Facilities
Sound Gallery Studios provide the highest standard voice recording facility for our clients using the industry standard ProTools for both recording voice-overs and voice to picture in our acoustically treated and sound-proofed vocal booth. Producers and directors can listen in or direct sessions from anywhere in the world using telephone or Skype patch which enables 2 way communication between yourself, the talent and the engineer. The audio mix is then sent to your e-mail immediately after the session. Through experience we have found this solution to be the one providing the most high quality audio as well as most cost effective medium for our clients compared to ISDN. With our high-speed internet connection the finished audio files can be with you in no time at all. Wi-Fi is also available to all clients during sessions.
Recording & Editing
Voiceover recording (up to 3 artists simultaneously) separate, acoustically treated vocal booth
Acoustically treated live room available for larger groups
Commercials / TV & Film / Animation / Video
Narration / Commentary for DVD or Audio-Books
Recording & Editing telephone messages into telephone messaging systems
Sound Design, Mix & Music
Sound design and mix for online Media, CD and DVD
Audio repair and restoration
Original and bespoke music composition
Equipment
Mac Pro running Pro-tools 9 and Logic Pro 9
SSL Alphalink AD/DA conversion
Prism Sound Orpheus
TfPro P110 voice channel
Quested S7 Monitoring system with SB10R Sub
Microphones
Neumann U47 FET
TFPro Valve prototype
Rode K2 (pair)
AKG 414 Buls
AudioTechnica 4033 (pair)
Sontronics Saturn
Sontronics Sigma Ribbon Microphone
Delivery Formats
Mono/Stereo 24bit 44.1Khz/48Khz/88.2Khz/96Khz WAV/AIFF and BWAV
OMF/AAF
All MP3 Formats
Video Specification Sheet
Frame accurate format with TC Burn in.
Format
mov
motion jpeg
DV
DVCPro (HD)
Pro Res 422 (HD)
Resolution (Square Pixels)
1024×576
720×576 (PAL)
720p (HD)
1080p (HD)
We will also need to know:
Frame Rate
Audio bit depth
Audio Sample rate
Staff
Duncan Chave: Head Engineer, producer, sound designer and Sound Gallery’s Technical Director, Duncan has extensive experience of working with directors, composers, arrangers and musicians to produce music and sound for performance using cutting edge hardware and software technology. Duncan has also been involved in keyboard programming and the preparation of sampled sounds for West End musicals, the Royal National Theatre, TV and film music, sound installations, live engineering and recording as well as music for new media.
Sound Gallery Studios can provide their own voiceover talents at competitive rates, including greek native speakers for voice-overs or synch projects.
Client List
BBC (The One Show, featuring Raphael Ravenscroft) – BBC Radio 1 – BBC Radio 3
CBBC (Who Let the Dogs Out featuring Rik Mayall)
JWT advertising agency based in New York (Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project featuring Seb Fontaine)
Scramble Soho (WHSmith advert, featuring Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall) – Feedmee (Germany)
Omni Productions – Open Mind Media – Talking Media (Exeter Cathedral Tours)
Channel 4 (Embarrassing Bodies) – National Geographic, PhonicFM106.8
Rabbit Vocal Management – Spacex Gallery – Exeter City Council
Fox Searchlight UK (Far from the Madding Crowd)
Royal Albert Memorial Museum (Exeter), T Mobile and more…
Client Feedback
‘When we booked Sound Gallery (at very short notice) to record some singing for the songs that appear in Far From The Madding Crowd, I don’t know if they were expecting the films principal leads, the director, the producer, the choreographer and half of the production team to invade their space. Well that’s what happened and they were brilliant, very accommodating with any requests/demands and the engineer, Duncan Chave, was fantastic. Completely unphased under pressure and really knows his stuff. All round thumbs up. Support your local studio!’ Neill McCall, producer (Fox Searchlight UK)
‘Everything went really smoothly during our voiceover sessions at Sound Gallery – thank you once again for all your help. All the best and hope to work with you in the future – here’s hoping for a second series!’
Gillian Irvine, BBC Scotland
‘Duncan is a sound god but I am a f…… genious!!’ Rik Mayall
‘Exeter Cathedral are very pleased with the tour and will be launching it shortly as soon as John Nettles can attend…’ Thanks, Joyce Adams, Talking Media
‘Good sounds.’ John Nettles
For more information phone 01392 495 301