Equipment & Facilities
Expand information about our recording system, processing, facilities & microphones below:
We can capture your performance with the highest possible warmth & quality. There are 16 channels of simultaneous inputs, allowing a multitude of tracking combinations when working with ensembles. Great possibilities: record a live band as one, capturing a string quartet or record each element of your project separately to a click. Our comfortable live area has been fitted with professional acoustic treatment making it ideal for lots of styles of music.
- Logic Audio Pro v8
- Neve 1073 stereo mic / line preamp. Ultimate in warmth!!!
- Custom Vintage 1960's preamp. Great valve overdrive feature.
- MOTU 896 HD interface - clocked by HEDD
- RME Octamic D - Analogue to Digital conversion
- Apple Powermac G5 Dual 2.0 gHz 2GB RAM
- Lots of Hard Drive space for large projects
- Waves Gold package - top sonic quality for mixes
- Sonalksis complete collection
- Waves SSL - recreation of the classic 'big desk sound'
- Native Instruments Guitar Rig
- Convolution Reverbs: Space Designer & Waves IR-L
- Celemony Melodyne: vocal / instrument tuning software
- Neve 1073 stereo mic / line preamp. Ultimate in warmth!!!
- Overstayer Stereo VCA Compressor Parallel compression function, very clean level correcting, or heavy pumping compression.
- Empirical Labs Distressor flexible compressor / distortion (with british modification)
- Avalon VT 737sp Clean sounding Mic Pre / EQ / Compressor
- Cranesong HEDD 192 Tape saturation emulator / Hi-end AD/DA converter / digital clock
- Klark Teknik DN-22 graphic equaliser
- KRK V6 Main active monitors
- Yamaha NS10m monitors - powered by Yamaha P3500S
- Sennheiser HD-25 headphones
- Sennheiser HD-280 headphones
- Shure SRH840 headphones
- Yamaha upright piano.
- Upright Acoustic Double Bass
- Pearl Masters Custom Drum Kit
- Zildjian Cymbals
- Ampeg 8x10 Bass Cab with Hartke head
- Fender De Ville Combo guitar amp
- Wireless Internet with a fast connection
- Kitchen Facilities including fridge and kettle
- Comfortable Seating
- XBOX 360 Live!
- Air Conditioning
- Toilets are available too!
- Condensers:
- AT 4050 - variable polar pattern pair
- sE4 Stereo Pair - sdc with stereo bar
- Shure SM91b - boundary mic for kick drum
- Dynamics:
- Shure SM7b - high quality dynamic mic for vocals and instruments
- Electrovoice RE-20 - zero proximity effect mic great for vocals and instruments
- Shure SM57 - industry standard
- AKG D112 - for low frequencies
