The Crucible is a multi-channel digital recording studio nestled in beautiful Eldorado Springs, CO, a scenic 15 minute drive from downtown Boulder, or an easy 25 minutes from Denver. Built from the ground up in 2001, The Crucible boasts a floating tracking room, an Amek Big mixing console, Pro Tools HD, Wadia and Otari Radar II 24 analog to digital converters, a Lucid GenX 96 time clock and a 32 c
hannel Pro Control mixing surface. Top of the line Green Range Focusrite (Rupert Neve and George Martin designed), Red 3 and Grace preamps; Genelec, Yamaha, Grace and Sennheiser monitoring; six channels of Empirical Labs compressors and Waves L2 hardware limiters; Lexicon 960L reverb and (4) Eventide Orville effect processors;5 Fender, Martin, Taylor, Modulus and G&L guitars and basses; Vox, Eden, ashdown, Marshall and Ampeg amplifiers; DW drums, vintage Ludwig drums; vintage and modern keyboards including a 1956 Hammond B3, Wurlitzer, Fender Rhodes, Juno 60, Kurzweil K2600x, XV5080, Yamaha piano, and a plethora of microphones, including the astounding unmodified vintage tube Nuemann U47. These amazing tools combine with Eldorado Springs water and breath-taking views to create one of the world’s most spirited recording environment in the world.
