The Studio

The studio at Sugar Town Recordings is a large format, analogue recording studio with separate control room, live room and iso-booths. The layout, design and equipment of the studio are centred around the ethos of real people, making real music, with real equipment.

Studio Inventory

Recording Equipment:

Trident Dream Series 24 Channel Console

Unity ‘The Rock’ Mkiii Main Monitors

Yamaha HS10 Reference Monitors

Aventone MixCube Mono Speaker

Lyrec TR-533 24 track Tape Recorder

Revox C-270 Stereo Tape Recorder

SSL Alpha Link 24 AD/DA convertor

ProTools / Ableton / Logic Pro DAWs

Outboard:

Trident S20 Microphone Preamps

Universal Audio 710 'Twin-Finity' Microphone Preamps

Universal Audio LA610 Preamp / Compressor

Trident T24 Stereo Bus Compressor (x2)

ART PRO VLA Stereo Tube Compressor (x2)

Roland RE-201 space echo

Erica Synths 'Zen Delay' Tube echo

EMT-140 plate reverb

Orban Parasound 111B 'Dual Reverberation' Spring Reverb

Alesis Quadraverb Digital Reverb

Various Effects/ pedals

Microphones:

Vintage Neumann U87

Austrian Audio OC818s (pair)

STC Coles 4038 Ribbon

AKG C451 E (pair)

Beyerdynamic m160s (pair)

Beyerdynamic m201

Shure SM7Bs

Shure SM58s

Shure SM57s

Electrovoice RE-20

Sennheiser MD421s

Aston Origin

Keyboards:

Ritmuller UP120 Upright Piano

Kemble Classic [Tack Piano]

Hammond TTR-100 Organ & Leslie Speaker

Wurlitzer 200A Electric Piano

Synthesizers:

Roland Juno 106

Arp Axxe

Crumar Stringman

Soma Lyra

Korg M1

Korg Delta

Korg Prologue

Drum Machines:

Soma Pulsar-23

Alesis HR16

Guitars:

Gibson Firebird 1 (1960s)

Gibson Hummingbird Acoustic (1960s)

Harmony Sovereign H1260 Acoustic

Eko Ranger XII 12-String Acoustic

Taylor GS Mini High-Strung Acoustic

Yamaha CPX700 Electro-acoustic

Fender USA Stratocaster

Fender Tele Custom

Fender USA Precision Bass

Rickenbacker 4003 Bass

Univox Highflyer Bass

Simon & Patrick Acoustic Bass

Amplifiers:

Vox AC30

HH V-S Musician

Laney Lionheart L20H & LT212 Cab

Ampeg SVT & Ampeg 412 Cab

Drums:

Gretsch Broadcaster ’Stop-sign’ Kit (1970s)

Premier Genista Birch Kit (1990s)

Ludwig Acrolite Snare (1970s)

Premier Artist Maple Snare

Mapex Black Panther Snare

Sonor Piccolo Snare

LP Congas

Zildjian A & K custom cymbals (various)

Sabian Symphonic Gong 32”

Various hand percussion