A room built around the performance.
Large, characterful and designed from the ground up, the live room gives music the space to breathe, while the control room lets you hear exactly what you are making.
The live room
A spacious 50 m² performance area with 3.5 metre ceilings and angled walls, so instruments sound open and full. Adjustable panels and screens give acoustic separation while keeping clear sightlines, which is why bands of six to eight record together here, in one room.
It suits jazz, rock and string ensembles, and solo instruments and vocals benefit from a richness smaller rooms can't give.
- 50 m²
- Performance floor
- 3.5 m
- Angled ceilings
- 6–8
- Musicians in one room
- 8
- Personal headphone mixes
The control room
Designed for accurate, trustworthy listening around PMC monitoring, so what you hear in the room is what ends up on the record.
The real emphasis is at the source: a large selection of dynamic, condenser, ribbon and tube microphones, recorded through premium preamps. That lets us commit to a great sound at the recording stage, rather than trying to fix it in the mix.
Universal Audio Apollo conversion · a mixture of premium preamps · personal headphone mixes for up to eight players.
Instruments ready when you arrive.
Few studios in the country can match this selection of pianos. The Yamaha S6 is available during any booking for £50 a day, or £125 with a professional tuning beforehand.
Yamaha S6 grand piano
Used on countless albums, and the reason many pianists travel here.
Fender Rhodes Mark 1 Stage 73
Warm, classic electric piano tone.
Bechstein Model 10 upright
A vintage upright for a more intimate, characterful sound.
Also in the room: Fender American Ultra Stratocaster, Ibanez AS153 semi-hollow, Fender Precision and MTD basses, Fender Princeton Reverb amp and a box of percussion.
Microphones
Dynamic, condenser, ribbon and tube microphones, chosen to capture the depth and character of each instrument.
- 2 × Neumann U87
- 2 × Neumann KM184
- 2 × Coles 4038
- AEA R88
- 2 × DPA 4011a
- 2 × Avantone CV12
- 2 × JZ V67
- Beyerdynamic M160
- Beyerdynamic M260
- DPA 4099
- Electro-Voice RE20
- AKG C214
- 2 × Cascade Fat Head
- Shure SM7B
- 4 × Shure SM57
- 2 × Shure SM58
- Heil PR40
- AKG D112
- sE VR1
The lounge
Somewhere comfortable to relax between takes, with leather sofas, warm lamplight and plenty of plants. It is the place to listen back, talk through ideas and reset before the next performance.
Tell me about your project.
Whether it is a single, an album or a live session, I will get back to you personally to talk it through. A studio day is £380 for eight hours, with your engineer.