In 1999, after recording two records on the Mercury label with Radish, John Kent returned to his roots on the Blackland Prairie of Texas, where he was raised in a musical family and began playing drums at the age of 4. He converted an old bank building into a recording studio, aptly named “The Vault”. The Vault is equipped to handle any size recording project from a one song demo CD to a Full Leng
th Album. Studio RECORDING GEAR:
MCI JH 536C console
MCI JH-16/24 2 inch tape machine
Tascam DA-302 DAT machine
Fostex D-160 16 track digital recorder/sampler
Mac G3
Nuendo digital recording software
3) RackRider rack power supplies
Rane six channel headphone amp
RME ADI-8 PRO 8 channel D/A converter
Unitor 8 active MIDI transmitter
PreSonus Blue Max compressor
PreSonus ACP 88 compressor/gate
Line 6 Echo Pro effects unit
Studio 3MICROPHONES:
2)AKG 415
1)Audio Technica 4033
1)Shure sm 7
1)AKG C4000
2)Sennheiser 421
6)Shure 57
1)AKG D112
2)countryman D.I. boxes
6)Fostex T20 headphones
Meyer Sound HD-2 studio monitors
INSTURMENTS:
Rhodes 73 key vintage electric keyboard
MiniMoog vintage syntheseiser
Alesis QS 8.1 88 keyboard w/weighted keys
Howard upright piano
Hammond M3 organ
“The Grand” by Steinberg virtual piano plug-in for Nuendo
Ampeg SVT amp w/eight ten cabinet
Marshall JCM 800 amp
Several drum kits (DW,Ludwig,Sonor,Slingerland)
Numerous guitars and other instruments
*The studio also has wireless high speed internet access
