Professional Audio Recording
At Lake Recording Studio we use Avid’s ProTool HD2 Professional Audio Recording and Music Creation Software and ProTools HD 192 digital interface. ProTools version 10 is the next generation of the best sounding, most powerful audio production software for recording, composing, editing, mixing mastering music and sound for picture
- Reliability
- Powerful processing
- Lowest latency
- Unwavering sound quality, efficiency and performance
- Analogue Recording
- TascamMSR-24S 1” Tape with Dolby ‘S 24 track
- Mackie HDR 24 harddisk
- Alesis ADAT
- Soundscape SSHDRI
TascamMSR-24S 1” Tape with Dolby ‘S 24 track
Tascam MRS 24-S combined with ProTools HD2 digital audio recording and editing system.
This combination of analogue sound and digital freedom is unrivalled.
Analogue warmth seems to be the Holy Grail in these digital days.
Mixing Desk
Soundcraft Ghost Analogue 32 channel in-line console with 4 band-fully-parametric EQ with Q control midi muting and machine
Tannoy Berkley
Genelec 8020B
Event 8
JBL GS-Nearfield
Harmon/Kardon
Mastering
Digital Precision Mastering & Post Production
Waves Mastering
Linear Phase EQ: Equalizing breakthrough Linear phase filters provide more transparent sound that better preserves the musical balance and transients. Hear what you have been missing.
Waves Linear Phase MultiBand: Provides independent gain and dynamics (Compression, EQ and limiting) on five bands with linear phase crossovers. Ideal for purest mastering on full range mixes.
Waves L2 Ultramaximizer: the next step to peak limiting with ARCTM (Automatic Release Control) to add the extra gain you need to master your projects. IDRTM and ninth order
Outboard Stereo Effects Processors
Lexicon PCM96: the PCM96, Lexicon - a company that practically wrote the book on modern reverb - offers up a reverb that brings their innovations from the past and situates them squarely in the digital studio revolution This hybrid approach retains the inherent realism of a convolution reverb but allows the precise control and manipulation possible only with reverb synthesizers.
Other available effects processors:
- Sony R7
- TLA-Valve EQ
- Drawmer Compressor DL-221
- Sound Tech Compressor
- Art multi-verb
- Alesis Quadra-Verb
- Alesis Micro-Verb
- Alesis noise Gate Aphex Aural Exiter
- Axeman guitar processor
Software Plug-ins for Protools
:
- Antares Auto-Tune 4: the worlds standard in professional pitch correction
- Ampli Tube: the ultimate guitar amp and fx modelling plug-in
- Reason: stand
- Behringer Ultra-Curve Monitor EQ
Microphones :
- Neumann U-87
- 2 x Neumann 184
- Sennheiser MD421 II
- AKG C1000S AKG D190E
- Beyer M201 EV 257
- Shure SM58
- AKG D1200E
Transport control
- Midi timepiece AV 8-in 8-out
- midi interface
- patch bay/synchronizer
Digital Precision Mastering & Post Production
Waves mastering bundle
Waves Linear Phase EQ: Equalizing breakthrough Linear phase filters provide more transparent sound that better preserves the musical balance and transients. Hear what you have been missing. Waves Linear Phase MultiBand: Provides independent gain and dynamics (Compression, EQ and limiting) on five bands with linear phase crossovers. Ideal for purest mastering on full range mixes. Waves L2 Ultramaximizer: the next step to peak limiting with ARCTM (Automatic Release Control) to add the extra gain you need to master your projects. IDRTM and ninth order filters maintain the highest quality.