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These will make you sound great.
At Angel Studios, we use only the best equipment so that you can sound or look your best. We also make good coffee.
This is a photo of Dr. Paul leaning on our 64 channel Neve-designed Amek console, and holding a cup of our excellent coffee over the mixer. Please do not do this! In the background is an Otari mastering recorder.
Microphones: We have lots of oddly shaped microphones, including:
- Neumann (valve & transistor types)
- Senheiser (MD421, MD431, ME 66/K6 shotgun)
- AKG (D12, D19, D112, C1000, C414, C451B, etc)
- Cole Ribbon
- Shure (SM57, SM58, etc)
- PZM
- Rode (teaching mics)
These will help make you sound good. You can also listen to yourself with our Beyer, AKG, and Sony headphones. Our experts will help you choose the perfect microphone for the job, and can also help with microphone technique if you lack this knowledge.
Mmm... Good mixer, good coffee!
Recording Gear and Audio Effects:
This list is constantly being upgraded (Paul loves new toys)
- Avalon compressors
- DBX compressors
- Amek compressors
- Urei EQ's/compressors
- TC Electronics reverb and echo
- TC Electronics G-System limited edition guitar effects
- Lexicon reverb and echo
- TC Electronics pitch correction
- Yamaha reverb & echo
- Antares pitch correction
- Amek channel in box (designed by Rupert Neve)
- Amek 64 channel automated mixing console
- Proteus 1 and 2
- Yamaha Motif rack
- Kef studio reference monitors
- JBL and Tannoy monitors
- Yamaha nearfield monitors
- Crown laboratory amps
- Leak amplification
- Lynx Aurora 24 bit 192 KHz AD/DA converters
- 2 inch and 1/4 inch Lyrec and Otari tape recorders
- Range of audio processing and mastering software
- CD/DVD duplication
- Lots of software
Things you can hit.
Drums and Percussion:
- Pearl Masters Series
- Zildjian
- Ufip
- Paiste
- Congas
- Bongos
Our Pearl Masters Mahogany kit was bought specifically for the studio, and sounds great when recorded. You can arrange to use our gear, or if you prefer, use your own. We can even provide session drummers if you need them. BYO sticks.
Take your pick ...
Guitars and Amplifiers:
If you have a guitar and amplifier that gives you the perfect sound, we will happily mic it up. If not, we have a range of guitar and bass equipment and effects that should do the job.
- Fender Stratocaster and DeVille amp
- Guild 1966 Starfire guitar
- Gibson Les Paul Standard
- Martin D28 acoustic
- Gretch semi-acoustic
- Marshall
- Crown
- Hartke
- Vox AC30 50th Anniversary Limited Edition
- Art effects pedals
- Jim Dunlop wah wah
- DBX
- Little Lab DI's
- Sans Amp bass DI
- And much more
Keyboards:
We could fit your 9 foot Steinway grand piano in our studio, but if you don't want to carry it in you may use our keyboards
- Roland RD700 SX and Yamaha electric pianos with 88 weighted keys
- Midi keyboards
Lights, camera, action!
Video and Photographic Equipment:
When you want to make that music video clip, documentary or feature film...
- Sony HD PMW-EX3 Camera
- Sony dockable broadcast camera, takes Betacam SP or DVCAM recorders
- Sony broadcast monitors
- Betacam SP recorders/players
- Broadcast quality capture cards, SD and HD PAL/NTSC
- Extensive range of Adobe and Avid editing & effects software
- DVD authoring software
- 2D and 3D Animation
- CD/DVD transfer and duplication
- Nikon D200 DSLR camera
- Nikon SB-800 flash
- Redhead lights
- Light boxes, umbrellas, gel filters
- Manfrotto boom-poles
- Chroma key backgrounds - blue screen or green screen
- 48 channel computerised lighting desk
- Fog machine & strobes
- Dollies & tripods
- 3 phase power socket
- 110 square metre sound stage