The Full Recording Studio Equipment List, North Hollywood
Weddington Studios · July 31, 2026
Most studios make you dig for an equipment list, and when you find one, the fine print starts: the good mic costs extra, the A room has the real chain, the budget room gets whatever was left over. Weddington Studios publishes everything, because the list is the pitch. Four rooms in North Hollywood's NoHo Arts District, from $20 to $30 an hour, and the core recording chain is identical in all of them.
This is the full tour, room by room: every microphone, interface, and monitor, plus the shared chain and plugin suite that every session gets. The short version up front: you pick your room for the vibe and the mic. You never pick it for the quality.
The Phantom, the Flagship
The Phantom is the premium vocal room, $30 an hour or $210 for an 8-hour block, and the only room in the building with the Sony C800G, the bright, forward tube mic behind two decades of major-label rap vocals. Overhead, a fiber optic starfield ceiling turns the lights down into something worth writing under. If the vocal is the whole point of your session, this is the room.
- Sony C800G tube microphone (exclusive to this room, $35 add-on in session pricing)
- UAD Apollo X8P interface
- Avantone CLA-10 and ADAM Audio A77 monitors
- JL Audio 12-inch subwoofer
- Dangerous Music Monitor ST monitor controller
The Weddington, the Heritage Room
The Weddington is the soul of the building, $30 an hour or $210 for a block, named for the 1920s Weddington family of North Hollywood (the studio sits on Weddington Street). Edison bulbs, reclaimed wood, and the house photo give it a heritage speakeasy feel that fits soulful vocal takes and songwriter sessions.
- Neumann U87 microphone
- UAD Apollo X8P interface
- Avantone CLA-10 and Focal Twin6 monitors
- ADAM 12-inch subwoofer
- Dangerous Music Monitor ST monitor controller
The Brick Room, the Mixer's Favorite
The Brick Room runs $25 an hour or $170 for a block, washed in red and teal light over exposed brick. Clients name it their favorite room to mix in, and the monitoring explains why: two flavors of JBL to check a mix against, with a Dangerous Music D-Box handling the switching.
- Neumann U87 microphone
- UAD Apollo 8 interface
- JBL 305 and JBL 308 monitors
- Dangerous Music D-Box
The Vault, the $20 Room That Gives Up Nothing
The Vault is a converted fireproof vault, $20 an hour or $135 for a block, wrapped in geometric neon LED with the portal wall as your backdrop. It is the entry price with maximum vibe and the room behind the #smallroombigsongs tag. The chain inside is the same one the $30 rooms run.
- Neumann U87 microphone
- UAD Apollo 8 interface
- Yamaha HS7 monitors
- Drawmer CMC3 monitor controller
The Chain and Plugins Every Room Shares
Here is why your room choice never touches quality. Every room in the building records through the same money chain and finishes in the same software. We wrote a full breakdown of what the 1073 and CL1B do to a vocal; the short version is weight on the way in and smooth, musical control on top of it.
- Neve 1073LB preamp
- Tube-Tech CL1B tube compressor
- Pro Tools 2024 on a Mac Pro with 64GB RAM and 1TB storage
- Antares Auto-Tune Unlimited, Melodyne, and Synchro Arts VocAlign for tuning and alignment
- Waves Mercury and SSL bundles, FabFilter Pro, SoundToys 5.3, Plugin Alliance
- Valhalla Vintage FX, Safari Pedals, Cradle God Particle, IK Multimedia, UAD Spark
How to Pick Your Room
Start with the mic. If you want the bright, cutting sound of a modern rap vocal, the Phantom's C800G is the reason to spend the extra $10 an hour over the Vault. If your material is melodic, soulful, or spoken (the U87 is broadcast friendly for podcasts too), any of the other three rooms captures it warm and detailed, and you choose on atmosphere: speakeasy wood, glowing brick, or neon vault. On price, even the top rate here sits at the low end of LA (here is how those rates compare across the city).
Then just book it. Every reservation works the same way: you request your time, a deposit holds any room, the studio confirms fast by text, and nothing is charged until it is approved. Your first booking creates your account, and a named parking spot with your name printed on a sign is waiting when you pull up. Full specs for all four rooms live on the full equipment list.
Quick answers
Which room at Weddington Studios has the best equipment?+
None of them wins on the chain, because all four run the Neve 1073LB, Tube-Tech CL1B, Pro Tools 2024, and the full plugin suite. The Phantom stands apart only because it carries the Sony C800G microphone.
How much does each room cost?+
The Phantom and The Weddington are $30 an hour or $210 for an 8-hour block. The Brick Room is $25 an hour or $170 per block, and The Vault is $20 an hour or $135. A deposit holds any room.
Is the microphone different in each room?+
The Phantom runs the Sony C800G, bright and forward, the modern rap vocal standard. The Weddington, the Brick Room, and the Vault all run the Neumann U87, which is warm, detailed, and flattering on melodic vocals.
Do the cheaper rooms get a smaller plugin suite?+
No. Every room runs the identical suite, including Auto-Tune Unlimited, Melodyne, FabFilter Pro, SoundToys, Waves Mercury, and the rest. A $20 Vault session opens the same software as a $30 Phantom session.
