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Ross...Railway Studios

About Me


What we try to achieve here is a relaxed space where we allow your creativity to grow and be recognised. We mainly specialise in working with Rock, Metal and Indie bands, although Ross is highly experienced in working with a wide variety of genres and is extremely open-minded and experimental therefore allowing artists to retain their own personal and unique sound which can often be lost in translation.
Railway Studios has been blossoming continuously over the years with our client list constantly growing and improvements being made, we have recently installed a new front end which has improved the recording quality considerably and we have added some vintage microphones to our already varied collection, have a look at our Gear section for full information.
The Studio boasts a whole range of facilities:-
2 large live rooms with full PA system, mics, drums, piano and various amps and a selection of fun toys
A dedicated and acoustically treated vocal booth designed specifically for its purpose, separate from live rooms for more privacy
Extremely well equipped Control Room boasting industry standard equipment, both digital and analogue. Although the studio works predominantly in the digital domain, Ross is very fond of analogue processing and keeps the traditional analogue console at the heart of the recording studio, preferring the analogue summing approach and other outboard processing when mixing.
Full office facilities including PC with a range of games & music, apple Mac G5, high-speed broadband and a widescreen TV with sky+
Most importantly, excellent coffee, the best in town! Full kitchen facilities including microwave, cooker, hob, kettle, toaster, extra large George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine, oven gloves so you don't burn your fingers, fridge-freezer, a full size bar standard Stella Artois BEER fridge, a full size Coca Cola drinks fridge and full w/c facilities.
We are in an excellent location, situated only a few minutes walk from the bus and train station and a minute walk to Lisburn City Centre meaning you will never be in short supply of amenities for all your requirements be it food, drink, entertainment or shopping. Although we are so close to the City Centre, we are in a secluded, private and quiet location with full parking facilities. Our site is all based on ground floor level so is easily accessed by disabled persons and assistance is always on hand.
Palmal - Processed Life now available for digital download via Rubidium Records Online Store
Rubidium Records Online Store

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/9/2006
Band Website: www.railwaystudios.com
Band Members: So far this year...
Kesus,Hoax,Who's Joe, Voa, Universal Remedy, Silvercord, RSI, Roy Fulton, Southbound, Payola, Palmal, Alive, Jonny Chambers, Eleventh Note, Kishamaka, Badboat, Adventures In Audio, Iago, SneakyHitlers, Blatant Fly...:
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Influences: RAILWAY STUDIOS LTD. 15 WARDSBOROUGH ROAD LISBURN BT28 1XF
Sounds Like:

OUR GEAR...

Soundtracs Quatrz 32 Channel "Inline" Mixing console
Nuendo 4 Recording
Lynx Aurora 16 Converters
Lynx AES16e Digital Router
OZX Atomic Clock
24 Track HD24 Adat Recorder
3x UAD-1 cards running (Neve,LA2A,Fairchild,1176LN,Pultec,Cambridge etc.)
Powercore Firewire
Mackie Control Universal Workstation

Preamps

by SPL, API, & Mackie Onyx

A/V Editing & Mastering

Power Mac G5 & Apogee Duet(Final cut Pro 5.1,Motion2,DVD pro4,Soundtrack Pro,)

OUTBOARD

Live Rooms
Crest Audio P.A 2401 Power Amp. Studio Master 700D Power Amplifier 3X Behringer Power play pro Head phone amp

Control Room
Mesa Boogie Recto Recording Valve Preamp
Marshall JMP1
Line6 Pod Pro
V-Amp Pro
V-Amp Bass Pro
DBX Compressors
Yamaha A5 5.1 Surround Amp
Yamaha CD Player
Yamaha Mini Disc Recorder
Yamaha DVD Player

MICROPHONES

2x Neumann U87A
2x Coles 4038 Matched pair
2x RV15
4X Sennheiser MD 421-II
1 x Pure 1
2 x Rode NT1's
1 x Rode NTK
2 x Behringer B2 Pro's
4 x Shure SM58
4 x Shure SM57
2x Sennheiser E45
2 x Beyer Dynamics Opus 53
3 x Beyer Dynamics Opus 67
1 x Beyer Dynamics Opus 65
2x AKG D112
1xAKG C3000

MONITORING

Event SP8 Active Monitors
Yamaha MSP5 Active Monitors
Yamaha NS-E55s / NS-C55
Alesis Monitor Twos
Acoustic Energy 1 (pair)
Acoustic Energy 150 watt subwoofer
4 x Beyer Dynamic DT770 pro headphone

INSTRUMENTS

Farfisa coronet Organ with Leslie rotor
Yamaha upright digital piano
Clavianova upright digital piano
Drums by Sonor,Yamaha,DDrum zildijian cymbals
Fender Jazz Bass Guitar
Gibson Les Paul De-luxe
Yamaha Acoustic Guitar
Avalon Semi Acoustic Guitar
Fender USA Srat
Various Percussion including steel drums
Korg M1
Roland MC505
Roland JP8000
Roland VA3
Roland DJ70 MK2
Marshall Valvestate AVT50
1974 Marshall Jmp50 & 1968 2X12 Vox Cab
Vox AC30
Laney PL100 Twin
4 x Carlsbro Headline Series
2 x Carlsbro Marlin 1042
Martin Audio CT Series P.A Speakers
Torque TM100P Stage Monitors
Various Pedals by Boss
Record Label: Rubidium Records © 2008
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Beetroot sessions.....

Yo all just had Kishamaka in for some very dirty live sessions we just about survived the maddness amoung the smoked filled haze At least half the studio is still intact Good times all round.....
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:52:00 GMT

Just finished Mixing RSi’s new EP one of the four to be included in a four CD box set

RSi are a great band one to check out live for sure EP will be released very soon
Posted by on Fri, 16 May 2008 10:26:00 GMT

In Case Of Fire & Gil Norton (Congrats on getting signed)

Its been an interesting two weeks In Case Of Fire & and the Legendary Gil Norton (foofighters/Pixies/Feeder/Jimmy Eat World) have been in doing preproduction sessions for their new debut album, Du...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:34:00 GMT

fueling the fire...

Badboat have been in wrecking the joint, fueling the fire in a whiskey saturated smoke filled haze but we managed to finish two exellent tracks for Badboats 12" release coming soon!
Posted by on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:51:00 GMT

RSi due in for pre production session

Fantastic band RSi due in to do some pre production for their new album
Posted by on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:44:00 GMT

Universal Remedy next week...

Universal Remedy hitting the studio next week to lay down some new songs
Posted by on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:10:00 GMT

New single from Payola coming soon

Payola due in the studio this weekend to record a new single http://www.myspace.com/payolarock 
Posted by on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:10:00 GMT

IAGO Finish new but old single

IAGO Finish new but old single....HANGMAN...Once upon a time this was a good song....now thats its been brought back to life it reamins a great song...up soon for your listenin pleasure....
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:40:00 GMT

Eleventh Note....Back in the studio

Eleventh Note....Back in the studio on the 10th for another blazing live session lookin forward to it
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:34:00 GMT

Busy Times...

RSI Confirmed to start there album early next year
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:27:00 GMT