CREATING UNIQUE RECORDINGS SINCE 2005
The studio was purpose built in 1989, operating succesfully under the name 'Astra Studio' 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 some of the channels running through custom designed output transformers.
OUTBOARD:
MOTU HD192 AD/DA Converters x 2
EVENTIDE OMNIPRESSOR
UREI 1176
RIGG 001 custom made 2 channel mic pre with Lundahl transformers
SHURE M63 AUDIO MASTER vintage EQ
SHURE M67 vintage custom modded 4 channel mic pre, used to record Woodstock in 1969
DBX 117 vintage stereo compressor
DBX 163x vintage compressor
TLA C1 dual channel valve pre/compressor passing through custom transformers
AUDIENT ASP008 mic pre's
COMPUTER:
Custom designed, water-cooled quad core PC. Running Cubase Pro9, with plugins from Waves, Slate Digital, Soundtoys, Stillwell Audio, SSL, API, 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.
Gretsch Reknown Maple, 4 piece kit with maple shells. Sizes are 24" kick, 13" rack tom, 16" floor tom.
TAMA Starclassic, 5 piece kit with birch shells. Sizes are 22" kick, 10" rack tom, 12" rack, 14" floor tom.
Peace Paragon, 4 piece kit with maple shells. Sizes are 24" kick, 12" rack tom, 16" floor tom.
Various snares from Orange County Custom Drums, Pacific Custom Drums, Gretsch, Tama, Hollywood by Meazzi (vintage 1960's), Pearl Sensitone, Mapex Black Panther, Peace Drums.
GUITAR/BASS AMPS:
(1988) Marshall JCM800 2205 50w valve head, with LF gain boost modification by Martin Kidd (Cornford and Victory amps designer).
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
WEM Dominator III 15w 1970's valve guitar combo
Selmer SV Treble n' Bass 50w valve head (1970's)
Fender Concert Rivera series 2x10 valve guitar combo (1983)
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
Peavey 5150 2x12 guitar combo
Marshall 1936 2x12 speaker cab loaded with Celestion Vintage 30's
Cornford 4x12 speaker cab
Orange 2x12 speaker cab loaded with Celestion Vintage 30's
Fender 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
Orange 4x10 and 1x15 speaker cabs
Ampeg 1540HE 4x10/1x15 vintage bass cab
Ampeg 4x10 half cab
Leslie Rotosonic speaker cab
Leslie 825 speaker cab
***Plus Various guitars, basses, organs, percussive instruments***
MONITORING:
EVENT ASP8 midfields
SPIRIT ABSOLUTE ZERO nearfields
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
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
