Coldwater Sound is a full-service recording studio where great music gets made. Run by Grammy-nominated engineer Dan Davis, Coldwater is built on the belief that the best recordings happen when artists feel at home.

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Gear List

Microphones:

  • Flea 47 Next Tube Microphone (U47 style)

  • Beesneez B67/269 V2 Tube Microphone (U67 Style)

  • Lauten Audio Atlantis FC-387 Large-Diaphragm Condenser

  • Mojave Audio MA-301fet Large-diaphragm Condenser (U87 Style)

  • (Pair) Beyerdynamic MC 930 True Condenser Microphone - Cardioid

  • United Studio Technologies UT FET47 Large-diaphragm FET Condenser Microphone

  • AEA R88 mk2 Stereo Ribbon Microphone

  • Beyerdynamic M 160 Double Ribbon Microphone

  • Shure SM7B & Cloudlifter CL-2 2-channel

  • Warm Audio WA-44 Studio Ribbon Microphone

  • (Pair) Audio-Technica ATM230 Hypercardioid Dynamic

  • (Pair) Warm Audio WA-84 Small Diaphragm Condenser Microphone

  • Various dynamics (Telefunken M80, AKG D112, Shure SM57, etc.)

Conversion & Monitoring:

  • Atomic SixTen Studio Monitors

  • (Mono) Avantone Pro Active MixCube

  • Trinnov Audio: NOVA Speaker/Room Optimization System

  • Lynx Aurora 8 8-Channel Mastering AD/DA Converter

  • Apollo x8 & x8p

Keys & Synths:

  • Nord Stage 3

  • Sequential Take 5 Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer

  • Behringer DeepMind 12 12-Voice Analog Keyboard Synthesizer

Preamps:

  • 12 channels of UAD Unison Preamps

  • (Pair) Avedis Audio Electronics MA5

  • (Pair) Heritage Audio HA73EQ ELITE Microphone Preamp & EQ

  • (Pair) LaChapell Audio 583e 500 Series Tube Preamp

  • (4x) CAPI VP28 two-stage mic/line preamp

  • Electrodyne 501 500-Series Preamp

  • (Stereo) AEA TRP The Ribbon Preamp

Compression:

  • (Pair) Tree Audio L/C 1 500 Series Opto Compressor

  • Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor Compressor/Limiter

  • Audioscape 76D "Rev D" FET Compressor

  • Audioscape Opto Compressor

  • Warm Audio WA-1B Optical Compressor

  • Buzz Audio Essence 500 Series Optical Compressor

  • Hairball FET/500 Revision D

  • Solid State Logic B-Series Dynamics 500 Series Module

  • Black Lion Black Lion Audio Bluey 500 FET Limiting Amplifier

EQ:

  • Avedis Audio: E27 500-Series EQ

  • Heritage Audio 73EQ JR 500 Series Equalizer

  • JLM PEQ500A Passive EQ (Pultec Style)

  • Great River / Harrison 32EQ

  • LaChapell Audio 503 500 Series EQ

  • (Pair) CAPI BT50 500 series EQ (API 550 Style)

  • (Pair) JLM GEQ500 Graphic EQ (API 560 Style)

Guitars, Basses, Amps:

  • Lots of em! Including oddballs like rubber bridge, mandolin, banjo, etc. Detailed list available upon request