Studio 1 is available for use by Faculty of Music students and staff. It consists of an acoustically accurate control room, 16 channels of hi-quality Analogue to Digital conversion plus an abundance of creative music software tools such as NI Komplete 10, Waves plugins and the Eventide H3000. There are also excellent microphone pre-amps including a Universal Audio 6176 and Audient ASP008.
To gain access, new users must first attend a short (1 hour) induction session with the Studio Manager. Bookings can then be made via the Studio Booking Portal:
https://oxfordmusicfacultystudios.skedda.com/booking
Equipment is as follows:
Hardware
- Apple Mac Studio
- Focusrite Red 4 Pre AD/DA Converter
- RME ADI-8 DS MkIII AD/DA Converter
- Grace Designs M108 8 channel mic pre
- Universal Audio 6176 Vintage Channel Strip
- Universal Audio UAD-2 Satellite DSP Accelerator
- Miller & Kreisel MPS 2510 monitors with MPS 2810 active sub woofer
- Unity Audio ‘The Rock III’ near field monitors
- Avantone MixCube Near field monitors (pair)
- Audient ASP008 microphone preamplifiers & A/D converters
- Korg Triton Keyboard
- Sennhesiser HD 280 pro Headphones (4)
- AKG K271 MkII Headphones
Software
- Pro Tools 12
- Logic Pro X
- Ableton Live 11 Suite
- Sibelius 8
- Max 8
- GRM Tools Complete II
- Sonarworks Reference 4 (room acoustics analysis and compensation)
Plugins
Microphones
- Neumann U87 – capacitor (2)
- AEA R88 mk2 Stereo Ribbon Microphone
- DPA d:vote 4099 Classic Touring Kit (10)
- Avantone CV28 Microphone
- Audio Technica ATM33a – electret (1)
- Audix SCX25-A – capacitor (2)
- Audix OM6 – dynamic (2)
- Audix D6 – dynamic (1)
- AKG C451 – capacitor (6)
- Shure Beta 52
- Shure SM58 – dynamic (2)
- Shure SM57 (3)
- Shure SM7B
- Sennheisser – wireless/lavelier (3)
- Rode NT4 – stereo capacitor (3)
