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The gear...
 
 
Students work in purpose built studio teaching suites. dBs HQ houses 12 recording studios, 2 live rooms, 2 PC Suites, 1 Mac Suite & 17 studio pods. dBs Annexe houses 4 studios, 1 live room and a lecture theatre.




dBs HQ


Main Studios
Neve 51 Series 72 channel analogue desk
Studer A800 mkIII 2" 24 Track
All 5 studios equipped with Pro Tools HD3 on Mac G5
1 studio with Digidesign D Command console
2 studios with Digidesign C24
Numerous industry standard plug ins FX and VI
3 studios Blue Sky surround sound monitoring
2 studios Blue Sky stereo monitoring
Logic
Reason
Industry standard compressors/gates/FX units.
Large selection of top quality microphones - Neumann U87, Microtech Geffel, Rode, Audio Technica, Shure
Samplers - Akai Z4's, hardware and software
Novation and Alesis synths


Eno Suite
16 individual workstations based on latest 20" iMac
Logic
Pro Tools LE
Reason 4
Wavelab
Ozone pro mastering software
Various plug ins and VST


Martin Suite
16 Intel iMacs
Logic
Pro Tools LE


Media Suite Studios
Dual processor Mac
Logic and Pro Tools with virtual controllers
Numerous plug ins and virtual instruments


Pod Studios
Sixteen racks each containing...
Alesis HD24 digital 24 track
Small analogue mixer
Small automated digital mixer
Compressor
Multi Gate
Multi FX unit
Reverb unit
Patchbays


Listening Suite
Surround sound setup
Genolec speakers
Various bits of equipment relevant to lecture




dBs Annexe


Blue Room Studios
Four studios each containing
Alesis HD24 - 24 track digital hard disk recorder
Mackie 32:8 analogue desk
PC loaded with Cubase SX & Reason 2.0
Industry standard compressors/gates/FX units
Large selection of top quality microphones - Neumann U87, Microtech Geffel, Rode, Audio Technica, Shure
Akai and E-mu samplers


SX Suite
16 individual workstations
Cubase SX
Reason 2.00


Lecture Theatre
Various bits of equipment relevant to lecture

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