EQUIPMENT:

Massif Music Studios has plenty of equipment available for making your tracks a reality.  Please see below:


The Console:

Allen & Heath GS-R24m 

  • 24 mic preamps with wide bandwidth, super linear, extremely low noise and precisely controllable dials – the mono channel pre-amps are open, transparent and accurate. 
  • 2 thermionic valve pre-amp channels where classic 2nd harmonic warmth can be added or if mild overdriven tones are required without harsh clipping  
  • 16 additional optical preamps.
  • 24 channels of 4 band EQ with fully parametric mid EQ provides tremendous corrective and creative equalisation
  • Refined analogue quality with firewire and MIDI interface


The Microphones:

We have a large selection of mics at our disposal including:

  • Neumann TLM-103
  • S.E. z5600 valve microphone
  • S.E 4400a - matched pair 
  • Rode NT-5 - matched pair 
  • AKG D112
  • AKG Rhythm pack Drum Mics
  • Shure Drum mics
  • Shure SM 57 
  • Shure SM 58
  • AKG C1000s x2
  • AKG 170 x2
  • AKG 220 x2

The Hardware and Instruments:

The most important part of making music!  The tools...

  • Apple iMac Quad - 16GB memory
  • Allen & Heath GS-R24m
  • Drawmer analogue stereo compressor
  • Allesis analogue stereo compressor
  • Roland digital snake
  • Focusrite preamps
  • ART headamp 6 x 2
  • Boss GT-10
  • Roland stage piano
  • Yamaha Clavinova
  • Amps - Egnater renegade, Carlsbro bass, Ashdown bass, Marshall
  • Pearl Drum kit
  • Acoustic Guitars - Simon & Patrick, Tanglewood, Merida
  • Electric Guitars - Fender, Yamaha, Tanglewood, Tradition
  • Various percussion

The DAW's and Software instruments:

At Massif we know the value of a good workflow and in today's studio that means the best software

  • Pro tools 
  • Logic Pro 
  • Native Instruments Komplete 9 ultimate
  • Waves Gold
  • Antares Autotune 7

The Monitoring:

Each room boasts a minimum of 4 individual monitor mixes with the main rooms being capable of up to 18 headphone mixes.  The control room contains two sets of nearfield monitors for comparing mixes on different speakers.

  • Beyer dynamic DT100 headphones
  • KRK G3 Rokit 8" nearfield monitors - main control room
  • Tannoy Reveal 6" nearfield monitors - main control room and mix room
  • ART headamp 6 pro

* Although all the equipment above is situated in the studio, if you a relying on a particular piece of equipment being there for your session you must confirm prior to the session to ensure it's not hired out and is available for you to use.