Instruments

Keyboards

  • Yamaha Baby Grand 61

  • 1976 Hammond B3 Organ

  • Rotating Leslie 122 Cabinet

  • Wurlitzer Electric Piano (needs work)

Drums

  • Yamaha 5 piece Recording Custom

  • Gretsch 4 piece Vintage

  • (2) Ludwig Vintage Toms 12" 15" (gift to Levon from Ringo Starr)

  • (1) Marching Bass Drum (Low End for Days !)

  • Various Percussion (too much to mention)

  • (2) Gretsch Kits (Levon’s)

  • Selected snare drums from Ludwig, Slingerland, Gretsch, Rogers, Yamaha, Pearl and Bradey

  • Selected vintage wood & metal marching snare drums & Tom Toms

  • All Cymbals by Zildjian (too many to list)

Amps

  • (2) Roland JC120

  • Fishman Loud Box 100 Acoustic Instrument Amplifier

  • Fishman Loud Box Performer Acoustic Instrument Amplifier

  • Gallien Krueger 800RB bass amp head

  • 4 x 10" Genz Benz bass cabinet

  • Fender Tweed Bassman 4 X 10"

  • Orange tiny terror amp

  • Supro Delta King 12

All Cabling by:

  • Mogami, Belden, Monster, and Planet Waves

Recorders

  • Digidesign Pro Tools HD3 Accel

  • (2) Digidesign 192 I/O with Expansion 32 A/D 16 D/A

  • Apogee Big Ben Master Clock

  • MCI Analog 2" 24trk

  • Plug-Ins by Massey, Bombfactory, Focusrite, Digidesign, and more.

Consoles

  • Behringer X32 (FOH/MON)

  • Midas Venice, 32 channel

  • WEM AudioMaster with Spring Reverb

PA SYSTEM

MAINS

  • (2) D&B Vi10P 3 way point source speakers

  • (2) D&B Vi7P 3 way point source speakers

  • (1) D&B Vi subwoofer

  • (2) D&B 12S subwoofer

FILLS

  • (7) D&B 8S loudspeakers

  • (2) D&B 5S loudspeakers

AMPS

  • D&B 10D amp

  • D&B 30D amp

FOH CONSOLE

  • DigiCo S31

  • MADI card

  • Dante card

  • DigiCo D2 cat6 MADI stage rack

MONITOR CONSOLE

  • Behringer X32

  • S32 stage box

LIVESTREAM CONSOLE

  • Behringer X32

  • S32 stage box

MONITORS

  • (4) db Technologies M12-4 plus active monitors

  • (2) Meyer sound UM-1P active monitors

  • (2) D&B Max2 passive stage monitors

Outboard Gear

Compressors

  • Gate STA - Level Vintage Custom (5 Stage Recovery Settings)

  • (2) UREI LA - 3A Leveling Amplifier

  • Neve 33609 Compressor/Limiter

  • (2) Empirical Labs EL8 Distressors

  • DBX 160

Channel Strips

  • Universal Audio 6176 6108B Tube Preamplifier 1176LN Limiting Amplifier

Additional Pre-Amps

  • Vintech Audio Model - 473 Class A All Discrete (4 Channels)

  • API 3124 (4-channels)

Microphones

Tube Mics

  • Neumann U47

  • Audio Technica 4060

  • Avantone CV12

  • Rode NTK

Ribbon Mics

  • (2) Avantone CR14

Condenser Mics

  • (4) Neumann U87

  • (2) Neumann KM 184

  • (2) Neumann TLM 103

  • (2) Soundelux U195

  • Audio Technica 4050

  • (2) Audio Technica 4047

  • Shure SM81

  • (2) Rode NT5

  • (2) EV Cardinal

Dynamic Mics

  • (2) AKG D112

  • Shure Beta 52

  • (8) Shure SM57

  • (15) Shure SM58

  • (4) Sennheiser MD421

  • (2) EV RE20

  • EV RE27ND

  • (2) EV Raven

  • (2) EV N/D 468

Monitors

Wedges

  • (4) dB Technologies: M12-4 Plus, Bi-amp H Class (Active)

  • (2) Meyer sound: UM-1P (Active)

  • (3) Passive JBL speakers on a single dedicated channel via a QSC amp

Studio Monitors

  • Adam P11 Active Studio Monitors

  • Yamaha NS - 10M

Headphones

  • Sony MDR 7506

  • Audio Technica ATH-M40fs

Cue System

  • Furman HDS 6 Cue system

  • (10) Furman HR 6 Substations

DI's

  • Fishman Loud Box 100

  • Acoustic Instrument Amplifier / DI

  • Fishman Loud Box Performer

  • Acoustic Instrument Amplifier / DI

  • Fishman Pro EC Platinum

  • Whirlwind MULTI-DIRECTOR 4 Channel

  • (4) Whirlwind EDB 1

  • (2) Radial passive DIs

  • Radial Active DI

Lighting

  • Jands Stage CL

  • (3) Chauvet Ovation E160WW Lekos with 26d barrel at FOH position

  • (2) Chauvet SlimPAR H6 at FOH high wash position

  • (4) Chauvet SlimPAR H6 on upstage wall cross stage wash (2 per side)

  • (2) Chauvet SlimPAR H USB on downstage beam stage left and right (1 each side)

  • (4) Chauvet COLORband H9 USB (2 each SL and SR)

VIDEO Webcasting + recording

Levon Helm Studios offers a fully 4k-capable multi-cam recording studio for live concert production as well as full HD live streaming. In it's base configuration the studio houses the following:

  • Handheld DVX200 4k handheld camera recording 4k video internally

  • 2 x Panasonic HN70 4k PTZ Robotic Cameras with remote operator controls

  • 2 x Marshall CV420 fixed position cameras

  • Blackmagic Television Studio 4K Vision mixer running full HD live mix of the 5 cameras recording a Full HD Program Master and streaming live to a dedicated paywall

  • Cameras recorded at 29.97p in up to ProRes 422HQ (DVX200 limited to internal 4k codec)

The studio can also facilitate a live 4K event with up to 8 4k 12G cameras with a 4k Program Master. Streaming at Full HD.


Any questions about studio booking and in-house performance + recording equipment can be directed to our house production manager, Brendan McDonough (brendan@levonhelm.com).