Equipment

Control Room Photo by Alex Bougrine

LIVE ROOM:

The studio has an oak floor and is tuned for well behaved acoustics with two huge corner traps, acoustic panels and diffusion. The general ambiance is flexible leaving plenty of versatility. You can choose from a hard mirrored wall sound or pull the curtain to obtain a softer touch, drums on the live sounding oak floor or with a rug. We also have a range of gobo's with hard and soft sides which can be used to manipulate the amount of bleed between instruments when recording live.

You can adjust your headphone levels yourself from the live room. Communication in the booth between artist and the control room is easy.We also have a 17inch flat screen monitor for easy voice over auto-cueing.

INSTRUMENTS:

1 x Roland RD700 Weighted Gig piano.
1 x Roland Juno Synth.
1 x Antonio Picado Classical guitar.
1 x Gibson Les Paul studio Guitar.
1 x Marshall Valvestate 100 amp.
1 x Akai MPC2000XL Midi. Workstation/Sampler with 250 Zip & CD-ROM.
1 x Legend Bass Guitar.
1 x Carling Bass Cab.
1 x Laney RB9 Bass Head
1 x Ampeg B100R
1 x Vox AC30
1 x Orange Tiny Terror Combo
3 x Radial Active D.I's (one of the highest possible quality D.I boxes avaliable)

MICROPHONES:

Rodes NTK Valve Condenser
2 x AKG C414 B XLS Condenser Microphones (matched pair)
1 x Rodes NT1
1 x Rodes NT1A
2 x Studio Project C1 condensers
1 x AKG D112
1 x Shure Beta SM58's
2 x AKG C414 XLS condenser mics (matched pair)
7 x Shure SM57's
1 x (1977) Neumann KM84
1 x RCA DX77 Classic vintage ribbon mic
2 x Royer 121 Ribbon mics (matched pair)
1 x Heil PR40 dynamic microphone
2 x Heil PR30 dynamic microphone
1 x Shure SM7B Dynamic microphone
2 x Audix i5 Dynamic Microphone
1 x Beyer M88 Classic (1963 re-issue)

MONITORS:

First and foremost we have acoustically tuned and treated live and mix rooms.
Studio standard Yamaha NS10'S Near Field Monitors.
Tannoy 800's Active Speaker Range.
Beyerdynamic DT 100 & 150 closed back headphones.

OUTBOARD EQUIPMENT & EFFECTS:

2x Amek 9098 (giving you four pre-amps designed by Rupert Neve)
1x API 3124 (four world class pre's, a classic on drums)
1x Focusrite Platinum Track Master Compressor.
1 x Platinum Penta Compressor.
1x Zoom 700fx guitar effects and reverb unit.
2x Focusrite Liquid Channel Convolution Compressors and pre-amps.
1x Behringer V-Amp 2 guitar amp and effects modeller.

WORKSTATION:

1 x Macbook Pro 2ghz dual Intel processor. 2Gigs of RAM completed with Logic Pro.
1 x Wireless mobile broadband connection via O2 broadband
2 x Metric halo 2882 -18 i/o/ (1 x Expanded)The highest of quality anologue to digital converters and pre amps. The above rig is fully portable and enables on-location recording.
1 x Mackie Control Universal control surface.