EquipmentFeatures:
Studer A800 Mark III 2" Analog 24 Track Master Recorder
Studer A820 ½" Stereo Master Recorder
Otari RADARII (48 Tracks)
Pro Tools/HUI/Many Plugins
Neve 8128-56 Channels with Flying Faders Automation
Pultec Equalisers
API Equalisers

Westlake Style Control Room with George Augspurger Modifications
Augspurger/TAD Mains

Excellent Recording room, high ceilings,
a variety of interesting isolation rooms, including the upstairs "String Loft"

Featuring an extensive collection of tube microphones:
Neumann U-47
Neumann M-249/c
Neumann KM 254
Neumann U-67 (3)
AKG C-12 W/Stephen Paul Ultra-Thin Diaphragm Modification
Soundelux U-95
Lawson L47

Many Other Condensors by AKG, Neumann, Schoeps
Outboard Gear Includes-
Time Based-Processing:

EMT 140 Plate
EMT 140 Plate with Full MARTEC Modification
Lexicon 480L W/LARC
Lexicon 300L W/LARC
Lexicon PCM42(3)
TC Electronics M2000
Eventide Clockworks H3000

Microhone Preamps:
John Hardy M-1 (4)
Avalon VT-737 (2)

Equalisers:
Pultec EQP-1A (2)
Pultec EQP 1A3S (2)
API 550 A (4)
API 550L (2)

Compressors:

Teletronix LA-2A (3)
Urei LA-3A
Urei LA-4A (4)
Urei 1176LN (2)
Neve 81069 Stereo
Massenberg Stereo
Alan Smart Stereo
Tube-Tech LCA2B
DBX-160 VU (2)
DBX-160X
Drawmer Auto-Comp Stereo

Instruments:
Yamaha C-9 Grand Piano W/Gulbransen Midi Retrofit
Hammond B-3 Organ W/Leslie 147 (Input Mods and Remote Rotor Speed Change)
Rhodes Suitcase Electric Piano with Stereo Tremolo
Wurlitzer Electric Piano

Opened in 1963 as one of Nashville’s First Purpose-Built recording studios, Universal Music Publishing Group Nashville’s Groundstar Laboratory has been owned and operated by some of popular Music’s most elite names.

THE HISTORY OF GROUNDSTAR LABORATORY

Opened in 1963 as one of Nashville's First Purpose-Built recording studios, Groundstar Laboratory has been owned and operated by some of popular Music's most elite names.

In 1972 Roy Orbison bought the building from two Nashville publishers, dubbing the room "US Recorders".

1978 Saw the purchase of the room from Roy by Ronnie Milsap, who rebuilt the room in the then cutting edge "westlake" style. In 1985, the Neve 8128 dropped in. Flying Faders were added in 1988, and everything remains today. Ronnie called his room "Groundstar Laboratory"

Purchased in 1995 by then MCA Music Nashville, a renovation process modernized the offices and writer areas surrounding the studio. Wisely, it was decided to leave the soundstage and the control room intact and without modern modification.

Over the years the studio has been host to many of music row's greatest names. Ronnie Milsap, Roy Orbison, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, Tommy Sims and Bruce Cockburn. Producers and Engineers such as Tony Brown, Kyle Lehning, Bill Schnee, David Thoener, Chuck Ainlay and Many more have enjoyed making records in this room for the past 39 years.



UMPG Nashville
1904 Adelicia Street
Nashville, TN 37212

Phone: (615) 340-5400
Fax: (615) 340-5491