm WA-47, Warm WA-251, Warm WA-67, 2x Warm WA-47jr's, 2x Warm WA-87's, 2x Avantone CV-12's, 2x Lewitt 441 Flex, 2x Miktek MK300, Lauten Audio LA220, 2x Audio Technica 4033's, R0de NTK, 2x Cascade Fathead II's, 3x Blue Hummingbird's, 2 R0de NT5's, 2x Lewitt 040 Match's, 3x Sennheiser MD-421's, 2x Sennheiser e906's, Shure SM7B, 5x Shure SM57's, Shure Beta 57, Shure Beta 52, Shure/Granelli 57, 5x Electro Voice N/D 468's, Electro Voice RE20, Electro Voice 635A,  5x Beyer Dynamic TGD57c's, 2x Beyer Dynamic TG-X 50 MKII, Audix i5,  Audix D6, Audio D4, Audix OM5, AKG D112, 2x AKG C451B, AKG C1000s, Yamaha SKRM 100 Sub-Kick

Instruments:
Electric 6 & 7 String guitars (Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, Ernie Ball Music Man, Charvel, PRS, Epiphone, G&L, Godin (Nylon string).
Acoustic guitars (Taylor, Yamaha, Epiphone)
Amps: (Mesa Mark V head, Mesa TriAxis & 2:Ninety(rack), Mesa Lonestar 2x12 combo, Mesa .22 1x12 combo, Vox AC-30 (modern one), Fender Twin Reverb (RI), Fender 59' Bassman(RI), Roland JC 120
FAmps: Fractal Axe-FX II XL+, Roger Linn Adrenalinn, Line 6 POD 2
Effects: over 70 pedals (Strymon, Boss, Keeley, EHX, Eventide, TC Electronic, Analog.Man, JHS, Fulltone, Gamechanger Audio, Fairfield Circuitry, Earthquaker, Catalinbread, Hughes & Kettner etc..).
Drums: Mapex Kit Kick and 5 toms, Pork Pie BOB snare, hardware & cymbals.
Misc: Jaymar Toy Piano, fun toy instruments, assorted percussion (shakers/triangle/glockenspiel,bell-tree, tambourine, vibraslap

Wants:
Room treatment (I'd love better translation, but I am used to my room).
A separate control/live room would be amazing.
VCA Bus Compressor
33609

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My band: https://ephemeralsun.bandcamp.com/ or http://www.ephemeralsun.com
Another band I was with and am now working on a new album with - https://landofchocolate.bandcamp.com/

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[Mark BeesonParticipant]

Nice studio Brian. Especially dig the love of the Birds. I'm also a Philly bred, NOVA transplant.

[Thane ClareParticipant]

Hey gents, another NoVA guy here (Alexandria).   Loving the guitar and amp collection, Brian!

[Brian O'NeillParticipant]

Thank you Mark. I checked out your website. Nice studio and sound clips!
I suppose I should take a stab at one of these PLAP mixes some day.

Fly!

[Nicholas JacksonParticipant]

Wow look at all that hardware! I see you've left the beams open on the ceiling, smart move, wish I'd done that now, diffuses the environment better. Thanks for sharing.

[Brian O'NeillParticipant]

Nick,

Thank you.
My studio is in my unfinished basement, so everything is bare (walls with insulation, floor, ceiling). It isn't ideal, but it isn't terrible either.
I do need to invest in or build some treatment at some point. I'd also like to separate my control area from my live room, but at the same time.. I like that dynamic.
I have found that I can get interesting sounds by placing mics up there or against some sheet metal duct work (particularly when tracking drums).

Cheers!

Brian

 

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