Equipment
For those who need to know....
DESK
Audient ASP8024…Dave Deardon of DDA fame designed this desk to be the most Hi Fi in its class. It’s awesome and suits digital recording perfectly. We use high speed transmission cable for all critical audio paths and high grade low capacitance cable elsewhere for highest fidelity.
DIGITAL RECORDING
LATEST PROTOOLS ULTIMATE / 192 Track with 24 Channels Avid Hi Def 192KHz interfaces and twin 27″ wide screen monitors. Mac Studio with 64Gigs ram & 2TB SSD, many TeraBytes of hard drives for safe storage of your material. Unique to us – VARISPEED …range is +/- 10% on a big knob!
MONITOR SPEAKERS
Mains are flush mounted: EVE SC3010 3 way / 1300Watts per side, awesome clarity and musicality.
Alternate speakers are: Klein & Hummel O300D near fields. Also Avantone Cube ‘horrids’. On the back wall; Quad Lites and KitSound Hive mkII for small system check. Our mixes are very real world compatible and will sound great on the smallest to largest systems.
Just installed! :
The awesome WA273EQ Neve style mic pre with EQ. Just hear what those transformers and inductors do to the sound!
Mac Studio computer, (see above).
Dynaudio 9S Subwoofer for more clout at the bottom end.
PLUG-INS
(we have so many now, forgive any omissions!)
Reverbs: LiquidSonics Illusion, Acon Verberate 2, Waves: Abbey Rd; Plates & Chambers, BX: rooMS, Eventide: Ultraverb, Valhalla; Vintage, Room & Shimmer. Sonnox Reverb, CSR Reverb Suite, PSP; Springbox, Nexcellence and PianoVerb, Redline Reverb 2, OverLoud; Breverb & SpringAge, Avid; Reverb One, ReVibe 2, D Verb and Air Suite. Convolution reverbs by Space, Slate, HOFA & Convology
Virtual Tape Machines by: Slate Digital, Softube, Kiev, Waves. Celemony: Melodyne 5 – Now fully ARA integrated into ProTools.
Virtual Guitar Amps; Softube: Amp Room & Vintage / Bass Amp Rooms. BX: Bassdude, Megaduel, Megasingle, Rockrak Pro, SVT-VR, Chandler GAV19T, Fuchs OD Supreme 50. Scuffham S Gear, Amplitube 5 Max & SansAmp.
PluginAlliance: Acme Opticom, Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor, Purple Audio MC77, Lindell; 354E, 50,69 & 80 Channels. Neold V76U73, BX Console SSL 4000E, Black Box HG-2, BX Stereomaker, SPL Transient designer, DrumXchanger, Passeq EQ, TwinTube. Unfiltered Audio; Dent 2 Plus more!!
Sound Toys 5 The lot!
Waves; L3-16 mastering limiter, API 2500 compressor, Abbey Rd; Saturator, J37 Tape, Reel ADT, EMI TG12345 Channel strip, Vinyl, Plates & REDD Consoles. Aphex Vintage Aural Exciter, Waves Tune Real-Time, Kramer Master Tape, Puig EQs.
Steven Massey: De-esser, CT4 & CT5 compressors, Tape Head, THC distortion, EQ & L2007 limiter, DRT drum replacer.
PSP; Impressor, Saturate, Springage, Nexcellence, B-Scanner, Busspressor, Mastercomp, OldTimer Multi Band, Xenon dynamics.
Newfangled Audio; Elevate, EQuivocate, Punctuate
Misc: Sonnox: Oxford Drum Gate, EQ & Inflator. SoundRadix: Drum Leveller, Steven Slate: Trigger. Eventide; Instant Flanger, UltraChannel & Octavox. Tokyo Dawn; Nova, Mastering Limiter & EQ, Mellowmuse: SATV. T-Racks3 EQ/dynamics. Redline: pre-amp. Avid: Pro series plugins. KiiveAudio: Tape Face & Xtressor (Superb model of classic Distressor). McDSP: Futzbox & filter banks. Kazrog: Avalon, Clip, True 252, True Iron.
VIRTUAL KEYBOARD
Arturia: V Collection 7: classic keyboard collection, Many synths, organs, Hammond B3 plus excellent acoustic and electric pianos.
IK: Sample Tank4 with extensive library, Sampletron, Miroslav Philharmonik & etc.
Native Instruments; Battery 3 and Kontakt 5 – again loads of samp’s.
AAS: Ultra Analogue, Chromophone, Lounge Lizard, Objeq Delay.
Also: XILS: 201 and 5000 Vocoder, KV331 Audio: Synthmaster, Synthogy: Ivory3 – (beautiful pianos
DYNAMICS
Buzzaudio DBC-20 diode-bridge compressor – Basically awesome on everything!. 2 x Audio & Design F760-RS heritage twin channel compressors, (one with vintage transformers) – Restored to ‘better than new’ by Saturn Sound – Terrific on drums, vocals, guitars!. Also Compex 2 VCA complex.
MICROPHONES
Valve: Warm Audio: WA-CX12, (Exceptional sounding recreation of the fabled AKG C12). 2 x Studio Projects T3, E.A.R. ‘The Mike’, 2 x At3060’s, SE Z5600A.
Condenser: Austrian Audio; 2 x OC818s, Microtech Gefell; Stereo pair M930s, David Josephson e22s snare mic, Sontronics; 2 x Orpheus, Stereo pair STC-1s, , Neuman TLM170, 2 x SE Z3300a’s, 2 x JM478’s, 2 x CAD M179’s, 4 x Calrec 1050’s, Sony C48 and AT4033, Sennheiser E901.
Ribbons: Pair Cascade Fat IIs with Lundahl transformers, Beyer M500, CAD D82.
Classic Dynamics: Beyer : 2 x M88, collection of M101 Omni & M201 cardiod, Shure SM-7B, EV RE20.
Misc Dynamics: AKG, Beyer, EV, Sennheiser, Shure. AT M23HE drum mics, EV N/D868 & Audix D6 kik mics.
INSTRUMENTS
Yamaha KX88 weighted action keyboard controller plus Arturia Keylab Essential 49 for programming, Vintage Juno 60, Roland XV 3080 module. Hammond M110 Organ with Leslie cab. Regular and High Strung acoustics, Bass guitar, Electric guitar, electric 12 string. Also a vintage Hayman drum kit for hire / choice of 2 snares. Many virtual keyboard plug-ins within ProTools.