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Techy stuf for geek heads!
NB. All software at Woodbine is 100% paid for and legal!
DESK
Audient ASP8024. Dave Deardon of DDA fame designed this desk to be the most Hi Fi in its class. It’s awesome and suits digital recording perfectly. Just installed - vintage transformers which are yet another tool in achieving this studio's sound. We use high speed transmission cable for all critical audio paths and high grade low capacitance cable elsewhere for highest fidelity.
DIGITAL RECORDING
LATEST PROTOOLS HD3 Accel - 24 BIT / 128 TRACK with three 96KHz interfaces and 23” APPLE wide screen monitor running an Intel Mac G5 Quad processor with 9Gigs ram, 3500GB of approved hard drives plus 1000GB of dump drives. Unique to us - Freq Freak varispeed...range is +/- 10% on a big knob!
PLUG-INS INCLUDE
Virtual guitar amps; Line 6 Amp farm, SansAmp, Amplitube 2; Ampeg SVX (Bass), Fender Collection, Jimi Hendrix, Metal, Studio Devil guitar & bass amps, also VGA Pro. SPL Transient designer. Redline pre-amp & Redline Reverb. TL Space convolving reverb that puts you in real spaces. CSR Reverb Suite. Reverb One, D Verb, Sonnox Reverb also EQ & Inflator. DUY; Valve, Tape & ReDSpider. McDSP; compressor & filter banks, MC2000 multi band compressor & Analogue channels. Massenburg Hi Res EQ. H949 Harmonizer, Drumagog & Soundreplacer, VariFi, LoFi, RectiFi. Sound Toys; Soundblender, Speed, Pure Pitch, PhaseMistress, Pitch Dr, Tremolator, Crystallizer, FilterFreak & EchoBoy. Echo Farm. NI Spektral Delay, Bruno/Reso, Bomb Factory, Focusrite, DPP pitch shifter, DINR noise reduction. iZotope Ozone, Trash & Vinyl. Digi Smack & BF Slightly Rude compressors. Steven Massey de-esser, CT4 compressor, Tape Head, THC fuz, EQ & L2007 limiter. T-Rack EQ/dynamics. Focusrite Liquid Mix. Brainworx BX Control V2-MS Decoder. Toast 10.
VIRTUAL KEYBOARD
IK; Sample Tank2 with extensive library, Sampletron, Miroslav Philharmonik. Native Instruments; B4 II, Pro53, Battery 3 and Kontakt 4 - again loads of samp's including full PMI Baroque Organ. AAS; Tassman, String Studio, Ultra Analogue, Strum & Lounge Lizard. Synthogy Ivory-(beautiful pianos). Access Indigo. Garritan Personal Orchestra.
MONITORS
Klein & Hummel O300D near fields set new standards of excellence and have transformed our ability to achieve great mixes. Mains are 1000W, bi-amped Mission 780’s with 1000W Velodyne subwoofer. Also Avantone Cube 'horrids' / recently added - Quad Lites on the back wall. Our mixes are very real world compatible and travel well...ask any cutting engineer who’s mastered our output.
REVERBS
Lexicon MPX-1, PCM70 & Model 200, Yamaha SPX900, Alesis Quadraverb plus the virtual reverbs within Protools.
VARIOUS
TL Audio VP-1 all valve input channel, Focusrite vox channel, Bel digital delays, Spectrum Analyser, Orban 245F mono to stereo synthesiser.
DYNAMICS
2 x Audio & Design F760-RS vintage twin channel compressors - Restored to 'better than new' by Saturn Sound - Terrific on drums, vocals, guitars!. Also Compex 2's, Klark Teknik DN500, (very versatile), 2 x Joe Meek VC1Q opto compressor / mic pre's. Liquid Mix which uses dynamic convolution to sample every engineers wet dreams of the worlds best compressors, (and EQs).
MICROPHONES
Valve; 2 x Studio Projects T3, E.A.R. ‘The Mike’, 2 x At3060’s, SE Z5600A & Z5600. Condenser; Stereo pair M930s, Josephson e22s, Neuman TLM170, 2 x SP C4s, LSD2 twin capsule mic, 2 x SE Z3300a's, 2 x JM478’s, 2 x CAD M179’s, 4 x Calrec 1050's, Sony C48 and AT4033. Dynamics by; AKG, Beyer, EV, Sennheiser, Shure. AT M23HE drum mics, EV N/D868 & Audix D6 kik mikes. Classic Dynamics: 2 X Beyer M88, Shure SM-7B vocal mike.
INSTRUMENTS
Hammond M110 Organ with Leslie cab. Regular and High Strung acoustics, 1 bass & 1 electric guitars. Also a vintage Hayman drum kit for hire / choice of 2 snares. Many virtual keyboard plug-ins within ProTools |
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