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Photographs of the recording the National Chinese Philharmonic Orchestra

Photographs of the building a tracking and mixing studio in Vienna, Austria

Photographs of the building a mastering room in Vienna, Austria

Photographs of the building a small tracking and mixing room in Singapore

Photographs of the building a 24 track mixing room in London

List of bands / orchestras / etc. we have worked with on concert and studio dates

National Chinese Philharmonic Orchestra - up

We were commisioned to record, mix and edit around 40 pieces of classical music with the National Chinese Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing and some additional piano-only pieces in Singapore. The client was Creative Labs (former Creative Technology) who needed a cross-section of popular and well-known classical music to showcase their new product lines.

The recording was planned in great detail in Singapore: All equipment was specified by us and specifically purchased by the client for the occasion. It then was tested and several recordings were made with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra to define the specific sound Creative Labs were after.

Everything had to be planned and working perfect as we only had a week to record in Beijing. We and the equipment flew in on a Saturday, Sunday was set-up day and on monday we started recording a full 80 strong orchestra. The venue was one of the many soundstages at the Beijing equivalent of Hollywood: a film city in the middle of the city. The recordings continued for the rest of the week until Sunday. Monday we were back in Singapore.

Back in Singapore, the remaining piano music was recorded at the auditorium of the National University of Singapore with the british pianist Geoffrey Prattley.

Tracking and mixing studio in Vienna - up

The brief was to build a home for a Neve VR in a 36 module frame. The available space was tight and we had to make use of every sqaure inch of space. The result was a small but nevertheless very workable solution which was put to good use for many years. The company has since moved into bigger premises.

The racks and studio furniture has had to be specifically designed and fittied to emsure that space was put to best use. The photo above show the view towards the live area of the recording room with its wooden floors and hard-plastered walls. On the left the angled window to the control room is visible.

A look towards the dead end of the studio also shows the gobos that were added to the acoustic tools of the room. The baby grand in the far end was movable to broaden the scope of possible sounds.

Small tracking and mixing room in Singapore - up

The brief was to rebuild an existing studio control room from the ground up to maximise the acoustic situation (including sound isolation) as well as giving the electrical installation a complete overhaul. Space again was at a premium and the interior furniture of the room has been designed and hand-fitted to the room and the equipment.

The lay out was chosen so that one engineer could easily operate all equipment and communicate with the band on the other side of the control room window without having to leave the sweet spot. The photo above shows the studio (still unfinshed) with the mixing console and the patchbay and rack-space to the right of it. In the background on the right is another window which had to be taken into special consideration when designing the acoustics.

Above the studio photgraphed towards the door. To the left of the console some more rack-space and free tabe space to place keyboards and additional equipment. The blue panels in the photographs are chicken wire on wooden frames covered with blue cloth. This approach has proven to totally avoid the formation of resonant cavities within the room and made the acoustics much simpler and thereofre easier to control . We have used this apporach many times very successfully for those exact reasons.

Mastering room in Vienna, Austria - up

The requirement was to create a room around an AMS Logic Audio desk, one of the first in the whole of Austria. The room was to be used for music mastering and audio editing in general. Many austrian chart single has gone through this room since.

Again, the furniture has been specially designed for the room and the equipment. The room as shown here is almost finished (more outboard gear was later added).

The above photographs show the surface treatment of the walls for the dead (front) and live (rear) end of the room. The floor was wood and the walls brick.

24 track tracking and mixing facility in London - up

This was a conversion from an editing space into a control room with small overdub space. The control rom was to house an SSL G series desk with a 32 module frame, several outboard gear racks and a sizable Sony 24 track tape recorder. The photographs show the room at various stages of completeness.

Above on the left you can see the the ceiling outer skin and below the construction of the inner shell in one of the ceilings corners.