STUDIO 2
An intimate live room and a compact, modern control room.
Dimensions
Live Room 1
5m x 4m
Control Room
6m x 4m
Studio 2 is our smaller studio with a medium sized dry live room, easily big enough to comfortably house a fully mic'ed-up drum kit. It's a very different sounding recording space compared to Studio 1, but a great addition to the sound palettes available throughout the building.
In Detail
The Control Room
The control room is based around a 36-input Calrec Q-series desk, 32 i/o Lynx Aurora converters, with PMC TwoTwo.6’s and restored vintage 15” Tannoy Golds for monitoring. The desk has been fully refurbished by our tech Roy Harrison. Originally built for broadcast purposes, the Calrec has 36 mic pre-amps, with parametric EQ on each channel. The desk also has 4 in-built stereo compressors/limiters and 4 stereo gates available to use.
Studio 2 is primarily intended to be an overdubbing facility, but it’s also well suited to full tracking sessions. If you're working in this studio, you still have access to the same mics and instruments as Studio 1. We set up the studio microphone collection to make sure that there are plenty of options for any sessions (with key microphones being duplicated) so that both studios can run sessions without any compromise. Similarly, most instruments can all easily be moved between studios. If you want something on our list specifically for your session, please let us know and we'll make sure it's available for you.
The Live Room
We've often found on sessions that it can be nice to have a smaller and more intimate space for certain parts of the tracking process. For example, some singers love to be in Studio 1's live room where they can really open up and receive feedback from the acoustic. Others prefer to work in a smaller, dead space where there is only them and the producer. Drummers often have a strong opinion about which acoustic they prefer to work with, and between Studios 1 and 2 we have many options.
It's also the case that sessions in Studio 2 work well running alongside Studio 3. For example, we have had situations, where guitar and vocal overdubs are set up in Studio 2 whilst keyboards, are set up in Studio 3 located just upstairs. That way both rooms can work in tandem with each other and take full advantage of the space. This type of set-up can also be done with Studio 1, of course.
Technical Specification
Below find a technical specification of the Studio 2 Control Room. Gear including instruments, effects pedals and microphones can be easily moved between studios. For the full list of equipment follow the link to our Equipment List page.
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– 36-input Calrec Q-series desk
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– Apple Mac Pro 3.1 Quad-Core – Intel Xeon
– Avid Pro Tools 8 HD
– Avid Pro Tools HD w/ 24 ins & outs
– Apogee Rosetta 800 8 Channel AD/DA Converter
– Lynx Aurora 16 16 Channel AD/DA Converter
– MOTU MIDI Express 128 USB MIDI Interface
– Apogee Big Ben Master Clock
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– PMC TB2 Nearfield Monitors
– Tannoy Classic Gold (15")
– Quad 520F Power Amp (x2)
– Hear Technologies Hear Back Personal Monitor Mixer System
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– BAE 1073D Mic Preamp
– AML 5003D "Carnhill" Mic Preamp (x2)
– Universal Audio 710 Twin-Finity Mic Preamp (x2)
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– ADR Compex F769X-R Vocal Stressor
– Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor Compressor/Limiter
– 1178 Clone (in desk master section)
– Alice Limiters x4 (in desk master section)
– SSL Bus Compressor Clone
– DBX 160A Compressor/Limiter
– Pultec EQH-2 EQ
– TF Pro Edward The Compressor
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– Lexicon PCM60 Digital Effects Processor
– Eventide H3000 D/SE Ultra-Harmonizer
– Roland RE–150 Space Echo
– TC Electronic M3000 Studio Reverb Processor
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– Audio Ease Altiverb 6
– Abbey Road Brilliance Pack
– Antares Auto-Tune 4
– FabFilter Micro
– FabFilter Pro-C
– FabFilter Pro-G
– FabFilter Pro-L
– FabFilter Pro-Q
– FabFilter Saturn
– FabFilter Simplon
– FabFilter Timeless 2
– FabFilter Volcano 2
– IK Multimedia T-RackS
– Izotope Ozone 5
– Lexicon PCM Native Reverb Bundle
– Native Instruments Absynth 5
– Native Instruments FM8
– Native Instruments Battery 3
– Native Instruments Guitar Rig 4
– Native Instruments Komplete 4
– Native Instruments Massive
– Native Instruments Reaktor 5
– Softube Acoustic Feedback
– Softube Active Equalizer
– Softube Amp Room Bundle
– Softube Bass Amp Room
– Softube FET Compressor
– Softube Focusing Equalizer
– Softube Passive Equalizer
– Softube Spring Reverb
– Softube Tonelux Tilt
– Softube Trident A-Range
– Softube Tube Delay
– Slate Digital Trigger
– Softube Tube-Tech CL 1B
– Softube Tube-Tech PE 1C
– Softube Valley People Dyna-mite
– Sonnox Oxford EQ
– Sonnox Oxford SuprEsser
– Sonnox Oxford DeBuzzer
– Sonnox Oxford DeClicker
– Sonnox Oxford DeNoiser
– Sonnox Oxford Limiter
– Sonnox Oxford Inflator
– Sonnox Oxford Transient Modulator
– Sonnox Oxford Dynamics
– Sony Oxford Reverb
– Soundtoys 4
– SPL Transient Designer Plugins
– Various Waves Plugins