Gear

Equipment List

*Gateshead Studio only unless requested

 

Instruments

Yamaha C3 Grand Piano – tuning by ex-Steinway artist technician can be arranged for £90
*Yamaha U30

Pre-amps

24 x Allen & Heath Desk pres
4 x channels Audient Mico Series w/Variphase and HMX*
8 x channels RME Octamic II*

Studio Monitors

Amphion TWO15*
Focal CMS65
Blue Sky Mediadesk 2.1 system

Console

Allen and Heath G-R24M

Microphones

DPA 4006 omni PAIR
DPA 4011
DPA 4060 x 3
Royer R-121
Neumann KM184 PAIR
Telefunken Copperhead
Joly MJE384 PAIR
MP V12 (hand built valve mic with Handmade Tiim Campbell Capsule)
Aston Origin
sE VR1 Voodoo Ribbon
sE X1R Ribbon
SE 4400a x3
SE 5600 valve mic
Audix Drum Mic Set – D6, D4, 2 x D2, i7
XIX Pure 1
Rode NT1a
Shure Beta 57 (mk1)
the usual SM57s and SM58s

Computer/Interface

3.6Ghz Quad-Core Mac Pro
MOTU 24+8 channel audio interface (AVB)
MOTU Monitor 8 AVB Headphone cuemix system + 6 x tablets for individual artist headphone mixes

Software/Plugins

Pro Tools
Cubase Pro 9 DAW
UAD Quadcore DSP card + various plugins
Melodyne Studio 4
DSP Quattro v4 Mastering Software (Red Book CD Standard & DDP)
Lexicon Native PCM Reverbs
Equilibrium. EQuality & EQuick
DC8C2 Compressor
Slate Digital VCC, VMR, VTM & FG-X Mastering Limiter
Waves L2
Waves Maserati GRP
Aether Algorithmic Reverb
Reverberate 2
B2 Reverb

WE ONLY USE LEGIT SOFTWARE

Headphones

Beyerdynamic DT880pro
4 x AudioTechnica M20X
5 x DT100
2 x Extreme Isolation Drummer Headphones
Sennheiser HD25 SP
Sennheiser HD25 II
various others

Cabling/Stands

Most XLR cables Van Damme, standard or Star-Quad
9 x Tall Stands (Beyer, premium K&M or similar)
Counter-weight 5+ metre very tall stands x 2
2 x short stand