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Bally Rehearsal Studios.
Tottenham Hale, N17. London.
Last week we posted a video which demonstrated what kind of results bands can expect to get from the 8-track recording set-up that we have available at Bally Studios. It showed the levels of seperation possible on each microphone, despite the band playing live in the same room, how each microphone sounds in isolation, and how they all fit together in a rough mix that took less than 1 hour 45 mins to put together, using freeware DAW software (Audacity) by a staff member that is a musician, but who has minimal formal music recording training, using pre-set post editing, on a 6+ year old dell laptop being stretched to it's limits. It was an exercise in modest resources being pushed to their absolute limits. Here is that video:
Drum Stereo Overheads:
Lewitt LCT 040 Stereo Bundle = £178
This comes complete with a stereo bar, which allows both microphones to be attached to a single microphone stand.
Patch cables:
the sssnake SK233-1.5 XLR Patch cables = £3.99 each,
You'll need x11 for this set up, 8 of which are used to link the 8/16 splitter box to the 8 track recorder, to send all of the signals from the microphone to the 8 track recorder, and then you'll need an additional x3 patch cables to send 3 different signals to the headphone amplifier, to have up to x3 different headphone mixes, that can be heard by up to 8 band members.
x4 Superlux HD-681 = £21.90
These are the headphones that the band uses to hear the vocals in their session.
If you've ever played a great gig where the audience loved what you played and where you sounded great, the chances are that you had less than 30 minutes to soundcheck for it. You will have likely used microphones like the Shure SM58 or Sm57, with them being positioned right up against the amplifier, completely eliminating the acoustics of the venue. If you had a 1 hour setlist, then you had 1 hour to finish it in. In effect, it took 1 hour 30 minutes in total to produce a great 1 hour gig. With that considered, walking into a room to find everything already set up, and having 20 hours to record a 40 minute album in a room acoustically set up specifically to record in, with the option to polish those recordings afterwards? When you put it like that, it sounds positively luxurious!
Even better, when you consider that we also offer the rental of our studios on a long term basis from as little as £275 a month, when hired Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm, this opens up the possibility of a small record label or a sound engineer renting a studio for a month, and then buying the equipment that they need to be able to record multiple bands, one after the other. With only 8 microphones to set up, it's realistic to have the following daily schedule:
8am - 9:30am = set up microphones/amplifier/drum kit.
9:30am = band arrives at the studio.
10am = start recording.
5pm = finish recording.
5pm - 6pm = pack away equipment and leave all equipment in the studio storage bay.
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