The Garden - 'Vintage Tracking Heaven'
"Such a great location - bands love the vibe... with the best drum sound in London" - Mike Crossey (Producer)
The Garden Specifications
CONTROL ROOM: 5.8m x 5.8m (19' x 19')
LIVE ROOM: 7.9m x 5.5m (26' x 18')
BOOTH: 3m x 2.4m (10' x 8')
CONSOLE
Neve V3 48 channels with Flying Faders
MULTITRACK / HARD DISK RECORDING
Protools HD3 Accel with 24 inputs and 48 outputs running on an Apple Mac G5 (See below for up to date specification) / 24 Track Studer A80 Mk IV with full remote & Autolocator
MONITORING
Boxer T2's / Genelec 1031A's / Yamaha NS10 Studios / Auratones Amplifiers: Chevin / Quad
MASTERING
Otari MTR12 1/2" / Sony PCM-2800 DAT Player / Panasonic SV3800 DAT Player / HHB CDR830
DYNAMICS
Urei 1176 (x3) SSL Logic FXG384 / DBX 165 (x2) / Drawmer DL221 / Empirical Lab Distressors (x2) / DBX 263A De-essers (x2) / Drawmer DS201 (x2) / Valley People Dynamite Expanders (x2)
EQUALISATION
Massenberg (GML) 8200 / Calrec PQ1161 EQs (x4) / Calrec PQ1061 EQs (x2) / Tubetech MEC 1A Recording Channel / Summit EQP200B Stereo Valve EQ / Telefunken V76 Valve Mic Amps (x3)
REVERBERATION
AMS RMX16 / TC Electronics M3000 / Lexicon PCM70 / Lexicon 224XL / Lexicon 224 / Yamaha SPX90 / Lexicon LXP1
DELAYS / PROCESSORS
AMS 1580S / Eventide H3000 / Lexicon LXP5 / Bel BD80 / Roland SDE2000 / Ensoniq DP4+ / Audio & Design Panscan / Aphex Exciter 'B' / Roland Space echo
SYNCHRONISATION
Digidesign Sync I/O / Digidesign MIDI I/O
SEQUENCING
Protools v7.4
Logic Pro v8 (on request)
KEYBOARDS / MODULES / SAMPLERS
Nord Lead / Korg M1R / Roland SH101 / Roland MKS70 / Proteus 1 & 2 XR / Akai S3200XL
INSTRUMENTS & MISCELLANEOUS
Yamaha Baby Grand Piano / Fender Twin / Marshall Super Lead Mk2 & 1960AV 4x12 Cabinet / Ampeg SVT AVU Bass Head & Ampeg SVT810AV Cabinet / SL1210 Turntable & Vestax PMC01A / Hammond & Leslie 145
(All instruments subject to availability - please check).
MICROPHONE LIST
AKG 414EB (x2)
AKG C28 Valve
AKG D202 (x2)
AKG 451 (x3)
AKG D112E
Beyer Dynamic M201
Beyer Dynamic M88
Bruel & Kjaer 4011 (x2)
Crown PZM-30GPG (x2)
Coles 4038 Ribbons (x2)
Electrovoice RE20
Neumann KM56 Valve
Neumann U47 FET
Neumann U47 Valve
Neumann U87 (x3)
Neumann U89 (x2)
Sennheiser MD421 (x4)
Sennheiser MD441
Sennheiser S09 (x2)
Shure SM57 (x4)
Shure SM58 (x2)
Telefunken Schoeps M221 Valve
The Garden Protools Rig
Top of the range protools rig based around an HD3 Accel rig running either protools or logic pro software.
Hardware
Apple Dual 2.5ghz G5 with 2 gigabytes of memory
Apple 23" Cinema HD Display
1 Triple Glyph GT103 removable firewire chassis
Choice of removable hotswappable firewire drives 160 gigabytes each
3 x Digidesign 192 interfaces providing 24 inputs / 48 Outputs
Digidesign MIDI I/O interface
Digidesign Sync I/O synchroniser
Backup
Usually done the following day with a choice of:
CD-R
DVD-R
AIT2
DDS4
Software
OSX 10.4.9
Protools v7.4cs2
Logic Pro v8.0.1 (on request)
Retrospect v6.1
Roxio Toast v8.01
Reason Adapted v2.5
Ableton Live v2.1
Plug-ins
Access Music Indigo v7.3
Amp farm v3.1
Amplitube LE v1.x
Aphex Bigbottom v7.3
Aphex Exciter v7.3
Autotune v5.1.0
BF Essentials v7.3
Bomb Factory 1176 v7.3
Bomb Factory BF-3A v7.3
Bruno/Reso v7.3
Cosmonaut Voice v7.3
D-fi v7.4
Digirack Plugins v7.4
Drawmer Dynamics v7.3
Echo Farm v2.3
Fairchild 660 v7.3
Fairchild 670 v7.3
Filterbank v4.1x8
Filterfreak v1.2.1
Focusrite D2 v7.3
Focusrite D3 v7.3
Funk Logic Masterizer v7.3
H910 Harmonizer v1.2.1
H949 Harmonizer v1.2.1
Impact v7.3
Instant Phaser v1.2.1
Instant Flanger v1.2.1
Joe Meek SC2 Compressor v7.3
Joe Meek VC5 Meequalizer v7.3
Massenburg Design EQ v1.4.0
Master X3 v4.0.01
Maxim v7.3
MC2000 v2.3.1 Multiband compressor
moogerfooger Lowpass filter v7.3
moogerfooger 12-stage phaser v7.3
moogerfooger Ring Modulator v7.3
moogerfooger Analog delay v7.3
Omnipressor v1.2.1
Phoenix v2.4.4x24
Pitch v7.3
Pitchblender v1.5.5
Pultec EQH-2 v7.3
Pultec EQP-1A v7.3
Pultec MEQ-15 v7.3
Purple Audio MC77 v7.3
Reverb One v7.3
Sansamp PSA-1 v7.3
Slightly Rude Compressor v7.3
Sony Oxford EQ v2.52
Sound Replacer v7.3
Speed v1.5.5
Surroundscope v7.3
T-Racks EQ v1.0
Tel-Ray Variable Delay v7.3
Time Shift v7.4
Tremolator v1.2.1
Voc Align v2.9.3
Voce Spin v7.3
Voce Chorus/Vibrato v7.3
Waves Platinum v5.4.5
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