Recording Studio Equipment

Urchin Studios houses a wide selection of professional recording equipment and musical instruments to suit just about any recording or mixing project. However, should you require anything extra, the studio has excellent contacts within the equipment rental industry.

NB:Use of all equipment is included in our standard rate except for drum kits, charged at £15 per day.

Recording and outboard:

Protools HD2 System (192 interface, Apple G5 2Ghz Dual Processor PowerPC, 2.5Gb RAM)
Pro Tools 8 (running on OS X Leopard 10.5.6)
Command 8 Control Surface

6 channel split Amek BCII
Avalon vt737sp
4 channel api 3124
2 channel custom built Neve 1074 preamp
2 x Empirical Labs Distressors with "British Mode" (Stereo linkable)

Plug-in Highlights:

Abbey Road Brilliance Pack
Abbey Road TG 12413 Limiter
Abbey Road TG Mastering Pack
Audioease Altiverb 6XL
Celemony Melodyne
Massey: VT3 Eq/CT4 Compressor/TD5 Delay/Tapehead/De:Esser/THC Distortion

Microphones:

2 x AKG C414-XLSs
2 x Beyerdynamic MC930s (matched pair)
2 x Audio Technica AT4033s
2 x Sennheiser MD421-2s (1960s version)
2 x Beyerdynamic M88s
1 x Beyerdynamic M201
1 x AKG Solitube
1 x AKG D112
3 x Shure SM57s
1 x Shure SM58

Monitoring:

Yamaha NS10Ms
Dynaudio BM6A Monitors
QSC RMX2450 (1300 watt) powered PA System

Drums & Percussion:

Audio Samples

Hayman Vibrasonic 1968 Drum Kit (13" Rack, 16" Floor, 22" Kick)
Custom Ludwig Drum Kit (12" Rack, 13" Rack, 16" Floor, 24" Kick)

70's Rogers Dynasonic Snare (14" x 5.5")
60's Slingerland Radio King Snare (14" x 5.5")
Gary Noonan Custom Brass Snare (14" x 5")
Ludwig 402 Snare (14" x 6.6")
Pearl Omar Hakim Signiture Snare (13" x 5")

A Selection of Zildjian, Sabian and Paiste Cymbals

A Selection of percussion instruments (Tambourine, Shakers etc)

Guitar and Bass:

Marshall JCM2000 100W Guitar Head
Marshall 4x12" Guitar Cabinet
Fender Twin Reverb Guitar Amplifier
Fender Telecaster '72 Deluxe
1980s Fender Stratocaster

Ampeg SVT Bass Head
4x10" and 15" Ampeg Bass Cabinets
VOX "Standard" Bass Guitar
Hofner Violin Bass

Keys:

Mornington & Weston Upright Piano
Wurlitzer 200 Electric Piano
Hammond A-100 (similar to C3) Organ
Leslie 127 Rotary Speaker

Moog 'The Source' Analogue Synthesizer
Sequential Circuits 'Pro One' Analogue Synthesizer
Korg 'Poly800' Analogue Synthesizer
Yamaha 'Clavinova' Electric Piano