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THE LIVE ROOM

The exceptional-sounding and justifiably renowned Berry Street live room is a traditional "live-end-dead-end" room. The live end has 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 Helmholtz resonators. The room also features a neutral-sounding isolation booth and a ceiling-high acoustic screen.
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.

PA

+ Behringer MX1804 Mixing Desk
+ Crown 1837 Amplifiers (3)
+ HH V200 Amplifier
+ Celestion Speaker Columns (2)
+ HH 12¼ Monitors (2)

+ Beyer DT100 (7)
+ Sennheiser DT150
+ Sennheiser HD 414
+ Sennheiser HD600
+ Tascam MH Mk2 4-channel Headphone Amp
+ Fostex 6 channel Headphone Amplifier
+ 8 channel Headphone splitter

+ Gibson Les Paul Special
+ Fender Telecaster
+ Fender Jazz Bass
+ Aria Pro2 Fretless Bass
+ Yamaha APX1
+ Marshall JCM 800 & 1960 Cabinet
+ Vox Supreme Amplifier
+ Meinl Congas
+ Various Percussion
Drum kits by arrangement

+ Soundfield SPS422 Stereo MicrophoneSystem + Remote Control
+ Neumann U47
+ Neumann U87
+ AKG SolidTube Valve Mic
+ AKG 414 (2)
+ AKG C1000s (4)
+ AKG D112
+ Sennheiser e604 (4)
+ Realistic PZM
+ Shure SM78
+ Shure SM58 (3)
+ Shure SM57 (3)
+ Audio-Technica Pro75 (3)
+ AKG C418

Underwent a complete refit in April 2001 - its first since the 1970s. Designed and fitted by Bruce McCallum, the ergonomic, air-conditioned room features a combination of Helmholtz resonators and quadratic diffusors to ensure a neutral listening environment. In our choice of recording media and our extensive selection 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 modules, as well as the soft synths and samplers within the various sequencing options on offer.

+ Mackie d8b Digital Mixing Desk with Alt IO and UFX Cards with Apogee D I/O
+ RME Hammerfall Pro 24 Channel 24 bit ADAT I/O
+ Apple G4 Computer
+ 4 x 120 Gig Hard Drives
+ E-Magic Logic Audio Platinum 6 with EXS24 MkII sampler
+ ProTools LE with Digidesign M-Box
+ Steinberg Nuendo
+ Steinberg Cubase VST
+ MOTU Digital Performer
+ Fostex E16 with 4050 Remote
+ Sony DTC60ES DAT
+ Sony Minidisk MDSJB920
+ Sony CD CDPXB930E CD Player
+ Aiwa ADF460K Cassette
+ Tascam 32 1/4¾ tape machine

+ Dynaudio BM6a Active Monitors
+ Yamaha NS10m Monitors with Beyer Blueprint A150 Amplifier

+ Amek Pure Path recording channel by Rupert Neve
+ Klark Teknik DN500 Dual Compressor/Limiter/Expander
+ Drawmer 1961 Dual Channel Valve Parametric EQ
+ FAT Technologies THC001 Dynamic Resonant Filter
+ SPL GoldMike Dual Channel Valve Pre-Amp
+ Drawmer LX20 Dual Channel Compressor
+ Eventide H3000 D/SE Ultra-Harmonizer
+ Eventide Omnipressor compressors (2)
+ Urei LA4 opto compressor (2)
+ Evans AE205 Analogue Echo Unit
+ Urei 1178 Dual Channel Limiter
+ JoeMeek C2 Dual Channel Compressor
+ 3G Dual Channel Noise Gate
+ dbx 263a De-Esser
+ TC Electronic Intonator
+ Line 6 Pod Pro
+ Slapback Scintillator
+ Lexicon Alex
+ Alesis Midiverb II

+ Akai S5000 with 136 Mbof RAM, 16 outputs, FX and USB boards
and AkSys software
+ Roland JV1080(Orchestral, Latin & 60s/70s Expansions)
+ Korg SP200 weighted hammer-action Keyboard
+ Korg MonoPoly (slightly temperamental)
+ Apple G4 running e-magic Logic
+ e-magic Unitor 8
+ Emu Proteus 2000
+ Emu Orbit 9090 v2
+ Roland XV3080
+ Roland U220
+ Yamaha TX16W (fully expanded)
+ Novation Bass Station
+ Quasimidi Sirius
+ Alesis D4
+ Alesis DM5
+ Alesis DM5
+ Cheetah MS6
+ Yamaha DX11

Has been working in production and engineering since the late 1980s, and took over at Berry Street in 1992 where he oversees the majority of sessions.

Kevin has worked at major recording facilities all over the world, with an extensive and diverse group of artists. He brings a wealth of experience and a positive approach to a session. A skilled arranger and multi-instrumentalist, he has a musicality greatly appreciated by clients.

Kevin has his own extensive web site www.kevinporee.com where you can also hear songs recorded at Berry Street Studio.


Contact Kevin at: kp@berrystreetstudio.com

was formally trained as an SSL engineer at the Matrix studios network in London, between 1995-1997, and has worked with a large cross-section of artists/producers from Sly&Robbie to Spiritualised.

He has worked freelance at Berry St since 1996 and has focused much of his work on various African music; still favouring the drum sound that the studio's live area provides.

As a percussionist and multi-instrumentalist, he also records his own live/electronic projects at the studio.

Contact Richard at: rob@berrystreetstudio.com

Has been an associate at Berry Street since 1994. In the 1990s he worked at Berry Street and London's Butterfly Studio, but has since returned to his native Johannesburg, where he is based at the legendary SABC, and is South Africa's most sought-after engineer/producer. On his twice-yearly trips to London he works at Berry Street.

Neal's credits are too extensive to list, but include David Bowie, Bjork
Crowded House, Youth, Live, Collective Soul, Black, Rollo, Boy George &
Naomi Campbell.

Contact Neal at: ns@berrystreetstudio.com