Introducing: Alexander Sound

We're delighted to introduce a fantastic new addition to the Amati roster: Alexander Sound.

Alexander Sound is a beautiful recording studio in Milton Keynes run by engineer and producer Phil English, whose credits include McFly, The Coral, Athlete, Feeder and Biffy Clyro to name a few.

The studio is centred around a 56 Channel DDA console with full Uptown fader automation, and there's a lovely vintage Neve 5315 24-channel console on hand if you're looking for that slightly less transparent Neve tone.

The usual array of outboard can be found from the likes of SSL, Neve, Drawmer etc, and monitoring is from custom Questeds and various other nearfield options.

As usual for the Amati roster, the studio is seriously well priced, so get in touch to make use of this truly exceptional recording studio!

Introducing: Artspace Studio

Here at Amati we're delighted to welcome a fantastic recording studio in Brixton, South London to our roster. Artspace has an incredible selection of spaces, including a huge octagon room that truly has to be heard to be believed.

The control room is centred around an SSL Matrix Superanalogue console and monitoring from PMC. There are two main live rooms; the octagon and a smaller rectangular room, as well as two isolation booths.

The usual array of top quality microphones that you'd expect from an Amati studio is on offer, a long with outboard from the likes of API, SSL and Lexicon. There's also a huge range of synths and noise-makers available to use included in the day rate. Have a look at the studio page here, and get in touch if you're interested in making a booking.

Rock of London Refurb: Day 2 & 3

One member of the team not so excited about the build is Aretha, the new studio kitten. She spent the night stuck in the Neve in control room B, so not wanting to accidentally power it up and have a grilled kitten on our hands she's been sent home until she's a little bit bigger. The refurb pressed on though, there's photos and updates below.

The new 100kg door to the live room has been installed, and the ceiling has come down giving the whole space a lot more height.

Here you can see the space generated by knocking out the corridor wall and putting in the new door

This is the new shorter corridor next to the control room, with a view onto the new live space door looking through to the new window at the far end. It's inhabited mainly by rockwool waiting to go into the new walls and ceiling.

Pulling down a ceiling, however, does tend to generate a bit of mess. Once it's all cleared up and acoustically treated this new live space will have three different areas, each with a different acoustic sound. There'll be loads of space to fit in big bands too.

Rock of London Refurb: Day 1

There's exciting goings on happening in our Shoreditch studio, Rock of London, once more. The live room to studio A is being expanded - we're knocking down the side wall so the room extends through the corridor for a bigger space, better visibility and to let a bit of natural light into the area.

The concrete area on the left of the following picture is where the corridor, and you can see the new glass window that'll give us some natural light

Here you can see the deadened end of the space to the left, and the increase in size of the live room with that corridor wall knocked out.

So far the wall has been knocked out and the double glass window installed. Today the wall and ceiling should be coming in.

Keep up to date with the blog - Steve Honest is performing one of his miraculous high-speed builds and we're hoping to have the whole refurb finished within a week!

Introducing: Arc Mastering

The good people at Amati Media are proud to announce the launch of a new mastering company, Arc Mastering.

The engineers at Arc will work out of our Rock of London studio, giving them a huge range of equipment to work with, and two different control rooms. The control room that will be used for your mastering project will depend entirely on the style of music. For example, if it's a dub track that goes all the way down to 15Hz, it'll be mastered in control room A, with it's extensive Dynaudio monitoring system.

If it's more of a classic rock or acoustic style, or if it's a mastering from stems project, it'll go through the Neve in control room B.

So if you're after high-end audio mastering with a personal approach, have a look at www.arcmastering.co.uk, of contact them on info@arcmastering.co.uk.

Studio Build Blog: The Neve Room nears completion

After a few weeks hard work, the Neve Room is almost finished. There's a bit of tidying up to do, a couple of licks of paint to add, and the rack units to be installed. The room is up and running now though, and sounding great! Here's a few pictures:

And here's Steve, the happy owner:

Studio Build Blog: The Neve Arrives!

Today the Neve 66 console arrived, and as we speak it is carefully being installed into the new control room and hooked up to the tie lines between the two live rooms and the studio A control room.

As you can see the control room is now fully floored and painted, and the speakers are soffited.