Studio Tour

Take the studio tour to get the feel of Contact Studio

When you find yourself in Contact Studio, you'll realise that your in the right place.
The studio is accoustic lined throughout with high-spec auralex tiling and 3/4 inch soundcheck wall insulation.
We also have 9 1/4 stereo jacks to ensure fold-back monitor mixes for every member of the band, each one is fully independent on it own monitor bus.
The control room houses everything you need for a comfortable and easy mixdown process.
A 24 input desk (8x balanced XLR + 16 unbalanced jack) with onboard EQ and effects.
This runs via fibre-optic cable (for an ultra clean signal) to a 24 channel Motu interface unit which in turn is connected via USB to the computing hardware.
Recoring takes place using the Sonar Producer Edition software; a highly versatile, highly acurate, highly useable studio resource.
Sonar enables lossless 24bit recording, playback and mastering for broadcast quality results, not to mention a host of onboard effects and mastering tools.
Compressors, noise-gates, para-graphic equalisers, multiband maximizers, multiband compression, 5.1 surround processors, to name a few.

Contact Studio boasts some of the most up-to-date equipment and cutting edge computer software to make you sound at your best.
As soon as you walk in, you'll be met by our fully sound-proofed and accoustic lined recording room.
This is the place where you'll be doing the majorty of your recording performance.
The ceiling is lined with 200+ acoustic tiles, so as the recording sound is as 'Clean' as possible with no echo from the room.
Hanging from the ceiling are several cables, into which the performer(s) plug headphones, thus enabling them to hear themselvs and each other while recording. Headphones are used to give each musician his/her own mix while recording takes place, and also means that there is no unwanted sound
in the room which can be picked up or 'Bleed' in to the wrong microphone.
Next to the recording room, is the control room, this is where the engineer/producer sit while recording takes place. Also this is where 'Mixing and mastering' happen, and is also where we would discuss the recording and sound with you.