The Blue Studio is our main tracking / mixing studio, centered around SSL 4000E console, Neve front end, ProTools/Ableton/Logic, analog recorders and japanese jacuzzi.
It has a great selection of top end outboard gear, with names like Neve, API, GML, UA, Avalon, etc.
In addition to the control room, The Blue has 5 tracking rooms. The control room is also interlinked (audio/video) with both the Basement of Hell recording space and the Green Studio for large live recording sessions.
Available is Steinway Model O grand piano, Hammond A101 ( B3 with amps and reverb), Rhodes 88, Wurlitzer etc.
Collection of vintage mics, amps, synths and instruments available.
In addition to our two main studios, we have a 2700 ft2 (300 m2) live tracking space, referred to in Goethian way as the Basement of Hell, or just Hell.
This concrete labyrinth has a unique acoustic signature, which is great for 'large room' sounds that would be difficult to capture otherwise inside a typical inner city studio. We have been using this room as a live echo chamber, allowing us the convenience of recording upstairs, with the huge sound typically expected of recording in a space the size of a warehouse!
Fun fact: the BoH was the inspiration for the title of the Killing Joke's album, Hosannas from the Basement of Hell.
Control Room: 34 m2
Main Tracking Room: 28 m2
First Isolation Room: 9 m2
Second Isolation Room: 7 m2
Downstairs Isolation/Amp Rooms: 27 m2
Audio/video connection with the recording space/ reverbation chamber Hell ( 120 m2 ) and the studio Green.
CONSOLE:
Solid State Logic SSL 4000E 24 ch inline, 48 channels mixdown ( vintage )
RECORDERS:
Digital:
i MacPro 27", 4,2 GHz i9, 40 GB RAM, with AVID CARBON (HDX) + 2x Apogee Rosetta 800 192k
24 ch LiINE IN / 24 ch. LINE OUT (44/48 k), 16 ch./ 16ch. (88/96k) 8ch./ách (192k)
plus 4x stereo headphones out, MAIN monitor, Talk Back, SPDIF.
PRO TOOLS 2020.1 package
ABLETON LIVE 11 Suite
Apple LOGIC Pro X
UA APOLLO QUAD
Analog - mostly for mastering and retaping
STUDER A80 1/4" mastering tape recorder
NAGRA IV-S TC (on request)
MCI JH-110B – 1", 8-track analogue tape machine, calibrated to +6db, (on request)
FOSTEX E-16 (on request)
OUTBOARD PREAMPS :
Original vintage NEVE 1066 - 8 strips ( pre + EQ )
AMS Neve 1073 DPA ( 2 ch. pre ).
AMS Neve 8801 (x2) - preamplifer AMS NEVE 88R strips - Pre/EQ / dynamics with full recall
Telefunken V72 ( pair - racked ( tube, vintage )
Telefunken V472 - 6 channels with gain control and phantom. (on request)
API 3124+ - 4-channels of 312 preamps
Avalon Vt737sp - tube pre amplifier / EQ / compressor
GML 8304 - 4-channel all discrete transformerless mic preamplifiers ( 1 channel out of order )
Neve Portico 5016 (x2) - mic preamplifier with DI + variphase
MONITORING
YAMAHA NS-10 M and/or B&W MATRIX 805 / ROTEL 850 amp
ADAM A7
Custom Tannoy System 1200 – main / midfield monitors / Yamaha amp.
Custom Tannoy Gold 15" – main / midfield monitors / Yamaha amp
EVENT OPAL monitors ( on request )
Headphones monitoring : FURMAN HDS-6 - central units, 6x remote mixing units-6 channels each.
OTHER OUTBOARD
MANLEY Massive Passive EQ
LEXICOM PRIME TIME
Avalon Vt747sp - stereo mastering EQ / compressor
TL Audio C-1 - 2-channel tube preamplifier / compressor
Universal Audio 6176 – 610-type tube preamplifier with an 1176 compressor / limiter
Universal Audio LA-610 Mk2 - 610-type tube preamplifier with a LA-2 compressor / limiter
MXR Dual Limiter - classic (1981) 2-channel compressor / limiter
Summit TLA-100 - mono discrete VCA / tube compressor
SPL vitalizer Tube, Mk II
Toft ATC-2 - 2-channel preamp / EQ / compressor
Turntable : TECHNICS SL-2010M5 Grand Master / Ortophone Pro
DI boxes : BSS A-133 active (6x) , DOD passive (3x), DBX passive (2x), NEUTRIK 1:1 stereo, passive ...
Outboard effects
Tape echos : ROLAND Space Echo RE-201 and RE-501, Evans Super Echo
Spring reverbs : AKG BX 20 legendary studio spring reverb,
Eventide Eclipse
Lexicon MPX500, Lexicon MPX550, TC Electronic D2
Plugins:
-many .....
