787.692.0824
Studio Booking: natalia@sanjuansound.org
San Juan Sound PO Box 9023412 Viejo San Juan, PR 00902
12PM-12AM -365 d/y - NONSTOP, BABY!
Old San Juan, Puerto Rico - 00902
General Info rayo@sanjuansound.org
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The Studio

A Caribbean Treasure

A HI-FI-LO-FI GEM

San Juan Sound offers a dynamic studio experience for recording, film, photo, band rehearsal. and other rental services such as lectures and yoga. The recording facility is equipped with a reliable hybrid of analog/digital recording and mixing services. The studio also features a memorable isolation booth inside the WSJS vinyl vault which rests beside our historic reverb chamber! A dream for drums and vocals! The live room is primed for shoots thanks to a large open floor plan with the option for light or dark settings. Visit our list of studio services or contact us for all rental inquiries.
San Juan Sound

MISSION CONTROLLERS

The studio will have a rotating cast of engineers and producers, each with the keys to the San Juan Sound.

ARMANDO

MATTEO

KIKO

JOHANNES SOLO

La Consola

Mission Control

San Juan Sound is the proud owner of a restored V Series Neve analog console with a stunning history still being written. The studio, months from opening, survived one of the strongest recorded hurricanes and a four months blackout. When power returned to the island, the center section and 24 channels were recapped by the SJS teching crew with legendary techs John Musgrave and Norman Druce at the helm. The desk is now a glorious ``V24`` with the left buckets modified to enable easy access to the Sony JH24 remote, a second monitor, and other convenient bells and whistles such as a phone line which only calls the local pizza parlor.

The Resurrection

THE TECHING CREW

One of the many San Juan Sound miracles involved four of the most renown Neve technicians in the world beginning with valuable phone support from Gregory Davis, and John Klett, the latter being the last ace to recap the console. Next up was a visit from power supply hero Norman Druce, founder of the revolutionary Atomic Insturment Co. whose power supplies and speakers are featured in some of the worlds finest studios such as Nashville's Easy Eye ad Detroit's Third Man Records. The final piece to our Neve puzzle was when Norman introduced studio owner Matteo Burr to John Musgrave who drank the SJS kool aid and flew to Puerto Rico in May to bring the board back from the dead! The full story will be coming soon via our SJS Tech Blog, including video from the Neveships crane voyage from a second floor home studio to our second floor command center!

Above (L >R): Musgrace, Burr, Dave Adonias, Druce, Pedro Rivera Jr

San Juan Sound

STUDIO SERVICES

The Gear

The most exotic collection
of gear on the island

GUITAR AMPS

68’ Fender Princeton Reverb Silver Face Tube Amp 12W 1×10 Combo w/ Celestion 15’ Vox AC30 – Handwired Head/Cab w/15w switch 64’ Silvertone 1482 All Tube Amp! 1×12 69’ Harmony H-515 Red Racing Stripe 18W 2×12 Jensen C12R 64’ Harmony 303A Tube Guitar Amp – 15w 70’s Fender Sidekick Reverb. Solidstate w/a TON of character. Music Fact: The Fogerty Bros used solid state amps while recording CCR. Yes, tube’s rule, but solid state can crush with the right players and mics.

BASS AMPS

65’ Ampeg B15 Head 17’ Ampeg PF-115HE Portaflex 1×15 Bass Speaker Cabinet

ELECTRIC GUITARS *

60’s Harmony ES335 60’s Silvertone ES335 63’ Danelectro Reissue

2015 Dangelico EXL-1 Semi-Hollow Body 2000 Epiphone Les Paul 2017 Epiphone TV ES-339 Pelham Blue

*please bring your own backup strings

ACOUSTIC GUITARS

Vintage Cuatros Epiphone PR-200 Epiphone Masterbilt

ELECTRIC BASS

77’ Fender Ripper 65’ Slingerland (flat wounds) 98’ Fender P-Bass

ACOUSTIC BASS

58’ Kay Maestro M1 3/4 Double Bass

AMPLIAS DE GUITARRA

68’ Fender Princeton Reverb Silver Face Tube Amp 12W 1×10 Combo w/ Celestion 15’ Vox AC30 – Handwired Head/Cab w/15w switch 64’ Silvertone 1482 All Tube Amp! 1×12 69’ Harmony H-515 Red Racing Stripe 18W 2×12 Jensen C12R 64’ Harmony 303A Tube Guitar Amp – 15w 70’s Fender Sidekick Reverb. Solidstate w/a TON of character. Music Fact: The Fogerty Bros used solid state amps while recording CCR. Yes, tube’s rule, but solid state can crush with the right players and mics.

AMPLIAS DE BASS

65’ Ampeg B15 Head 17’ Ampeg PF-115HE Portaflex 1×15 Bass Speaker Cabinet

GUITARRAS ELECTRICAS *

60’s Harmony ES335 60’s Silvertone ES335 63’ Danelectro Reissue

2015 Dangelico EXL-1 Semi-Hollow Body 2000 Epiphone Les Paul 2017 Epiphone TV ES-339 Pelham Blue

*please bring your own backup strings

GUITARRAS ACUSTICAS

Vintage Cuatros Epiphone PR-200 Epiphone Masterbilt

BASS ELECTRICAS

77’ Fender Ripper 65’ Slingerland (flat wounds) 98’ Fender P-Bass

BASS ACOUSTICAS

58’ Kay Maestro M1 3/4 Double Bass

PIANO

1980 Baldwin Console 

ELECTRIC KEYBOARDS

60’s Farfisa Combo Compact 80’s Wurlitzer Orbit III Organ 70’s Honer D6 Clavinet 75’ Fender Rhodes (red) 80’s mini keyboards (casio, yamaha, realistic) 77’ Wurlitzer MLM-101 Music Learning Module Organ

KEYBOARD AMPS

60s Cordovox CL-20 Leslie Rotary Speaker Cabinet

EFFECTS / FUN TOYS

72’ Maestro PS-1A Phase Shifter

Roland SPD-SX Drum PadRoland Rhythm Arranger Drum Machine
80’s Peavey Dirty Dog Transtube 2 channel overdrive lead crunch guitar pedal
Boosta Grande

Ibanez Tube Cruncher
Fender Reverb

Two Timer

DRUMS

72’ “San Juan Slingerland”

14″x20″ Bass Drum 7″ x 13″ Chrome Timbale 7″ x 14″ Chrome Timbale 16″x16″ Floor Tom

17’ Ludwig Breakbeats By Questlove (Azure)

16”x14” Bass Drum 10”x7” Toms 13”x13” Floor Toms 14”x5” Snare

80’s Pearl (13/14/16/22) Not a dream, but not bad for living most of its life in an open aired garage in the mountains of Caguas, PR.

PERCUSSION

72’ Tito Peuntes Timbales Congas, Bongos, Djembe Güiros! Enough Cowbells For A Farm Box o’ Rad Percussion

SNARE DRUMS

80’s 14″X11″ Premiere Snare Chrome Over Wood – warmest and best snare on the island) 70’s 14”x9” Premiere “Heavy Rock Nine” 80’s 14”x7” Pearl – rusty crusty snare from the mountains of PR. Sleeper whipper snapper.

CYMBALS

Various assortment of kick ass Bosphorus and Crescent Pies.