Music Gear & Audio Equipment

The Cat Mansion has a great selection of carefully curated, world-class outboard gear and plug-ins to ensure your song, album, voiceover, or video sounds absolutely fantastic. The studio space is fully acoustically treated for critical listening and clean recording, and the Yamaha HS8 monitors are precisely calibrated with the IK ARC system to ensure everything translates beautifully to the real world.

Why choose analog or digital when you can have the best of both worlds? The Cat Mansion incorporates SSL and Audient preamps, SSL and Distressor compressors, and an SSL Fusion Analog Master Processor to achieve a professional, big studio sound. All permanent connections are cabled exclusively with Mogami Gold, ensuring noise-free production. Switchcraft patch bays and inputs, and a fully balanced DI path into premium AD/DA via a Ferrofish Pulse 16 AD/DA converter and an Audient iD44 MKII interface deliver the cleanest sound quality and conversion possible. Once in the box, a full complement of industry standard plugins from FabFilter, SoundToys, Softube, AutoTune, Melodyne, and others are available to finish the job.

Not a local? Not a problem. The Cat Mansion utilizes Audiomovers’ ListenTo for easy, real-time, private, studio quality audio streaming. Listen in directly to a mix or master session and collaborate in real-time so that your project turns out exactly the way you want. It’s the next best thing to being together in the control room.

Music Studio Hardware

Conversion & Audio Interface

  • Audient iD44 MKii

  • Ferrofish Pulse 16

Monitoring

  • AKG K701 headphones

  • Audio-Technica M50 headphones

  • Audio-Technica M50S headphones

  • IK Multimedia ARC Studio Advanced Room Correction System

  • Sony MDR-7501 headphones

  • Yamaha HS8 monitors + HS8s subwoofer

Preamps, Inputs, and Routing

  • Audient Console preamps (4)

  • Cloud Lifter

  • Franklin Audio DI-20

  • Franklin Audio RA-10 (stereo pair)

  • Franklin Audio SS-6

  • Little Labs Redeye 3D Phantom

  • Radial Pro D8

  • SSL PureDrive Octo Preamp

  • Switchcraft StudioPatch 9625 DB25 patchbay

  • Switchcraft PT16 XLR patchbay

  • Warm Audio WA-DI-A

Microphones

  • AKG C214

  • Metal Marshmallow Pro

  • Rode NT2-A

  • Rode NT5 (stereo pair)

  • Shure Beta 52A

  • Shure SM57 (stereo pair)

  • Shure SM58

  • Shure SM7B

  • Zoom H4N

Outboard Audio Hardware & Effects

  • Chase Bliss CXM 1978

  • Empirical Labs Distressor EL8-X (stereo pair)

  • Hologram Electronics Chroma Console

  • Neon Egg Planetarium 3

  • SSL Bus+

  • SSL Fusion Analog Master Processor

  • Surfy Industries SurfyBear Studio reverb

Studio Technology & Software

Studio Computer

  • Apple Mac Studio M2 Ultra with 128GB RAM

Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) Software

  • Ableton Live Suite 11

  • Apple Logic Pro X

  • Avid Pro Tools Studio 2024

  • Cockos Reaper 7

  • PreSonus Studio One 6 Pro

Audio Plugins, VSTs, etc.

  • Aberrant DSP Digitalis, ShapeShifter, SketchCassette II

  • Antares Auto-Tune Pro 11

  • AudioMovers ListenTo

  • Celemony Melodyne Studio

  • Fabfilter Effects

  • Moog Moogerfoogers

  • SampleRobot 6 Pro

  • Softube EQs and Tape Emulations

  • Soundtoys 5.4 Complete

  • ToonTrack Superior Drummer

  • XLN Audio Addictive Drums

  • and many more

Musical Instruments

Synthesizers, Drum Machines, & Samplers

  • Access Virus TI2

  • Akai S5000

  • Isla Instruments S2400

  • UDO Super 6

  • Yamaha Montage M8X

Guitars & Bass Guitars

  • Fender American Performer Precision Bass

  • Fender American Professional II Jazzmaster

  • Fender Kurt Cobain Jaguar

  • Fender MIJ Stratocaster

  • Fender Player Jazz Bass

  • Fender Vintera II 60s Bass VI

  • Gibson Les Paul Studio

  • Paul Reed Smith CE24 semi-hollow body

Amplifiers

  • Ampeg PF-50T head & PF-115HE cabinet

  • Roland Jazz Chorus JC120

  • Roland KC990

Guitar & Bass Pedals

  • Wide selection of Boss and Boss Waza Craft pedals

  • Dunlop CAE Wah

  • Surfy Industries SurfyBear Metal