Today we want to take a moment again to talk about some more recording gear. We absolutely love recording gear, in fact, we might have a problem. I can’t tell you how many nights we spend lying awake watching eBay waiting for that perfect moment to bid on a vintage piece of recording gear. A few months ago, we had the fortune of winning a beautiful Vintage Orban 674a Stereo EQ. Not only did we get this amazing sounding equalizer from the late 70s, we also were lucky enough to get the rare black version.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Orban 674a, it is a parametric equalizer with a graphic gain stage. Basically, you can zoom in on frequency bands extremely accurately with coarse and fine-tuning, and then you can use a gain fader to adjust the level of that band. The reason it was built this way is because it’s a stereo parametric EQ and by having the gain faders together, you can match the channels. This kind of stereo versatility makes it an amazing outboard EQ for mastering. We have mastered a lot of albums through this piece in just the few months that we have had it, and we loved it so much we just bought a second Orban 674a for our other mixing room. If you are looking to have your music mastered at an NYC Recording studio, of course, we want you to choose us, but even if you go with another studio, make sure they throw a little Orban on that signal chain, you’ll be happy you did.