THE STUDIO
Our small and friendly studio is situated within the Malthouse, in the heart of Barking's creative quarter. Specialising in composition, editing, mixing and post-production, the studio is also set up to record vocalists and singer-songwriters. Small but perfectly formed, the studio is based around a 48-channel Cadac J-series analogue console, supported by a combination of industry-standard and esoteric outboard gear including compressors, reverbs and EQs from Neve, API, Bricasti and others, with a range of microphones from Neumann, Manley, AKG, Shure and Rode to ensure that whatever your style, we can capture it perfectly. We have a full range of music production plugins from Waves, Universal Audio and FabFilter, and a vast virtual instrument library to generate everything from a vintage grand piano sound to a modelled Moog synth to a full orchestra, and from the latest EDM beats to a classic 808 drum machine to the sound of a 60s kit from Abbey Road.
Our equipment list changes periodically but currently includes:
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48-channel Cadac J Series console with custom power supply, 12 aux sends per channel, parametric EQ on every channel and 8 stereo groups.
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8-core iMac Pro with 32 GB RAM, a combined 10 TB of storage and automatic backups.
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For mobile recording, 2.8 GHz Intel Quad Core i7 Retina Macbook Pro with 16 GB RAM and 512 GB Flash Storage.
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Lynx Aurora Thunderbolt 32 line in/out audio interface
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Apple Logic Pro X.
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Celemony Melodyne pitch correction tool.
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Syncro Arts Revoice Pro time alignment tool.
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Over 80 Waves plugins including the Gold Bundle, API Collection, Vocal Rider and Aphex Vintage Exciter.
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Universal Audio Thunderbolt Satellite Quad-Core, 26 UAD-2 plugins including the Manley Massive Passive EQ, Dangerous BAX EQ, Studer and Ampex tape emulations and LA-2A and 1176 modelled compressors.
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FabFilter Mastering Bundle including Pro-Q EQ, Pro-L limiter, Pro-MB multiband compressor and Pro-C compressor.
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Soundtoys EchoBoy digital delay and MicroShift stereo widener.
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Complete range of D-16 Group software including Syntorus chorus module and Toraverb digital reverb.
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Hornet plugin range.
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Izotope Iris 2, Stutter Edit, Breaktweaker, RX7.
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Complete Samples From Mars sample set.
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Spectrasonics Omnisphere and Stylus RMX.
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Native Instruments Kontakt, Reaktor and Razor.
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u-he Zebra.
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Lennar Digital Sylenth 1.
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Arturia classic synths bundle.
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Waldorf Largo.
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Sonic Projects OPX-Pro II.
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GForce M-Tron Pro.
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Abbey Road 60s Drummer.
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Range of 8DIO instruments.
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Range of Embertone instruments.
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Project SAM Orchestral Essentials.
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Complete range of D-16 Group instruments.
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Synthogy Ivory II Grand Piano.
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Manley Reference Cardioid.
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Neumann TLM102.
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MXL 990.
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Sennheiser MKH 416.
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Shure Beta SM58A.
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Shure SM57.
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Audix OM6.
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2x AKG C3000.
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Rupert Neve 511 mic pre.
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Avedis MA5 mic pre.
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Custom API VP28 mic press with GAR2520/1731 op amps.
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A Designs Nail stereo compressor.
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Buzz Audio DBC-20 stereo compressor.
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Buzz Audio Essence compressor.
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Tonelux TX-5 C compressor.
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Pete's Place BAC-500 compressor.
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Modified Chameleon Labs 7720 stereo compressor.
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DBX 163X compressor.
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2x Klark Teknik 76-KT 1176-style compressors.
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Bricasti M7 stereo reverb.
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Lexicon PCM 81 stereo reverb/effects processor.
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Lexicon LXP-1 reverb.
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Meris Mercury 7 reverb.
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Klark Teknik DN780 reverb/effects processor.
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Sony V77 effects processor.
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Roland SDX-330 chorus.
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Roland SDE-1000 digital delay.
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2x Rupert Neve 542 tape emulation.
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Looptrotter Emperor saturation module.
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Louder Than Liftoff Silver Bullet tone box.
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Eventide Time Factor delay/effects processor.
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Roger Linn AdrenaLinn III effects processor.
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Klark Teknik BBD-320 dimension processor.
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DBX 520 De-esser.
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Zahl EQ1 stereo EQ.
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2x A Designs EM-PEQ EQ.
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Buzz Audio Tonic EQ.
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Kush UBK Clariphonic stereo EQ.
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Empirical Labs Lil FrEQ EQ.
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Little Labs VOG bass resonance tool.
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Rocktron Voodu Valve guitar amp emulator.
RECORDING
SOFT SYNTHS & PLUGINS
MICS & MIC PRES
OUTBOARD





HARDWARE SYNTHS
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Moog Minitaur.
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DSI Evolver.
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DSI Mopho.
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Roland SH-101.
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Roland D-50.
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Roland R8 Mk II.
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Roland JV-1080.
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MFB Dominion 1.
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Waldorf Q.
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Waldorf Pulse.
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Waldorf Blofeld.
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Novation Bass Station.
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Korg X3.
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Korg X5DR.
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Yamaha TX-81Z.

MONITORING
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Custom Volt/ATC main monitors.
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Adam S3H Active midfield monitors.
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Yamaha NS-10M Studio nearfields.
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Focal subwoofer.
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Avantone mixcubes.
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Playback system with Naim DAC, Naim and Bryston amplification and Shahinian speakers.
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Antelope Audio Satori monitor controller.
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AKG K701 Studio Reference headphones.
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Sennheiser HD650 headphones.