EQUIPMENT
Studio 87 offers an authentic professional studio experience with a wide tonal range of equipment that blends analog and digital systems. In the connection layout designed by the prestigious musician and Berklee graduate Ergin Özler and installed by Mustafa Cengiz, one of Turkey’s most respected names in professional AV cabling systems, sound flows through the cables without any quality loss… Both areas of the studio are connected to a 6 kVa UPS system, and the grounding level measures at 2.6 — far below the legal reference value of 7. These factors are critical to ensure the studio's audio systems remain clean and free of interference.
Our desk and its layout were designed by Ahmet Vefik Aris, a respected instructor and audio engineer at Galatasaray ITM. You can find the complete list of instruments, microphones, recording equipment, computer system specs, software, and all digital effects/plugins used at Studio 87 in the list below…
Instruments, Equipment and Software…
EQUIPMENT
Drums and Piano
+- Drum Set 1 (jazz/soul):
- Tama SPL Fat Spruce (Kick, double tom)
- Pearl Modern Utility Maple Snare, 14 x 5.5 inch
- Istanbul Agop Mel Lewis Ride, 19 inch
- Istanbul Mehmet Turk Crash, 16 inch
- Istanbul Agop Turk Hihat, 14 inch
- Drum Set 2 (rock):
- Tama Stagestar (kick, triple tom, snare)
- Istanbul Agop Xist Natural Crash, 16 inch
- Istanbul Agop Xist Natural Crash, 18 inch
- Istanbul Agop Xist Natural Ride, 20 inch
- Istanbul Agop Xist Natural Hihat, 14 inch
- Piano:
- Kaiser, 2004 model acoustic piano (German made)
Microphones
+- Universal Audio Sphere DLX
- Microphone Parts T12 Platinum (AKG C12 clone, American made)
- Microphone Parts T47 (Neumann U47 FET clone, American made)
- Neumann TLM103
- Sennheiser e935 (2 units)
- Sennheiser e945
- Sennheiser e835
- AKG D112 MKII
- Lewitt LCT 040 (matched pair)
- Shure SM-57 (3 units)
- Shure Super 55
Preamps
+- Focusrite ISA ONE
- Universal Audio Apollo Twin X
- Focusrite Clarrett+ 8pre
- Triton Audio FetHead
- Triton Audio FetHead Germanium
Tape Deck
+- Teac V-770 (functioning as tape machine, three-head)
Computer
+- Apple Mac Studio M2 Max 2023
Speakers and Power Amplifiers
+- Custom three-way speakers made by Mahir Can Küçük, Baltic birch plywood closed cabinet (35-25,000 Hz)
- Yamaha NS-10M Studio
- Auratone Supercube 5C
- Pioneer SA-940
- Dual CV-1260
DAW and PLUGINS
DAW
+- Avid Pro Tools Studio 11 (Current perpetual license)
- Apple Logic Pro 11
- Reaper 7
ARTURIA
+- Analog Lab
- Clavinet V
- CMI V
- CS-80 V
- CZ V
- DX7 V
- Filter MS-20 V
- Jupiter-8 V
- Matrix-12 V
- Mellotron V
- Mini V
- Prophet V
- SEM V
- Solina V
- Synclavier V
- Synthi V
- Tape MELLO-Fi
AUDIOTHING
+- FilterJam
- miniBit
- Moon Echo
- Speakers
- Springs
- Things Texture
- Type A
BABY AUDIO
+- Comeback Kid
- Crystalline
- Magic Dice
- Magic Switch
- Spaced Out
BLUE CAT AUDIO
+- BC Chorus 4
- BC Flanger 3
- BC Phaser 3
CABLEGUYS
+- HalfTime
- ShaperBox
CELEMONY
+- Melodyne 5 Editor
CYTOMIC
+- The Scream
D16 GROUP AUDIO
+- Decimort 2
- Frontier
- Repeater
EVENTIDE
+- Deboom
- SP2016
GOODHERTZ
+- Good Dither 3
- Lohi 3
- Megaverb 3
- Midside Matrix 3
- Vulf Compressor 3
IMPULSE RECORD
+- Convology XT
IZOTOPE
+- Neutron 3 Advanced
- Gate
- Equalizer
- Compressor
- Exciter
- Transient Shaper
- Sculptor
- Ozone 9 Advanced
- Dynamic EQ
- Dynamics
- Equalizer
- Exciter
- Imager
- Low End Focus
- Master Rebalance
- Match EQ
- Maximizer
- Spectral Shaper
- Vintage Compressor
- Vintage EQ
- Vintage Limiter
- Vintage Tape
- RX 9
- De-ess
- De-hum
- De-plosive
- De-reverb
- Guitar De-noise
- Mouth De-click
- Music Rebalance
- Spectral De-noise
- Spectral Editor
- Voice De-noise
- Tonal Balance Control 2
- Trash 2
- VocalSynth 2
- Nectar 3
- Neoverb
KAZROG
+- Synth Warmer
- True Iron
KLANGHELM
+- MJUC
- MJUCjr
- SDRR2
KLEVGRAND
+- DAW Cassette
- Guito
- Haaze 2
- Pipa
- REAMP
- STARK
- Svep
MCDSP
+- DE555
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS
+- Battery 4
- Kontakt 6
- Choral
- Driver
- Flair
- FM8
- Replica
- Solid Bus Comp
- Solid Dynamics
- Solid EQ
- Supercharger
- Transient Master
NEURAL DSP
+- Archetype: Cory Wong
- Archetype: Cory Wong X
- Archetype: Tim Henson
- Archetype: Tim Henson X
- Tone King Imperial MKII
NEWFANGLED AUDIO
+- EQuivocate
- Pendulate
OEKSOUND
+- Soothe
- Soothe2
- Spiff
PLUGIN ALLIANCE
+- AMEK EQ 200
- Ampeg B-15N
- Ampeg SVT-VR Classic
- Brainworx Cleansweep V2
- Brainworx Console SSL 4000 G
- Brainworx Console SSL 4000 E
- Brainworx Delay2500
- Brainworx Masterdesk Classic
- Brainworx Oberhausen
- Brainworx PanEQ
- Brainworx RockRack V3 Player
- Brainworx Solo
- Brainworx Stereomaker
- Brainworx Subfilter
- Brainworx XL V2
- dearVR Music
- elysia Alpha Master
- elysia Alpha Mix
- elysia Mpressor
- elysia Niveau Filter
- Lindell AD Channel
- MAAG EQ4
- MAAG MAGNUM-K
- MAAG EQ2
- Millennia NSEQ-2
- Schoeps Double MS
- SPL Free Ranger
- SPL Passeq Single
- SPL Transient Designer Plus
- SPL TwinTube
- SPL Vitalizer MK2-T
- Vertigo VSM-3
REVEAL SOUND
+- Spire
ROLAND CLOUD
+- D-50
- JD-800
- JV-1080
- System-1
- System-8
SAMPLESON
+- Electrix
- Glassy V16
SPECTRASONICS
+- Keyscape
SOFTUBE
+- British Class A
- Eden WT800
- FET Compressor Mk II
- Harmonics Analog Saturation Processor
- Model 84 Polyphonic Synthesizer (Juno 106)
- Saturation Knob
- Tape
- VCA Compressor
- Wasted Space
- Weiss Deess
SONNOX
+- Oxford Inflator
- Oxford TransMod
- Soften
SOUNDTHEORY
+- Gullfoss
- Gullfoss Live
- Gullfoss Master
SOUNDTOYS
+- Crystallizer
- Decapitator
- Devil-Loc
- Devil-Loc Deluxe
- EchoBoy
- EchoBoy Jr.
- Effect Rack
- FilterFreak
- FilterFreak 2
- Little AlterBoy
- Little MicroShift
- Little Plate
- Little PrimalTap
- Little Radiator
- MicroShift
- PanMan
- PhaseMistress
- PrimalTap
- Radiator
- Sie-Q
- SpaceBlender
- SuperPlate
- Tremolator
SSL
+- SSL Native Vocalstrip 2
- SSL Native X-Saturator
TAL (TOGU AUDIO LINE)
+- TAL-Reverb-4
- TAL-U-NO-LX V2 (Juno 60)
- TAL-Chorus-LX
- TAL-Filter
- TAL-Filter-2
- TAL-Reverb-2
- TAL-Reverb-3
- TAL-Vocoder-2
TOKYO DAWN LABS (TDR)
+- TDR Kotelnikov
- TDR Kotelnikov GE
- TDR Limiter 6 GE
- TDR Molotok
- TDR Nova
- TDR Nova GE
- TDR Prism
- TDR Slick EQ M
- TDR VOS Slick EQ
- TDR VOS Slick EQ GE
U-HE
+- ColourCopy
- Diva
- ProtoVerb
- Repro-1
- Repro-5
UNIVERSAL AUDIO
+- 1176 FET Compressor
- 1176 Rev A Compressor
- 1176AE Compressor
- 1176LN Rev E Compressor
- 175-B Compressor
- 176 Compressor
- Ampex ATR-102 Mastering Tape Recorder
- Brigade Chorus
- Capitol Chambers
- Century Tube Channel
- Empirical Labs Distressor
- Fairchild 660 Compressor
- Fairchild 670 Compressor
- Galaxy Tape Echo
- Teletronix LA-2 Compressor
- Teletronix LA-2A (Gray) Compressor
- Teletronix LA-2A (Silver) Compressor
- Teletronix LA-2A (Tube) Compressor
- LA-6176 Channel Strip
- Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb
- Manley VOXBOX Channel Strip
- Neve 1073 Preamp & EQ
- Neve 1084 Preamp & EQ
- Oxide Tape Recorder
- PolyMax Synth
- Pultec EQP-1A
- Pultec HLF-3C
- Pultec MEQ-5
- Pure Plate Reverb
- SSL G-Bus Compressor
- Studio D Compressor
- Verve Essentials
- Precision Channel Strip
- Precision De-Esser
- Precision EQ
UVI
+- FM Suite
- Super-7
VALHALLA DSP
+- Valhalla Freq Echo
- Valhalla Shimmer
- Valhalla Space Modulator
- Valhalla Supermassive
- Valhalla VintageVerb
WAVES
+- Butch Vig Vocals
- C6
- CLA Bass
- CLA Drums
- CLA Ecosphere
- CLA Effects
- CLA Epic
- CLA Guitars
- CLA Unplugged
- CLA Vocals
- CLA-76
- Doubler 2
- Doubler 4
- IR-L
- IR-L Efficient
- IR-L Full
- IR-1
- IR-1 Efficient
- IR-1 Full
- MetaFlanger
- PRS Archon
- PRS Dallas
- PRS V9
- PS-22 Split
- PS-22 Spread
- PS-22 Spread (10)
- PS-22 X-Split
- RBass
- RCompressor
- RDe-Esser
- REQ-2
- REQ-4
- REQ-6
- Reel ADT
- RVerb
- RVox
- S1 Imager
- S1 MS Matrix
- S1 Shuffler
- Sibilance
- Sibilance Live
- SoundShifter Pitch
- VEQ-3
- Vocal Rider
- Vocal Rider Live
- Waves Tune
XFER RECORDS
+- Serum
- Serum 2
WXAUDIO
+- NANI
XLN AUDIO
+- Addictive Drums 2
- Fairfax Vol. 1 (ADpak)
- Black Velvet (ADpak)
- Reel Machines (ADpak)
- Modern Soul & R&B (ADpak)
- Addictive Keys — Studio Grand
- Addictive Keys — Modern Upright
- Addictive Keys — Mark One
- Addictive Keys — Electric Grand
- RC-20 Retro Color