Big Rock Studio Technologies's Info

While Big Rock Studio Technologies primarily provides services to the pro audio and video markets with our superior knowledge of DAW hardware and software and making it all work. We are also called upon for our superb recording and editing capabilities. We can also provide television and radio ads (jingle's, editing, scripting etc), as well as, PC and MAC computer building and servicing.

The Dungeon @ Big Rock located in historic Stone Mountain, Georgia is Atlanta's best kept recording secret... Digital recording laced with analog styling's. With years of experience we believe it's the engineer who gets the best sound.

The Dungeon @ Big Rock Recording Studio is Atlanta's true source for high quality digital media recording and production. The studio has grown into our own to provide local signed and unsigned artists with radio ready productions. Every project is done to the best of our ability within the allotted time frame. Our professional staff of engineers and producers work with you to ensure your projects get the very best attention.

Big Rock Studio Technologies Recording Studio is a songwriters dream. We are staffed with engineers and producers who are also musicians. With an array of keyboards, outboard gear, guitars, basses, drums and percussion, the sound you are looking for is here. We can help with vocal lines, arraignments, instrument voicing and the overall feel of the song.

Stop by and say hello, meet the staff and hear what out room sounds like before you make a decision.

Big Rock Studio Technologies's Engineer Info

Lead Engineer/Studio Manager and Studio Drummer Steve Waide has been involved in the music industry as a player, sound engineer and recording engineer for over 30 years. Steve has been working with live sound since the early days of his career.

Steve got into the recording aspect of the business while doing his first record in 1976 after winning a battle of the bands competition. In those days recording on 4-track and 8-track analog tape decks Steve tried to get in every studio he could find even if it was just to hang around. By 1984 Steve was recording demos with Joe Loftis and The Pinks in Nashville. During that time Steve had the privilege of working in various studios on Music Row and was able to learn tricks from some of the best engineers and producers around. Steve returned to school in the late 80's and received his Bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering Technology. He has recently received an MBA in Information Technology with honors. The experiences he has gained in 30 years of playing and recording music, combined with his 25+ years of electronics and 16 years as a programmer/network analyst/computer engineer have made Steve one of the best Digital Audio Engineers in Atlanta.


In 1996 Steve decided to start building what is now known as Big Rock Studio Technologies. This studio contains the very latest in hardware and software and is designed to get the best sounds possible. With an in-depth knowledge of acoustics, outboard gear, computer hardware and software, Steve is ready to use the best of both worlds to make you sound your best.

Big Rock Studio Technologies's Gear Info

Amps and Cabs
Behringer V-Amp PreAmp Line-6 Bass POD PreAmp Peavey MKIV Bass Head Peavey 2-10" ∓ 1-18" Speaker Cabinet 1960's Ampeg B-15 Bass cabinet with original speaker 80's Ampeg B-15-TEV Hartke Systems HA3500 AMP Hartke Systems Transporter 15" Hartke Systems XL Series 4x10" 1969 Ampeg 8x10 Cab 70's Traynor 8x10 Cab 70's Acoustic 150 Head 70's Acoustic 162 Combo 70's Sunn Beta Bass Combo 70's VOX Essex Bass Combo 50's Silvertone 1392 Tube Amp Line-6 Flextone Plus w/ floorboard controller Carvin SX300 1968 Fender Twin Reverb 1962 Haynes 80's Yamaha TS50 (Soldano Designed) Laney 2x12 closed back cabinet 80's Randall Covered in Snake Skin GK 412 Cabinet 2 - Marshall Model 5005--LEAD 12's each with different speaker combination's. Pignose Portable Amp Orange G15R Epiphone Valve jr Crate 4x8" cab

Compressors/Limiters/Gates
DBX 166 Aliesis 3630 Compressor

Consoles
Mackie 32x8 w/ meter bridge, Yamaha RM-804

Converters
DigiDesigns Digi-002R, MOTU 2408 mkII, MOTU 24i, Ederol S/PDif, MidiSport 2x2, ISIS Maxi Studio

Equalizers
Roland SEQ-315 Graphic EQ 3-Behringer Ultra-Graph Pro EQ's Custom Built Turner Engineering 1/3rd octave EQ

Instruments
Keyboards Gilbrasen Spinet Acoustic Piano Hammond L100 Roland VK-7 Yamaha CP-70 Roland RD-300 Guitars/Basses 1974 Hagstrom Swede Epiphone Dot Epiphone SG Special Epiphone '56 Les Paul Gold top Reissue Fender Squire Bullet Fender MIM Telecaster 3-Fender MIM Stratocasters Tokai Goldstar Sound '62 Strat Copy Johnson H-440 Las Vegas Carlos 12-String Acoustic Washburn D10 Acoustic Hofner Clasical Guitar FAME Acoustic/Electric from the early 70's Ovation Baladeer A/E Fender CD60 Acoustic Fender Jazz Bass Fender Squire II P-Bass Rouge 5 String Japanese Import Viola Style Bass Dean Acoustic/Electric Bass Drums 1920's Slingerland 14"x14" Marching Snare (original gut heads and snares) 1930's Gretsch 7x14 Maple Snare (rebuilt w/ modern heads lugs and throwoff) 1959 White Mother of Pearl Ludwig 5.5"x14" Maple Snare 1963 White Mother of Pearl Ludwig 5.5"x14" Maple Snare Pre-1963 Premier 4.5"x14" (metric) Maple Snare 1960's Ludwig Acrolite 5.5"x14" Steel Snare 1960's Ludwig 5.5"x14" Supraphonic Snare 1960's Matador Blue Swirl 5.5"x14" Wood Snare 1980's Slingerland Aluminum 5.5"x14" Snare 1970's Ludwig Acrolite 5.5"x14" Steel Snare 1970's Premier Olympic 5.5x14" Steel Snare 1980's Ludwig 6"x14" Maple Snare Modified "OCP style" 1980's Ludwig Acrolite 5.5"x14" Steel Snare 1980's Ludwig Blakolite 5.5"x14" Steel Snare 1980's Slingerland 14"x14" Marching Snare 1980's Pearl 5.5"x14" Steel Snare 1980's Tama 2" x 12" Steel Snare 1980's Pearl 6.5" x 14" Free Floating Steel Snare 1980's Pearl 3" x 13" Brass Snare 1963 Ludwig 3-Piece Kit WMP 1967 Ludwig 5-Piece Kit Sky Blue Pearl 1968 Rogers Cleveland era 5-Piece kit 9-72 Rogers Big "R" 4-piece maple shell 1980's Pearl Session Series Birch Shell 6-piece kit 1990's Premier XPK 6-piece kit Aspire Conga set Matador Timbale's Matador Quinto and Congo Set Mienl Bongos Various Zildjian, Sabian, Rancan, Zyn, Mienl, Piaste cymbals, Various hand percussion

Microphones
AKG C414B ULS AKG D-880 AKG D-770 Beyer Dynamic M500 (Dynamic) Matched Pair MXL 603S Mogami Matched Pair MXL 993 MXL 990 3-CAD M9 Tube Mics 2-CAD NDM-10's CAD NDM-11 NADY RSM-2 Ribbon Mic RODE NT-1 2-RODE NT-2's RODE NT-2A Matched Pair Oktava MC012-01 Oktava MK-219 Oktava MK-319 4-Sennheiser e604's Sennheiser e602 3-Sennheiser e-815S's Shure KSM-27 4-Shure SM-58's 7-Shure SM-57's Shure Beta 87a Shure Beta 58 Shure Beta 52 Shure 710-A 2-Shure Omnidyne 578's Stromberg Carlson 6041 Audio Technica ATM75 Electro-Voice TR410L Electro-Voice EV660 2-Audix i5 Superlux ECO-H6A Audio Technica Pro-44 Omni-Directional Boundary 2-Zildjian/Barcus Berry ZMC-10 Cymbal Mic Systems

MIDI
MOTU MIDI Express Roland MPU-104 ∓ MPU-105 Roland D-110 EMU Proteus 2000 MidiTech MidiStudio 49 Key Midi/USB Controller Native Instruments(NI) B4 NI FM7 NI PRO-52 NI Absynth Roland Virtual Sound Canvas DXi IK Multimedia SampleTank 1.0

Monitoring Systems
Hafler TA1100, Tascam PA-20 MK II, Altec 1593B, Alto 6-ch Headphone Amp, Hafler M5, Tannoy PBM-8, OHM E2 Reference, Realistic Minimus-7

Outboard Effects
Lexicon MPX-200 Multi Effects Processor VOX V941 Effects Loop Buffer Boss DE-200 Digital Delay 2-Behringer Virtualizers ART ProVerb Tapco 4400 Spring Reverb Thompson TAD-4 Analog Delay

Preamps
2-Art Dual MP Tube Pres, RSP Technologies Saturator 2 Channel Tube PreAmp, Joe Meek VC-3, Studio Projects VTB-1

Recorders and DAWs
G4 MAC - Dual 1.25 ghz processors, Super Drive and Combo Drive, 80Gig System Drive, 120Gig External FW Data Drive, 1GB RAM, OS-X, MOTU PCI-324 Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz and 1066fsb, 4GB DDR Ram, 2 - 20x DVD Dual Layer +/-R/RW burner, 500GB SATA System Drive, 500GB SATA Data Drive, WinXP Pro, MOTU PCI-424 3GHz PC - Intel P4 3GHz processor 800MHz front-side Buss, CD R/W, DVD+R RW, 120Gig System Drive, 120Gig Data Drive, 1GB RAM, WinXP Pro, MOTU PCI-324 PowerPC - 150MHz Power PC 604 processor, Built-in SVHS and Composite Video inputs, 1Gig System drive, 40Gig External SCSI Drive, 256K RAM, OS-9 Sony MDS-JE500 MiniDisk Recorder Player, Sony TC-WE305 Dual Cassette Deck, Roland VS-840GX Otari MX5000 2-track, Fostex Model-80 (8 track analog), Sony Umatic SP VO-9850, ADAT XT TASCAM 8516B

Software
Nuendo 2.x,3.x, Cubase SX 1.x/2.x, Cubase VST 3.7.x, Pro-Tools 6.x/7.x, Logic Audio 5.x/6.x PC/MAC, Sonar 2 XL/4.x/5.x, DigitalPerformer 4.x, WaveLab 4.x/5.x, Cool-Edit Pro, Adobe Audition, Sparke ME, Nero Wave Editor Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Quark Xpress, Nero Cover Designer, MediaFace II Nero Burning Rom, Easy CD/DVD Creator, iDVD, iMovie, Sonic MyDVD, Avid Video Shop, ArcSoft ShowBiz, MGI VideoWave 4, Ulead VideoStudio, QuickTime Pro, Vegas Video Sonic Foundry ACID 2.0, Propeller Head Reason 2.5/3.x, ReBirth 2, Ableton Live 2.1, WaveMachine Labs Drumagog 3, Waves Diamond Buldle, Various DirectX, VST, RTAS and AU Effects Plugins

Video
Dazzle Multimedia DM2200 Hollywood 1394 DV and Analog Video Bridge

Big Rock Studio Technologies's Clients Include:

Dragon Path Music/Frank French Recording
Helium 4 Music
Harrison House Studios
Andy Hill Studios
Lake Front Studios
Southern Acoustics/Penthouse Studios
RGS Productions - The Recording Guy's Studio
Blaze Music Group
Geormac Publishing
Five Feathers Music
Jeff Hardy Music Studios
EZ B Productions
WAR Records

Big Pappy Hinds Band
Buck O' Five
Candy Angel
Clusters of Grey
Cougar Bait
Dance Out Loud
Frantic
Force of Habit
Hung Jury
Jared Munday Project
Jonathan Druker
Joe Saulter
Kasper Rouser and the 911 Band
Luna and Sol
Madison Park
Makina Loca
Michael Allman Band
Michael Jamsmith
Moose Denton
Mystica
Otis Reading III
Poor Otis
PTFB (Party Time Funk Band)
Segue
Souther Comfort
Rekha Radhakrishnan
The Axis Experience
The Danny Kordz Adventure
The ISSUES
The Love Adgenda
The Shawn Wilcox Band
Tony Wessels
Tye Gaffney
Zen Circus

Big Brinks
EZ B Greensocks
George Clinton
HeataMan
Kilo
Pastor Troy
Mina
Misha Fair
Mista Pike
Slim De Leon

And Many More

Big Rock Studio Technologies's Services Include:

Recording and Mixing
Remote Recording
Live Sound Engineering
Mastering
Restoration
Programming
Audio Transfers
Production/Consulting
Songwriting
Video Production
Graphic Design CD/DVD
Other