Arbol Records Studios- Quito (also in Cuenca)
Arbol Records is the premier recording facility in its area, located just south of the Equator in the beautiful Andes mountains.
The climate is near perfect all year round. Our two recording studios have
both analog and digital recorders, and a large selection of sound processing
equipment and microphones. On staff are in-house producers, sound engineers
and an award winning arranger.
Excellent local musicians are available at reasonable rates, offering a
great variety of musical styles and indigenous instruments. From Andean
folk style to authentic indian rhythms form the headwaters of the Amazon,
Ecuador has a rich musical heritage to offer.
Arbol Quito
bob@arbolrecords.net
*Studios no
longer in service.
Recording Studio "A"
With room enough for any size production, Studio "A" offers a
very complete selection of equipment. It has a Yamaha O2R digital console
with 32 canales, Alesis ADAT recorders with 24 channels and a Tascam DAT.
It also has available the following: Lexicon 480, Eventide H3000, Yamaha
REV-7, Korg delay, Urei 1176 and dbx 160XT compressors, Drawmer dual gate,
SPL vitalizer, two Neve 1073 and two 1066 preamps, and JBL 4408, Yamaha
NS-10M and Auratone monitors.
Recording Studio "B"
Studio "B" is smaller in size, but still has excellent sound.
It offers an AMR Peavy console with 32 channels and Alesis ADAT digital
recorders with 24 channels. Other equipment includes: Alesis Midiverb, Yamaha
SPX90, Lexicon PCM60, Alesis 3630 compressor, Neve 1066 preamps, DAT Panasonic,
and JBL 4208 monitors.
Editing and Mastering Studio "C"
We work on a Macintosh Power PC 8500/132 with the digital editing programs
ProTools and Sound Designer. It also offers: Compellor 320A compressor,
Aphex Aural Exciter, denoiser, Panasonic DAT, Tascam DA-302 DAT, HHB CDR-800
CD recorder, and EQP-200B Dual Program Equalizer.
Microphones: Neumann, AKG, Shure, Electro Voice, Beyer, Groove Tube,
etc.
Musical instruments: Akai, Alesis, Korg, EMU and Yamaha synthesizers.
Gibson, Martin, Rickenbacher, Fender, Ramírez, Sho Bud and Vogel
guitars. Gretsch drums, and latin and indigenous percussion.
MIDI equipment: complete MIDI set with Macintosh software Performer
and Mosaic, modules: MIDI Time Piece II, Korg X5DR, Sound Canvas, Korg M3R,
Akai CD3000, Proteus/1, Pro/Cussion and Alesis D-4.
Arbol Records Studios- Cuenca
About a year ago, we began talking about the possibility of puting another smaller Arbol Records in Cuenca, a city of about 500,000 people in the southern part of Ecuador. Today that dream has become a reality, with a new "Arbol" (Arbol is Spanish for "tree") growing in the historical center of Cuenca.
Arbol Cuenca has one recording studio, a masterization and a tape
duplication department. The studios were designed by Bob Vogel. They offer
ample natural light, as well as the use of wood paneling and earth tones,
just like Arbol's studios in Quito. The recording studio has two analog
recorders with 24 channels each, ADAT XT and Tascam DAT. Masterization uses
ProTools, with noise reduction equipment and a CD recorder. Tape duplication
department has the same Electrosound equipment used in Arbol Quito.
With this new studio in the southern part of the country, we hope to be
able to better serve the churches in that region and to reach even more
people with the saving message of Jesus Christ through Christian music.
Arbol Cuenca
bob@arbolrecords.net
*Studios no
longer in service.
Designed by Wendy Lopez
for Arbol Records ©2000