Equipment, Facilities and Hire Stock

The studio features an acoustically well-designed and equipped control room, linked to a main live room and two other isolated recording areas enabling a variety of working methods for live, largely live and fully-overdubbed recordings. The recording areas allow flexibility and variation of acoustics to suit. In addition, provision can be made to tie the adjacent large hall (with stage) directly to the control room to enable recordings of large bands, orchestras, choirs or live shows. Full stage monitoring or headphone returns are provided.

A fine selection of microphones (including offerings from Nuemann, AKG, Audix, Rode, Shure, Sennheiser and Crown) and outboard equipment (featuring TL Audio, dbx, Aphex and Lexicon amongst others) is available for use. Excellent studio speakers from PMC and Mackie enable accurate and tireless monitoring. In addition, professional engineers, experienced in working with world class artists and students alike, will help you realise your potential creatively and technically.

Control Room:

 

• Aprrox. 3.5m x 2.9m x 2.3m (H)
• Soundcraft Ghost 24 channel mixing desk
• TL Audio C1 dual valve mic channel / compressor
• TL Audio Ivory 5001 MK2 Quad Valve Mic Preamp
• 2 dbx 266 dual channel noise gate / compressors
• 1 dbx 166xl gate/compressor
• 1 dbx 166a gate/compresor
• Lexicon MPX200 effects processor
• Lexicon MPX500 effects processor
• Aphex 266 Aural Exciter
• Roland JV35 keyboard/sound module
• Proteus FX sound module
• Mackie HR824 active monitors
• PMC TB2 studio monitors
• 4-way headphone amplifier
• M-Audio Delta 1010 A-D/D-A converters (resolution up to 192k / 24 bit)
• Cubase 4, Nuendo 2, Cool Edit 2.0, Pro Tools LE, Melodyne 3
• All lines and outboard fully patchable using 336-way balanced patchbay

 

Main live room:

 

• Approx. 4.1m x 2.5m x 2.3m (H)
• 24 balanced mic lines (plus 4 tie lines) to control room
• 8 headphone outputs (4 mixes)
• Acoustics may be varied to provide more or less “liveness”

Second instrument / vocal area:

• Approx. 2.4m x 1.7m x 2.4m (H)
• 6 balanced mic lines to control room
• 2 headphone outputs
• Acoustics may be varied to provide more or less “liveness”

Third instrument / vocal area:

• Approx. 2.6m x 1.7m x 2.4m (H)
• 6 balanced mic lines to control room
• 2 headphone outputs

East hall:

• Approx. 16m x 12.5m x 4,5m (H) (plus a raised stage area approx. 4.5m deep)
• 20 balanced mic lines (plus 4 tie lines) to control room
• Provision for 4 headphone or stage monitor mixes
• Please note: use of the hall is subject to availability and additional charge

Microphones:

 

• 2 x Neumann TLM-103 large diaphragm condenser
• 1 x Rode NT1A large diaphragm condenser
• 1 x Audio Technica AT3035 large diaphragm condenser
• 4 x AKG C1000 small diaphragm condenser
• 2 x Rode NT5 small diaphragm condenser
• 1 x Audix D4 percussion / instrument dynamic
• 1 x Crown PCC-170 phase coherent cardioid
• 2 x Shure pressure zone
• 1 x Sennheiser e602 kick drum / bass instrument dynamic
• 4 x Shure Beta 98 percussion condenser
• 4 x Shure SM57 vocal / instrument dynamic
• 2 x Shure SM58 vocal dynamic
• 1 x Sennheiser e845 vocal dynamic
• 1 x Samson S2 vocal dynamic

• Also available are a number of DI boxes and a full range of microphone stands, pop shields, cables and other accessories