Studio 1
Studio 1 has a huge sized live recording room (7 x 6 x 3.3m), one large vocal booth and two amp booths to enable fully separated live recording. The Control Room and Live Room benefit from natural daylight. Our much loved Amek Einstein, which we had from 2001 – 2012 has recently been upgraded to an SSL 948 AWS, an upgrade that has served us and our artists very well since. A beautiful upright Yamaha YUS piano is available for clients’ use, as well as various other keyboards, guitars, drums and amps.
Bands wishing to record live will benefit from the numerous recording spaces that Studio 1 offers as well as its Hear Back monitoring system which enables independent control of all instruments through the performers’ headphones.
With daylight streaming into both control and live rooms Studio 1 is a very comfortable space to work in for anything from a half day to weeks at a time; fuelled only by the music and numerous pots of strong coffee. There is also a separate lounge available exclusively to Studio 1 artists as well as shared kitchen facilities.
The hire rate for Studio 1 is £385 + VAT per 8 hr day including engineer.
The minimum booking is 4 hours (a half day).
Equipment
- SSL AWS 948 console
- Mac Pro running Avid Pro Tools HDX Core
- 24 track 2″ analogue tape machine by Otari
- Monitors: Quested V2108 (updated VS2108)
- Monitors: Yamaha NS10 powered by Quad 405 amp
- Hear Back Personal Monitor Mixer System
- UAD-2 Octo Core PCIe Card
- Apogee Symphony Mk2 IO
- Neve 1073 mic pre amps x 2
- Universal Audio 6176 (610 preamp and 1176 compressor)
- Empirical Labs Distressor x 2
- Manley Massive Passive EQ
- Calrec RQD 6400 twin stereo compressor
- SPL Transient Designer TD 4
- Thermionic Culture Vulture
- Roland Space echo tape delay
- Watkins Copicat tape delay (previously owned by Syd Barrett)
- Demeter Real Reverb RV1 Spring Reverb
- Great River pre amp
- API pre amp x 2
- Focusrite Compounder stereo compressor
- Drawmer DL221 stereo compressor
- Drawmer LX20 stereo compressor
- Drawmer DS201 stereo gate/expander
- GSSL stereo bus compressor
- Lexicon MPX 500 effects unit
- BBE Sonic Maximiser
- Orban De-esser
- Little Labs IBP
- Teletronics LA2A
- Telefunken EQ
- Eventide H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer
- Urei 565T Filter Set
- Yamaha SPX 990
- Black Lion Audio Bluey FET Limiting Amplifier (x2)
- Skibbe Electronics Flickinger 736-5 Pre Amp (x2)
- Urei LA22 Compressor
- Lexicon PCM-42
Microphones
Both studios share our varied mic collection:
Condensers
Lomo 19a18, Neumann U87 (x2), Neumann TLM 103 (x2), Neumann KMS 105, AKG C414 (x3), Schoeps CMC6 (x3), Calrec CM652 (x2), Rode K2 valve (x2), AKG C451 EB, Rode NT5 (x4), AKG C1000 (x2), Shure Beta 91, Bock 251, Flea 47, Oktava MK012 (x2), Josephson E22S (x2)
Dynamic
Sennheiser MD421 (x2), Sennheiser MD441 (x2), Shure SM57 (x3), Shure SM58, AKG D112 (x2), AKG D12E, Shure SM7B, Beyer M88, STC/Coles 4017-C, Beyer MS201 (x2), Beomic 2000 (x2), Yamaha Sub-Kick (x2), Audix D6, EV RE20, STC 4021 (Ball and Biscuit) (x2), Placid Audio Copperphone
Carbon
Placid Audio Carbonphone
Ribbon
Coles 4038 (x2), Beyer M160, AEA NUVO N8 Stereo Kit