Left Of Elephant Sound acknowledges the Arrernte people as the traditional and prevailing custodians of the lands on which this small business in located.
Left Of Elephant Sound is run by Jeremy Conlon, a freelance sound recordist – engineer, musician, and composer, who has had over 25 years experience in many facets of the music industry.
Recent films completed as Sound Recordist have been ‘Yaripirri’s Journey’ (Songlines Project for PAW Media/Screen Australia/SBS/NITV) and ‘Bulunu Milkarri (Songlines Project for ARDS/Screen Australia/SBS/NITV)
Jeremy has worked on the ARIA award winning albums “Gurrumul” (additional recordings) and “Rrakala” (assistant engineer, New York City Avatar Studio) by Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (Skinnyfish Music), “Muyngarnbi – Walking With Spirits” (sound engineer) – featuring Tom E Lewis and Ross Hannaford (Daddy Cool), Nabarlek – ‘Manmoyi Radio” (sound engineer – Skinnyfish Music), ‘Tjamuku Ngurra’ – Tjintu Desert Band (CAAMA), and been privileged to recorded many traditional and contemporary songs from indigenous and non indigenous musicians throughout Australia.
Equipment
All equipment is available for hire subject to availability.
Location Dialogue Sound Kit for film (Basic Kit)
Sound Devices 633 (6 channel location recorder) K Tek Boom Rode Blimp Sanken COS 11 x 2 BK and Skin Colour Sennheiser 416 DPA 4060 x 2 Sennheiser G3 kit x2 Lectrosonics UCR210D receiver x 2 Lectrosonics UM200C transmitter x 1 Lectrosonics UM250C transmitter x 1 Necessary cable feed for hard wire to camera ( 2 x XLR) G3 kits also wireless to camera Time code send via Lemo / BNC from 633, Power for full day
Software
Pro Tool 10 and 11 Logic X Ableton Live 9 Standard Music Production Toolkit Version 2 Digidesign Factory plug ins Reason 3 Adapted Reaper Garageband Arturia Spark Arturia Analogue Factory Arturia Mini Moog Arturia Mini V Synth1 Heat URS Saturation Antares Auto Tune – EFX 2 Waves Gold Bundle Waves NLS Channel UA Classic Bundle including below plug ins:
1176LN Classic Limiting Amplifier
1176SE Classic Limiting Amplifier
Ampex® ATR-102 Mastering Tape Recorder
Studer® A800 Multichannel Tape Recorder
CS-1 Channel Strip
Pultec EQP-1A
RealVerb Pro Custom Room Modeler
Teletronix® LA-2A Classic Leveling Amplifier
Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor
Sonnox® Oxford Inflator Plug-In
and more….
Pre Amps
Portico 5012 Rupert Neve dual channel preamp (premium pre amps) Studio Projects SP828 preamp 8 channel preamp Mackie Onyx 800R 8 channel preamp ADAT (clean and loads of head room) TLA 5060 stereo valve preamp/compressor (upgraded valve, great on bass di or keys) Interface Apogee Rosetta 200 2 channel AD DA (awesome conversion, great for mastering) Apogee Duet Universal Apollo interface with Duo core UAD plug ins
Computers
Imac 21.5″ screen 2.7ghz i5 processor 1TB HD 24 GIG RAM
MacBook Pro 15″ screen Intel Core i7 2.6ghz processor 1TB SSD 15”
Studio Monitors
Genelec 1029A1 pair (industry legends) Avantone Mix Cube (mono) JBL 4328 pair
Misc.
24/4 Channel 30M mutlicore Presonus HP60 6 channel headphone amp SM PRO MIC THING SM PRO Active DI x2 Radial JDI Duplex (great for everything including Laptops) Headphones by Sennheiser Pro Co Switch Witch Mackie SRM 450 x 2 Microphone stands include – weighted K&M boom, short boom stands, long boom stands 8 Channel Multicore
Microphones
Tube
Mojave 200 Vacuum tube cardioid condenser microphone (acoustic guitars and voice) Elephant 12 Custom tube microphone with Peluso CEK-12 capsule and Peluso T14/1 transformer (based on AKG C12, voice) Elephant 47 Custom tube microphone with Fox Audio K47 capsule (based on Neumann U47 great for kick and male voice, acoustic, bass cabinet)
Condenser
Microtech Gefell MT 71.1S (great general large cardioid condenser, great for voice, M7 capsule) Earthworks Z30X pair (guitar, piano, choir) JLM/Bees Neez modded U67 clone microphone, custom wound cinemag transformer with K67 Style Capsule Peluso CEMC6 x 2 cardioid plus 1 pair CK-41 hyper cardioid matched capsules, small diaphragm condenser microphones (acoustic guitar, drum overheads, ambient) Audio Technica 4050 x 3 (electric guitar amps, drum overheads, voice, ambient in pair) Audio Technica 3060 valve condenser microphone (acoustic bass, floor tom) Audio Technica AE3000 x 3 (great toms microphone, electric guitar amps) Mann M21 condenser microphones Rode NT3 condenser microphone (guitar amps, good general microphone) Rode NT5 condenser microphone (hi hat, acoustic guitar)Line Audio CM3 x 2 This little microphone has a natural, detailed and balanced response. (Acoustic, Drums, Strings, Ambient) Ribbon Sontronics Apollo stereo ribbon microphone (drum overheads and classic voice sound)
Dynamic
Sennheiser e904 dynamic microphone (snare under) Shure SM57 x 4 (snare, toms, paired with 4050 for electric guitars) Shure SM58 dynamic microphone (vocals live) Shure BETA 58A dynamic microphone (vocals live) Shure BETA 52A dynamic microphone (kick drum, bass amp) Shure BETA 91 condenser microphone (kick drum duties) Beyerdynamic MTG 88 dynamic microphone (bass cabinet with condenser, kick drum)
Instruments (Available on request)
Arturia drum machine Arturia The Laboratory controller hybrid synth Elektron Analog Keys Synth Maton 6 string acoustic, well worn and sounding good (early 90s 225) Tenor Ukelele Melodian Various Percussion bits Maton 12 string acoustic Fender Jazz Bass with Lab Systems B400 Head, Ashdown ABM 410T Cabinet