This Good Studio Equipment?

[waterise]

Hello, I want to go to a studio, but my state has VERY few (maybe 2?). How good is this equipment that they use if I want to make professional songs that you hear with today's music?

Recording Studio Equipment:
An in Studio 5 piece “Maryland Drum” drum kit with assorted Zildjian and Istanbul cymbals
An in Studio Pleyel 7 foot grand piano

Isolation Booths:
Clear Sonic isolation vocal booths
Drum booth
Individual portable isolation panels

Microphones:
Wide variety of various microphones including: Neuman, Crown, AKG, Sennheiser, Shure, Audio Technica, Electro-Voice, Sony and Beyer microphones.

Other:
Empirical Labs Distressor
Mackie HR 824 High resolution studio monitors
Switchcraft patch bay system

Pre-Amp:
ART Duel 2-Channel Tube Microphone Pre-Amplifier
Oram: Octasonic Precision Octal Microphone Pre-Amplifier

Processors:
Antares ATR-1 Auto Tune Intonation Processor
Lexicon 300 digital effects processor
Various DBX, Lexicon and Ashly processing units

Recording:
Mackie HDR24/96 Multi-track Recorder
Tascam Da88 recording decks

Software:
Sony CD Architect 5.2 Software
Sonic Foundry’s Sound Forge 9.0 PC based editing software

 

[mdainsd]

That list doesnt jump off of the page as awesome to me. I would think that a number of the studios guys around here run at home have similar if not better stats.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Tadpui]

I think that the best way to judge their capabilities is to seek out songs/albums that they have produced and see if you like the results. Surely they have a website with some samples, or they might have a portfolio that they could show you upon request.

It's less about the gear and more about what they can do with what they have. But the gear helps

 

[mjbphotos]

What are you trying to record? What's your budget and experience level?

I find it unusual they are only using Sound Forge.