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control room live room live and location recording

control room

The ergonomic, air-conditioned control-room (17.75 m2) features a combination of Helmholtz resonators and quadratic diffusors to ensure a neutral listening environment. In our choice of recording media and our extensive collection of outboard we combine the speed and flexibility of contemporary recording, editing and mixing with the quality of the classic tools of sound manipulation. The control-room also houses our extensive range of modern and vintage synthesisers, samplers and MIDI controllers, as well as the soft synths and samplers within the various sequencing options on offer.

recording

  • Apple MacPro 8-core Computer with 8MB of RAM, 3TB of internal storage, 1TB of internal RAID array
  • SSL XLogic Alpha-Link AX AD/DA converters
  • RME HDSP9652 PCI card with clock option
  • 2 x 20" Apple cinema display monitors
  • 8 x 500 GB external hard drives
  • 2 x Amek Pure Path recording channels by Rupert Neve
  • SSL FX383 dual-channel G-series channel strips
  • SPL Gold Mike dual-channel valve mic-pre
  • Oram Octasonic 8-channekl precision mic pres
  • Trident 4T channel strip
  • Apple Logic Pro
  • Celemony Melodyne
  • SynchroArts Vocalign
  • Ableton Live
  • Waves Diamond Bundle
  • Waves SSL Bundle
  • Digidesign ProTools LE with Digidesign M-box
  • Steinberg Cubase VST
  • Mackie d8b digital mixing desk with Alt IO and UFX cards and Apogee D I/O
  • Sony DTC60ES DAT
  • Sony MDSJB920 Minidisk
  • Sony CDPXB930E CD player
  • Aiwa ADF460K cassette deck
  • Line 6 Pod Pro XT
  • Line 6 Bass Pod Pro

mixing

  • SSL X-Logic Superanalogue 24 Channel X-Rack
  • SSL G Series Bus Compressor
  • Oram Hi-Def EQ
  • TC Finalizer 96k

monitoring

  • Dynaudio BM6a active monitors
  • Yamaha NS10m monitors with Beyer Blueprint A150 amplifier

MIDI and keyboards

  • Roland XV3080
  • Roland JV1080 (with Orchestral, Latin & 60s/70s Expansions)
  • Emu Proteus 2000
  • Emu Orbit 9090 v2
  • Yamaha DX11
  • Quasimidi Sirius
  • Korg SP200 weighted hammer-action keyboard
  • Korg Monopoly (slightly temperamental)
  • Akai S500 with 36Mb RAM, 16 outputs, FX and USB boards and AkSys software
  • Emagic Unitor 8

live room

The Berry Street live-room (68025 m2) is a traditional "live-end-dead-end" room. The live end has a a parquet floor, brick and pine walls, and a pine ceiling. The dead end has carpeted floors, and the walls and ceiling are hessian-covered Helmholz resonators. The room also features a neutral-sounding isolation booth and four ceiling-high acoustic screens. There are 24 balanced XLR tie-lines to the control-room; 10 in the booth; 2 speaker feeds for guitar/bass cabinets from the control-room, and 2 foldback busses appearing at either end of the live-room and in the booth. Between the live-room and the control-room is an acoustically dead area with carpeted walls. Both this area and the kitchen have XLR tie-lines to, and foldback from, the control-room.

microphones

  • Soundfield SPS 422 stereo microphone system + remote controller
  • Neumann U47
  • Neumann KU81 (Neumann KM88) (2)
  • Neumann KM 84
  • Neumann KM56
  • AKG C12 (2)
  • AKG SolidTube
  • AKG 414 (2)
  • AKG C1000s (2)
  • AKG D112
  • AKG C418
  • Audio Technica AT 4030 (2)
  • Audio Technica Pro 75 (3)
  • Oktava MK319 (2)
  • Oktava MK-012 (4 matched pairs)
  • Placid Audio copperphone
  • Shure Beta 52a
  • Shure Beta 58 (4)
  • Shure Beta 57 (3)
  • Shure SM58 (2)
  • Shure SM 57 (2)
  • Sennheiser e604 (4)
  • Sennheiser e609
  • Funkberater GM2030L

headphones and headphone amps

  • Beyer DT150 (7)
  • Beyer DT100 (4)
  • Sennheiser DT150
  • Sennheiser PX100 (3)
  • Sennheiser HD600
  • Sony MDR 7506
  • Mackie HMX56 6-channel 6-buss matrix headphone amp/monitoring system
  • Fostex 6-channel 2-buss headphone amp
  • 12-channel passive headphone splitter
  • 8-channel passive headphone splitter
  • 4-channel passive headphone splitter (2)

PA

  • Behringer MX1804 mixing desk
  • Crown 1837 amplifiers (3)
  • Celestion speaker columns (2)
  • 18" sub-bass cabinet
  • HH 12" monitors (2)
  • The Box Pro Achat 115MA 350w powered monitors (2)

instruments

  • Technics digital piano
  • Lakewood M54 acoustic guitar
  • Takamine acoustic bass
  • Gibson Les Paul Special
  • Fender Telecaster
  • Fender Jazz Bass
  • Fender resonator guitar
  • Hamony Mandolin
  • HB Ukelele
  • Hohner Melodica
  • Harmonium
  • Golckenspiel
  • 1970s Remo drum kit with DW Satin Oil 5" snare, Tama HP900P Iron cobra kick pedal, set of Zildjian Avensis cymbals, Zildjian Swish Knocker
  • various percussion
  • Marshall JCM800
  • Marshall 1960 4×12 cabinet

editing/programming room

  • Apple 27" iMac with 3.06 GHz Intel Core Duo processors and 8GB RAM
  • Apple MacBook Pro with 4GB RAM
  • Apple Logic Pro
  • Celemony Melodyne
  • SynchroArts Vocalign
  • Ableton Live
  • Waves Diamond Bundle
  • Waves SSL Bundle
  • RME TotalMix software

video

  • Sony HVR Z5 full HD broadcast camera
  • Sony HVR A1E full HD broadcast camera
  • Ianiro Cool Lights (3)
  • Manfrotto 519 tripod (2)
  • Chromakey 5m2 green screen and stand
  • Sennheiser EW112P G3 wireless lavalier mic system (2)

live and location recording

Berry Street Remote's recording system is flexible and scalable, offering anything from 24 to 72 tracks of audio and including mics, mic-pres and splitters, depending on the project's requirements.

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equipment

  • Alesis HD24 (2)
  • RME ADI 648 64-channel ADAT-MADI converter
  • MOTU 828 Mk2
  • Apple MacBook Pro with 4GB RAM
  • Apple Logic Pro
  • Celemony Melodyne
  • SynchroArts Vocalign
  • Ableton Live
  • Waves Diamond Bundle
  • Waves SSL Bundle
  • RME TotalMix software

sitting room

  • Tea- and coffee-making facilities
  • Microwave oven
  • Fridge
  • Water-cooler

office

  • with printing, photocopying and CD duplication facilities.
  • We offer free WiFi internet access to our clients