Tour

Please contact us to visit the studio.
info@thebridgesoundstage.com
(617) 714-5413

Clients

Amanda Palmer

Avi & Celia

Bella Rose Films

Benzino

Brittany Nicole

Bryant James

Bus Radio

Christian Davis

D-Tension

Din & Tonics

Dirt Boy The Movie

DJ Logic (Boot Camp Clik)

Dresden Dolls

Donna McElroy

Easy Listening The Movie

Edo. G

Frankie Wainwright

Hasbro Inc.

istarproductions

Interlock Media

Jordan Knight

Kara Tondrof

Killa Sha

Kool G. Rap

Masspike Miles

Murray Street Productions

Prospect (Terror Squad)

Sarah Colt Productions

Shabaam Sahdeeq

Sierra Games: Empire Earth

Smoke Bulga

Soundscape 2007

Tek (Boot Camp Clik & Smif ‘N’ Wessun)

Termanology

Tim Dog (Project X)

The Royalty

Vox Jazz

WGBH

XL (The Kreators)

Young Twinn

History

The Bridge Sound and Stage is located in the legendary 18 Edmunds street studio former home of Fort Apache Studios. Among the many major groups and artists who recorded at The Fort over the years are the Pixies, Radiohead, Superdrag, Come, Juliana Hatfield, Throwing Muses, Belly, Tanya Donelly, Buffalo Tom, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, The Lemonheads, Volcano Suns, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Elliott Smith, Eleventh Dream Day, The Connells, The Specials, Blake Babies, Weezer, Yo La Tengo, Warren Zevon, The Shods and Spore. Producers affiliated with the studio in the 1980s and 1990s included Lou Giordano, studio manager Gary Smith , Paul Kolderie, Sean Slade, and Tim O’Heir. Eventually, in the 1990s, The Fort was sold studio to partners Smith and Billy Bragg.

Since then, Paul Kolderie has continued to run the original Fort Apache studio location under the name Camp Street Studios. Owen Curtin and Janos Fulop operate the second facility as The Bridge Sound and Stage.

Gear

Microphones

  • Rode NT1
  • Royer R121
  • Shure KSM 141
  • Telefunkin MK2
  • Blue Baby Bottle
  • Groove Tubes GT55
  • Shiny Box Ribbon Mic
  • SE 2200 A
  • AKG D112
  • 2 Cascade Fat Heads
  • 2 AKG 414
  • SE Z5600A
  • 4 Shure SM57
  • 2 AT 8458
  • 2 Studio Projects C3
  • Shure Beta58A
  • Shure BG 1.1
  • Shure SM 58
  • Shure Beta 87A
  • Beyer Dynamic M69M (model C)
  • 3 Shure 819 PZM
  • Electro Voice Slim Air 626
  • Shure 55SH Series II

Pedals

  • Boss Compressor/Sustain
  • 2x DOD Envelope Filter
  • Boss Limiter/Enhancer (bass)
  • DOD PDS 1000 Delay
  • Ibanez Soundtank Tubescreamer
  • Ibanez Original Tubescreamer
  • MarshallGU2
  • Danelectro Coolcat
  • Crybaby Bass wah
  • Arion Octave Pedal
  • Vox Volume/Wah

Guitars/Basses

  • Alvarez System 500 II acousticelectric
  • Guild Mark IV
  • Custom Shop Fender Stratocaster (red sunburst)
  • Sledgehammer electric bass
  • Cort acoustic
  • Johnson national steel guitar
  • Tacoma acoustic
  • Guild S60D electric
  • American Fender Telecaster (blonde)
  • Custom Shop Fender Stratocaster (green)
  • Tobias Growler 5string bass
  • Upright bass 3/4 scale

Monitoring

  • Mackie HR824s
  • Yamaha NS10s
  • Tannoy Precision 6″s
  • Tannoy Precision 8″s
  • 5 Sony MDR7506 headphones
  • Audio Technica ATHM20 headphones

Amplifiers:

  • Ampeg G110
  • Fender Yale Reverb
  • Fender Keyboard 60
  • Fender VibroKing Tube Amp
  • Fender Frontman 65R
  • Ampeg SVT350
  • Mesaboogie 210 cab

Headphone Distribution

  • HR4 Headphone Matrix Amp
  • Behringer Powerplay Pro 8
  • Hear Talkback 600 MV
  • Hear Hearback Hub
  • 4 Hear HBMix1 Stations

DAW/Production Software

  • Reason 4.0
  • Recycle 2.1
  • Motu BPM
  • Pro Tools HD
  • Apple Logic Studio
  • Motu Digital Performer 5
  • Cubase 5

Processing

  • Funk Logic Compressor
  • Eureka Channel Strip
  • Chameleon Labs Stereo Compressor
  • Avalon 747SP Tube Compressor
  • Distressor
  • Safe Sound Audio Dynamics ToolBox
  • Intelligate
  • DBx Project 1 Compressor/Limiter 262

Pianos/Synths/Keys

  • Baby Grand Piano: Sohmer and Co built in 1912
  • Wurlitzer Electric Piano: 200 Series
  • Korg micro X
  • Philharmonic concertmaster
  • Baldwin Acrosonic upright
  • Hammond m111
  • Microkorg
  • Nord Stage 88 revision C
  • Radioshack MD1700 WHAAT

I/O

  • Otari Status 18R 40 Mixing Console
  • Digidesign 192
  • 2 Digidesign 96’s
  • Motu 896
  • Coleman Audio MS 6 Input Selector

Preamps

  • API Lunch Box
  • 7th Circle Audio Module
  • includes API Neve C84
  • Universal Audio 2610 Tube pre
  • Mackie Onyx 8 channel pre
  • Presonus Digimax LT pre
  • Hamptone 2 Ch. Tube



Web Design Team

Taj Campman: Graphic Design
Tony Hollums: Wordpress Code

Contact Us

(617) 714-5413
info@thebridgesoundstage.com
18 Edmunds Street
Cambridge, MA
02140
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