Music Production Impulse Response IR's Here at The Coolest Recording Studio in South London - we don't only mix some of the finest music the world has to offer ( Baba Ali + B&B )- we are also developing Impulse Responses from our huge collection of Mixers / Eq's / Mastering Saturators etc - so that producers all around the planet can use our sound in their productions. Cause it's a Big, Beautiful sound y'all !! We started out making IR's for our Alice 828 mixer: Which you can hear Here: Then we added our amazing Mini Guitar Amp Saturator: ...which you can hear Here: And now we have included the Superbeautiful Orban 622 mixing & Mastering Eq. Which - yep... you can hear Here: All of which you can purchase Here you lucky things! Now Go Forth & Create Stupendous & Beautiful Audio! Another Solid Shrunkenheads Production!
Recording Drums, Percussion - & Dealing with People Who Like to Hit Things 4 Here at The Coolest Recording Studio in London Town - we got All Kindsa flavours - old valve mic preamps for a rich & pretty tone to modern broadcast preamps that capture every whisper with clarity and definition - plus a whole plethora! of different mics - ribbons - dynamics - condensers & tube. However - sometimes - especially when capturing drums & percussion - you need a little extra something to throw into the mix pot - & this is where compressing room mics comes in. We use this setup to add a natural ambience to the recording - & a shedload of energy! If you don't know about compression - read about it HERE - it is - along with eq - the most important audio shaping tool in any studio - you need to work with it ..... a lot - to understand it - we'll go into all that later - here's a pic of a regular averagely priced compressor: For...
Here at The Coolest Recording Space in London Town - we got all kinds of studio shazzle - mixers / compressors / eq's - but for audio capture, the most important thing aside for the mics - are mic preamplifiers. They come in all shapes & forms - from lovely vintage tube pre's that warm up the sound of an instrument or space to super fast solid state units that capture transient material (like metal drums or fast picked acoustic guitar) to transformer based pre's that you can distort at the input to add bloom & energy to an audio source. This is a Vortexion tube preamp as used by Joe Meek & the Who back in the 50's & 60's - beautiful for recording drums, guitars, vocals & ambient spaces with ribbon microphones. They were broadcast quality units that add a rich, fullness to the mic chain. You can also use them to pleasantly saturate vocals etc in post production. vortexion These Ampex 602 units came out of an old tape recorder...
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