Sony PCM2700A Professional 4-head DAT, with off-tape monitoring
Panasonic Professional DAT recorder
Fostex CR500 Professional CD recorder
Metric Halo MIO 2882+DSP Expanded Mobile 8-channel 96/24 Firewire Interface
Sonic Studio Model 305 8-channel 192/24 Firewire Interface
Apple MacBook Pro running Steinberg Nuendo 4 (location recording only - not editing) and Sonic Studio soundBlade
Sony 1000ES DAT recorder
EDITING/POST PRODUCTION
Sonic Studio soundBlade CD premastering system - high-resolution system for DVD audio editing, CD editing, preparation and mastering, with 48-bit signal paths and double precision filters, multi-channel 192 KHz support, Surround sound editing and PQ encoding. The '4-point' editing model and crossfade editor of the Sonic Studio sytem allows sophisticated editing for Classical and acoustic music far beyond simple 'sequencer' style software such as Nuendo (which we use for location recording only).
Apple Mac Pro computers
Sonic Studio HD
Teac Professional CD pre-mastering and editing single-speed CD writer
Exabyte 8505 Tape Drive
Compaq DLT Tape drive for back-up and DVD Mastertape delivery
Steinberg Nuendo Media Production System for DVD post production
Apple DVD Studio Pro - DVD Video authoring software
Altiverb 6 - convolution reverberation software
Melodyne
MONITORING
Genelec 8040A active Surround system (Location)
B&W Matrix 801 (Studio)
Chord SPA 2232 Amplification (Studio)
Sennheiser 600 headphones (4)
Sennheiser 650 headphones (1)
6-way headphone distibution system
ANCILLARY
High-quality cabling
Wide range of microphone stands from K&M, Beyer and Manfrotto
Ambient 'jumbo' pole boom and Manfrotto base stand for organ recordings, giving 14m vertical or 11m horizonal reach.
Custom built Studio talk-back and red light system (Main and satellite systems)
Closed-circuit television
Studio Lighting
Portable heating
Location Artist hospitality box (tea - various types, coffee, sugar, biscuits, soft toilet roll etc)
DESIGN
Design industry-standard Apple Macintosh iMac computers running OS X with professional software, including Quark XPress 7, Photoshop 7 etc.
OTHER FACILITIES
Sibelius 5 - music typesetting
Regent Records | PO Box 528 | Wolverhampton | WV3 9YW Tel. 01902 424377 | Fax. 01902 717661