Black Bamboo Studios

Black Bamboo Studios is Allan Thomas’ personal recording studio and songwriting room. Located on the North Shore of Kauai, BBS provides professional overdubbing, editing and mixing services, as well as song co-authoring, studio guitar work and performance consulting and production. Allan’s services and his studio are available by appointment. Arrangements can be made for a live tracking space in Kauai.

For more information or to set up studio time, please contact me.

Equipment List

Computer

  • iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch)

  • Processor: 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7

  • Memory: 32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Plugins

  • Universal Audio: various

  • Amplitube4

  • Antares Autotune

  • SampleTank4

  • Stylus/RMX

  • Waves

Outboard

  • Universal Audio Apollo Twin X

  • Universal Audio Apollo UAD2 rack mount

  • Universal Audio UAD-2 Satellite

  • KRK V8 monitors

  • Brent Averill Neve 1272 two channel pre-amp

  • Equitech balanced power system

  • Avalon mic pre

  • 3 Glyph hard drives

  • Apple CD recorder drive

Microphones

  • Neumann U87ai

  • Sanken CU-44X (2)

  • AKG 414 B-ULS (2)

  • AKG 415 E

  • AKG 415 EB

  • Neumann KMS 105

  • Senheiser 421

  • Shure sm57 (4)

Instruments

  • Carr Rambler guitar amp

  • Collings OM3 cutaway acoustic

  • Sadowsky custom nylon electric

  • Sadowsky custom Tele standard

  • Steinberger Trans-Trem electric

  • Keystation 49 MK3 keyboard

Strings