Ghost Hit Recording

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Ghost Hit Recording

Ghost Hit Recording is a residential recording studio built into a historic New England church.

About

Ghost Hit Recording is a 3,000 sq ft residential recording studio built into a historic church in West Springfield, MA. In addition to the church’s former sanctuary, which is the studio’s main live room with 30-ft ceilings, the studio has an acoustically “dead” space and three spacious isolation booths.

GHR features a DDA AMR 24 analog console, a hand-picked selection of world-class microphones, an extensive collection of vibey analog tools and vintage instruments, and a range of industry standard software. GHR has a 40x32 Pro Tools HDX system and is wired with an Aviom cue system with ten 16-channel mixers for full artist control of playback while tracking.

GHR has a beautiful apartment in the building available to add to your booking. While working and staying at GHR, you can have a luxurious morning by the fireplace then head up to the studio with your coffee or tea. You can finish a session with a bottle of wine, then head down to the apartment for a restful night.

The studio is big enough to accommodate larger ensembles— we are able to comfortably record a 20-piece big band!

Looking back toward the control room.

In addition to the studio’s main live room, the studio has an acoustically “dead” space and three spacious isolation booths.

Looking into the second iso booth from the live room.

Looking into the third iso booth from the live room.

Our acoustically “dead” area, which is the most transparent acoustic space we have. It’s incredibly well-treated and opens up to the main live room for big room sounds!

Looking out into the main live room and second iso booth from the acoustically “dead” area of the live room.

The studio features a Yamaha S6 7-ft grand piano, Wurlitzer 200A, Fender Rhodes, and B3 organ, among other awesome and regularly serviced keyboards.

Some of the incredible guitar amps we have available for clients.

GHR’s spacious and professionally designed control room. Featuring our modded DDA AMR24 analog console, ATC SCM50 monitors, and tons of outboard gear.

A look at the front of the control room with our modded DDA AMR24 analog console.

Engineers

**Andrew Oedel**

*Owner / Recording & Mix Engineer*
Andrew has worked with clients from all over the world, including numerous Grammy award winners, *The Voice* winner Brynn Cartelli, and *America’s Got Talent* “Golden Buzzer” winner Mandy Harvey. In 2019 he recorded and mixed “Be a Pain: An Album for Young (And Old) Leaders” by Alastair Moock, which was nominated for a 2020 Grammy award.
Andrew has worked with artists and producers including Anderson .Paak, Rachael Price (Lake Street Dive), Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith (Dawes), Sophie B. Hawkins, The Front Bottoms, Slow Joy, Sincere Engineer, Born Without Bones, Layzi, Bay Faction, Viruette, Darlingside, Heather Maloney, Cloudbelly, High Tea, Seth Glier, Billy Keane, Tim Myers (OneRepublic), Mike Sapone (Brand New, Taking Back Sunday), Tyler Chester (Madison Cunningham, Margaret Glaspy), Ryan Hommel (Amos Lee, Daisy Jones & The Six) and Bill Lefler (Ingrid Michaelson, Dashboard Confessional). He has led audio workshops for colleges including NYU Steinhardt, CUNY Brooklyn College, UMass and University of New Haven.

Listen to Andrew's Work

**Jake Subin**

*Recording & Mix Engineer*
Jake began his career at The Cutting Room Studios in NY and went on to engineer and manage the recording studio at Telefunken Elektroakustik. As a freelancer, his studio work spans a wide variety of genres, including Rock, Pop, Traditional Celtic folk, Punk, Rap, Classical, Christian Worship and more. An open mind and a strong drive to create great sounding music has taken him all over the northeast, where he has been fortunate to work with a variety of musicians and producers.
Jake has had the pleasure of working with artists including Alt-J, Dirty Projectors, Chvrches, Sam Robbins, Dry the River, Conor O'Brien (The Villagers), Turkuaz, Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie), Riley Cotton, Rubblebucket, Allen Stone, The Shelters, Jamie Kent, Viruette, Jill McCracken, Bronze Radio Return, MOE., Hurray for the Riff Raff, The Wood Brothers, Candlebox, Umphrey's McGee, and House of Hamill.

Listen to Jake's Work

**Paulie Philippone**

*Recording & Mix Engineer*
Paulie is a multi-instrumentalist, producer and engineer who has toured nationally playing keyboards with acts including Big Mean Sound Machine, Cyro Baptista, Kat Wright, and The Chronicles. He is a founding member of the Hartford based Funk/Soul band West End Blend and is the band’s engineer/producer in the studio.
Paul has spent the majority of his time between tours in a recording studio. He has produced, engineered, mixed, composed and performed on music of all genres, as well as a number of advertisements for businesses. Projects include recordings with West End Blend, Big Mean Sound Machine, Javier Colon, Doobie Powell, Cool Cool Cool, Poster Child, Travers Brothership, Kung Fu, Wild Adriatic, Es K, Loupo, Wurliday, Telefunken Elektroakustik, Connecticut Public Access Television and more.

Listen to Paulie's Work

Equipment

MICROPHONES

Audix D6
Beyerdynamic M160 (2)
Coles 4038 (2)
EV 635a
Mojave 301 FET (2)
Sennheiser 421 (4)
Shure Beta 57A (2)
Shure SM57 (4)
Shure SM58
Shure SM7
Soyuz 013 FET (2)
Soyuz 017 Tube
Subkick
United UT FET47

PREAMPS

AMS Neve 1073 OPX (8)
DDA AMR 24 Preamp/EQ (32)
Purple Audio Biz (2)
Rupert Neve Designs 511 (2)
Universal Audio LA 610 Mk II

OUTBOARD

API 560 (2)
AudioScape 260VU Stereo Compressor
CAPI 550 (2)
Empirical Labs Distressor
Kush Elektra EQ (2)
Manley ELOP+ Stereo Compressor/Limiter
Purple Audio MC77 Limiting Amplifier
Valley People Dynamite (2)

DIGITAL

Pro Tools Ultimate with HDX
Apogee Symphony I/O (8 I/O)
Avid HD I/O (32 I/O)
UAD Octo

MONITORING

Dangerous Monitor ST
Aviom Cue System with 16-ch Mixers (10)
ATC SCM50A with Bag End subwoofers

KEYBOARDS

Yamaha S6 Grand Piano

Note: If our grand piano is a big part of your project, please contact us in advance of your session to schedule a tuning! (Please note that tuning fee is not included in studio rate.)

Hammond B3 Organ & Leslie Speaker
Hammond L133 Organ
Wurlitzer 200A
Korg DW-8000 Synthesizer
Casio SK-1 Sampling Keyboard

GUITARS

Aria Pro II Bass
Fender P Bass
Fender Coronado I
Gibson Les Paul Custom, Les Paul Gold Top (2010)
Gibson Midtown
Harmony Rocket

AMPS / CABS

Ashdown EV0 II 900 Bass Head
Mesa Boogie 2x15 Bass Cabinet
Custom 4x10 Guitar Cabinet
Fender Super Reverb (Black Panel)
Friedman BE-50
Nocturnal Amulet
Orange OR50
Orange 1x12 Cabinet

PEDALS

Adventure Audio Glacial Zenith, Whateverb
EarthQuaker Disaster Transport, Eruptor
Walrus Audio Descent, Julia, Luminary

DRUMS

Gretsch maple square badge 22” Kick
Q Drum Co. Aluminum Kit (24/13/16)
Ludwig Black Beauty Snare
Ludwig Acrolite, Supraphonic Snares
Dialtune Snare
Pearl Maple Snare
Assorted cymbals
Full hardware selection from Tama & DW
Assorted percussion

ABOUT OUR CONSOLE

The control room at GHR is centered on our modded, recently recapped DDA AMR 24 analog console. DDA is the company formed in 1985 by David Dearden and Gareth Davies, two ex-MCI and Soundcraft designers who subsequently went on to form the company Audient. The preamp/EQ's get used every session and have tons of vibe— we use the console as an analog front end, monitoring Pro Tools off the Dangerous Monitor ST.

Questions? Contact Us

Accommodations

GHR has a comfortable apartment in the building solely for the use of our visiting clients. For a small fee, you can add the apartment to your project budget. Contact us for rates and availability.