Upon entering our studio, you are greeted at the reception room where you can get a quick glimpse of the main studio, looking through a glass window. The atmosphear is that of a creative feel, and a spacious, functional environment awaits you.

Studio 1 - Vocal, instrumental recording room

This room is tailored for vocal work, in groups (limited to 4), solo or duets.
Our choice of microphone is high quality premium industry standard microphone and for instrumental applications we are well equipped to handle most instrumental recordings.

A world class, top of the range microphone, so you can expect only the best quality vocal recordings, warm, smooth and in a class of its own.

Studio 2 - Control, Mixing and MIDI studio

This is the heart and soul of the studio where vocal, instrumental and drum takes are recorded, mixed and finalised.

This is also the video production room, where music videos, 'stints' and documentaries are edited for post-production. Having said that, we offer an integrated audio/video recording and production facility for most requirements.

The MIDI studio offers a MIDI controller and system to offer you up to 64 tracks of MIDI sequencing. With a pletora of sounds and instruments to choose from, we combine this with the DAW (digital audio workstation) to give you the flexibility and options.

Also see our MIDI-triggered drumset below, as part of our "MIDI studio" setup

Studio 3 - Main studio

The main studio is specially designed, to give you more than enough room for any kind of musical performance or recording application.

DRUMKIT RECORDINGS
Typical applications is recording a small to a large-size drumkit. Space is not an issue.

We also offer MIDI triggers for drum recordings where drums can be recorded in MIDI format, with realistic nuances of all parameters, including volume, velocity, panning and more.

This gives us the flexibility to replace any drum sounds with sounds from library, without having to physically change the orginal audio recorded material.

CHOIRS
Choirs can be recorded, and the room can take up to about 15 singers.

BAND REHEARSAL
The main studio is also used as a rehearsal room for bands, so if you are interested to use the space let us know

Studio Gear

Audio & Recording Equipment

VOCAL BOOTH
The industry standard, top-class Neumann U87 large diaphragm condensor microphone

CORE SYSTEM
Apple MAC Pro Quad - 250Gig, 500Gig, external live drive, dual graphics, 4Gig ram, 2 X DVD superdrives, Intel XEON 2.88 GHertz processors, Two 19inch 6ms LCD Viewsonic screens

RECORDING INTERFACE
Protools DIGI 002RK system
Focusrite Octopre 8 ADAT + Digi Board

OUTBOARD
Yamaha 01V96 R2 Digital Console with Protools remote control
Yamaha MY16-AT ADAT expansion card
Behringer VAMP 2 Pro Guitar rack
Behringer VAMP 2 Bass Processor rack
Behringer 8 channel Headphone AMP
* optional multi-effects processor available.

VIDEO
DV Toolkit 2
DV Transcoder
Firewire interface
2 X Canon XM2 Cameras
Monitoring system

Microphones

VOCAL MICS
Neumann U87 - The mainstay microphone of our studio

DRUMKIT
4 X Shure SM57
2 X AKG C1000 Overheads
1 X Shure Beta 52 Kick drum

GENERAL
Shure PG48 Talkback MIC
Shure SM 58 Vocal Mic
Shure SM57
* optional mics to choose from

Instruments

GUITARS
1 X Epiphone Classic Guitar
1 X Ovation Acoustic guitar
1 X Ibanez S Series Jazz Guitar
1 X Fender American Statocaster

BASS GUITARS
1 X 5-string Fender Jazz Bass

MIDI INSTRUMENTS
1 X M-Audio Pro 88 Key Controller
1 X Upright Acoustic Piano
1X set of drumkit MIDI triggers
Controller options of the Yamaha O1V96R2

DRUMKIT
Five-piece DDrums with with Zildjian cymbals, hihats and crashes.

Software

Protools 7.0
Logic Pro Audio 7.2
Final Cut Studio 5.1
Native Komplete 3
Spectrasonics Stylus RMX, Trilogy and Atmosphear
Add-on effects and plugins

* All software runs on the RTAS audio system architecture designed for Protools, and the Apple Open Music System, which gives our clients the ability to transfer their projects to our system, in the OMS format.

This may include Steinberg Cubase v2/3, Nuendo and other sequencers running and supporting OMS.