Can you identify this piece of equipment/sound?

[Mike3354]

Hey guys,

The sound I'm trying to get with my studio right now is a lot like the the sounds that Devendra Banhart gets, if any of you listen to him.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sFMIYz0TZ-U

I was wondering if anyone could identify what the boxes stacked about 10 high in the rack are at about 1:45 in this video, and how would you achieve his sound in your studio?

Thanks

 

[genesisariana]

Looks kinda like the 8 preamp inputs for a reel to reel machine.

 

[mixsit]

Which sound? (There are a bunch in there.. morphing..

Nice jaman' scene. Thought they were going into 'Gold and Silver' for a sec.

 

[Mike3354]

well, I like all the sounds. just the whole warm, vintage vibe that I get from it. I'm not really knowledgable to explain it correctly.

I'm in the process of really starting to dedicate a part of my house to recording, and I want to make sure I'm going about this correctly. If you can tell me anything you think I need to upgrade/change/do, please let me know.

My room is small, oddly shaped, so I'm deadening most of it, and leaving the nice hardwood floor the way it is.
The mics I'm planning on using are an SM57 and an MXL 990 with a premium NOS GE tube in it into a Groove Tubes Brick -> FMR RNC1773 -> Echo Gina 3G.

Keeping the signal as dry as I can, and just adding some more compression, eq, reverb in Sonar. Then, maybe just running the copy of final mix through my old Tascam 4-Track, and then mixing the before and after signals to get a little analog sound, before mastering.

My monitors are KRK RP5's, and all my instruments/performances are quality.

Any suggestions would be really appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Beck]

I was wondering if anyone could identify what the boxes stacked about 10 high in the rack are at about 1:45 in this video, and how would you achieve his sound in your studio?

Thanks

It's a Scully 8-track reel-to-reel... looks like a model 280, which is the same machine Tom Scholz recorded most of the Boston début album on. The original was 8 tracks on 1-inch tape, but scholz modified his with a 12-track head and added 4 more audio modules, which stack above the transport as shown in the photo.