Maddala Music Studio is a state-of-the-art facility designed for composing, orchestrating, and recording full dramatic scores for film and television, as well as for pop/rock/jazz album production. The Studio can accommodate combinations of orchestral and rhythm sections, with live and MIDI instrumentation, and with complete A/V sync.

Click on the photos to the right for expanded views. The following is a canonical list of equipment and tools present in the Studio:

DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATIONS & RECORDING GEAR

• Avid/Digidesign Pro Tools 12 | HD3
• Steinberg Cubase 11
• Cakewalk Sonar 8.5 Producer Edition
• Ableton Live 9
• Akai ADAM (digital multitrack)
• DR1200 recorder
• DM1200 meter bridge
• DL1200 auto locator
• [2x] Acoustic Research RD-06 (analog)
• Sibelius 6 software

AUDIO INTERFACES

• Digidesign 192 I/O w/ 8-ch analog input/output snakes
• [2x] RME Hammerfall Multiface
• RME RayDAT
• Ferrofish A16 AE
• RME Babyface Pro FS
• RME Babyface Pro
• RME Babyface
• [3x] Focusrite RedNet 3 DANTE/ADAT interface
• Focusrite RedNet AM2 DANTE monitoring unit
• Dante AVIO 2x2 AES3/EBU I/O Adapter for Dante Audio Network
• Lucid SSG192 Studio Sync Generator (house word clock)
• M-Audio Profire Lightbridge
• [2x] M-Audio Delta 1010
• M-Audio Firewire 1814
• Rosendahl VITC
• M-Audio Firewire Solo
• Egosys WaMi Rack 24
• FX-Teleport, Giga-Teleport, Vienna Ensemble Pro

INSTRUMENTS

• Guitars
• Gibson Les Paul Standard '59 Reissue (2013)
• Gibson Les Paul Standard Heritage Cherry Sunburst Perimeter (2014)
• American Fender Telecaster w/ Bigsby & Mastery bridge (2012)
• Fender Stratocaster (2012)
• Paul Reed Smith Custom-22 guitar (1997)
• Gretsch G5265 Jet Baritone electric w/ Bigsby trem (2018)
• Ibanez RS-II guitar (1985)
• Epiphone Casino (2025)
• Martin D-1 guitar (1996)
• Vintage charango made by La LuqueĞa
• Ronroco made by Humberto
• Catania Carmelo vintage mandolin
• Yamaha guitalele (6-string ukelele)
• Fernandez hand-made Grand Concert Guitar model 40 (classical nylon-string)

 

• Basses
• Fender 5-string Jazz Bass (2013)
• Ibanez GSR200 Bass (2002)
• Ovation B768 Elite Bass (acoustic/electric)

 

• Keyboards and MIDI controllers
• Yamaha DC3 / C3 Grand Piano with Disklavier
• Fender Rhodes 73 suitcase electric piano
• Doepfer LMK2+ (88-note weighted hammer-action MIDI controller) built into custom desk
• GeneralMusic Pro2 (digital piano)
• Studiologic Numa Nano (88-note weighted hammer-action controller)
• Roland A-800 Pro (MIDI controller)
• Fatar Studiologic SL-1100 (88-note weighted hammer-action controller)
• M-Audio Keystation Pro 88 (88-note weighted hammer-action controller)
• M-Audio Oxygen 8 (MIDI controller)
• M-Audio Ozonic (MIDI controller)
• Hammond XB2 organ w/ Leslie 130
• Roland JD-Xi (analog/digital synthesizer)
• Roland HS-60 / Juno 106 (analog synthesizer)

 

• Drums
• Gretsch Renown RN-1, 2014 (maple kit) w/ Remo heads
• 16" x 20" kick
• 7" x 10" rack tom
• 8" x 12" rack tom
• 14" x 14" floor tom
• Tama 5-piece (vintage '84 MIJ drums) w/ Remo heads
• 22" kick
• 14" steel snare
• 12" rack tom
• 13" rack tom
• 16" floor tom
• Pearl Midtown Kit (2017) w/ Aquarian heads
• 16" kick
• 13" snare
• 10" rack tom
• 13" floor tom
• Pearl double-braced hardware set
• Gator gig bags
• Gibraltar modular drum rack system w/ no-leg snare and hi-hat
• Ludwig 14" x 6.5" (deep) "Black Beauty" hammered snare w/ tube lugs
• Gretsch 14" x 8" (deep) mahogany snare "Swamp Dawg" w/ Evans coated head and SKB case
• Remo 14" x 3-1/4" brass piccolo snare
• Pearl P3000D Demon Direct Drive kick pedal
• Zildjian cymbals
• 14" A New Beat Hi-Hats
• 22" K Constantinople Medium Ride
• 18" K Zildjian Sweet Crash
• 16" A Paper Thin Crash
• 20" K Dark Ride
• 15" A Ride
• 17" K Dark Crash Medium Thin
• Sabian cymbals
• 13" Artisan Hi-Hats
• 17" Legacy HHX crash
• 22" Legacy HHX ride
• Toca hand percussion
• 3000 Elite Wood Series 10" Quinto drum
• 3000 Elite Wood Series 11" Conga drum
• 3070 Elite Wood Series 7" and 8-1/2" bongo drums
• Misc. cymbal stands and related hardware incl. Tama Iron Cobra kick pedal
• Zildjian stick bag w/ tons of sticks, brushes, mallets, et al.
• Simmons E-prom pads - x 2
• S&S MIDI drum trigger-pads
• Alesis DM5
• Miscellaneous auxiliary percussion--LP shakers, cowbells, guiro, tambourine, triangle, etc.

PREAMPS, REVERBS, COMPRESSORS, DELAYS, etc. AND AMPLIFIERS

• Fender Princeton Reverb 68 reissue
• Marshall 1959SLP Super Lead Plexi 100W Tube Guitar Amp Head
• Soldano SLO-100 Super Lead Overdrive 100W Tube Head
• Vox AC30 Top Boost
• [2x] BAE 1073MPL 500 microphone preamp
• [2x] AEA/Forssell RPQ500 class-A discrete JFET mic preamps
• Phoenix Audio DRS-1R/500 class-A discrete preamp with custom transformer output
• Audient ASP880 8-ch mic preamp w/ ADC
• Numerous UAD plugins (EMT plate reverbs, et al.) with UAD-2 Octo PCIe cards
• Full complement of SoundToys TDM/VST plugins
• Waves IR360 5.1-channel convolution reverb
• Radial Workhorse 500-series chassis
• Radial JDV-Pre 500 module
• Radial X-Amp 500 module (reamp)
• Universal Audio 4-710d
• API 3124+
• 1984 Peavey KB-100
• Lexicon MPX-1 (multiple processor FX unit)
• Lexicon MPX-500 (24-bit dual channel processor FX unit)
• [2x] Octane (8-channel microphone preamp and A/D converter with ADAT lightpipe)
• [2x] Tampa (microphone/instrument preamp/processor) x2
• Custom/Modified DMP3 (2-channel microphone/instrument preamp)
• dbx 160A
• Universal Audio LA-2A
• Parasound EQ300 (equalizer/analyzer)
• MotionSound R3-147 (Leslie--rotating speaker unit)
• Alesis Midiverb 4
• Alesis Midiverb 2
• Alesis Nanoverb
• Waves C6 multiband compressor w/ side-chain input
• Sonitus FX suite
• [2x] Behringer Composer MDX2100 (compressor/limiter/noise gate)
• BBE 442 Sonic Maximizer (phase aligner/eq/exciter)
• ART Pro MPA (microphone tube preamp/processor)
• Digitech Studio Vocalist (vocal processor/harmonizer)
• Line6 HD500X (guitar multi-FX/processor)
• Line6 Pod (guitar preamp/processor)
• M-Audio Black Box (guitar preamp/processor)
• Line 6 Spider IV 75-watt combo amp w/ FBV shortboard
• Scholz Rockman Sustainor (guitar preamp/processor)
• Scholz Rockman X-100 (guitar preamp)
• Custom/Modified Scholz Rockman X-100 (guitar preamp)
• Scholz Rockman Ultimatum (guitar preamp/processor)
• Scholz Rockman Acoustic Pedal
• Digitech RP-6 (digital guitar processor)
• Dunlop Crybaby Wah Pedal, a variety of other guitar gadgets

MONITORING

• PAD/Augspurger DUO 8-SXE2/1750 Mains
• Dangerous Music Monitor ST
• [5x] M-Audio EX66 MTM loudspeaker monitors (active bi-amped, direct field)
• KRK V8 (Series 1) loudspeaker monitors (active bi-amped, direct field)
• KRK S10 powered subwoofer
• M-Audio BX8a loudspeaker monitors (active bi-amped, direct field)
• [2x] M-Audio BX5a loudspeaker monitors (active bi-amped, direct field)
• M-Audio BX10s powered subwoofer
• Hafler Pro2400 (2-channel power amp)
• KEF Coda III (passive, mid-field monitors)
• KRK 6000 passive near-field loudspeaker monitors (passive, direct field)
• Mitsubishi DA-A15DC dual monoblock amp
• Behringer MX 602A mixer (6-channel)
• [2x] Behringer Powerplay Pro HA4600 (4-channel stereo headphone amp/distribution system)
• [4x] AKG K240 Studio (studio/mixing headphones)
• [12x] AKG K240M (studio/mixing headphones)
• [4x] M-Audio Q40 (studio/mixing headphones)
• Ultrasone HFI-700 closed-back (studio/mixing headphones)
• Ultrasone PROline 550 closed-back (studio/mixing headphones)
• Fostex T20 (studio/mixing headphones)
• Sony MDR-V6 (studio headphones)
• Etymotic ER6i (canal earphones)
• M-Audio NRV10
• Behringer Eurodesk MX-8000 (24/48 channel board)
• MB-8000 meter bridge
• Behringer 400W Power Supply
• [2x] dbx PB48 patch bays

COMPUTERS, ET AL.

• ADK Extreme WS Custom DAW System: Intel Core i7 6900K 3.2GHz (Turbo to 3.7GHz) 8 core 20meg cache; 128 GB RAM; Windows 10 Pro 64-bit; GeForce GTX1060 6GB GDDR5; many TB of internal SSDs on RAID-1 arrays
• Eurocom Tornado F7W laptop 3.6GHz (up to 5.0GHz) Intel Core i9-9900K; 8C/16T; 16MB L3; NVIDIA Quadro P3200; 128 GB RAM; 4TB, 2TB, 2TB, 1TB drives
• PCAudioLabs Rok Box MC 7x: 3.40GHz Intel Core i7-2600K;32GB RAM; Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
• PCAudioLabs Custom DAW ProPackage: 4U rackmount Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2.4 GHz / ASUS MB, 4GB DDR2-800, NVIDIA Geforce 7600GS 512MB DVI/DVI, 80GB EIDE 7200rpm boot, 500GB RAID 0 (Audio), 500GB SATA II 7200rpm - 16MB cache (Data)
• Macbook Pro, Intel Core i7, 2.66 GHz, w/ 16 GB RAM
• Mac Mini, Intel Core i7, 2.66 GHz, w/ 8 GB RAM
• Mac Mini, Intel Core i7, 2.66 GHz, w/ 8 GB RAM
• Mac Mini, Intel Core i7, 2.66 GHz, w/ 8 GB RAM
• Dell Precision Workstation 490, Intel Xeon Processor
• Gefen PCX-150 dual-control system
• Pinnacle video capture and editing package
• MOTU 8x8 MIDI I/O USB
• [2x] MOTU Micro Express 4x6 MIDI I/O
• [2x] Midiman Midisport 8x8s
• [2x] Midiman Midisport 4x4
• Midiman Syncman (universal timecode box)
• Midiman Midisport 2x2
• Cat-5e, Cat-6, and Fiber Optic Ethernet connectivity w/ internet service via 75 Mbps upload/downlown line

MICROPHONES

• [2x] AEA N8 (active ribbon mic) with stereo bar package
• Earthworks PM40 piano mic system w/ omni capsules
• [2x] AKG 414 B-ULS (large diaphragm condenser)
• Soundelux U195 (large-diaphragm condenser)
• Electro-Voice ND68 supercardioid (kick drum mic)
• Electro-Voice N/D868 (kick drum mic)
• [10x] M-Audio Sputnik (large diaphragm multipatern vacuum-tube condenser)
• [4x] Shure SM-57 (dynamic)
• Shure SM-86 (condenser vocal mic)
• [2x] Blue Hummingbird (small-diaphragm cardioid condenser w/ 180-degree swiveling head)
• [2x] Audio Technica ATM-63 (dynamic)
• [2x] Audio Technica 4033 (condenser)
• [2x] Neumann U87 (large-diaphragm condenser)
• [2x] Neumann KM84 (small-diaphragm condenser)
• AKG D12
• Rode K2 (large diaphragm tube mic)
• MXL V69 Mogami Edition (large diaphragm tube mic)
• Studio Projects T3 (large diaphragm tube mic)
• M-Audio Solaris (large diaphragm condenser)
• Sennheiser MD 421 II
• M-Audio Luna (large diaphragm condenser)
• M-Audio Aries (condenser vocal mic)
• Sennheiser e 604 (drum microphone package)
• Samson 8Kit (drum microphone package)
• M-Audio Nova (large diaphragm condenser mic)
• [6x] M-Audio Pulsar II (small diaphragm cardioid mic, matched pairs)
• [2x] Groove Tubes 1B (large diaphragm tube mic)
• [2x] Groove Tubes 1B FET (large diaphragm mic)

OTHER

• [2x] Epson 6020UB projectors for Composing Studio and Live Room
• Epson 5030 projector for Piano Room
• [3x] Elite Screens TE84HW2-E30 CineTension2 Series - 16:9 - 84" Diagonal, for Composing Studio, Live Room, and Piano Room
• JVC HR-VP770U HiFi Flying Erase Head reference video playback/recorder w/ A/V Compulink (x 2)
• Tektronix TDS220 (2-channel digital oscilloscope)
• Tektronix digital multimeter
• Peavey Backstage Plus (guitar combo amp)
• Pioneer P-070 CD player
• Luxman P-405 turntable w/ Sumiko preamp
• Ergotron mobile workstand
• tons of cables (XLR shielded microphone cables, 1/4"; mono and stereo cables, patch bay cables, et al.)
• Many stands: Latchlake MicKing 3300; several others (boom, floor, etc.), monitor, Quickloc Z-stands (x 2), 2-tier keyboard, laptop, and many music stands
• Studio furniture by Middle Atlantic