Rock Garden Studio is home to the only custom-built Aengus/API Custom 30 Channel recording console in service. Installed and customized by audio genius Deane Jensen (founder of Jensen Transformers) at Indigo Ranch Studio in Malibu, California from 1973 to 2006, the Aengus was purchased and painstakingly restored by Rock Garden Studio in 2012 and has over 100 hit records to its credit. Loaded with legendary Jensen 990 mic preamplifiers and API 550a channel equalizers, the sound of this console is huge, open, clear and beautiful in character, and quite simply has no equal.
Legendary 1973 Aengus/API 30 Channel, 8 buss recording console installed at Rock Garden Studio.
Artists that have recorded on Rock Garden's Aengus console.
From 1973 to 2006, Rock Garden's famous Aengus console lived at the Indigo Ranch, a picturesque mountain recording retreat in Malibu, California, recording famous artists across four decades and diverse musical genre.
LIMP BIZKIT
AT THE DRIVE IN
KORN
STING
FAITH EVANS
THE MOODY BLUES
SOULFLY
NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE
SEPULTURA
BOB DYLAN
SLIPKNOT
LL COOL J
MACHINE HEAD
W.A.S.P.
MARVIN GAYE
MORRIS DAY
TEMPTATIONS
MOTLEY CRUE
FISHBONE
NICK CAVE
DICK VAN DYKE
L.A. GUNS
BURGESS MERIDETH
MEGADETH
JAMES WHITMORE
THE GO-GO'S
ALF T.V. SERIES
VAN MORRISON
TERI GARR
JEFFERSON STARSHIP
KATEY SAGAL LENNY KRAVITZ SIR GEORGE MARTIN
BILLY DAVIS JR.
BOBBY WOMACK
THE WINANS
EARTH WIND & FIRE
OINGO BOINGO
MICHAEL PINDER
THE VENTURES
LEONARD COHEN
BEACH BOYS
ERIC BURDON
MOBEY GRAPE
WAR
COLD
THE ANIMALS
THE CALL
BEAT FARMERS
PEACHES & HERB
BLIND MELON
LEVEL 42
IRENE CARA
RAMSEY LEWIS
LITTLE EVA
JEFF LORBER
TEENA MARIE
CANNED HEAT
ALBERT LEE
JOE SAMPLE
JOAN JETT
HUBERT LAWS
FRANKIE VALLE THE GO-GOs OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN SAVOY BROWN
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
CHARLIE SHEEN
BILLY PRESTON
MARTIN SHEEN
CHAKA KAHN
PEARL JAM
PATRICE RUSHEN
DANNY ELFMAN