ANCHOR BABY RECORDING CO.

CREATING UNIQUE RECORDINGS SINCE 2005

The studio was purpose built in 1989, operating succesfully under the name 'Astra Audio' until 2002 in the picturesque village of Monks Horton, Kent. Every detail was taken care of during the recording studio's design stages, including the room ratios (contributing towards the fantastic sounding live room, booth and control room), floating floors, angled walls and ceilings, and strategically placed traps.

Anchor Baby Recording Company is set in it's own peaceful garden, overlooking one of the most picturesque areas of the Kent countryside, and consists of a large live room (4m x 5m), a large wood-panneled booth, huge control room (8m x 5m), machine room, lobby, kitchen and bathroom. All rooms in the studio have the option of being hooked up to the DDA analog console, giving clients a wide range of acoustic environments in which to record.

CONSOLE:

1988 DDA DMR12. This is a large format 88 input vintage analogue console with upgraded op amps and fantastic sounding mic pre's.

DIGITAL CONVERSION:

MOTU HD192 AD/DA Converters x 2

COMPRESSORS, EQ and FX:

EVENTIDE OMNIPRESSOR / UREI 1176 / DBX 163x / SHURE M63 VINTAGE EQ / DRAWMER 1960 / IGS AUDIO LA2 CLONE / YAMAHA REV5 / YAMAHA SPX90 / PIONEER SR60 (modded).

MIC PRE's:

EISEN AUDIO API 312 CLONE / GAP 1073 CLONE and 573 EQ/ RIGG 001 custom made 2 channel Neve style mic pre with Lundahl transformers / SHURE M67 vintage custom modded 4 channel mic pre, used to record Woodstock in 1969 / AUDIENT ASP008 8 channel mic pre.

COMPUTER:

Custom designed, water-cooled quad core PC, 32gb RAM. Running Cubase Pro9.5, with plugins from Waves, Slate Digital, Soundtoys, Stillwell Audio, SSL, API, Abbey Road, Andrew Scheps and hundreds more.

DRUMS:

Gretsch Catalina Club Rock, 5 piece kit with mahogany shells. Sizes are 26" kick, 13" rack tom, 16" floor tom, 18" floor tom.

TAMA Starclassic, 5 piece kit with birch shells. Sizes are 22" kick, 10" rack tom, 12" rack, 14" floor tom.

TAMA Superstar. 5 piece kit. Sizes are 22" kick, 12" and 13" rack toms, 16" floor tom.

Various snares from Orange County Custom Drums, Pacific Custom Drums, Gretsch, Tama, Hollywood by Meazzi (vintage 1960's), Pearl Sensitone, Premier, Mapex Black Panther.

GUITAR/BASS AMPS:

(1988) Marshall JCM800 2205 50w valve head, with LF gain boost modification by Martin Kidd (Cornford and Victory amps designer).

(1993) Marshall JCM900 2500 SL-X 50w valve head

SKOG handwired JCM800 clone, 50w valve head

Laney GH50L 50w valve head

Cornford RK100 valve amp head (original prototype - serial no 0001)

(1969) Laney Supergroup 100w vintage valve amp head

(1973) Laney Klipp 100w vintage valve amp head

Peavey 6505 100w valve amp head

Peavey XXL solid state amp head

WEM Dominator III 15w 1970's valve guitar combo

Sound City L120 120w valve head with Partridge transformers

Selmer SV Treble n' Bass 50w valve head (1970's)

Fender Concert Rivera series 2x10 valve guitar combo (1983)

Fender Quad Reverb 4x12 valve guitar combo (1970's)

Vox AC30 2x12 guitar combo

1970's Selmer Futurama 3w transistor combo

2 x H/H IC100 guitar/bass amp heads. Same amp used by T.Rex, The Clash etc

(1975) Maine 100w transistor guitar/bass amp head

Cornford 4x12 speaker cab

Orange 2x12 speaker cab loaded with Celestion Vintage 30's

Fender Deluxe 1x12 speaker cab

Orange 8x10 guitar cab, late 70's.

(mid 1970's) Hiwatt 4x12 bass cab

Ampeg Heritage Series hand-wired valve bass head

Ampeg SVT 4 Pro, rackmounted bass head

Ampeg SVT200T vintage 1980's bass amp head

Ampged B1 1x12 bass combo

Orange 4x10 and 1x15 speaker cabs

Ampeg 1540HE 4x10/1x15 vintage bass cab

Ampeg 4x10 half cab

Leslie 825 speaker cab

KEYS:

Cresswell, Ball and Co upright piano.

HH P73 electric piano (1970's) - Rhodes style

Diamond 600 combo organ

MicroKorg

Hammond organ w/Leslie cab

M-Audio MIDI keyboard

***Plus dozens of various stompboxes and percussive instruments***

MONITORING:

EVENT ASP8 midfields

Yamaha NS10-M nearfields (mk1 1978) powered by a QUAD 303 amp.

MICROPHONES:

Condenser:

Neumann U87 (available on request)

AKG C414 B-ULS x 1

Aston Origin x 2

Octava MK012 x 2 matched pair

Octava MK419 x 1

SE Titan x 2

Rode NT5 x 4 (2 matched pairs)

Dynamic:

Shure SM7b x 2

Shure SM57 x 4

Shure Beta57 x 1

Shure SM58 x 5

Shure Beta 52 x 1

Electrovoice 468 x 2

Sontronics Halo x 1

Sennheiser e604 x 5

Sennheiser MD421 x 2

Sennheiser MD21 (1960's)

Audix i5 x 1

Audix D6 x 1

Heil PR48 x 1

Other:

Beyerdynamic M160 ribbon mic

SE R1 ribbon mic

Shure Beta91 boundary mic

3 x Pye Tulip 1950's mics

Plus various other miscellaneous mics from Sony, Telefunken and Sanyo

GUITARS/BASSES:

Gibson Les Paul Standard (1997)

Gibson SG Special - heavily customised with Bigsby trem and

Seymour Duncan P-rail pickups

PRS SE Custom 24

Fender Jazzmaster (Jap 2010)

Fender Telecaster (Jap 1989) fitted with Seymour Duncan Little 59 bridge pickup

Fender Telecaster '72 Custom (reissue) fitted with Kent Armstrong Hotrail bridge pickup

Fender Toronado (1998) - very rare

Jedson Les Paul (Jap 1974) - very rare

Kay Effector (late 70's) - very rare, with fully overhauled FX section and upgraded Tonerider pickups

Teisco SSL 4-L 1960's guitar with 4 x Goldfoil pickups

Danelectro Baritone guitar

Martin acoustic guitar

Fender Precision Bass (Roger Waters Signature) fitted with Seymour

Duncan SPB3 pickup

Fender Jaguar Bass fitted with Seymour Duncan SPB3 and SJB3 pickups

Fender Jazz Bass fitted with SPB3 and SJB3 pickups

Ibanez acoustic bass

Ovation acoustic bass