The Studio

The studio has been professionally designed & built for reliability and performance. To make great sounding records you need to start with a great sounding room, achieved here through careful design together with a liberal helping of luck - something of a triumph. While it is also possible, given enough time, to make perfectly acceptable recordings using a modicum of gear, there is no real substitute to the quality offered by top class recording equipment. The live room is light and clean, allowing you to concentrate on what's most important! Special attention to detail at every stage of construction ensures there’s no tripping over dodgy cables gaffer-taped to the light fittings. Our control room speakers are among the best available, ensuring precise monitoring and an accurate mix, supported by the superb acoustics at the listening position. This area can comfortably fit the whole band during overdubbing and mixdown, and our special ’chillout’ green room (more pink than green actually) provides the necessary refreshment and relief facilities, including modest kitchen, sky TV, Sony PS2 etc. and, of course the legendary pinball machine -"Chalk up partner and shoot for the ramp!"

Live Room Features

Acoustics to die for!
Fully soundproofed
Floating floor construction
Air conditioned
Separate vocal booth
Hopkinson upright piano

Control Room Features

Unparalleled acoustics
Air conditioned
Comfortable seating/listening environment
Well laid out equipment and racks

All equipment is presented at the patchbay to save time in set-up, the convenient layout produces an efficient working process and all connections are fully balanced and run along top quality OFC cables. Mains distribution uses a star earthing system, with separate clean audio, clean computer and several dirty supplies. On the less technical side, there is permanent visual contact with both the live room and vocal booth, and on a more practical note there is another beer fridge.

Equipment

Mixing Desk:	DDA AMR24-92 Input Custom Console fitted with Audiomate Flying Faders
Multitrack:	2x Alesis HD24XR (48 track @24bit/96Khz) 4x ADAT XT (32 track @20bit/48Khz) + BRC
Outboard:	Lexicon pcm70, pcm81, pcm90, mpx220 Focusrite ISA 220 Session Pack, Voicemaster, Penta Focusrite Red3, Red7 TL Audio C-1 Yamaha SPX-90 2x Antares autotune Aphex exciter BBE Sonic Maximiser 2x Susan Blue DI box Line 6 guitar POD Alesis Midiverb, Microverb, Quadraverb+ 3630 2x Drawmer LX20 Other Assorted compression by DBX and Behringer Various noisegates, expanders, eq, delay, guitar stomp boxes etc by Behringer, Alesis, Roland, Boss and the like.
Microphones:	Neumann 2x U87, 2x U89, 2x KM184 Electrovoice RE20 AKG Solidtube, C3000, 2x C1000 etc Shure 3x SM57, 3x Beta57, 3x SM58 8x Audio Technica condensers 4x Oktava large diaphragm 2x PZM, 2x C-Ducer Plus an interesting collection of vintage and not so vintage ribbon and valve mics
Main Studio monitors:	Tannoy DMT System 15" Dual Concentric, driven by Bryston 4B amp
Nearfield Monitors:	Mackie HR824, Yamaha NS10s, driven by Harrison + Cambridge amps
Live Room Monitors:	Tannoy 10" Dual Concentrics, driven by Rotel amp
Headphone Distribution:	MTR HPA-6, Oz Audio Q-mix
Cans:	Beyer-Dynamic 4x DT-100, 2x DT-150, DT-250, Sony, AKG, Ross, Aiwa(!)
Mastering:	Sony MD, CD, MC, HD, Tascam BR-20 1/4inch

Instruments

Yamaha P90 Piano. Premier Fusion drumkit with Meinl cymbals and Sabian AAX ride, Guitars by Fender, Martin, Takamine. Banjo, mandolin, no-name precision bass, Yamaha DX11, assorted drum machines and percussion. Amps by Vox, Peavey, Marshall. 600w mixer/PA, 12 channel live desk

If you don't see something you need, give us a call, we may have one, or be able to get it in.

History

Going to put a brief history of the studio here- to expand some details about experience and kit.