The Studio

The Live Room

The final stage of the studio’s development was the building of our new live room in 2021. We worked with acoustician Dr Douglas Doherty to create a great sounding space with plenty of height and room to play with. With a gorgeous parquet floor throughout, the room is a fantastic sounding space for recording drums, or any acoustic instruments, and is large enough to record large groups of musicians live. The space is also very flexible and with the use of our large purpose built acoustic gobos, we can quickly create smaller, controlled recording areas for vocals or voiceover work when required.

The Control Room

Very much at the heart of things, our acoustically treated control room looks through to our main live room via a large soundproofed window. The room has been carefully set-up to be an accurate listening space and features excellent monitoring from our PMC speakers. Alongside the mixing desk and our analogue outboard units, we have an ever growing selection of musical toys to experiment with during your session. There's also a comfy sofa for mid-session lounging.

  • Digital Audio Workstation

    Custom built quad-core PC running Pro Tools 12, Studio One 4 and Ableton Live.

    Numerous high-quality plug-ins by Waves, Soundtoys, Softube, Oxford, Melodyne etc.

    Convertors

    Lynx Aurora 16 converters with Lynx LT-FW card system: Mastering quality A/D conversion with very low latency.

    Mixing Desk

    Audient ASP8024 (24 channel larger format console)

    Monitoring

    PMC 6 Active Speakers

    Audeze LCD-X Headphones

    Hearback Pro headphone distribution system.

    Analogue Outboard

    Neve 1073LB

    Retro Instruments 500 series Pre-amp

    API 3124+ (4 channel transistor mic pre-amp)

    Highland Dynamics BG2 – Valve Compressor

    Universal Audio 1176 compressor (x2)

    DBX 560A VCA Compressor (x2)

    JLM LA500 Optical Compressor

    Roger Mayer 456HD Tape Processing (x2)

    Little Labs - IBP phase alignment tool

  • Item descriptionInstruments/Amps (selected, please get in touch for full list)

    1960's Rogers 4 piece Kit

    Mapex Saturn 4 Piece Kit

    Ludwig Supraphonic 400 Vintage Snare

    Full Set of vintage Zildjian cymbals

    Full Set of Zildjian 'K' dark cymbals

    Ampeg SVT Classic Bass Amp Head

    Traynor Bass Master YBA-1A MkII Head

    Traynor YT-15 1x15 Cab

    Warwick 1x15 Cab

    Fender 50’s Japanese Reissue Telecaster

    Gibson SG Standard

    Fender Vibro Champ Combo

    Fender Hotrod Deluxe Combo

    Fender Supersonic Head

    Marshall JVM205H Head

    Orange 4x12 Cab

    FX Pedal/Misc

    AKG BX5 - Spring Reverb

    Roland RE210 Space Echo

    Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man

    Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress

    Dozens of boutique Guitar Pedals.

    Upright Piano (Get in touch to ask about tuning etc.)

    Leslie 16 Cab

  • Vintage Neumann U87

    Neumann KM84

    Flea ‘Superfet’ 47

    AKG 414 B-ULS (x2)

    AKG C451B (x2)

    Earthworks HDM TC25 (x2)

    Earthworks HDM SR25

    Audio-Technica ATM25

    Audio-Technica 4033a

    Royer SF-12 Stereo Ribbon

    Beyer M160 Ribbon

    Sontronics Sigma 2

    Sennheiser 421 (x2)

    Shure SM7

    Shure SM beta57 (x3)

    Shure SM57 (x2)

    Shure SM58 (x3)

    AKG D112

Other facilities

The studio has presentable toilets and a small kitchen area with microwave, toaster, kettle and coffee machine etc. We’re very close by to a large supermarket and there’s some decent pubs and takeaway food options nearby.

Please see our handy list of frequently asked questions or get in touch if you want any further info

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Great Sax and brass vibes at the studio this weekend. Always a treat as an engineer and the job our old Neumann U87 excels at the most.
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