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ABOUT US


David J. Sullivan

David J. Sullivan

Owner / Audio Engineer

David J. Sullivan has been recording music for more than 20 years, and has worked with many producers and musicians including Ra Kalam Bob Moses, Dave Liebman, Billy Hart, Ran Blake, Daniel Bitran, Gaia Wilmer, Allan Chase, Tony Falco and Tony Malaby. He specializes in both studio and location recording with experience in all genres. If you are in need of an exceptional sounding record, don't hesitate to contact him.

 
 

Clients &
Visiting Luminaries


DAY 1 AND 2 OF A 5 DAY recording WITH Italian MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST PAOLO PERUZZI featuring Bahar Badieitabar and Devon Gates.

DAY 3 through 5 OF A 5 DAY recording WITH Italian MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST PAOLO PERUZZI featuring ethan klotz, Nitzan Birnbaum, and Ebba Dankel.

Location recording in the home of legendary Ran Blake (Duo with Daniel bitran)

Tsuyoshi Honjo With ra kalam bob moses Duo Live, no seperation

Jim warshauer (with Eric dhalman, keiichi hashimoto, John lockwood, and Ra Kalam Bob Moses)

Ethan klotz (Day 2 with Gabe Toth, Nitzan Brinbaum, bruno raberg, hank fisher, and Ra Kalam Bob Moses)

Ethan klotz (Day 1 with Gabe Toth, Nitzan Brinbaum, John lockwood, and Ra Kalam Bob Moses)

Tsuyoshi Honjo (With dave bryant and ra kalam bob moses)


Ethan klotz (with Nadive Lavie, Nitzan Brinbaum, Edmar Colon, and Ra Kalam Bob Moses)


Heart Breath Ensemble


Jeff “JJ” Armstrong


Damon Smith


Wesley WIrth


Bill Lowe


Steve Kuhn


Ned Rothenberg


Tony Malaby, Allan Chase and Edmar Colon


Daniel Bitran Donath


Edmar Colon and friends


peter j. adamson

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dAVE lIEBMAN



Stan Strickland


Edmar colon


ALLAN CHASE


Kenwood Dennard


David Eure

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Jerry Bergonzi


Bukky Leo

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Dave Liebman

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Virginia Rogers, Bob Gay, Vivek Patel


Ryan Nielsen and john lockwood

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Tools

The Malden Space

Computer: 
Fundamental AV Z490 NEO-CL (x2 Comet Lake 5.3 GHz, 32G RAM)
Slick Audio T4100 (Skylake 4.4 GHz, 64G RAM)
Mac Pro (X5690 3.46 GHz, 32G RAM)
MacBook Pro (2.6GHz Quad Core i7, 8G RAM, 2 internal SSD drives)
20 Terabytes of drive space

Interface:
Grace M900 (portable D/A headphone amp)
Metric Halo LIO-8 3d MKIV (x3 AD/DA = 24 channels with ADAT, S/Pdif-AES32 and MADI EdgeBus cards)
Midas XL48 (8 channels A/D)
MOTU M64 (MADI)

Mic amps:
Heritage Audio DTT-73 (2 channels)
Metric Halo ULN-R (24 channels)
Midas XL4 (8 channels as XL48)
RND Portico 5024 (4 channels)

Microphones:
SDC
Audio Technica 4051a (x2 matched)
DPA 4099 (with bass and sax attachments)
Earthworks DM20 (x4 matched with consecutive serial numbers)
Line Audio CM3 (×8)
Shure Beta 181/C (x2)
LDC
AKG 414eb
Audio Technica 4047
M-Audio Sputnik
Manley Reference Gold

Microtech Gefell MT71 (x2)
Microtech Gefell UM70 (x2)
Ribbon
Shure KSM 313 (x3)
Shure KSM 353/ED (×2)
Dynamic
Audix I5 (x4)
Audix D6
Electro-Voice RE 20
Sennheiser MD 441-U (1985)
Sennheiser MD 441-U (x4 2018)
Shure KSM 8 (x2)
Shure SM 57

Mixing monitors: 
Amphion One15 with Amp700

Reference headphones: 
Audeze LCD-X (2021 Edition)
Focal Clear Professional
Focal Listen Professional (live tracking)
Grado GS1000

Studio monitoring:
Behringer Powerplay P16-I and D (16-channel headphone distribution amplifier)
Behringer P16-M (personal mixer x5)
Mackie 402 (personal mixer x2)
M-Audio BX4 (studio talkback speaker x2)

Direct boxes, reamps, etc.:
Heritage Audio DTT-73 (2 channels active DI with passthrough)
Radial ProDI (passive DI with passthrough)
Radial JS3 (mic splitter)
Radial X-Amp (1 in 2 out active re-amping device)
RND Portico 5024 (2 channels active DI with passthrough)

Tracking headphones:
AKG K240
Shure SRH1440
Yamaha RH2C
Monoprice DJ
(x 10)

DAW: 
Cubase 6
Samplitude 10 Pro
Reaper 7

Mixing and mastering software:
Acustica Audio Cola, Coral, Cream, Crimson, Coffee, Diamond Color EQ, Diamond Transient, Ebony, El Rey, Emerald, Gold, Honey, Lemon, Lime, Midnight, Mystic, Navy, Pink, Salt2, Sand, Sienna, Taupe, Teal, Tulip, Tiger Mix Ultra, Ultramarine, Viridian, Water, Nebula 4
Tim Petheric L-Bus, RA6, Vari-Level, Opto 32, Opto 1b, Blue Mu, 100a, NTwenty65 filters
Cupwise AX102, Yourie filters
DMG Equilibrium, Expurgate, Limitless, Multiplicity
IK Multimedia T-RackS Tape Machine Collection
LiquidSonics Seventh Heaven
Softube Console 1 MkII, SSL XL 9000 K, British Class A, American Class A
Univeral Audio API Vision Channel Strip 2021 update (compatible with Console 1), 1176

Mixing room:
The Malden space mixing facility has been treated exclusively with RealTraps® high-performance acoustic treatment for maximum room frequency balance and accurate monitoring

Tracking Rooms

Mixing room

Our mixing facility has been treated with realtraps® high-performance acoustic treatment for maximum room frequency balance and accurate monitoring.

We use Barefoot MM-27 monitors for our mixing and critical listening work. Here is a little information from their web site: www.barefootsound.com