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Madrone Studios

The recording studio at Stone House Lodge.

Live room, vocal booth, and control room in the Sierra foothills outside Nevada City.

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The space & the gear

Inside the studio.

The control room desk with studio monitors and keyboards, an arched window onto the trees

Front end & monitoring

  • 2023 Mac Pro · M2 Ultra
  • 3× Universal Audio Apollo P8
  • UA LA-610 MkII tube channel
  • A-Designs Pacifica preamp
  • Pro Tools 2026 · Logic Pro 12 · Ableton Live 12
  • Genelec 8040B · Focal Shape Twin

Mic locker

  • Neumann U67 · KM184 · TLM102
  • AKG C414 · P170
  • Shure SM7B · KSM353 · SM81 · SM57 · SM58
  • Cloud 44-A active ribbon
  • Earthworks DM20 · Beyerdynamic M201
  • Røde M5 · Sennheiser 609
The control room from the doorway — desk, monitors and instruments under the treated ceilingLooking through the control-room glass into the vocal booth, microphone and stool set up
Electronic drums, keyboards and a subwoofer against the wood-diffuser walls

Keys & synths

  • Rhodes
  • Nord Stage 2EX (88, hammer action)
  • Prophet-6
  • Moog Minimoog
  • Yamaha Motif XS6

Pianos, guitars & world

  • Kimball Chicago grand · Steinway 1098 upright
  • Gibson ES-325 · Fender Telecaster
  • Fender P-Bass · Schecter Studio-5
  • Gretsch lap steel · Yamaha FG-441C
  • Martin Portuguese acoustic · banjo
  • Turkish tanbur · African marimba
A bass guitar on the wall above a leather recliner, electronic drums alongside

Drums & percussion

  • Tama Starclassic kit
  • DW Collector’s metal snare (6.5″×14″)
  • Zildjian Fast Crash · custom dark hats
  • Roland V-Drums TD-27KV

Amps & production

  • Fender ’65 Twin Reverb
  • Ampeg PF-500 · Roland KC-200
  • TC-Helicon VoiceLive Touch 2 · B2
  • NI Maschine Studio · Ableton Push
  • Rane 64 / Serato
Wood diffuser panels and a chest of drawers between two leather armchairs A carved wood diffuser panel above a sideboard, a listening chair facing the desk The mixing desk set between studio monitors, bay windows behind The control-room desk with a modular synth and keyboards beside the arched window Guitars on stands beside the desk, a leather sofa across the patterned rug The mixing console and near-field monitors framed by the window A subwoofer and acoustic panels beside the booth door, drums in the corner A marimba set up in the live room, drums and cymbals behind it The vocal booth seen through the glass, a cymbal in the foreground

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