Gear List: 48 input SSL Duality console Neve 8014 console 48 channel Pro Tools Studer 827 24 track tape machine 2 Fairchild Compressors 2 Acme xla-500’s Lang Equalizers Pultec Equalizers Drawmer Processor Bricasti Reverb 1176 limiters DBX 902 Processors LA-2A Compressors Distressors Shadow Hill Processor Calrec Equalizers Private Q system Custom TAD monitors.

"A Studer A827 multitrack is on hand, a remnant of the Booga Basement days, but is hardly touched lately, Tsai says."

Used to track XOXO, as stated by engineer Nick Tveitbakk in this October 28, 2020 Mix Online interview.

Tveitbakk tracked to his Studer A827 2-inch tape machine and Pro Tools HDX. “Because we have a very large and very nice [48-channel] API console, we can track to tape and run it into Pro Tools simultaneously,” he says.

Used for The Small Hours, as mentioned in this December 2020 Sound on Sound interview.

Only for one album, 2016’s The Small Hours, has Matt Berry ventured outside of his own recording setup, tracking the album at Rimshot Studios in Kent using the facility’s 1966‑built 10‑channel Decca desk and Studer A827 two‑inch 24‑track.

“I just wanted to do something different for different’s sake,” he says. “It was worth it for the experience of going to a studio with your songs, but I don’t know whether I’d do that again. I enjoy controlling the whole thing in my own time. I did it just to see what it would be like, and it was worth it ’cause I got a relationship going with [studio owner] Mike Thorne. He’s got fantastic ears and he masters all of my stuff.”

In a 1990 issue of Musician magazine, Howie Epstein's home studio is noted to include a Studer A827 24 Track Analog Tape Machine.

Used at Sunset Sound Studio 3 from 2024-2025 as confirmed by drummer Mario Valdez's recordings of the facility.

Used to record Volume 3, as mentioned in this April 15, 2015 Electronic Musician interview.

Deschanel usually sings into a Neumann U47. “I have done a number of mic shoot-outs to see what we liked best,” she says. “But we don’t always universally stick to [the U47]; I love an RCA 77, too.”

On this project, [producer Pierre] de Reeder placed U47s for Deschanel and Ward; both also went to Neve 1073 mic pre’s, and Deschanel’s vocal took a small amount of 1176 compression. “Nothing’s heavily compressed,” de Reeder points out. “It’s just barely rocking the needle and making sure everything’s in control.”

All of the other inputs went through preamps in Sound Factory’s custom API console, then straight to a Studer A827 24-track tape machine.

“We enforce tape recording,” he says. “Pro Tools… [can make] the boldest, ‘fuck you’ punk band turn into the most paranoid weirdos. People get very timid very quickly. You need to encourage boldness and a certain kind of violence in recording.”

To capture the violence, he calls upon a curated array of vintage and modern equipment. Microphones by Josephson, AKG, and Coles feed preamps from Ampex and Neve on their way to a Studer 827 2” tape machine before being mixed on either a Neve 5316 or Neotek Elite console patched into an Ampex ATR-102 ½” tape machine. There is no digital conversion in the signal path and Vanderslice likes it that way.

Used for Home of the Strange, as is visible in this documentary about the album at 3:50. It is bandmate Sameer Gadhia who mentions its use at 3:45.

Today we're gonna be doing drums and we're gonna be recording drums to tape [...]

In the video "Black Hole Sun: Inside the Song with Michael Beinhorn - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro," at 11:14, Michael Beinhorn discusses using the Studer A 827 reel-to-reel tape recorder for recording the track "Black Hole Sun."

Used to track XOXO, as stated by engineer Nick Tveitbakk in this October 28, 2020 Mix Online interview.

Tveitbakk tracked to his Studer A827 2-inch tape machine and Pro Tools HDX. “Because we have a very large and very nice [48-channel] API console, we can track to tape and run it into Pro Tools simultaneously,” he says.

Used to track XOXO, as stated by engineer Nick Tveitbakk in this October 28, 2020 Mix Online interview.

Tveitbakk tracked to his Studer A827 2-inch tape machine and Pro Tools HDX. “Because we have a very large and very nice [48-channel] API console, we can track to tape and run it into Pro Tools simultaneously,” he says.