The Mr. Fritz Disco Yacht Megaplex

This studio, inspired by one of the world class fleet of Disco Yacht Studios owned by 70's disco dancing champion Mr. Fritz, is based around Studio Vision Pro and Pro Tools running on a Power Macintosh G4. As with most MIDI studios there is quite a variety of analog and digital equipment, allowing for a wide variety of applications and purposes.

For help with setting up and configuring your MIDI studio, how to program and use different types of electronic musical equipment and an extensive FAQ for when things go wrong visit our Studio Help department.

Computer Hardware:

Power Mac G4
733MHz PowerPC G4
1GB SDRAM
100GB UFUW SCSI drive array
DVD-RW drive
RAGE 128 AGP card - 16MB SDRAM
Gigabit Ethernet
Pro keyboard & optical mouse

Apple Cinema Display
22 inches (diagonal viewable image size) thin film transistor (TFT) active-matrix liquid crystal display
Wide-format design with 1600 by 1024 pixels
Extra-wide (160 degrees) viewing angle

Analog/Digital Audio Card:
Audiomedia III - Digidesign

Computer Software:

Pro Tools 4.0 - Opcode
Gold Native - Waves
Peak - Bias
SFX Machine - Bias
Studio Vision Pro - Opcode

Effects Processing:

AMS RMX-16
Lexicon 480L
Lexicon 224XL
Lexicon PCM-7O
Sony DRE2OOOa
Yamaha REV-I
Yamaha Rev-7
AKG 68K
Klark Technik DN780
Yamaha SPX1OOO
2 x Yamaha SPX90
4 x Lexicon PCM 42
Eventide H3000SE
TC 2290 Sampler Delay
AMS DMX-1580s Stereo Sampler
Publison Infernal 90
Panscan

MIDI Interface:

MIDI Timepiece AV - Mark of the Unicorn

Sound Modules:

E-mu ESI-4000 Turbo Zip
Akai S-3000 Sampler
Roland JD-990
Roland D-550
Roland MKS-80 with Programmer
Roland MKS-20
Korg MIREX
Korg 01WR
Yamaha TX-81Z
Emu Proteus

Console:

64 Channel Solid State Logic 4064
w/Ultimation and Total Recall G+ Computer
3.5" & 8" data drives
56 Channels E series EQ
8 Channel G series EQ

Control Room:

25'x 15', Iso Booth : 15' x 18'

Tape Machines:

Studer A8OO MKIII 24 Track Analog
Sony 3348 48 Track Digital
24 Track Alesis Adat w/BRC
Studer A820 1/2" 2 Track
Panasonic SV-3700 Dat
Tascam122MkII cassette.

Monitors:

2x System 215 DMT II's - Tannoy
2x NS-lOm's - Yamaha
2x Auratones

Amplifiers:

6x FR Series M·1400 Professional Power Amplifiers - Mackie

Compressors:

2 x Urei La-3a
Urei La-2a
2 x DBX165a
2 x DBX 160
2 x DBX 16OX
2 x Focusrite Comp/Limiters
Neve 33609c Stereo Comp/Limiter
2 x Neve 1572A Compressors
6 x Kepex II
2 x Gain Brain II
4 x Drawmer DS-201 Gates
2 x DBX 902 De-essers

Equalizers:

Neve Prism Rack with 6 x EQ's and 4 x Dynamics
8 x Neve 1073 Mic/Pre
GML 8200 Stereo EQ
4 x Focusrite ISA151
4 x API 550a
4 x API 560a
2 x API Mic/Pre
2 x Pultec EQP1A
2 x Pultec EQH-2
Pultec MEQ-5

Keyboard:

STUDIOLOGIC SL-161 Keyboard

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