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Our background is in rock music, That's not to say we don't deal with other genres. That just happens to be what we do best. The studio has been designed from the ground up specifically to record live bands.
 
We don't claim to have a studio "sound" as such, as we believe that our job is to capture your sound in the way that best represents you. We don't really give a shit if this means putting the snare drum through a fuzzbox, just as long as you come away with something that you can be proud of.
The main recording area, with it's built in amp booths, was designed to provide pretty much total isolation between instruments in a live session. None of this everybody recording separately malarky. (Unless of course you want to).
The wood panelled walls of the adjoining drum room contribute towards a "live" acoustic which tends to suit a more open and punchy rock sound. A separate headphone feed to this room means that drummers get their own headphone mixes whilst recording. (Useful if no one else wants to experience 110dB's of cowbell click-track.)
Tracking is usually done to Pro Tools, which with it's powerful editing and ultra high quality plugins and effects means that we can do things to your sound that
were previously unheard of outside of megabucks studios that would cost you 10 or 20 times the price.
The big fella in the control room is a Soundcraft DC2000 console, which as well as it's 76 inputs and great sounding eq, benefits from full "flying fader" automation. (You know, the thing that happens when everyone's a bit wired late at night and the faders start to look like they're moving up and down on their own when it's really just the engineer trying to impress the record company guy)
 
We do of course also have a fine range of industry standard microphones and outboard and of course the all important chillout area that has saved many a poor soul from slipping away into the realms of madness as the guitarist valiantly tries for the 40th time to capture the chorus part that they'd "nailed every time in rehearsals last week".
  
Now obviously, having all of this stuff would mean nothing if we didn't have guys who were capable of getting the most out of it. All our engineers have cut their teeth at some of the worlds most respected recording institutes and studios, and as we said before, all specialize in recording live bands. Indeed, if you check out our other stuff page you will find links to a bunch of articles written by us aimed at helping you get the most out of your sessions.
Although the majority of the work we do concerns recording and mixing bands, we also do stuff like vocal demos, whereby you tell us the song you want to sing on and we put together the backing track for you to come in and do your stuff to. Again, have a look at the other stuff page for more details about this. It's priced slightly differently from the way we price our regular recording sessions as it's a slightly different process. Feel free to check it out.
We also offer a pretty competitive mastering service, even if we do say so ourselves. So if you want your stuff to sound LOUD and in yer face, this is something worth bearing in mind. Once more, further details are on the other stuff page
'Course we can waffle on about how great we are for ages but ultimately, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. (whatever that means) So if you want to have a gobful of our pudding, grab yer spoon and plunge it into this link here to get an earful of the type of stuff we do.
 

RATES, DEALS AND HOW TO GET IT EVEN CHEAPER

  

Our Standard Daily Rate is £175.00.
This is for an 8 hour day that starts at 10.00am and ends at 6.00pm Monday to Friday and includes the full services of one of our dedicated in house engineers.
 
If you book 3 days or more, it goes down to £160.00 per day.
 
If you book 7 days or more, you can have it for an almost stupidly rock bottom price of £150.00 per day.
 
Wot! 32 tracks of Pro Tools for a hundred and fifty quid a day? Are we mad? Naah! We just get a little bit stupid occasionally.
 
So there you have it.
 
The only additional cost you might have to consider is if you want to use our house drum kit. This is a 5 piece, Premier XPK with 22" bass drum, 10", 12" and 14" toms and a birch ply snare. It comes with 14" hi hats, a 16" crash and a 22" ride.
This kit is reserved exclusively for the recording studio and is kept tuned up and ready to go. The hire charge is £30.00 per day. Again, if you need it for a few days, talk to us about it and we will usually be able to cut you a deal on the price.
 
Oh yeah. If you don't you need the studio for a whole day, the hourly rate is £25.00 though there is a minimum booking of 4 hours.