The Engine Room - 'Hearing is Believing'
"The sound of Miloco Studio's Engine Room is really important to the sound of our records" - Tom Rowlands (Chemical Brothers)
"The Engine Room for me is all about the monitoring. They are super accurate, hype without being flattering, and to use them for programming, remixing or production is great fun..." - Paul Epworth (Producer)
The Engine Room is Miloco's flagship mix room. This July we rescued the infamous SSL4056 G-Series console from Olympic's Studio 2 and after completely refurbishing it, made it the centrepiece of The Engine room. The desk has been loaded with 48 mono channels (36 G EQ and 12 blackface E EQ) and 8 stereo channels making it a flexible mixing tool. The 8 core Intel Pro Tools HD rig offers 24 inputs and 48 outputs and comes maxed out with plug ins running on Pro Tools 8 or 7.4.
The much celebrated monitoring system consists of customised Munro M4s running off chevin amplification and are regularly checked and calibrated by acoustician Nick Whitaker. We also offer a wide range of nearfield monitors including Yamaha NS10's, Adam S3A's, Dynaudio BM15s and Genelec 1031's running off a choice of Bryston, Yamaha or Quad amps which we believe makes it one of the most accurate monitoring environments in London.
The extensive outboard contains many of the toys you'd expect in a world class mix room as well as some great modern additions. In addition to the Massenberg, Tubetech, EAR, Summit, and Urei names, we have recently added some of the best newcomers, including Empirical Labs, Manley, and EMI Chandler. We also offer some more unusual effects such as the Moog 12 Stage Phaser the Marshall Time Modulator not to mention an exquisite EMT plate reverb.
The room has a history of delivering hit records including Oasis' What's The Morning Glory and Be Here Now, all the Chemical Brothers albums, Slipknot's 2008 no.1 U.S. album All Hope Is Gone and more recently the Mercury-nominated Villagers album Becoming A Jackal. It is also a favourite of a variety of producer / mixers including Ben Hillier, Phill Brown, Colin Richardson, Mike Crossey and Steve Dub.
The large air-conditioned, daylit control room was refurbished in 2009 and has a very clean, minimalistic feel making it a breeze to work in. We don't reside in a trendy postcode but what we do have is one of the best mixing studios in the world in a creative and vibrant building home to some of the best producers in the UK today... Come and try it for yourself. Hearing is believing !