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Calder Recordings

About Me

Calder Recordings cater for all your recording needs from first demos to major album or single releases. With the combination of superb equipment, experienced staff and a great vibe, you will achieve recordings of the highest quality.
The studio is a purpose built complex offering fully automated multi track digital or analogue recording. It's luxurious, comfortable, relaxed and very well equipped. It's situated in the picturesque Calder Valley, on the slopes of the Pennines close to Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. Within easy reach of the M62 we are easily accessable. We are Pro Tools HD3 equipped and can handle projects of all sizes.
We don't have a city centre location, therefore we have lower costs. We pass on these savings to our clients by offering lower session rates.
The studio has grown rapidly and has gained a reputation for providing excellent results and is a first class environment for any recording or rehearsal project. With an ever expanding client base and the ability to provide a one-stop-shop solution to your needs, we're confident you will get the results you want.
We have a wide selction of quality microphones including Neumman, Rode & AKG. Using the very best Microphone pre-amps we capture the 'complete' sound in the analogue domain.
Large Live Room, Quality Monitoring, Mastering Suite, Chill Out Area, Beverages, DVD, Video Games and more...
We also provide a service for producing industry standard CDs, CD-Rs & DVDs with On-Body printing and associated packaging.

My Interests

Music:

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

My Blog

Exit State

Exit State's debut EP is about to go global.Recorded and tweaked to hi-octane perfection at Calder the 5 track E.P (Maxi CD with video) will be on worldwide release on King Prawn Records on June 29th....
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 11:15:00 GMT

April Special Offer - Meet Michail

To celebrate the arrival of our new in-house engineer Michail Gounelas, Calder Recordings are running a special offer throughout April. 8 hour 'day' sessions for only £160 standard hourly rate = £25 p...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:02:00 GMT

Widgykeff on Radio 1

Widgykeff were last night featured on Huw Stephens Radio One Introducing show. Huw Stephens show presents the best in new, underground and unsigned music from across the UK, so we were more than pleas...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:49:00 GMT

End of year summary 2008

Its been a great year at Calder Recordings.New equipment - Focusrite, Neve and Calrec pre-amps. Aural exciter, SSL Waves plug-ins, and of course keeping upto date with the latest software and protools...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:40:00 GMT

Studio Voucher Stocking Filler!

Hi, If you're stuck as to what presents to get your loved ones this year, think no further!!! Why not buy them some studio time in the form of a voucher! You can buy a voucher for any number of hours ...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:45:00 GMT

Widgykeff Debut Album

Punk-Alt-Prog-Experimental Rockers Widgykeff have just finished recording their debut MONSTER album! Currently in the mixing stages ..the tracks are sounding awesome! ..watch this space...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:52:00 GMT

The best equipment...

We've just installed 8 of the finest Pre-amps in the world! 4 in the shape of a Focusrite ISA428, transformer based Pre's designed by Mr Neve himself and 4 in the shape of Calrec PQ1785's, stunning pr...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:03:00 GMT

Recently recorded & Great deals for bands....

Recently we've had none other than T-Rex recording a new album with us ..check our website for full details. Also, Burnley's Exit State joined us for a week to record their new E.P for 2008 ..it sound...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:55:00 GMT

Studio upgrade complete!

We're pleased to announce that the final stage of the control room expansion is now complete. We're now running a full Pro Tools HD3 system complete with 3 Digidesign I/O units. Alongside these, we've...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:54:00 GMT