• Courtyard Recording Studios - analogue & digital recording studios - Stockport, South Manchester / North Cheshire •

recording & mixing

Analogue: Allen & Heath Saber 36:16:24 console (36 mic & line inputs, 64 channels of automation) • TLAudio valve instrument & mic preamps • Tascam MSR24S (dolby S) 1" 24-track analogue recorder • DDA S Series console (28 input)

Digital: Apple dual 2.5Ghz G5 (4gig ram) • Apple intel duo 2Ghz iMac • Apple dual 2Ghz G5 • Logic Audio 7.1 • Logic 8 • 2 x Apple/Digidesign 24-bit mastering stations • Apple intel Macbook x 2 • Apple G4 x 2 • Apple G3 x 2 • Tascam FW1804 firewire audio interface • M-Audio FW410 firewire audio interface • Edirol MX100fx USB audio interface / voice processor • Alesis Firewire Multimix 16 • Apogee Symphony

mastering

monitors & amplifiers • Tannoy Ardens • Fundamental Acoustic Research CR20 • Yamaha NS10M • JBL TLX3G1 • Sony APM-10ES • Celestion 3 • Yamaha MSR100 powered monitors • Quad 520 • Quad 303 x 2 • Samson Servo 170 • Yamaha CR-600 • M-Audio Studio Pro3 x 2 pair

outboard • Lexicon (LXP1, LXP5, MRC) • AMS rmx16 • ART Multiverb • Aphex Aural Exciter type C • Groove Tubes Vacuum Tube Equaliser • TLAudio valve eq • Tascam GS-30D • Digitech GeNetX • Drawmer (DL241, DL221, DS201s) • TLAudio C-5021 valve compressor • Yamaha SPX90 • BBE Sonic Maximiser 422A • Zoom G7.1ut • Zoom G9.2tt • Roland 501 Tape Echo / Chorus / Reverb

microphones • AKG (C451s, C535, C1000s, D190, D12, D1200s) • Neumann TLM103s • Beyer Dynamic (m160 ribbon & 3 x 201s) • Sennheiser • Groove Tubes MD1 valve mic • Rode Classic valve mic • Shure (5 x SM57s & 58s) • Blue Ball powered dynamic • Electrovoice RE20 • MXL 990 x 2 • Red5 RV10 x 2

 

 

 

piano Challen 988 - it's never going to look like a Steinway or a Bechstein (with Michelle Pfeiffer lying on it) but it records exceptionally well.

guitar amps...

Marshall JMP 2x12 valve combo ('70s model with vinatge Mullard valves) • Laney Vintage (not old, just the name) 1x12 valve combo (90s model) • Carlsbro 70s valve head (Mullard tubes) • Tech 21 Trademark 60 combo • Mesa Boogie F30 1 x 12 combo • Orange 1 x 12 Celestion vintage speaker cab • Elpico 1962 Valve head (Mullard tubes) • Fender 1 x 15 70s speaker cab

stomp boxes & fx...

70s & 80s originals by Vox, MXR, Electro Harmonix, Locobox, Ibanez

New & 'boutique pedals & modeling by Toadworks, Catalinbread, Boss, Digitech, Morley, Visual Sound, Zoom, Sansamp, Dunlop, Seymour Duncan, Budda

Roland 501 Chorus / Space Echo (80s) & Watkins Copicat (70s) tape echo delays

guitars...

Lots....... Strats, Les Pauls, Teles, Semis, Wammys, Jazzers.... new & vintage

.... much more backline (guitar stacks, bass amps), drumkits (Sonor, Premier, Hayman) etc. by arrangement i.e. they're usually on the premises but to be sure it has to be arranged.

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