Member Since: 8/31/2006
Band Website: www.calder-recordings.co.uk
Band Members:
Steve Fenton Owner, Freelance Producer / Engineer
Steve is a well-established and much sought after freelance Producer & Engineer. He has worked on a large number of album, single and remix projects, many with acclaimed artists such as The Happy Mondays , T-Rex , Clive Russell, John Helliwell , Mike Walker , Mark Hart , Sunny D Levine, Operator Six , Exit State & Mabel Blue. Steve has a first class honours degree in Engineering and was responsible for designing and building the studio complex.
He is also a Senior Lecturer in Music Technology based at Huddersfield University and currently studying for a PhD based around Audio Quality in Music Production.
When not producing music for clients or lecturing Steve runs King Prawn Records , an independant record label.
Steve Gligorovic In-house Producer / Engineer
Steve G has a BSc (Hons) in Music Technology and Audio Systems. He has worked with a large number of clients including
T-Rex ,
Tricia Penrose (Heartbeat),
Widgykeff ,
Theclectix ,
Wintermute ,
Extra Curricular ,
Project Sunset ,
Kill To Gain and
West Yorkshire Vocal Academy
amongst others.
Aside of the studio, Steve is currently freelancing as a session musician having previously played in a number of semi-pro and fuction bands. He plays Bass, Mandolin & Guitar and is learning Drums. You can often see him at jam nights around Halifax and Hebden Bridge. In addition, he has previously promoted and engineered band nights at a number of venues throughout Yorkshire.
Michail Gounelas In-house Assistant Engineer
Michail is the newest member of our team. He has a first class honours degree in Music Technology and Audio Systems. Although he has a background in electronic music, he has engineered numerous bands ranging from rock and metal to blues and trip hop. In addition to his skills as an engineer, he brings a wealth of experience in the design and build of custom audio gear and audio/visual software.
Aside of the studio, Michail has collaborated with a number of visual and media artists from around the world (Spain, France, Greece, etc.).
Influences:
Hardware
Pro Tools HD3, with (x3) Digidesign i/o 96
Dual processor power Mac G5
72 channel Mackie d8b Digital Mixing Console, with additional UFX and MFX processor expansion cards
Monitors
Genelec 8030a Active Nearfield Monitors
Active Truths
Kef 104 Studio Reference Monitors
db Technologies - Opera 110 Active Monitors
Auratone C5 Classic Nearfield Monitors
Gale Studio MonitorsOutboard
TLA Ivory MkII Valve pre-amps & processors
Focusrite Platinum 'OctoPre' pre-amp
Focusrite ISA 428 pre-amp
Calrec PQ1785 pre-amps
Lexicon MPX200 processor
Line 6 Studio filter & echo modellers
TC Electronics effects and processors
Drawmer, DBX, Alesis and Yamaha external effects & processors
..and more!Software
Pro Tools V7.4 (HD3) with ever expanding plug-in suite including: Amp Farm, LA/2A optical compressors, 76 Blackface compressors, Bomb Factory, Reverb One, Joe Meek pack and more.
Waves SSL 4000 Series TDM set
Sampletank 2 XL, Software sampler
Sonik Synth 2, Synth workstation
M-Audio's Melotron (M-Tron)
Melodyne (Pitch Correction)
Ableton Live
HarBal EQ, mastering software
Steinberg Cubase Sequencing
Sony Soundforge 8.0, post-production editing and moreSamplers
Emu - Morpheus synth module
Emu - Proteus synth module
Emu - ESI 4000 Hardware sampler
Novation SuperNova
DX-7 Vintage Synth
Casio RZ-1 Vintage Drum Machine
Kawai K5000 Workstation
Roland RS-5 Synth
Roland U220
Boss DR550 MkII
MC303 + Phat Boy controller
Roland A33 Master Keyboard
Akai S2000 sampler (x2) + MESA IIMicrophones
Neumman TLM 103
Rode NT2's Large Diaphram
Rode K2 Valve Condenser
Electrovoice RE20
Sennheiser 421's
Audio Technica 4033 ASM Large Diaphram
Samson C02's
Shure SM57's
Shure SM58's
AKG C4000B
AKG D3700's
Calrec CB20C + CC03 Capsule
Beyer Opus 69's
AKG 418's
AKG D112
AKG C1000S'sIn House
Peavey Series II drum kit
Roland Cube 30 bass amplifier
Zoom Fire 30 amp modeling guitar combo
Marshall AS50R acoustic guitar combo
PA system for rehearsal sessions
20’ * 18’ treated main live space.
See www.calder-recordings.co.uk for full spec list
Sounds Like:
Perfection Personified
Record Label: King Prawn Records
Type of Label: Indie