The Green Room

About

The Green Room is my temporary personal recording studio set up in the garage behind my house. It's a fantastic space to make music. I do all of my mixing and almost all my overdubs here. It can comfortably accommodate bands of 1-4 people and is stocked with a large number of guitars, bass's, amplifiers, keyboards, synthesizers, sound makers and more. It’s a “one room“ studio with a small vocal booth where everything is always hooked up and ready to go making for a seamlessly creative environment.

The garage is actually a coach house with a second story which has plans of becoming my purpose built, long-term recording studio. That has proved to be a lengthy process, but at some point the studio will move upstairs to its final destination.

I always use other studios to record drums and “live band/ensemble tracking“ situations. When that happens in Chicago, it’s most often at Electrical Audio but there are plenty of other studios I also love working at. A few of my other favorite studios outside of Chicago that I’ve worked at are Sunset Sound, The Sonic Ranch and Pachyderm Studios.

Location + Environment

The Green Room is located in the City of Evanston, roughly 10 minutes north of Chicago. Evanston is known for its proximity to Lake Michigan, historic homes, great restaurants, walkability, and beautiful parks. I like to think that Evanston offers the best of the city minus the traffic although I’m sure Chicagoans (including a younger me) might disagree, maybe.

Artists you may know who have recorded at The Green Room…

Beach Bunny
Motion City Soundtrack
Gia Margaret
Jason Narducy (Superchunk, The Bob Mold Band, Sunny Day Real Estate)
Matt Walker (Morrissey, The Smashing Pumpkins)

Equipment List

Electric Guitars

1954 Gibson Les Paul Junior
1969 Gibson Les Paul Custom
1965 Gibson Firebird III
1965 Gibson ES-125 Thinline Hollow Body
1969 Gibson 335
1940s-1950s Gibson BR-6 Lap Steel
Early 60’s Old Kraftsman (with Flatwounds)
Fender Telecaster Ultra
Atkin Mindhorn
Nash Telecaster with dual Lindy Fralin noiseless P-90’s
Nash Jassmaster
Nash Stratacaster
Reverend Six Gun HPP
Reverend Robin Fink
Rivolta by Nova Mondata Baritone
GCI Deconstructivist in D Tuning
Danelectro 12 String

Acoustic Guitars

1967 Martin D12-20 12 String
Martin OO-15M
Atkin OM-37
Atkin D-37

Bass Guitars

1968 Fender Jazz Bass
1971 Fender P Bass
1973 Guild Starfire II
Fender Mustang JMJ Bass
Nash P Bass
Eastwood Hollow Body Bass
GCI Craftsman Bass D Tuning
Fender American Jazz Bass 5 String
Reverend Mercalli Bass

Guitar Amps

1968 Fender Super Reverb
Fender Hand Wired Deluxe Reverb
Fender Prosonic Head
Matchless DC-30
Orange 40th Anniversary Custom Shop “Isabella”
Star Combo
Star Sirius 30 Reverb Head
Tone King Imperial MKII Head with matching open back 1x12 Cab
Binson Chimera
Sears Silvertone 257 combo
Badcat Black Cat Head
Magnatone M-80 Head
Friedmann Twin Sister
Friedman BE-100
Bogner Ecstasy
Surh Badger 18 Head with matching 1x12 closed back cab
Friedmann 2x12 Closed back cabinet
OX Box
Kemper

Bass Amps

Ampeg Heritage 50th Anniversary SVT
1971 Ampeg B-15 Fliptop

Keyboards/Synthesizers

Juno-60 with MIDI Upgrade
Arp 2600
Mini Moog Model D
Moog Opus 3
Oberhiem OBX-8
Prophet 6
Mellotron M4000D
Teenage Engineering OP-1
Casio MT-68
Casio CT-410
Fender Roades
Wurlitzer Electric Piano
Yamaha P22 upright with Custom Mechanical Damper System
Arturia Midi Controller
Omni chord
Phatronics Sample Lofi Sampler
Rhythm Arranger Drum Machine
Akai MPC II

Mic Preamps

2 BAE 1084 Channels Strips
2 BAE 1073 Channels Strips
2 BAE 1066 Channels Strips
2 Channel RND 5211
1 Brent Averill 1072
1 BAE 1073 MP
11 Assorted CAPI Mic Pres
1 API 512
2 AML ez 1073 Pre/EQ’s
4 Channel Sytek
1 SSL Bix 6 mixer

Drums

Gretsch Brooklyn Kit
DW Collectors Series Kit
Keplinger Bell Brass Snare
Craviotto Wooden Snare
Ludwig Black Beauty Snare
Vintage 70’s Black Beauty Snare
A&F Metal Snare
A&F Wooden Snare
Dunnett Snare
Loads of New and Vintage Cymbals

Outboard Processing

2 BAE 1073 EQ’s
2 BAE 1066 EQ’s
2 BAE 1084 EQ’s
2 AML ez-1073 Pre/EQ’s
2 AML 54F50 Compressors
2 Pultec EQM-1A3’s - Mastering Versions
2 Pultec EQM-1S3’s - Mastering Versions
2 Pultec EQP 500x’s
1 Pultec EQP-1A
Chandler Curve Bender
UTA Unfairchild 670 MKII
Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor
Distressor ELX8
2 Chandler RS 124’s Mastering Versions
2 Retro 176s
Stereo Thermionic Phoenix Mastering Plus Vari Mu
Culture Vulture
Teletronix LA2
2, Audioscape 76D’s
1176 Black Hairball
1176 Blue Stripe Hairball
Tube Tech CL1b
RND Master Buss Transformer
Louder Than Liftoff Silver Bullet
Chandler Zener Limiter
Audio Scape DC-3a
Emperical Labs Fatso EL7 Jr
2 BAE 10DCF’s
API 2500 Plus
Overstayer Stereo Field Effect
7 CAPI EQ’s
2 Vintage API 550a’s
Elysia Xpressor

Microphones

Telefunken C12
2 Flea 251’s
1 Chandler REDD
1 Neumann Fet47
2 Telefunken M260’s
1 AEA R88
Royer 122 Passive
Royer 122 Active
2 Josephen E22’s
Shure SM7
Beyer M88
EV20
AKg D12E
AKg D112
2 421’s
3, 57’s
Audix D4

Effects

Roland Space Echo
Ursa Major Space Station
Fender Spring Reverb Tank
AMS RMX16 Reverb
2 Radial 500 re-amp hooked up to pedal stations

Monitors

ATC SCM 25aMKII’s with ATC 70 Sub and SPL Crossover
Dutch and Dutch 8c’s
Yamaha NS 10’s
Pro Ac 100’s
Genelc 1031a’s
Dynaudio BM 15’s
Auratones
Grace Audio m905 Feeding TC LUFS Meter and Analog VU Meters

Pro Tools/Controller

Pro Tools HDX 48 i/o on a Mac Studio M1 Max
Avid 32 Channel S6

Misc

Little Labs Distro
Untertone Audio GB Tracker
Kahyan Amp Switcher
Switchcraft Patchbays
Toneking Attenuator

Guitar Pedals

Possibly way to many.