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5.1 Studio

This postgraduate workstation is designed for 5.1 surround sound mixing and editing, plus archiving of reel-to-reel tapes and other analog media.

This studio is housed on the first floor of the Dept. of Music in a custom-built soundproof booth.

Equipment currently comprises:

  • Apple Mac Pro 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon, 4GB RAM, with Seagate Barracuda 750Gb 7200rpm internal hard drive
  • External Firewire storage drive for student projects
  • Digidesign Digidesign ProTools|HD 2 Accel system for PCIe
  • Digidesign 192 I/O audio interface
  • Digidesign Command|8 control surface
  • Blue Sky Systems BMC MkII Bass Management Controller
  • 5 x ADAM P11A 2-way active nearfield loudspeaker
  • 1 x ADAM Sub10 10" active subwoofer

Equipment for tape archiving and digitization:

  • Studer B67 1/4” reel to reel tape recorder, 3.75, 7.5 & 15ips
  • Revox B77 Mk.2 1/4" reel to reel tape recorder, 3.75, & 7.5ips
  • Denon DRM-550 cassette player
  • Pro-Ject USB/analog vinyl record player
  • Keith Monks record cleaning machine

Software audio programmes include:

  • Digidesign ProTools HD 7.3 
  • IRCAM AudioSculpt 2.8.1
  • Max 5
  • MaxMSP 4.6.3
  • Jitter 1.6.3
  • MetaSynth 4 Pro
  • SoundHack 0.896
  • Sonic Visualiser
  • Reason Adapted 3.x.x
  • Ableton Live Lite 6
  • Roxio Toast Titanium
  • Apple iTunes

ProTools software plug-ins include:

 

  • Digidesign Pro Tools HD pack plug-in bundle
  • Digidesign DigiRack, Structure, and Xpand Plug-ins etc.
  • Waves Restoration HD plug-in bundle
  • iZotope RX audio restoration
  • Audioease Altiverb 6 XL convolution reverb
  • GRM Tools Classic and ST plug-ins