CONSULTATION

With the many years of experience in audio and music retail, as well as hands-on experience in design, voicing and programming, Night Sky Productions is now offering consulting services for studio owners, musicians, and industry professionals who need advice on equipment purchases.

Whether you are building your first project studio, or have an existing professional setup, we can help you select and purchase the equipment that’s absolutely right for you.

Services include:

• Planning and designing a fully functional studio, from format choices (digital and analog), microphone selection, as well as choices in outboard signal processing, computer-based audio, and wiring considerations.

• Complete design of MIDI setup, including samplers, synthesizers (both vintage and new), sound modules, interfaces and computer software.

• When designing a particular setup, there will be special discounts available for music and pro audio equipment, especially products from Avalon Design, and Kurzweil Music Systems, since we are authorized dealers. We also work closely with other manufacturers, and are able to obtain great pricing on many products.

• We also work closely with designer and technical wizard, Marty Strauss, who has built many of the top studios here in New York City. His recent credits include Moby and Lou Reed among others. Together, we provide turnkey solutions from designing and fabricating multi room, multi track recording facilities, pre-production work stations for artists and producers, to building touring road racks, custom electronics, patch bays, panels, and cabling.

 

VINYL ARCHIVING

Using state of the art technology, we have the ability to transfer material recorded on vinyl (records) to high resolution digital. The first stage in this pristine audio path is the VPI Aries supertable, equipped with a Joseph Grado Signature Series phono cartridge. This supertable is one of the finest tables in the world today. Audiophiles worldwide, recognize VPI Industries as the leader in supertable design.
The Aries is regulated by a precision Synchronous Drive System, which controls the Aries’ synchronous AC motor with accuracy not found elsewhere. It uses the AC line frequency to change the speed from 33 1/3 RPM to 45 RPM, as well as the most minute increments in between, to accurately reproduce early recordings that may have been cut with slight variations in pitch, due to inaccuracies in cutting lathe motors.

The signal passes from the Grado cartridge, through the Rega tone arm directly to a Bryston phonograph preamplifier, producing the highest fidelity while ensuring the most accurate addition of the RIAA equalization curve. The line level signal is then sent to an Avalon VT-747 for mastering treatment (if necessary), then directly to an Apogee PSX-100SE analog to digital converter. This is the highest quality A to D converter available in the world today, ensuring the warmest, most analog-like sound. Once in the digital domain, the data can be loaded into Digital Performer or Pro Tools for manipulation and then archived at 96KHz/24bit on DVD-Rs, or various forms of removable media. Once in a program like Digital Performer, many possibilities exist including the creation of multi-channel mixes.

Instead of archiving to 96KHz/24bit digital, the audio can be recorded to DAT or CD, using Apogee’s exclusive UV22HR dithering algorithm, yielding 20 bit quality on a conventional audio CD.

With this service, you will be able to preserve rare, out of print vinyl recordings, digitally remaster them, and preserve them on audio CDs, or archive the data on DVD-R.