Feel free to ask anything you want about it!
That place needs more knobs and switches. More cedar, too.
Sweet. If the acoustics are just half as good as the looks...
And it's clear as mud that the photos are pro stuff. Less than 20 mm focal length (full format), multi-second exposure, maybe even a bit of HDR thrown in.
If I rocked up after hours, Topre bribe in hand, would I get in? ;-P
Lovely setup there. As I said in Half-Saint now OT'd thread, The last studio my previous band used was a hole, and charged almost double what you are charging. I'm actually surprised it's that cheap. Is that because it's new, kind of like an introductory offer? Or is there competition in your area?
What kind of mics?Everything.
Pro Tools?Yes, HD3 System with 48 channels of I/O, but we also have a 24 track 2" Studer A827 through CLASP (http://www.endlessanalog.com/) if you want that nice warm punchy sound.
How many tracks is your biggest board?56 Channels, right now we only have two studios, A, which is very high quality, and B which is really a joke in comparison(just kept us alive while we funded A)
How many isolation booths?2, one with more absorbing walls, the other with diffusing walls.
Do you have any portable rigs for on-site recordings?Not yet, but we're considering it. Gotta pay off the debt we have now though lol.
Nice. I'd be turning knobs and flipping buttons all day, just because you can. Needs ambient lighting.
Not bad at all. Working with my last band, we paid 150GBP/hr, and engineered it ourselves. and it was a hole compared to yours. Lovely old desk though, great sound but a ***** to use.
My Alesis
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Quite pathetic when you bring out guns like yours!
I used to have my 7 Synths hooked up to it as well (2 mono channels per synth, one Vocal on mono, one guitar on mono), but since I got the Delta 1010, it's just used if a few people come round to jam. That's not often, as my neighbours tend to get annoyed at anything being played.
There is no such thing as overkill. Despite what my missus says ("Why do you need 7 keyboards?").
True. It would take me at least a day to wrap my head round what that setup can do, let alone get a handle on the effects. The patch bay alone looks scary!
Is there any available music that has been recorded in this studio?
I know nothing about anything that has been said and shown except the actual architectual photography, and to that I say well done =)
For the rest (as in what the photos are of)... all I can say is looks damn sexy and top notch!
Congrats man! Definately worth showing off and being proud of! Sounds (no pun intended) like a really fun gig too!
=)
...kinda makes me sad about my studio and the various studios that I work for and at =P
Hello Everyone,
Now that I'm done hijacking Half-Saint's thread, here's the studio I work for(and helped build)
Where is your studio located? Let us know, if you're permitted, what musical acts are recording in there!
You guys don't know light ;) Not down lights, ambient lighting. So people don't look like zombies, with shadows on their faces.
Unlike point lights, the uplights use the walls and ceiling to scatter the light evenly across the room.
Fantastic and fantastic pics.
You guys don't know light ;) Not down lights, ambient lighting. So people don't look like zombies, with shadows on their faces.
Unlike point lights, the uplights use the walls and ceiling to scatter the light evenly across the room.
Floor-standing halogens with dimmers are a great compromise if you can get the right ones.
Dimmers make some really "nice" broadband RFI sources though (high-speed voltage chopping going on there), and I doubt most manufacturers do much about that.
Trying to off the topic for abit here, since you work at a studio environment, what studio monitors would you recommend for home usage that has a perfectly neutral sound spectrum?
Sub USD$500 range please.
Trying to off the topic for abit here, since you work at a studio environment, what studio monitors would you recommend for home usage that has a perfectly neutral sound spectrum?
Sub USD$500 range please.
Thanks!
BTW, killer setup, was ogling at the pics for at least 1 minute.. EACH
And Ripster hit's what I worry about a fair bit. Given that I try to use decent kit when making music, making it sound good is down to me. But on playback on other peoples systems, then **** speakers, amps and sources climb into the mix. I therefore spend a lot of time listening to my output on crappy speakers through a crappy amp as a 128K MP3.
The difference is shocking. Most of the high-end detail is gone. Bass is loose and uncontrolled. It sounds very different. You can hear the basics, but things like playing round with variations on the higher pitched percussions are largely lost. Vocals... well. I'm not going there as I actually get annoyed by it. I wonder if I should release 2 versions. One for gear that I would use, and one for 1000W PMPO! OMFG! Blue speakers and flashy lights! Must have now! type systems. Maybe release it as DLC in FLAC?
how much you piss off your neighbours is the data point you need to measure
Amazon 256K VBR is not bad. Not bad at all although I generally prefer to go Old Skool and have them ship me the CD and burn to FLAC and LAME V2 (Variable with target of 192K). MP3 to my portables, FLAC for the house.
My son could care less and wants it NOW so Amazon MP3 Download it is. I do not allow him to buy from iTunes at least.
The KRK RP8G2 Rokit G2 Powered Studio Monitors have a good reputation. $500 a pair.Show Image(http://www.americanmusical.com/ProductImages/Large/50901.jpg)
But it all depends on what you want. I enjoy my Mackie 824s for detail I don't hear even with headphones but then add a subwoofer bump and screw that nice flat frequency line all up. My roommate long ago was a studio engineer and he mixed to those white speaker Yamaha things and I couldn't believe how awful they sounded to me. He explained that if you could mix to those and cheap aluminum Radio Shacks AND car speakers that was a good mix.
Amazon 256K VBR is not bad.
I picked up a pair of the KRK RP5G2s the other day, and am really liking them. They're a huge step up from the Yamaha PC speakers they replaced, but I haven't had time to put them against my linear mic and spectrum analyzer to flatten them out, or tune them up yet.
Biggest complaint is that the power cords don't fit very well into them... That, and I realize how crappy my current positioning is.
You call a ~2 dB dropoff beyond 16 kHz "drop off pretty bad in the top end"? C'mon. In any case the speaker seems to be within +/- 2 dB over the whole sweep range.
One would need measurements at more angles (h and v) to say anything definitive. A log frequency scale would be quite helpful, too.
I didn't know people still used a scope for frequency response display. Most anyone has a PC-based setup for such things these days.
-6db sounds a bit much. Maybe the room is changing the measurement.
Mackies HR824s aren't very fashionable right now but I like they come with nifty little charts.