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Music studios 2-9 and workstations 4-6

All recording studios and workstations run industry-leading software, complemented by a live rooms with drum kit, guitar amp and keyboard.

About music studios 2-9 and workstations 4-6

The studios and workstations all run on Pro Tools Ultimate, Logic Pro and Ableton Live software. Five of the studios have a live room with guitar amp(s) and five-piece drum kit. The studios' complement of microphones allows for a range of recordings, while further specialist microphones can be borrowed from the media hatch. The workstations are single rooms with midi keyboard and mic connected to identical computer systems to those in the studios. 

The systems are installed with a range of plug-ins from Sonnox, McDSP, Avid, Melodyne and Native Instruments. They run on Avid HDX cards through Avid HD I/O and HD OMNI interfaces, providing from two to 24 inputs via a range of mic pre amps (studios), with stereo monitoring via active Dynaudio BM15 speakers (studios) and BM6 speakers (workstations), with stereo headphone mixes back to the live rooms.

There are Avid Artist Mix control surfaces in the studios and a 24 fader large format Avid S6 surface in Studio 1.

Equipment

  • Studios are equipped with:
  • Apple Mac Pro computer with: Avid Pro Tools Ultimate (c/w HDX System), Apple Logic Pro, Ableton Live Suite, McDSP Plugin Suite, Sonnox Plugin Suite, Avid Plugin Suite, Melodyne tuning/timing software, Native Instruments Komplete Pack.
  • Avid HD I/Os
  • Audient, Neve, Focusrite mic pre amps
  • Avid Control Surfaces
  • Active Dynaudio BM15 speakers
  • Range of guitar amplifiers
  • 5-piece drum kits
  • Shure SM57 microphones
  • Sennheiser MD421 microphones
  • AKG C451 microphones
  • Rode NT2s
  • Rode NT1As
  • EMO DI boxes
  • Korg keyboards
  • Novation MIDI Keyboards
  • Sennheiser HD 380 Pro headphones
  • Workstations are equipped with:
  • Apple Mac Pro computer with: Avid Pro Tools Ultimate (c/w HDX System), Apple Logic Pro, Ableton Live Suite, McDSP Plugin Suite, Sonnox Plugin Suite, Avid Plugin Suite, Melodyne tuning/timing software, Native Instruments Komplete Pack.
  • Avid HD OMNI interface
  • Dynaudio BM6 active speakers
  • Rode NT1A
  • Novation MIDI keyboard

This facility is available to hire

The rooms have to be booked as a whole with all the listed specialist equipment as part of the package.

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