Murky Water Studio

ABOUT

MURKY WATER STUDIO
-Weyburn, Saskatchewan

A division of Murky Water Records

Our aim at Murky Water Studio is to capture your sonic vision and add to it the warmth of great vintage analog equipment. It starts with our outstanding collection of Neumann, Telefunken, Sennheiser, Shure and other top of the line German and American microphone pioneers pushed through high quality tube preamps, vintage tube compressors and limiters, various tape delays, analog delays and reverbs and the warmth of our vintage console channel strips.
In Murky Water Studio’s control room, we rely on great analog gear more than computer plugins giving us a 1970s vibe where the focus is on listening and experimenting without the distraction of fancy graphics on a computer screen, ears over eyes. We strive to capture the finest in tonal experience through proper mic selection and positioning, the warmth of saturation only achieved by pushing analog envelopes to the edge.
We endeavour to achieve the highest quality recorded tracks with limited use of computer assistance - although we have hundreds of industry standard plugins at our disposal should a guest engineer or producer desire them.
Our in-house mixing, like our tracking, focuses on getting warmth from our analog outboard gear going to print right off the console’s master mix bus, or you can chose to have your session exported from Pro Tools to your preferred mixing engineer anywhere on the planet.
If you are searching for a warm vintage sound and feel for your project with a 70s vibe, look no further than Murky Water Studio, a facility built by musicians for musicians with collections of vintage gear and musical instruments that is ever changing and constantly growing.

Murky Water Studio is located in the Southeast part Saskatchewan, Canada in the City of Weyburn which is about 1 hr from Saskatchewan's capital city, Regina.
Weyburn has a population of 12,000 and you'll find many hotels, restaurants and bars as well as a nearby lake with camping. There are museums and other places of interest in Weyburn including a heritage village.

Murky Water Studio features an array of classic vintage equipment combined with modern digital technology. Our primary focus is recording and mixing music for bands and artists either in our studio or on location. Our comfortable home based studio can accommodate a full band easily for live off the floor recording and at the same time we have a great cozy vibe for the solo artist.
Our studio offers mobile recording and are able to offer 24 track capabilities using our great studio microphones. We have experience recording in small clubs, large venues, halls, cabins and churches. The mobile 24 channel mixer has built-in dynamic processors such as compressors and limiters as well as onboard effects.

Our rooms feature acoustically treated walls/ceiling, adjustable lighting and heating/air conditioning.

Gear

CONSOLES

(Control room)

AMR console
Features:
-40 input
-36 console faders
-24 motorized faders
-24 mic preamps plus 20 outboard preamps
-8+8 bus
-24 multi-band sweepable EQs
-36 band LED Meter Bridge
-4000 Stereo bus compressor
-Left & Right Spectrum Analyzers
-Dorrough 10-A loudness meters
-8 aux/effect sends
-Euphonix MC Control w/motorized faders

(Live room monitoring)

Tascam DP24
24 channel digital console
Symetrix 506E Headphone distribution amp
Drop+ headphone amp

MICROPHONES

Tube condenser mics
Telefunken TF51
Avantone C12
RU US47
BadAax T-11A

Condenser mics
Neumann U89
Neumann TLM 193
Neumann TLM 102
Neumann TLM 103
AKG D88 modified
Shure KSM27
Blue Ember (x2) matched pair
Olson M-102 modified (x2)
JoeMeek JM27
Kent moded w/Lewitt LCT-240
Blue Yeti Pro

Dynamic mics
Telefunken M82
Sennheiser MD441 (x2)
Sennheiser E602
Sennheiser E609
Beyerdynamic X1N
SE Electronics V7 C
Prodipe D12
Shure 55 (x2)
Shure SM57 (x5)
Shure SM58 (x2)
Shure SM48 (x2)
Shure SM53
Shure Unidyne iii 545s(x3)

Harp and crystal mics
Astatic ND-H7200
American D4T
Electro-Voice 915
Webster MM38
Astatic D-104
Plus many other mics

OUTBOARD

Compressors
Urei LA-4 (x2)
DBX 160 (x3)
1176 limiter (x3)
ART VLA (x2)
Alesis 3630 (x2)
Stam audio SA-4000
Aphex compellor 301
Aphex compellor 320A
Orban 526A de-esser
Orban 412A limiter
BBE Sonic Maximizer (x2)
Presonus ACP 88 (8channel) (x3)

MIC PREAMPS
500 series:
SSL six (x2)
Melcor Mo 67
Black Lion Auteur
Radial Power Pre
Fredenstein
DBX 580
DIYRE CP-5
Cranborne Camden
FiveFish SK1
Alctron MP73A

Other mic preamps:
Black Lion B173
ART MPA
Viking RP-83 tube pre
Summit Audio TD100 tube pre (x3)
Peavey TMP1 tube pre
4 channel CAE tube pre

Channel strips:
Universal Audio LA-610
Symetrix 528
PreSonus tube

EQUALIZATION

Parametric:
KT PEQ (x2)
TC PEQ-3000
Orban Parasound 622A

Graphic:
Biamp 210
Peavey F-215
Sunn SP3215

OUTBOARD EFFECTS
Univox tape echo
Fender FE-1000 tape echo
Plate reverb
Alesis Wedge
TC 8210 reverb
TC 2290 delay
TC M300
Yamaha Rev 7
ART FXR Elite
ART SGX
Alesis D4
TC Helicon voice one
TC Helicon Voicelive (x2)

MASTER BUS/MASTERING

SA-4000 stereo compressor
TC Electronic Finalizer
Behringer EX-1
A.S. stereo widener

CONTROL SURFACES

Tascam US-2400
Euphonix MC Control 4
Focusrite Liquid Mix 32
TC Clarity M
TC 8210 reverb
TC 2290 delay
TC Master X HD
TC Brickwall HD
TC PEQ-3000

PATCHBAYS

All outboard equipment routed through 384 points of 1/4” balanced patchbay

IN THE BOX

(DAW)
Pro Tools HD 12
Cubase 12
Harrison Mixbus 32C
Studio One 6
Sonar LE
Sonar Platinum
WaveLab 11
FL Studio 20
Ableton Live Suite 11
Adobe Audition

(PLUGINS)
100s of plugins including:
Waves
T-Racks
Amplitude
Helix
Slate Digital
SoundToys
Ozone
Many more…

COMPUTERS

PC intel i5 / 16GB Ram / 500GB SSD /1TB HD (tracking)
MacBook Pro (2 bus print)

INTERFACES/RECORDERS

64 channels of Motu ADC
16 channels of ADAT
Teac 8-track open reel recorder
Phillips 2 track open reel recorder

AUDIO MONITORS

(Control Room monitors)
Adam T7V
Cerwin Vega
Quad 405 power amp

VIDEO MONITORS

34” LG ultra widescreen

HEADPHONES
(Control room) Drop+ THX AAA 789 amplifier
(Live room)
Symetrix 506E headphone amp
Knox Gear TX-100 (x3)
KRK
Sennheiser
Sony
Bose in-ears
(Mixing)
Bose Quiet Comfort
Blue Ella

(Patchbays)
MWR is set up for easy routing of all equipment through 384 points of ProCo PM148 patchbays

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

6 piece Yamaha Stage Custom drum kit (with triggers)
Two mounted Toms
Two floor toms
Direct drive dbl kick pedal
Alesis D-4 drum module
Sabian, Paiste and Zildjian cymbals

New and Vintage guitars by;
Gibson
Fender
Gretsch
and others

(keyboards)

Hammond M2 organ (1952)
Farfisa VIP 400 organ
Cordovox vintage electric piano
Yamaha PSR-E463
Yamaha PC-1000
Technics SX-KN3000
Axiom 25 midi

(Guitar amps-all vintage)
Marshall JMP 50w head (1974)
Marshall JTM45 50w head (1989)
Marshall JTM30 30w combo
Fender Princeton (1972)
Fender Musicmaster (1968)
Magnatone Varsity (1958)
Risson CTA-120w head (prototype)
Regal 100 (1940s)
Regal 200 (1940s)
Harmony H306 head and cab
ELK echo-sonic
Gibson Thor
Bugera 120 watt
Peavey Bass head
Various other tube amps

(Cabinets)
Marshall 2079 (x2)
Fender 4x12
Bugera 4x12
Leslie 15
Leslie 710
Jensen 1x12
Peavey 1x12
Peavey 1x15
Isolation cabinet w/10” celestion
Various other cabinets

(Guitar effect pedals)
Constantly changing but containing all the favourites from Boss, MXR, Korg, Electro Harmonix, Ibanez as well as many vintage, boutique and hard to find items.

LOUNGE AREA
The lounge area offers comfortable seating, big screen TV, Sony Playstation, stereo, wifi access, coffee maker and bar fridge.