Facilities & Pictures 

Dave Aston during a mixWe are based in purpose-built premises, overlooking the beautiful Aire Valley in Skipton, North Yorkshire. Studio design is by Recording Architecture. The main studio features include ATC monitoring (surround) and a spacious voice booth. There is a second control room for preparation work (ATC main monitors, PMC surround monitors), central apparatus room (CAR), and client area. Control rooms are silent as noisy equipment is kept in the CAR. A full facilities list is given below.

Wherever possible work is done entirely in the digital domain, although analogue processing is available when appropriate. Precision analogue to digital and digital to analogue converters are used and machines are locked to a high stability master reference clock. True digital wiring is used throughout and digital distribution amplifiers ensure signal integrity.
 

Much of our equipment is flight cased and can be moved to client premises if the need arises.

 

Facilities

AMS Audiofile SC & Spectra

  • 90 hours storage 
  • Exabyte drives 
  • 1.3GB optical drive 

Pyramix

  • High Sample Rate (up to 192kHz) 
  • 120 tracks
  • 48 channels AES I/O
  • Surround mixing options
  • DDP mastering software
  • Non linear video playback
  • Post production options

AMS Audiofile CPC

  • 40 hours storage 
  • Exabyte drive 
  • 1.3GB optical drive 

Studio Audio & Video SADiE

  • 40 hours storage 
  • Exabyte drive 
  • CDR drive 
  • Editing and mastering software (versions 2 & 3) 
  • Remote processing unit 
  • Remote hardware controller 

Tape Machines / Recorders

  • Fostex D30, D25 & D20B timecode DATs 
  • Sony DTC1000/ProDAT 2 
  • Sony PCM F1 / 701 processors and tape machines 
  • Sony 1610 CD processor and NTSC UMatic 
  • Studer A810 & Otari MX55 1/4" with timecode 
  • Dolby Noise Reduction 
  • Lynx Timeline machine synchronisers 
  • Sound Devices 744T 4 track hard disk recorder with timecode

Desks

  • Yamaha O2R96 digital desk with full automation 
  • Yamaha O2R digital desk with full automation 
  • DDA 16:4:2 with PPM metering 
  • Soundcraft Folio12:2 

Processing

  • TC Electronics M5000 digital effects and mastering unit with MD2 mastering software 
  • Lexicon 300 digital effects and mastering unit 
  • Drawmer DL421 dual compressor/limiter 
  • Drawmer DL521 dual compressor/limiter/exciter 
  • Orban dual noise reduction and enhancement system 
  • Leek custom valve EQ. 

Monitors

  • ATC SCM50 active loudspeakers 
  • PMC DB1 active loudspeakers
  • Spendor BC1 loudspeakers 

Other

  • Studer A727 professional CD player 
  • Technics Professional CD player 
  • Meridian CDR recorder with Audio & Design SmartBox and a custom ID unit 
  • Microphones, inlcuding, Soundfield, AKG C451, Schoeps CMC5, Sony ECM55, MBC 640, etc. 

Sound Effects & Music 

  • As an MCPS registered company, we carry a huge range of library music. 
  • We also have thousands of sound effects, on CD, tape, and disk, including major UK and USA libraries. 

 

More Pictures

 

The view from our main control room window 

Ducks on the river 

View from our control room window

Ducks on the river 

Our building

Our building

And finally . . .

The view from our office

. . . the view from our office

 

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