Studio D

Studio D combines vintage luxury with seven recording spaces, featuring a 96-channel API Legacy console.

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It’s Like the Ritz-Carlton Meets Moulin Rouge.

With seven recording spaces and three amp lockers, there is something in Studio D for everyone. Red hanging lanterns illuminate the main room, which features dark walnut floors, staggered stone diffusion walls, and interchangeable flutter-free panels. The studio also includes a huge Hidley-designed live chamber, a breathtaking 96-channel API Legacy console (the largest in North America), and the best outboard gear on the planet (see “Equipment List” below).

With deep red velvet walls and vintage, brown leather couches, Studio D’s private lounge provides the perfect space for listening and dining, or can even double as another live room.

  • Notable: 96 input API Legacy Plus w/automation, ATC 300 monitoring
  • Tasks: Tracking, overdubs, mixing, and editing
  • Clients: Kenny Chesney, Kings Of Leon, Reba McEntire, Keith Urban, Brandi Carlile, All Time Low, Punch Brothers, Taylor Swift
Floor plan of Blackbird Studio D showing tracking room (758 sq ft), five isolation booths (iso 1-5: 79, 81, 206, 75, 78 sq ft), chamber (79 sq ft with 22'-5" ceiling), three amp rooms (19, 19, 34 sq ft), studio control room, machine room with gear rack, and mic closet
Studio D Floor plan

Studio D Gallery

  • Live room with red curtain acoustic treatment, wooden diffuser panels, red pendant lights, large condenser microphone, guitar cases, amplifiers, microphone stands on hardwood floor.
  • Lounge with red quilted acoustic wall panels, black leather sofas, crystal chandelier, dark kitchen with stainless appliances, round dining table.
  • Piano room with grand piano, multiple keyboards on stands, mixing console, view through windows to adjacent recording spaces with wood acoustic panels and red curtains.
  • Large-format mixing console with multiple computer screens displaying DAW, wood and black studio monitors in background.
  • Control room with large analog console, dual chairs, larger main monitors, windows to live room showing red curtains, yellow pendant light.
  • Live room with Gretsch drum kit, overhead microphones, red pendant lights, red curtain walls, string lights, wood acoustic treatment.
  • Studio D entrance with wood paneling, frosted glass door with "studio d" text, wall sconce, dark architectural details.
  • Control room view through window showing large mixing console, outboard gear racks, guitars on wall, leather seating, red and brown acoustic treatment.
  • Control room with mixing console, studio monitors in soffit, guitars on wall, leather seating, pendant lights, red walls, production desk area.
  • Live room with acoustic guitars and upright bass on stands, drum kit with microphones, string lights overhead, red curtains, wood slat acoustic treatment, guitar cases.
  • Rack of vintage outboard gear including API preamps, Germanium compressors, EMI units, with sunburst acoustic guitar and dual-channel preamp visible on shelf above.
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  • Live room with red curtain acoustic treatment, wooden diffuser panels, red pendant lights, large condenser microphone, guitar cases, amplifiers, microphone stands on hardwood floor.
  • Lounge with red quilted acoustic wall panels, black leather sofas, crystal chandelier, dark kitchen with stainless appliances, round dining table.
  • Piano room with grand piano, multiple keyboards on stands, mixing console, view through windows to adjacent recording spaces with wood acoustic panels and red curtains.
  • Large-format mixing console with multiple computer screens displaying DAW, wood and black studio monitors in background.
  • Control room with large analog console, dual chairs, larger main monitors, windows to live room showing red curtains, yellow pendant light.
  • Live room with Gretsch drum kit, overhead microphones, red pendant lights, red curtain walls, string lights, wood acoustic treatment.
  • Studio D entrance with wood paneling, frosted glass door with "studio d" text, wall sconce, dark architectural details.
  • Control room view through window showing large mixing console, outboard gear racks, guitars on wall, leather seating, red and brown acoustic treatment.
  • Control room with mixing console, studio monitors in soffit, guitars on wall, leather seating, pendant lights, red walls, production desk area.
  • Live room with acoustic guitars and upright bass on stands, drum kit with microphones, string lights overhead, red curtains, wood slat acoustic treatment, guitar cases.
  • Rack of vintage outboard gear including API preamps, Germanium compressors, EMI units, with sunburst acoustic guitar and dual-channel preamp visible on shelf above.

Studio D Equipment List

  • Mic Preamps/Channel Strips

    • 2x CHANDLER EMI TG2
    • 2x CHANDLER GERMANIUM
    • 2x CHANDLER LIMITED TG CHANNEL STRIP
    • 8x NEVE 1073
    • 2x NEVE 1081
    • 2x NEVE 31105
    • 4x SHADOW HILLS GAMMA
    • 1x GML 8304
    • 4x JOHN HARDY M-1
    • 2x TELEFUNKEN V72
    • 2x TELEFUNKEN V76
    • 4x VINTECH X81
    • 1x API 512C
    • 2x API 312

  • EQ

    • 2x API 550A
    • 4x API 560
    • 1x EMI TG12345 CURVE BENDER
    • 1x GML 8200
    • 2x PULTEC EQP-1A
    • 2x PULTEC EQP-1A3

  • COMP/LIMITERS

    • 1x API 2500
    • 6x API 225L
    • 2x DBX 160
    • 4x EL8 DISTRESSOR
    • 1x EL7 FATSO JR
    • 1x EMI TG12413 (ZENER)
    • 2x NEVE 33609
    • 1x SSL G384
    • 1x TUBE TECH CL 1B
    • 1x UA 1176 BLUE STRIPE (REV A)
    • 2x UA 1176LN BLACKFACE
    • 2x UREI 1176LN BLACKFACE (REV F)
    • 1x UREI 1178
    • 2x UA TELETRONIX LA-2A
    • 2x UREI TELETRONIX LA-3A
    • 2x API 525
    • 1x STANDARD AUDIO LEVEL-OR

  • EFFECTS UNITS

    • 1x EMT 140 STEREO
    • 1x EVENTIDE H3000-D/SE
    • 1x LEXICON 200
    • 1x LEXICON 480L
    • 1x LEXICON PCM 70
    • 2x LEXICON PCM 42
    • 2x YAMAHA SPX90II
    • 2x BBE 882i SONIC MAXIMIZER
    • 1x DRAWMER DS201 DUAL GATE
    • 1x SPL TRANSIENT DESIGNER (4 CHANNEL)

  • KEYBOARDS

    • YAMAHA C7 GRAND PIANO​
    • FENDER RHODES 88 ELECTRIC PIANO
    • WURLITZER 200A ELECTRIC PIANO
    • 1934 HAMMOND B3 ORGAN W/ LESLIE CABINET
    • CABLE NELSON UPRIGHT PIANO

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Our other studios

  • Studio I

    Control room with David Bowie Aladdin Sane poster, yellow-green velvet chair, production desk with iMac, MIDI controller, studio monitors, outboard gear racks, view to kitchen, purple walls.

  • Studio H

    Control room with API console and meter bridge, office chair, computer monitor, window to vocal booth showing red curtains, multiple studio monitors including Yamaha NS-10Ms, red and striped acoustic treatment on ceiling, outboard gear rack right.

  • Studio G

    Not available
    Compact control room with tiered production desk holding mixing console and computer monitor, flanked by ADAM ribbon studio monitors, office chair at workstation, beige tufted lounge chair left, large windows with pendant lights, evening view outside.

  • Studio F

    Dolby Atmos mixing room with large console, level meter display, multiple monitor speakers including three soffit-mounted front monitors, surround speakers, display showing Blackbird logo, red carpeted floor.

  • Studio E

    Control room with large console, monitor array including Genelec and Yamaha NS-10Ms, large display showing console image, orange wood acoustic treatment visible right.

  • Studio C

    Wide view of mixing room with digital console on desk, computer monitors, surround speaker array including floor-standing monitors, wooden acoustic treatment throughout, glass panels in ceiling showing acoustic panels above

  • Studio B

    Mixing console with Genelec and Yamaha NS-10M monitors, VU meter bridge, window into wood-paneled vocal booth with microphone visible.

  • Studio A

    Recording studio control room view from mixing console showing symmetrical monitor setup, large window into live room