The Drones Club is a rehearsal space, ping-pong hangout, recording/screenprinting studio and performance venue in Montreal.
This page is for the Recording Studio part.
The three main engineers at the Drones Club; Christian Simmons, Jackson MacIntosh and Mike Wright, have cobbled together bits and pieces of equipment in order to make recordings the way they like to, mostly for their own bands, but also periodically for others.
If you would like to record at the studio, feel free to get in touch.
Here is a partial list of bands who have recorded with us:
Astral Gunk | Attack Mode | Bad Vibrations | Christian Michael Jackson | Cold Warps | Crosss | A Death in Canada | Denial Tone / Drunk Dial | Dream Friends | Each Other | The Ether | The Famines | Gashrat | Hand Cream | The Hold | Homeshake | Kill Squares | Lantern | Louie Louie | Long Long Long | Mavo | Mauno | Monomyth | Nap Eyes | Old and Weird | Dorothea Paas | Play Guitar | Ponyboy and the Horse Girls | Quaker Parents | The Shambles | Sheer Agony | Special Noise | Tonka Puma | Tops | Towanda | UBT | Ultrathin | Un Blonde | The Wild Palms | York Redoubt
All songs used by permission, for demonstrative purposes only. If you would like to purchase any of them, please follow links to Artists' respective sites.
credits
released January 1, 2013
Partial list of gear available for use at the studio:
"1176 Rev A" (2)
"1176 Rev G"
Allison Research Gain Brain (2)
DBX 173x Over Easy (2, stereo linkable)
DBX 263x De-Esser
EQUALIZATION:
Studer 169 (2)
ECHO and FX:
2 and 8-track open reel tape Delays
Alesis MicroVerb - Digital Delay
Boss DE200 - Digital Delay with Modulation
Electro-Harmonix Memory Man - Solid State Echo/Chorus
Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man - Analog Delay/Solid State Echo
Korg SE-500 Stage Echo
Roland RE-201 Space Echo
Roland RE-555 Chorus Echo
Master Room XL-305 Spring Reverb
Yamaha SPX90 Effects Processor
Many other guitar pedals (phase, flange, fuzz, etc.)
Korg Poly Six - 6 Oscillator Analog Synthesizer
Lowery Electric Organ
MFOS Sound Lab Synth - 2 Oscillator Analog Synthesizer
Wurlitzer Electric Piano
Yamaha Electric Organ
Dixon - 22" Kick Drum
Ludwig Accent Series - 10", 12", 16" Toms
Ludwig - 14" Wood Snare (1960s)
Mapex Custom - 14" Wood Snare
Paiste - Various Hi-Hat, Ride Cymbals
Pearl Stage Custom - 14" Tom
Pearl Stage - 22" Kick Drum
Pearl Studio - 14" Metal Snare
Sabian - Various Hi-Hat, Crash, Ride Cymbals
Zildjian - Various Crash, Ride Cymbals
Many miscellaneous drums, cymbals, other percussive instruments
AMPLIFICATION:
Acoustic Model 220 - 200W Solid State Bass Head
Ampeg B15B - 65W Tube Bass Head
Ampeg 4 x 12 Guitar / Bass Cabinet
Ampeg 2 x 10 Bass Cabinet
Celestion 2x12" Guitar Cabinet
Fender Bassman (1960s) - 50w, Tube Head
Fender Bassman (Tweed Homebrew) - 50w, Tube Head
Fender Deluxe Reverb - 22w, 1x12" Tube Combination
Fender Princeton Reverb (Homebrew) - 18w, 1x10" Tube Combination
Fender Twin Reverb - 100w/50w, 2x12" Tube Combination
Music Man "Sixty Five" - 65w, 2x10" Hybrid Tube Combination
Music Man RP100 - 100w, 1x12" Hybrid Tube Combination
Traynor Mark III - 100w, 2x12" Tube Combination
Traynor Reverb Master - 50w, Tube Guitar Head
Traynor 1x15" Bass Cabinet
Traynor 2x15" Guitar / Bass Cabinet
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