STEAKHOUSE,THE
Steve Lukather and Tom Fletcher (producer of => "Candyman") build their own
recordingstudio in 1996 and named it The Steakhouse. Jeff Beck, Lukather's
all time idol, recorded an album in The Steakhouse which
was to be produced by Steve Lukather [this album was never released since Beck wasn't satisfied with it].
The studio was started by Rich and Lee Bench before Tom and Steve got
involved. For the technically interested: installed in the control room at
The Steakhouse is the Mackie console configuration. It's a 32-channel 8 Bus
linked to two 24 channel expanders. This Mackie rig is routed to a 24-track
Studer 2-inch analog machine that lives side-by-side with three TASCAM
DA-88's.
Flecher describes the outboard gear situation: "Along with the Mackie
console, we're using the new tube stuff from Aphex-mic preamps, EQs and
compressors-and combining those with the Studer Valve preamps and tape
machine and Neumann, Sennheiser, and Audio-Technica mics. And there's a few
Shure '57's in there, too. It doesn't matter what you're using, it's just
got to sound good." Lukather agrees:"If an amp sounds like crap, the guitar
is going to sound that way no matter what mic you put in front of it. I have
been collecting gear for years and have all these great old amps-it's like a
dinosaur burial ground for old gear." (from the november 1996 EQ
magazine).
In october 1999, The Steakhouse updated me on the Steakhouse studio equipment:
The info on the mixing board in The Steakhouse is very outdated. Our
present board is a DDA-AMR24 board, and later this month we will be installing
the largest Vintage EMI NEVE mixing desk in the world.... This board has been
called the greastest NEVE built.
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