BlueCrystal Studios
BlueCrystal studios was originally designed as my own songwriting space, but the as you can see over the years it's got a little carried away, with the latest equipment upgrade now complete, I occasionally relent and make it available for general hire.
We have three recording areas
- The Big room: A large med-live sounding 6x8m
room with a 3.3m height this has a big room sound great for
drums, this room has 24 balanced lines plus 4 returns to the
control room allowing direct recording into Cubase via the desk,
+ 6 stereo monitor sends to headphones or PA/wedges, video link
is currently planned.
- The Vocal Booth: 5x3m with 2.4 height, exceptionally
dry isolation room with extensive trapping, damping and isolation
down to very low frequencies this room has 16 balanced lines
plus 4 returns to the control room direct into Cubase via the
desk. The 4 stereo monitor sends from the headphone amp + tie
line for amps. The vocal booth has line of sight to the control
room and the iso booth
- The ISO Booth: 3x1.3m with 2.4 height, very
dead this room has 2ch/tracks lines recording direct into Cubase
via the desk, + 2 stereo monitor sends to headphones + tie line
for amps. The iso booth has line of sight to the control room
and the vocal booth.
- The Control Room has excellentroom to room isolation and is equipped with a TASCAM DM-3200 32 ch digital mixer running through a MOTU2408mk3 into a Quad Mac with 1tb of drives and 4gig ram running Cubase 4, Powercore firewire, Focusrite Liquidmix, JLM audio BA2 Mic Pre, FMR Audio RNC1773. The studio is capable of recording full 5-6 piece live band sessions with drums, songwriter demos, music-on-hold and voice over's.
