Electraphonic Recording is a full-service recording studio located at Sam Phillips Recording Studio B, and offers full music production and engineering services for all media—including film, tv and advertising. We offer both analog and digital recording, and have a large and unique selection of vintage microphones, outboard gear, keyboards, amplifiers and drums.The studio features an MCI 416B recording console—the same console used in the 1970s by Muscle Shoals Sound, Criteria Studio in Miami, Willie Mitchell's Royal Studio, Allen Toussaint’s Sea-Saint Studio in New Orleans and King Tubby. We also have a Scully 280 1" 8-Track Tape Machine used at Stax, American Studios, Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals, Ardent, and on classic albums such as Pet Sounds and Electric Ladyland.

Equipment

Console
MCI 416B 24 input console

Recorders
Scully 1" 8 Track Analog
Scully ¼" 2 track Analog
Ampex 351 mono full track ¼” Analog – from the estate of Les Paul
Protools with Aurora Lynx Converters
Universal Audio, Sound Toys, iZotope and SSL Plugins

Microphones
Vintage Neumann U48
Vintage Neumann U87
(2)RCA DX77 ribbon mics
Altec 639B – from the estate of Les Paul
Altec M11 “Coke Bottle” 21D capsule tube mic
AKG 451 vintage original matched stereo pair with ck-1 capsules
AKG D12
AEA R88 MKII Stereo Ribbon
Many great dynamic and ribbon mics by EV, Shure, Altec, Beyerdynamic and various oddball mics

Outboard Gear
Ampex 3761 Tube Mixer
(2) Spectrasonics 101 mic pres with 501 EQ
Spectrasonics 610 Complimiter
(4) Altec 1566a tube mic pres
Altec 436C Limiter
Gates Duomote mixer with tube mic pre
Berlant Concertone Tube mic pre/DI
(2) Langevin 5116 Tube Mic Pre
(2) Langevin 251A Passive Equalizers
(4) CAPI VP26 Mic Pre
AEA TRP2
API 550A EQ
Vintech X73 mic pre/eq (Neve 1073)
Gates Sta-Level Tube Limiter
JFL Audio CLF5 limiter
Lucas Tube Parametic EQ
Lucas Tube Graphic EQ
Universal Audio 1176 LN
(2) Universal Audio LA3A
Tube Tech LCA2B stereo tube compressor
Alan Smart C1 Compressor
Roland Space Echo RE-201
Orban 111B Spring Reverb
Surfy Bear Studio Spring Reverb
Audicon Plate Reverb


Keyboards, samplers, drum machines
Hammond Organ and Leslie
Fender Rhodes Suitcase 88
Wurlitzer Electric Piano
Wurlitzer Electric Piano (tube model)
Baldwin Acrosonic Piano
Farfisa Compact
ARP Quartet
Nord Electro 61
Maestro Rhythm King

Drums
2 Vintage Ludwig Kits
20" Bass drum, 16" Floor Tom, 13" Rack Tom
22" Bass drum, 16" Floor Tom, 14" Rack Tom
Vintage Rogers Londoner kit
Many different snare drums

Amplifiers
Fender Silverface Super Reverb
Fender Silverface Deluxe Reverb
Fender Silverface Vibro Champ
Fender Tweed Deluxe Clone
Hinson custom combo amp
Hinson custom Vox AC30 style head with 2 12” cabinet w/ vintage Vox style speakers
Maganatone M15 (true stereo vibrato)
Gibson GA-5 Skylark
Magnatone Custom 410
Ampeg B15
Ampeg V4B and 4 10" cab

Tons of random 50s/60s tube guitar amps

Instruments
Early 70s Fender telecaster
Fender Stratocaster
Gibson 335 w/ Humbuckers
Gibson 335 w/ P90s
Gibson Les Paul Jr
Gibson LG-2 Acoustic
Gibson J160E Acoustic
Gibson J40 Acoustic
Gibson LG-2 Acoustic
Gretsch Country Gentleman
Kent Baritone Guitar
Danelectro 6 string bass
1964 Fender Precision Bass
1973 Fender Precision Bass
Fender Jazz Bass
Harmony H-22 Bass
1940s Kay Upright Bass
Many guitar pedals from Electro-Harmonix, Maestro and more
Jenco 3 Octave Vibraphone
Jenco Celeste

We have other equipment available upon request

CLIENTS

Netflix
Concord/Stax Records
BMW
Paramount Pictures
NBC Golf Channel
DJ Shadow
Cyndi Lauper
Al Green
Jay Reatard
Deke Dickerson
MTV/VH1
CMT
Fat Possum Records
Memphis Chamber of Commerce
Norton Records