Studio Equipment

Studio owner and jazz saxophonist Josh Kemp has built the studio from an interest in and appreciation of the rich sound of quality analogue equipment.

Microphones include Neumann M930s and KM130s and Sennheiser MKH20s for super-accurate recordings of accoustic or classical ensembles, and a wide range of warm-charactered microphones to flatter your band's sound including two different custom built Valve designs, and SE Electronic's dual-valve Gemini and titanium diaphragm Titan.

The studio benefits from custom-built equipment throughout, Preamps, Compressors, EQ and have all been specially commissioned to be built exactly to our requirements.

There is a large selection of outboard gear to suit all projects. This includes a rack of warm pre-amps from an 80s NEVE ‘V’ series desk, cleaner-toned D&R Dutch Broadcast Micamps, and custom-built re-creations of the famous NEVE 1073 channel strips.

Mixdown at Full Tone is through our 1980s AMEK BCII mixing desk, 26-8-2 with built in dynamics processing. With a comprehensive selection of outboard analogue processors, mix-down at Full Tone follows a fully analogue path: no need for plug-ins! (Although we are happy to make use of Logic Pro 8 running on an Intel Mac where appropriate).

Pride of place in the Studio goes to our 1970s Studer A80RC mastering recorder. Once you have run your mixes through this, it’s unlikely that you’ll want to work in a tape-free environment again.

Click here to download a full equipment list.