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Footworkz recording facility is a purpose built studio designed to record and produce the artists we work with. It is situated in beautiful Warwickshire countryside. Our producers and engineers use the latest technology combined with vintage analogue equipment.


Room Details



All rooms have a different acoustic and can be used individually or at the same time as required. Each room has a minimum of 16 mic lines for recording and monitoring. MIDI, Hi-Z, Video, Ethernet and Speaker connections also available.


Control Room
5m x 5m

Live Room 1 (adjustable acoustics down to very dead!)
5m x 4m

Live Room 2 ( Chill-out or a little more ambient for recording)
5m x 4.5m

Live Room 3 (Rehearsal or a little more live again!)
5m x 8m
Yamaha PA
Mapex Drumkit
Ampeg Bass Cab
Vox Ac15 guitar cab
Nord Stage Compact


Equipment specs

Recording and Mixing

CADAC A-series 40 channel desk with 10 sub-groups, 6 auxes, 3-band fully parametric EQ. Commisioned in 1984 by the the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon as the front of house console for the main house and used there for twenty years. Countless famous plays were mixed on this beautiful sounding console which has excellent pre-amps, EQ and very low noise. One of the best FOH consoles ever made!

Raindirk RM series crystal clear microphone pre-amps based on the legendary Symphony console used in scores of live and studio recordings from Pavarotti to Paul McCartney.

DAW set-up

MOTU HD192 convertors fully upgraded by Black Lion Audio of Chicago with their own extremely low jitter Micro Clock word generator.

Bespoke studio built PC with Nuendo 4

Plug-Ins

Full range of Sony Oxford plug-ins – TransMod, Reverb, Limiter, EQ, Dynamics
Full range of TC powercore plug ins – compressors, finalisers, effects, limiters and more
Tube-Tech CL1B compressor


Monitoring


Main Monitors

PMC IB2s – fantastic full range monitoring used by many famous music and film studios worldwide – see their website for a list of clients if you have a few hours spare!!

Headphones – Up to 6 way mix

Beyer DT-100s
Audio Technica

Microphones

1 x Neumann U87 (late eighties)
1 x Neumann KM 184
1 x Neumann KM 185
1 x Electro-Voice RE20
4 x AKG451 (CK1 and CK8 capsules) (early eighties)
2 x Shure SM81 (mid eighties)
1 x Calrec (Hocken Sound) Pencil Condenser
2 x SE R1 ribbon mics
4 x Shure SM58
4 x Shure SM57
1 x Shure Sm57 beta
2 x Sennheiser E604
1 x Audix D6

Outboard

Focusrite RED3 Compressor
Dramwer DS201 gates
Drawmer DL221 compressors
Raindirk RM6 pres and parametric EQ

DI Boxes
Audio & Design
Raindirk
EMO
BSS
LA Audio
For more info please contact Nick