the studio

The live room measures approximately sixty square meters. Natural light and hard wood floors with a nice reverb tail specially in the top half. There's good visibility into the dead room and the kitchen area.Three large panels with an absorvant side and several rugs are useful for deadening certain areas of the room. You can set up an entire band (even with live vocals if necessary) and achieve excellent results. Or use other rooms for isolation. Whatever is a better match for your session.

The live room (as well as the rest of the studio) was expertly designed and built by Stephen Pickford aka Fritz of eHz.

The control room is upstairs. There are two windows into the live room. We have several monitoring options. Mostly its either the Westlake BBSM6 or the IPL ribbon transmission line speakers with a Bryston power amp. You'll also find a 32 series Harrison console, an MCI JH24 multitrack tape machine, an Otari MTR12 1/4" tape machine as well as an assortment of outboard gear.

The kitchen can also be used as an additional recording room. The sound is excellent (although quite by accident). Very live sounding, works very well for vocals, horns, acoustic and spanish guitars, strings... There are two large windows into the main recording room and (with a little effort) you can see into the dead room as well. There are eight mic lines into the control room and the other recording rooms.

The kitchen can also be used as (ahem) a kitchen. Equipped with a fridge, a microwave oven and a hot plate you can prepare something at home and heat it up when hungry or pop out to the supermarket and cook something at the studio. Maybe not roast turkey, but hey, it's a studio, for crying out loud...

The dead room is approximately seven square meters. A very dry acoustic makes it possible to record several amps in this room at the same time  with very little bleed. You can achieve very good results setting up the amplifiers in this room and the drum kit in the main live room. It makes it possible to record the whole band at once and still be able to punch in tracks if necessary.

Visibility into the live room is excellent.

The studio's entrance is also used for storing some of the instruments and amps.