I began Walter Midi Recording in a small space in Portland Oregon in 1986 with a Fostex 8-track tape machine synced to Texture running on an 8086 IBM computer. Ten years later I had a multi-room Pro Tools based studio.
I have a new studio north of Vancouver Washington. The 1344 sq. ft. building is a custom-designed, purpose-built recording studio, engineered to acoustic principles, and is one of the largest of its ilk in the greater Portland/Vancouver metro area. The control room is 28′ x 17′ (446 sq. ft.), the main recording room is 25′-2″x19′-7″(492 sq. ft.), and there are two iso rooms of 24 & 32 sq. ft. The ceiling in the main room is 17 feet to the beam, its volume is 7032 cubic feet and it sounds freakin’ awesome! Can you imagine your group’s sound in a real room like that?
The recording platform is Pro Tools Ultimate, with the Avid Carbon expanded hardware. But for those wanting a more old school sound, I also have an MS-16 1-inch reel-to-reel with dbx noise reduction. And if you have any old ADAT tapes bouncing around I have 32 tracks of ADAT with the BRC. I also have an extensive array of solid state and tube preamps and microphones of all descriptions.
I’ve been collecting keyboards since before computers were invented, so I have classics like the Juno-60, the Hammond B3 and 122 Leslie, the Fender Rhodes 73-key electric piano, as well as current keys like the Aturia MatrixBrute and the Nord Stage 4 88-key. All in all, I have 33 actual, physical, hardware keyboards and modules for you to play with! And of course I have a number of software recreations as well.
