THE CRUSH FACTORY
We have one basic philosophy: To make your band sound like YOUR BAND playing at the absolute height of your ability in the best possible environment.
Enjoy some of our work! (notice that spotify preview quality is not ideal. I recommend opening the link in Spotify itself)
Select Artists
Acrylic Grooves - Amish Electric Chair - Appalachian Hustle - Audiocide - Blessed Black - Bourbon Train - Cassius at Best - Coal Cave Hollow Boys - Crooked Spines - Crucible of Hate - Discussions - El Camino Acid - Emmalea Deal and the Hot Mess - Fletcher's Grove - Grown Bones - Gudger - Hells Fire Sinners - Horseburner - Idle Tribe - In Flow - Jake Dunn and the Blackbirds - John Inghram Band - John Penman - Mississippi Bones - Nearly Mine - New Clear Future - Outside Voices - Race of Devils - Radattack - Rat Motel - Renee Stewart Band - Shunpike - Smizmar - Stoneface Syd - The Buffalo Ryders - The Entire History of You - Two Ton Memory - War Curse
Services
Record Production
Co-writing
Recording/Engineering
Mixing
Mastering
Editing
Rehearsal Space
Lodging
Reamping
About AEC
AEC (The Crush Factory) is a Record production Studio that mainly works with organic rock n roll bands in Athens, Ohio. Owner/Engineer Neil Tuuri has played in bands like Amish Electric Chair and Gudger for over 20 years, has degrees in record production and music theory from Ohio University and has taught record production at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio. AEC has been making records nearly 20 years and in the past 5 years has been working exclusively with bands full-time. The studio is on 4 acres about 10 minutes from Ohio University, only an hour from Columbus, 2 hours from Cincinnati, 3 hours from Clevland and has lodging available.
Gear List
AMPS Marshall JCM800
Laney GH100L
Fender Champ (head)
Mesa Dual Rectifier
Orange OR15
Sansamp RBI
Acoustic 300
Marshall Cab w Greenbacks
Marshall Cab w V30s
Oversized Mesa
1x12 with V30
Mojotone 2x12 w Eminence
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GUITARS
Gibson Les Paul Studio
Fender Telecaster (P90)
Fender P Bass (3)
Fender Jazz 1974
Various others
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DRUMS
DW Collectors Kit
Ludwig Black Beauty
Pearl Snare
Mapex Snares
Zlidjian A Customs, K Sweet, etc
Various other percussion stuff
MICROPHONES Upton ELAM 251
Mojave MA300
AKG C414 (2)
Shure SM57 (6)
Telefunken M80
Royer R121 (2)
CAD M179 (4)
Sennheiser MD421 (3)
Shure Beta 52a
Shure Beta 57
Behringer Beta 91 (2)
Shure SM7b
ElectroVoice RE20
Rode NT55 (2)
Various others
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PREAMPS
CAPI VP28 (6)
Chandler TG2 (4)
Vintech 1073 (2)
Hairball Lola (2)
RND 511 (2)
Five Fish Audio (2)
Grace 101 (2)
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OUTBOARD
Handsome Audio ZULU (6)
LA2a
EL Distressor (2)
Blue Stripe 1176
CAPI 550A EQ (2)
SSL 502eq (8)
Yamaha SPX90
Klark Dimension D
BBE Sonic Maximizer (2)
Stam SSL 4000 Bus Comp
Audio Scape SSL 4000
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MONITORING
Lynx Aurora (n) 24Ch
Dynaudio BM15a (soffit mounted)
Amphion One18
Amphion Amplifier
Dangerous D-Box +
Furman Headphone monitoring
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