Studio 1: Recording Studio

STUDIO 1

Recording Studio – Live Room

Studio 1 comprises of air-conditioned and acoustically treated Live Room, Vocal Booth and Control Room designed by Roger Quested (Abbey Road Studios) and Max Hodges (Sound On Sound).

The studio complex is well equipped with a range of classic analogue mics, pristine valve pre-amps and both soft and analogue synths (including the legendary Neumann U47, Prism Sound Maselec MMA-4XR, 1″ tape machine, Juno 6 etc) alongside the best in digital effects processors, soft synths and plug-ins.

tudio 1 boasts a range of classic analogue mics, pristine valve pre-amps and both soft and analogue synths (including the legendary Neumann U47, Prism Sound Maselec MMA-4XR, 1″ tape machine, Juno 6 etc) alongside the best in digital effects processors, soft synths and plug-ins.

Specifications & Acoustic Design

We offer a wide range of integrated recording solutions, based around an Apple Mac Pro, Pro Tools and Logic Pro system with clean and high end AD/DA conversion and clocking from the SSL (Solid State Logic) Alphalink and Prism Sound Orpheus. Studio 1 has high-end acoustic Absorbing & BAD (Binary Amplitude Diffsorbor™) panels and Diffusor panels designed and manufactured by RPG.

6x 4.5m studio 1 – air-conditioned

Mac-based Logic Pro and ProTools systems

Quested monitoring – S7 + sub

SSL (Solid State Logic) Alphalink

Allen & Heath GS-R24M recording and mixing desk

Prism Sound Orpheus converters + Prism MMA-4XR pre-ampsTLAudio PA1, EQ1, C5021 + TFPro P110, P38EX (and more) & Pre-amps

Large mic selection (inc. Neumann U47 and Sontronics ARIA vocal mic and more)

Vocal Booth & Amp Room

CONTROL ROOM

Sound Gallery have designed and utilised a combination of Limp Mass traps and absorber panels along with corner traps to attenuate a range of frequencies – the aim is to create an almost flat response curve to enable the ‘Truest’ audio signal.

Quality mixing helps achieve great mastering results and the experience and ears of a good Mix Engineer are invaluable.

Mixing Equipment

Monitoring is provided by Quested (Quested S7 + SB 10R Sub). We offer general Mixing services and Stem Mixing services using both Analogue and Digital paths (including Prism Sound Maselec MMA-4XR mastering series pre-amps, Tascam 1″ tape, TfPro compressors and a host of high end digital plug-ins).

Mixing Services

Multi-track mixing

Digital & Analogue Stem mixing

Mixing to 1″ tape

Mastering facilities

Sound Gallery Studios offer different Mastering options to suite your budget and your product, from general Mix and Mastering of demos and ‘in the box’ high end Software Mastering to complete packages for commercial release utilizing TLA valve EQs & PA1, TfPro P38EX stereo compression and more.

We are also proud to offer the highest level of professional Mastering through a unique association with S.A.M. (Super Audio Mastering) which is run by renowned Mastering Engineer Simon Heyworth (Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, Depeche Mode, Imogen Heap).

Studio 1 also is linked to our neighbouring radio station Phonic FM, which enables us to run Maida Vale-style live sessions on-air as well as pre-recorded sessions featuring bands and singer-songwriters.

Sound Gallery Studios is sponsored by Mansons Guitars and Fender