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THE LOFT STUDIOS

Recording Studio: Cardiff Bay

About Me


Some records our engineers have helped to make:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/12/2006
Band Members: Philip Jenkins, Sam Kemp

Together we have a load of analogue synths, vintage drums and excellent pre-amps.

You know those tunes you hear in your head, we can help you build them so others hear them too.

We look a bit cosy and we're not that flash but we know our stuff and wanna get to know your stuff too.

It took us a long time to get our studio together and we like it a lot. Some of our gear goes waaaaaaay back to when we first started out making noises and we have learnt how to do some pretty cool stuff with it.

We are secretly really nerdy. :)
Influences: press record+play
Sounds Like: All those sounds you've had in your head times all the gear we can put your paws on, plus a little bit of magic.

Gear List

Set up

• Protools 48 track
• Cubase SX4
• G5 Mac
• Focusrite liquid mix
• UAD Express card
• M audio Project mix
• Kenton Pro Solo midi C.V converter
• Alesis Midiverb 4
• Sound Lab DI box
• DBX 1074 Quad Gate
• Behringer MDX4600 Mullticon Pro-XL

Keys / Samplers

• Korg MS20
• Seil Orchestra
• Tiesco Synthesiser 110 F
• Yamaha DX7 2
• Elka Soloist Synth
• Hohner Pump Organ
• Rhodes Mark 21
• Sequential Circuits Six Track synth
• Commodore 64 Cart Synth
• Vintage Akai S950
• Atari Stereo Master

Drums

• Vintage Slingerland kit
• Sabian 16'' HHX Crash cymbal
• Sabian Mini Hi-hats
• Zildjian A Custom Projection Crash cymbal
• Zildjian Remix Hi-hat 12'
• Zildjian quickbeat Hi-hat
• Zildjian 18'' Crash medium cymbal
• Vintage Zildjian 22'' A ride
• Ludwig Supersensitive snare
• Ludwig Coliseum maple snare
• Ludwig 400 snare
• Tabla no.52 Professional Model
• Matador Bongos
• LP Generation II® Wood Bongos
• Vintage Premier snare
• Percussion Plus fixed block castanets
• Rototoms- variable pitch drums
• Audition badge 60s child kit
• Latin Percussion tambourine
• Roland SPD 20 Total Percussion pad
• Linndrum drum machine
• Alesis SR16 drum machine
• Q logic Midi Metro- visual click track
• Buttkicker audio transducer - pulsating click track
• Tama Tension Watch
• Drum traps

Microphones

• Rode K2
• Rode NT5
• Sennheiser E604 (x3)
• Sennheiser E602
• Sennheiser 606
• Electro voice Re 20
• Beyerdynamic M160
• Vintage 60s Reslo Ribbon
• Vintage 60s Davoli
• Shure SM57
• SE 03

Pre-amps

• Focusrite Voicemaster Pro
• Focusrite Octapre Platinum
• Focusrite Octapre Le
• Avalon VT-737SP
• TL Audio Ivory 2 Dual Valve Compressor

Guitars amps & pedals

• Crate Vintage Club 50
• Fender Hotrod Deluxe
• Fender Stratocaster
• Roland GR-20S Guitar Synthesizer
• Electro-Harmonix Big Muff
• MXR Dynacomp
• Boss Overdrive
• Colorsound Ultra Fuzz
• Colorsound Tremolo
• Colorsound Overdrive
• Vintage Shin-Ei Fuzz Box

Monitoring

• Yamaha MSP3
• Alesis M1 Active
• KRK Rokit 5
• Sennheiser HD 25 headphones
• Beyerdynamic DT150 headphones

Other

• Autoharp- Ashbury 21 bar
• Vintage WEM Copy Cat Echo unit
• Yamaha QY10
• Gameboy Nanoloop sequencer
• Pocket Theremin
• Self built Oscillator using Moog oscillators
• Accordion
• Assorted noisy bits & bobs

Additional instruments can be sourced by special arrangement.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Contacting us

To book time in the studio message usor call 07787 824848
Posted by THE LOFT STUDIOS on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:22:00 PST

Drumsticks, instruments and accessories for sale

We have expanded in all sorts of directions.First off we imported lots of fantastic drumsticks from Los Cabos in Canada. Have a look at our photos for a small selection.At the moment we also have sona...
Posted by THE LOFT STUDIOS on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:46:00 PST

Recording cats

We've got a new toy. A zoom M4 recorder.We have been using it to record cats. People can use it too but this week all the coolest rockstars we met were cats....
Posted by THE LOFT STUDIOS on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:06:00 PST

Drums and vocals

We've got about 20 years live and recorded professional drumming and vocal session experience.If you need some backing vocals or someone to fill in for you in the studio on drums at short notice we ca...
Posted by THE LOFT STUDIOS on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:51:00 PST

Mesa

We love mesa, we could and do make a million different versions of Robyn's pretty tunes.Have a look and seehttp://www.myspace.com/mesamesamesa
Posted by THE LOFT STUDIOS on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:44:00 PST

New tracks- More to come

Two New Black Light Machine tracks we recorded and mixed and a mix we did for a Dirty Youth track. We mix under the name meanpj. We feel proper cool having a mixing tag. ;)I'm fuss arsing around looki...
Posted by THE LOFT STUDIOS on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:03:00 PST

Gear List

Set up" Protools 48 track " Cubase SX4" G5 Mac" Focusrite liquid mix" UAD Express card" M audio Project mix" Kenton Pro Solo midi C.V converter" Alesis Midiverb 4" Sound Lab DI box" DBX 1074 Quad Gate...
Posted by THE LOFT STUDIOS on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:21:00 PST

Things we've been doing.

Buying stuff, like crazy. Toys for you. List is coming as soon as we stop buying.Other stuff Some of our favourite recordings at the minute-The new Fatal Taunt album, thats coming to noisy fruition an...
Posted by THE LOFT STUDIOS on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:22:00 PST

All I wanna do is...

Tracks recorded at the the loft can be heard here (All I Wanna Do & Valentine), http://www.myspace.com/theschoolbandtake a box of hankiesThey get reviewed here- http://soundsxp.com/artman2/publish/dem...
Posted by THE LOFT STUDIOS on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:29:00 PST

People we love

Jake Rothman ...
Posted by THE LOFT STUDIOS on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 02:19:00 PST