Jameson's Revenge

 St. Canice's Backyard Recording Studio

Mamaroneck, New York

John "Tex" Walsh

Pro-Audio Engineering/ Music Production

e-mail: texwalsh@mac.com

The Story

Named after a lunatic asylum in Kilkenny, Ireland, St Canice’s Backyard is the recording studio John Walsh owns, developed and has worked in for nearly a decade. Recording and producing mostly traditional Irish musicians he has also recorded and produced music for rock, jazz and classical artists. He still hasn't had the opportunity to record any death metal bands but he's working on it.

Located in Mamaroneck, N.Y. the studio offers state-of-the-art facilities while keeping a very relaxed, laid back atmosphere ideal for recording. John has a degree in sound engineering along with years of experience recording some of the top musicians in their field, especially in Traditional Irish music.

Some artists that have recorded at St Canice's Backyard include:

• Paddy Keenan
• Jameson's Revenge
• Shilelagh Law
• James Riley
• Pat Gilbride
• Chris Brown
• Mattie & Dierdre Connolly
• Grainne Murphy
• Gary Adamson
• Jimmy Crowley
• David Power
• Ben Power
• Sullivan's Jack
• Marc Douglas Berardo
• Mike Rafferty
• Eric Everett
• Jane Hunt
• Michael O'Sullivan
• Ciaran Somers
• Frankie Gavin
• The Good & Plenti Band
• Maria Millar
• Seanchai & The Unity Squad
• Devin Doherty
• Jon Hicks
• Matt Hruska
• Leo O'Kelly
• The Derivatives
• The Maxwell St. Rooters
• Solar Tides

The Studio

The main studio consists of a 18 x 20 foot live room, vocal booth and control room. Other areas include a cavern-like solo live room and a large room with a Yamaha GA-1 6-foot Baby Grand piano.

The live room has a collection of various guitar amps both vintage and state of the art. The control room holds many outboard preamps and a Control 24 mixer for the Digidesign ProTools HD2 Accel system that is the central recording medium here.

The Equipment

Control Room:

• Digidesign ProTools HD2 Accel
• Apple Mac Pro using ProTools 8 and Logic Pro 9
• Control 24 mixing controller including 16 Focusrite preamps
• 2 Neve 33122a preamp/eq
• 2 Neve VR Channel strips- line/mic preamp/ eq/compression/gate/hi-lo pass filters
• 1 Avalon Vt 737 sp preamp
• 1 Avalon U5 DI
• 1 Digitech VTP-1 dual preamp
• Genelec monitoring system
• Yamaha NS-10 monitoring system
• Digidesign 002 and Mackie SDR 24 for field recording

Microphones:

• AKG: C-12 VR, 414 TL, 451 B matched pair, CK-91
• Neumann: M 147, KM 184 Stereo matched pair KM184
• Shure: SM57, Beta 58
• RODE: 2 NT-2 mics, NT-1
• Electro Voice:  ND-457 and vintage Shotgun mic

Instruments:

• Lowden S10-C, RT-1, S-22 12 string, O and S model Millennium Twins
• Fender Strat Plus Deluxe, Tele Plus, Jaguar, Precision Bass
• PRS Custom 24 Warwick
• Corvette 4-string fretless bass
• Martin 00-28 Eric Clapton signature model
• Danelectro Electric 12-string guitar
• Gibson vintage lap steel and wooden body Dobro/BMI double neck pedal steel
• Yamaha GA-1 6 foot Baby Grand piano
• Roland JX-8P
• GI-10 Guitar
• MIDI Converter
• KORG MS-2000   

Amplifiers:

•  Fender 1967 and 1972 Bassman heads, Blues Deluxe, Stage Chorus, Bronco
• Mesa Boogie Lonestar
  Music Man RD-112
  Seymour Duncan Convertible
  SWR California Blonde