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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:

  • 48-channel Cadac J Series console with custom power supply, 12 aux sends per channel, parametric EQ on every channel and 8 stereo groups.

  • 8-core iMac Pro with 32 GB RAM, a combined 10 TB of storage and automatic backups.

  • For mobile recording, 2.8 GHz Intel Quad Core i7 Retina Macbook Pro with 16 GB RAM and 512 GB Flash Storage.

  • Lynx Aurora Thunderbolt 32 line in/out audio interface

  • Apple Logic Pro X.

 

  • Celemony Melodyne pitch correction tool.

  • Syncro Arts Revoice Pro time alignment tool.

  • Over 80 Waves plugins including the Gold Bundle, API Collection, Vocal Rider and Aphex Vintage Exciter. 

  • 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.

  • FabFilter Mastering Bundle including Pro-Q EQ, Pro-L limiter, Pro-MB multiband compressor and Pro-C compressor.

  • Soundtoys EchoBoy digital delay and MicroShift stereo widener.

  • Complete range of D-16 Group software including Syntorus chorus module and Toraverb digital reverb.

  • Hornet plugin range.

  • Izotope Iris 2, Stutter Edit, Breaktweaker, RX7. 

  • Complete Samples From Mars sample set.

  • Spectrasonics Omnisphere and Stylus RMX.

  • Native Instruments Kontakt, Reaktor and Razor.

  • u-he Zebra.

  • Lennar Digital Sylenth 1.

  • Arturia classic synths bundle.

  • Waldorf Largo.

  • Sonic Projects OPX-Pro II.

  • GForce M-Tron Pro.

  • Abbey Road 60s Drummer.

  • Range of 8DIO instruments.

  • Range of Embertone instruments.

  • Project SAM Orchestral Essentials.

  • Complete range of D-16 Group instruments.

  • Synthogy Ivory II Grand Piano.

  • Manley Reference Cardioid.

  • Neumann TLM102.

  • MXL 990.

  • Sennheiser MKH 416.

  • Shure Beta SM58A.

  • Shure SM57.

  • Audix OM6.

  • 2x AKG C3000.

  • Rupert Neve 511 mic pre.

  • Avedis MA5 mic pre.

  • Custom API VP28 mic press with GAR2520/1731 op amps.

 

  • A Designs Nail stereo compressor.

  • Buzz Audio DBC-20 stereo compressor.

  • Buzz Audio Essence compressor.

  • Tonelux TX-5 C compressor.

  • Pete's Place BAC-500 compressor.

  • Modified Chameleon Labs 7720 stereo compressor.

  • DBX 163X compressor.

  • 2x Klark Teknik 76-KT 1176-style compressors.

  • Bricasti M7 stereo reverb.

  • Lexicon PCM 81 stereo reverb/effects processor.

  • Lexicon LXP-1 reverb.

  • Meris Mercury 7 reverb.

  • Klark Teknik DN780 reverb/effects processor.

  • Sony V77 effects processor.

  • Roland SDX-330 chorus.

  • Roland SDE-1000 digital delay.

  • 2x Rupert Neve 542 tape emulation.

  • Looptrotter Emperor saturation module.

  • Louder Than Liftoff Silver Bullet tone box.

  • Eventide Time Factor delay/effects processor.

  • Roger Linn AdrenaLinn III effects processor.

  • Klark Teknik BBD-320 dimension processor.

  • DBX 520 De-esser.

  • Zahl EQ1 stereo EQ.

  • 2x A Designs EM-PEQ EQ.

  • Buzz Audio Tonic EQ.

  • Kush UBK Clariphonic stereo EQ.

  • Empirical Labs Lil FrEQ EQ.

  • Little Labs VOG bass resonance tool.

  • Rocktron Voodu Valve guitar amp emulator.

RECORDING
SOFT SYNTHS & PLUGINS
MICS & MIC PRES
OUTBOARD
HARDWARE SYNTHS

  • Moog Minitaur.

  • DSI Evolver.

  • DSI Mopho.

  • Roland SH-101.

  • Roland D-50.

  • Roland R8 Mk II.

  • Roland JV-1080.

  • MFB Dominion 1.

  • Waldorf Q. 

  • Waldorf Pulse.

  • Waldorf Blofeld.

  • Novation Bass Station.

  • Korg X3.

  • Korg X5DR.

  • Yamaha TX-81Z.

MONITORING

  • Custom Volt/ATC main monitors.

  • Adam S3H Active midfield monitors.

  • Yamaha NS-10M Studio nearfields.

  • Focal subwoofer.

  • Avantone mixcubes.

  • Playback system with Naim DAC, Naim and Bryston amplification and Shahinian speakers.

  • Antelope Audio Satori monitor controller.

  • AKG K701 Studio Reference headphones.

  • Sennheiser HD650 headphones. 

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