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Acoustic Legacy Studios

Cambria, California. 805-924-1609 or via email: rick AT cfcl.com

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Acoustic Legacy Studios, in Cambria, California, is a 16-track project studio specializing in intimate acoustic performances. We offer casual, personalized service and customized rates to best accommodate the needs of your project. Cambria is halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, right on the Pacific Ocean. You can walk out onto the studio deck and see the waves just a few doors away! Taking a walk on the quiet beach nearby is great to clear the cobwebs.

Experience the warmth and excitement of the tone from our 24-bit automated, all-digital mixing system, coupled with great-sounding microphones, Joe Meek preamps and compressors, a tube mic preamp or two, and other good outboard gear. We strive to provide: excellent sounding, clean tracks; a relaxed recording environment; careful mixing; affordable rates.

Studio Services:

• Live sound reinforcement for acoustic groups
• Digital Recording:
  • 16-track in the studio
  • 8-track on-location
• Automated digital mixing with total recall of all settings
• Multimedia sound files: WAV, AIFF, etc. in different formats, sample rates & bit depth
• Voiceover recording
• MIDI sequencing synchronized to tape
• Transfers between formats: cassette, DAT, CD
• Short-run cassette duplication
• Recordable CDs. Standard Audio or CD-ROM (Macintosh, ISO9660, or hybrid formats).

Recording for Multimedia

When it comes time to add sound to your multimedia project, it's natural to attempt to record directly with the computer. But your sound quality often suffers due to cheap microphones, audio hardware limitations, poor room acoustics and even the noise of the computer itself. And what do you do when you need to add music---say, a soft acoustic guitar background?

Our high-quality microphones, digital recorders, sound processors and mixing equipment can help you create the best quality recordings of your voiceovers, sound effects and music. Your completed recordings can then be put on a DAT or standard audio cassette for transfer to your computer system, or we can burn a CD-R with audio files in the format you need. We can also arrange to hire talented voice professionals for the best voiceover results.

Design Services:

We can also provide design and setup assistance for project studios, from specification to equipment selection to wiring and troubleshooting.

A Short Word On Modular Digital Multitrack Recording

A Modular Digital Multitrack deck is simply a digital tape recorder with the ability to be connected to other, similar recorders, in a "modular" fashion to build up a "wider" recorder. Most MDMs have 8 tracks; up to 16 units can be connected, thus giving up to 128 tracks. With this system, you only need tape in 8-track chunks, adding additional cartridges as the project expands.

The most common MDMs are the Alesis ADAT family and the Tascam family (DA-88, DA-38, DA-78HR and the DA-98). Both record and play up to 8 tracks of CD-quality digital audio (16 bits at 44.1 or 48KHz). The Alesis and DA-38 units are more popular in the smaller project studios, whereas the Tascam DA-88 and DA-98 are the standard in the pro video, film, and soundtrack business.

Both systems sound good and work well. We prefer the 2-hour recording time of the Tascam over the Alesis' 40 to 60 minutes (especially for location recording!), as well as the better reliability of the Tascam units when both brands first came out.

Cassette House is a favorite media supplier.