Horizontal Music Studios
ABOUT THE STUDIO
Horizontal Music Studios is based in the South West of England. Run by Brian who was a professional musician up until he retired from touring and live performances to set up and run a recording studio and record company.
For over 40 years Brian combined the role of musician, recording engineer, programmer and record producer, working with many well known artists, including Eurythmics, Nolans, Genesis, Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Tears for Fears and Depeche Mode.
Studio One with its large format 64 input channel analogue mixing desk, Large monitors and racks of outboard gear is designed for live recording.
Studio Two is a specially designed room with the amazing Adam SX3 monitors, JBL 500 Watt SUB and SSL desk, designed for production, writing and mixing.
Studio Three is designed for sound creation. With over 50 hardware keyboards and samplers, and hundreds of software keyboards.
There is also an extensive library of sound FX and instruments. Studio has a pair of Dynaudio speakers and SSL Audio
Horizontal Music Studios' workshop provides full on-site technical support and repair facilities for the studios.
Facilities
Horizontal Music Studios is designed as a project, track laying and mixing studio, with a vocal / isolation room and live room. Ideally suitable for recording jazz and rock bands, classical groups, solo artists, singers, voice-overs etc. With the modern computer and recording technology that exists now, there are unlimited tracks for recording. Horizontal Music Studios' analogue desk has 40 mic inputs, 64 line inputs, 48 track recorder playback channels, 16 independent aux feeds and 5 independent headphone mixes.
Monitoring is by large 15" Tannoy Golds (rebuilt by Lockwood in 2018) with quad amps, active Adam and Mackie monitors and Yamaha NS10's.
Recording is to a 48 track hard disk recorder at 96k / 32 bit
Mastering can be direct to disk via the Tascam DSD master recorder, at 192k, 24bit recording, or by DAT, Mini Disk, CD Cassette or Studer 1/4" half track reel to reel. 460 hole bantam patch bays wired exclusively with Van Damme cable, gives total flexibility for patching all hardware to the mixing console patch bay.
Horizontal Music Studios is built within a large detached converted church, using well tried 'room within a room' techniques. The live room, isolation room and the control room are all built on independent floating floors, with professional acoustic treatment.
Studio One control room is fully air-conditioned, with Broadband internet access. The live room was specifically designed to allow musicians to play and record together. Many studios cannot offer this facility. The BBC consider that a recording room smaller than 1500 cubic feet cannot support accurate recording for acoustical reasons - Horizontal Music Studios is over 2500 cubic feet, large enough for a Band or small Choir, yet not too big to make a solo performer feel lost. Acoustics apart, musicians like to play together so Horizontal Music make it possible.
Studio Two is Computer based running Cubase 13 Pro and Pro Tools. With SSL nucleus DAW mixer, Adam SX3 monitors and Intel i9 24 core computer system linked to our server for sample storage and access to studio One. It’s the ideal facility for music creation, production and mixing.
Studio Three is for sound creation running Cubase 13 Pro. With over 50 hardware keyboards, sound modules and samplers. and hundreds of software keyboards. It also has a huge sound FX library. And thousands of sounds and samples. Playback is handled by SSL audio interface and Dynaudio monitors.
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