Gear is great, but its what we do with it that matters ... having said that our current outboard and software inventory as of 2025 includes:
Tracking & Mixing
Presonus StudioLive 32.4.2AI & AR16c
Clean sounding desks with excellent A/D D/A - ideal for this level of studio
Monitoring
Focul Alpha 80s
Very detailed, especially good for extended bass down to 40Hz. The vital heart of the studio.
Alesis Monitor Ones Mk2
A reputation hard won as typical project studio monitors - a little harsh but revealing.
Kurzweil KS40A Studio Monitors
Small but perfectly formed & highly rated as representative of bookshelf speakers.
AKG K240DF & K72
Studio headphones.
Outboard
A range of compressors, gates, expanders, noise reduction, effects units (including a classic Digitech Studio Quad), valve preamps, and guitar processors. The computers have these in abundance but these items still look pretty when all lit up. They get used for tracking bass and guitar as there is something tactile about analogue gear that digital lacks ...
Mics / Pre-amps
Neumann TLM102
For vocals.
Rode NT1 & NT1a
For vocals & acoustic instruments.
DBX 286s mic pre-amp / voice channel
Dedicated to vocals.
ART Dual MP Valve Pre-amp
General purpose use.
Tech 21 Sansamp Bass pre-amp
Specifically for bass DI
Amps / Instruments
Blackstar ID Core 100
Stereo guitar amp - DI'd and Mic'd.
Line 6 LowDown LD15
Practice Bass amp DI'd and Mic'd.
Gibson SG Tribute
Walnut - nice!
Yahama Pacifica guitar
Seriously easy to play, great tone, a wee classic work horse.
Rickenbacker 4003 (2016)
A classic for that unique sound.
Dean bass guitar
Also a solid work horse.
Washburn Bass Guitar
Classic 80's bass.
Violin
No idea what brand but it's there to play!
Master Keyboard
Connected to every instrument imaginable - see software section.
Hardware Synths
Novation Rack
A classic 4-part multitimbral analogue physical modeling synth.
Waldorf Blofeld
16 part desktop multitimbral analogue physical modeling synth.
Roland SampleCell
A small box full of enough instruments to keep you happy.
Alesis Q49
5 octave control keyboard.
Computing, Recording & DAWs
Dell PCs
Dell i7 Win11 primary PC & Dell i5 Win10 secondary PC.
Presonus StudioLive 32.4.2AI 32-channel & AR16c desks
All our recordings & monitoring are done through these.
Studio One 7 Pro DAW
For primary composition, recording, editing and mixing.
Sonar X3 Producer DAW
For composition, recording, editing and mixing.
Tascam DP-24
Portable hard disc recorder.
Fostex MR-8
Portable 8 track field recorder.
Software
iZotope Ozone Advanced 11, 9 & 8
Mastering software with full range of EQ and dynamic processors including Tonal Control 2 and Master ReBalance.
iZotope Nectar 3 & 2
Vocal processing suite.
iZotope RX10 Elements & 7 Full
A range of audio repair processors including de-verb and de-click.
Sound Forge Pro 18 Suite
For audio editing, noise reduction, de-clipping, de-clicking, de-verbing etc.
Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 12
For surgical artifact removal, and unmixing to stems.
Celemony Melodyne 5 Studio polyphonic auto-tune
Stunning, just stunning even on chords! Saves a lot of time trying to nail pitch, timing and phrasing issues & great for saving old recordings.
Waves
De-essers, EQs, delays, reverbs, compressors, bass & guitar plugins, AI noise removal & Abbey Road vintage tape emulators.
+ Multiple DAW software effects processors & channel strips.
Native Instruments Kontakt 8, 5, 4 & 3
With additional instruments including Scarabee Rickenbacker Bass (awesome!), strummed acoustic guitar & picked guitar & classic keyboards.
Native Instruments Battery 4
Drums synth especially good for drum machine replication.
XLN Audio Addictive Drums 2 and Addictive Trigger with add-on packs
One of the best natural studio drum sounds & patterns on the market.
Dimension Pro synth
+ add on packs - a stunning collection of sounds for most genres.
Cherry Audio DCO-106 (Juno106) Virtual Synth
Having used the original hardware version this is the real-deal.
Vegas Pro 22 Suite
Video editing & FX software.
Adobe Software
Full range of software including the latest Premiere, After Effects & Media Encoder.
Misc
Denon cassette deck
Digitise your old cassette recordings for cleaning up.
Marantz DCC (Digital Compact Cassette) recorder
Who remembers those?
Headphone distributions amplifiers.
