The Vault Recording Studio

In 1999, after recording two records on the Mercury label with Radish, John Kent returned to his roots on the Blackland Prairie of Texas, where he was raised in a musical family and began playing drums at the age of 4. He converted an old bank building into a recording studio, aptly named “The Vault”. The Vault is equipped to handle any size recording project from a one song demo CD to a Full Leng

th Album. Studio RECORDING GEAR:

MCI JH 536C console
MCI JH-16/24 2 inch tape machine
Tascam DA-302 DAT machine
Fostex D-160 16 track digital recorder/sampler
Mac G3
Nuendo digital recording software
3) RackRider rack power supplies
Rane six channel headphone amp
RME ADI-8 PRO 8 channel D/A converter
Unitor 8 active MIDI transmitter
PreSonus Blue Max compressor
PreSonus ACP 88 compressor/gate
Line 6 Echo Pro effects unit
Studio 3MICROPHONES:
2)AKG 415
1)Audio Technica 4033
1)Shure sm 7
1)AKG C4000
2)Sennheiser 421
6)Shure 57
1)AKG D112
2)countryman D.I. boxes
6)Fostex T20 headphones
Meyer Sound HD-2 studio monitors
INSTURMENTS:
Rhodes 73 key vintage electric keyboard
MiniMoog vintage syntheseiser
Alesis QS 8.1 88 keyboard w/weighted keys
Howard upright piano
Hammond M3 organ
“The Grand” by Steinberg virtual piano plug-in for Nuendo
Ampeg SVT amp w/eight ten cabinet
Marshall JCM 800 amp
Several drum kits (DW,Ludwig,Sonor,Slingerland)
Numerous guitars and other instruments

*The studio also has wireless high speed internet access