
Microphones
Hardware
Mixing
North Wind Production
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DeeZee
Productions is a small 24 track recording studio owned by Dale Zuk.
The studio is equipped to handle audio jobs from demos to full-blown
finished projects. It is located about 50 minutes South of Duluth
on I-35, in Sturgeon Lake. For a map, click
here! The rates are reasonable, and the atmosphere is relaxed
and informal.
Some
of our clients include:
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Chiemelewski
Funtime Band
The Jolly Zuks
Paul Ritchie
Jim Lekander
The Jokimaki's
Howie Wilkes
Laurie Akerman
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Danish
Historical Society
BLT
Max Dakota
Lorren Lindevig
Country Junction
Dave Wilen
Highway 61 Folks Festival
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Shure
SM81 (2)
AT4060
Rodes NT2
Rodes NT1
Audix D6
Sennheiser MD421
EV ND267
AKG D112
Neumann TLM103
AKG C1000 (2)
OTHER:
Shure SM57 (4)
Shure SM58 (1)
Shure SM86
EV ND402
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Alesis
HD24: 24 track hard disk recorder
Universal Audio LA-610 mic pre-amp
HHB Burnit CD recorder
Fostex DAT recorder
dbx 266 compressors (2)
Alesis Midiverb 4 effects
Digitech TSR12 effects
Tascam M2600 mixer
Roland DS90 monitors
OTHER:
Midiverb 2 effects
Midiverb 3 effects
Digitech TSR24
Tascam 202MkII cassette recorder
Alesis 32 band EQ (2)
Korg guitar tuner
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There are 2 options for mixing
songs.
1.
Mix analog in the control room at DeeZee Productions (through
2600 mixer, using hardware effects). Can be mixed down to DAT,
CD, Cassette, or onto computer (preferred).
2.
Mix digitally, in computer. Requires transfer of files to North
Wind Prod. (Bill's) and mixed with Cubase VST 5.1.
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North
Wind is located on Sand Lake, in an acoustically re-designed basement.
The room is designed primarily as a mixing-mastering room. Few tracks
are laid here (except for keyboards). Live tracking is done at DeeZee.
The
main computer is a special PC-based design by ADK.
It features a 2.3G dual processor, 2G ram memory, and a Delta
1010 soundcard.
Software:
Steinberg's Cubase VST 5.1(multitracking)
Steinberg's Wavelab 4.0 (mastering)
Soundforge (another editor)
Acid (loop-based)
Reason (midi sequencer)
Ableton Live (loop-based)
and many plug-ins (including Universal Audio, TC Electronics,
Dave Brown, Antares)
The monitors are Genelec 8030's for nearfield, and JBL 6332's
for midfield.
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