Bank Cottage Studio is a purpose built facility with a large airconditioned control room and separate recording area, tailored mainly for drum and instrument recording.
The size and comfort of the control room means that recording often takes place in there, and to that end this is where the Yamaha G1 grand piano, Hammond Organ, Wurlitzer Piano and Rhodes 88 Suitcase Piano are situated, along with the guitar collection including Les Paul, Telecaster, Strat, SG plus Hofner, Peavey and Jazz bass guitars. There are also acoustics including a great Faith jumbo. Recording equipment centres around a Pro Tools HD rig with a vast collection of plugins.
Recording Hardware:
Pro Tools HD3 Accel + Process
192, 888/24, Swissonic, Apogee AD/DA interfaces
Mac Pro Intel Xeon 8-Core
(in separate machine room)
Tascam US-2400 control surface
Universal Audio UAD-1 fully loaded
Universal Audio UAD-2 Solo fully loaded
TLA M1 TubeTracker 12:2
Fully balanced patch and tie-lines
DAW Software:
Pro Tools HD 8.0.3
Logic Pro 9
Reason 4
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Plugins:
Huge collection including…
Digidesign: all instruments and FX
SoundToys TDM bundle
Eventide Anthology 2
Pitch ‘n’ Time
EMI TG Pack and Abbey Road Brilliance
Echo Farm
McDSP entire range
Altiverb 5
ReVibe
Antares Autotune 6 Evo
Focusrite d2/d3
Focusrite Liquid Mix HD
Fairchild 660/670
Bomb Factory BF-3A
Tel-Ray
Smack!
Pultec EQs
URS API/Neve Graphic EQ
Joemeek
Sonnox Oxford EQ, Inflator, Transmod, Dynamics
Stylus RMX
Universal Audio UAD-1/2 entire collection
IK ARC
Virtual Instruments:
Reason Drumkits 2.0
Reason Strings
Reason Pianos
Reason Abbey Road Collection
Reason Reggaeton
Stylus RMX
Digidesign Hybrid
Digidesign Structure
Digidesign Xpand!
Digidesign Velvet
IK SampleTron
Mics include:
Neumann U87Ai
AKG C414-XLS x 2
Rode NT-1A x 2
Crown PZM30 x 2 ex Whitfield St
Crown PZM6 ex Ridge Farm
sE Z5600 II Valve Condenser x 2
Shure SM57 x 4
Shure SM58
Shure KSM44
Shure SM7B
Sennheiser MD421 x 2 ex Utopia
AKG 451EB
Octava ML-50 ribbon
t-bone RB-500 ribbon x 2
Beyer M88TG ex Ridge Farm
Enhanced Audio M600 mic mount
Lustraphone Ribbon
Grampian Dynamic
Apex 460 Valve Condenser
Monitoring:
Mackie HR824
Yamaha NS-10M
Auratone Cube
Presonus Central Station & CSR-1
Compressors:
Gyraf Gyratech X valve
Gyraf Gyratech III optical valve
Empirical Labs Fatso
dbx 162SL
dbx 160X
A&D F760RS-X (Led Zepp-stylee!!)
EQs:
Gyraf Gyratech IV Passive valve stereo
Neve 8801
Mic Pres/Recording Channels:
API 3124MB+
Phoenix DRS-2 (Neve)
Gyraf Gyratech II valve/passive
Neve 8801 Recording Channel
SSL XLogic Alpha Channel
Effects:
Yamaha SPX90II
Lexicon PCM80
Line 6 Echo Pro
Delta Lab Effectron II
Alesis Midiverb II
Orban Parasound Dual Spring
Klark Teknik DN34
Instruments:
Hammond T102 (Tony Banks' model!)
Watkins Westminster early 60s valve amp (new!)
Ludwig Black Beauty 14" x 6.5" B/O badge (new!)
Fender Telecaster USA Ash Body
Gibson Les Paul Custom
Epiphone SG Custom with Maestro Vibrola (new!)
Squier Stratocaster
Faith Eclipse Jupiter Acoustic
Squier Jazz Bass
Peavey Foundation Bass
Hofner CT Club Bass with Pyramid Gold flatwound strings (new!)
Yamaha G1 grand piano
Rhodes 88 Suitcase piano
WurliTzer EP200
Korg MicroKorg
Korg New SG-1D 88 note
Roland JX-8P
Yamaha DX7
Yamaha CS-1x
Casio CZ3000
Roland XV3080
Oberheim Matrix 1000
EMU Proteus 1 & 2
Novation Bass Station Rack
Novation Drum Station
Percussion box with 6 tambourines, bongos, shakers etc.
Vox AC30 (1966) - newly serviced!
Leslie 145 valve with custom preamp pedal (ex Georgie Fame and Fairport Convention)
Monster Pro Guitar Cables
Guitar Pedal Effects:
Electro Harmonix: Big Muff
EH Bass Balls
EH Micro Synth
EH Bad Stone
EH Electric Mistress
EH Memory Man
Micro Vibe
Boss Delay/Sampler
Boss Percussion Synth
Boss Hand Clapper
Colorsound Dipthonizer
Colorsound Wah-Fuzz
Photos: RecordProduction.com
