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The Blue Room is a private recording facility which is used for most of Jim's production and composing work. Recent projects include albums by Trisha O'Keefe, Matt Duke, and Andrew Lipke, underscore for ABC's "All My Children", advertising work for Glad, Bounty, Oil of Olay, and EB Games, and production music for Killer Tracks.

The studio features a comfortable and acoustically transparent 18 X 12 control room and a cozy live room for vocals and guitars.

Recording

Mac G5 Dual 2.5, MOTU 828MkII with Black Lion mod

Outboard
Calrec PQ15 mic pre/eq (2) - Langevin Dual Vocal Combo mic pre/eq/limiter - Cranesong Trakker compressor - Trident compressor - dbx 160x compressor (2) - ART Pro VLA stereo limiter - Aphex 107 tube mic pre - Ward Beck 472 eq - Maudio Digipatch digital patcher


Software:
Logic Pro 7.1 - Peak BIAS - ProTools 7 - Jam

Plug-ins:
Universal Audio UAD1 card (loaded) - URS Neve and API compressor and eq - Spectrasonics Atmosphere and Stylus - SampleTank II - Sonic Synth

Monitoring:
DAS monitor 8 main monitors - Resolv 40a powered monitors-Optimus AV mini monitors - Bryston 3B power amplifier

Microphones:
The Blue Room features more than 20 microphones, - including: Brauner Valvet large diaphragm tube condenser - Audio Technica 4050 large diaphragm condenser - Studio Projects C1 large diaphragm condenser - RCA BK5A ribbon - Telefunken, Shure, and CAD, and EV dynamics - ADK, Shure, Audix, and TOA small diaphragm condensers

Instruments:
Fender Strat Plus Ultra - Fender Jazz Bass - Gibson Melody Maker ‘68 - Guitorgan ES345 - Many 1970’s Japanese “lawsuit” guitars - Tama Rockstar drums - Fender Princeton ’68 - Traynor YBA-1 ’72 - Takamine acoustic with Fishman piezo system - HB Italian 60’s electric twelve string - Yamaha nylon string - Guild Ashbory mini fretless bass - Mandolin - Violin - Misc. Percussion
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