9th Circle Audio is located in a suburb of Detroit nestled in the heartland of techno and cornfields. We take pride in the role Michigan has played in the evolution of music and strive to support our local businesses such as Detroit Modular and Vintage King. We hope artist world-wide appreciate the contribution Michigan has made to electronic music in the last 50 years. We want to contribute ...
Our studio is specifically designed to record, mix, and master electronic music, especially modular systems and hybrid systems. We have a wide array of equipment that makes the sometime cumbersome nature of analog hardware production simpler, leaving the artist more brain capital to focus on their music.
The fundamental architecture of the studio in centered around Dante and a Physical Analog Switching Matrix. Together, they facilitate completely flexible signal routing between the digital world (through Dante) and the analog world (through a Wolff Pro Patch 128) and mesh all the convenience of computer based, recallable patching with the creative palette of unlimited analog processing flows. Below is a list of everything in the Dante-Wolff matrix. Imagine the possibilities ...
Mastering Converters
Lavry Quintessence DA and Savitr AD
Crane Song Quantum DA/AD
Dangerous Music Convert2 DA and Convert AD+
Burl B2 Bomber DA and AD
Summing and Patching Converters
32 Channels of Focusrite A16R DA/AD
Analog Summing
Dangerous Music 2-BUS-XT
Mastering and Mixing EQs
Manley Massive Passive
Goly PG25
Maag EQ4M
API 5500
Elysia xFilter
Drawmer 1974 Parametric EQ
Mastering and Mixing Compressors and Limiters
Manley Vari-Mu Limiter Compressor
Empirical Labs EL8-X Distressors (x2)
Empirical Labs FATSO EL7x
Solid State Logic Bus+
Dangerous Music Compressor
Elysia xMax
Saturation
Thermionic Culture Vulture
Black Box HG-2
FX Processors
Bricasti M7 Reverb
Eventide H9000 (x2)
AES Connectivity for Converters and FX Processors
32 Channels of Focusrite D16R AES