Mooka's personal notes:

I wanted to take this opportunity to announce some exciting new additions to our arsenal of studio gear. In the analog domain, we have just acquired an API 2500 stereo bus compressor, which will provide yet another color available for mixing in addition to our Neve 2254, Neve 33609, Manley Variable-MU, and Avalon 747 stereo compressor units. In the digital realm, we have purchased Celemony Software's Melodyne pitch shifting and correcting tool, which will provide artists, producers, or engineers who so desire an alternative to the ubiquitous Antares Auto-Tune.

While studio gear is my passion, guitars are even more fundamental to my being. I promised a feature on our ever-expanding guitar collection in the last newsletter, and so at this link we have delivered. It's been a little while since we updated the list on our website, so we've included in this showcase quite a few acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and basses. We've been concentrating on vintage player's instruments in our recent acquisitions, looking for tasty pieces that can provide that extra color or inspiration during a recording session. And of course these instruments are available to in-session artists at no extra charge, just like the rest of our studio instruments, which you can find on our usual gear list.

Finally, I wanted to whet your appetite for what will be an exciting addition to our studio: the Prairie Sun API 1604 sidecar! All the key ingredients have already been purchased, and are being collected for reconditioning, rebuilding, and reassembly by Old School Audio. When the board makes its debut at Prairie Sun it will be outfitted with eight mic preamps and eight EQ units, with the necessary infrastructure to eventually deck it out a full 16 channels. Check out this picture to see an example of 1604. Stay tuned for more details, and pics of our own board in the near future.