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Start Together

About Me

Start Together is a recording studio in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
It officially opened on December 1st 2007.
(028)90 328203
People
Rocky O'Reilly
Ben McAuley
B Lahey
Gear:
Pro Tools HD3
Tascam 16 track 1/2 inch tape machine.
Preamps and outboard by Universal Audio, Chandler, API, Avalon and Empirical Labs.
Allen and Heath Saber 32 channel mixing desk
Monitoring by KRK and Yamaha.
Effects like Roland Space Echo, Maestro Echoplex, Dynacord Echocord, Wem Copicat, Melos tape echo, EMT 140 plate reverb, Electro Harmonix, Line6,
Mics including
AKG C414 B-ULS
AKG C451
AKG D112
Beyer m201
Beyer m160 Ribbon
Beyer m88
Electrovoice RE20
Electrovoice RE15
Electrovoice RE200
Electrovoice ND408
Neumann M147
Neumann TLM 103
Sennheiser 421
Sennheiser 441
Sennheiser 945
Shure SM7
Shure SM57
Instruments -
Roland Juno 6, SH101
Moog Minimoog Voyager Anniversary Edition
Arp Quartet
Jen SX1000
Kingston electric organ
Korg MS2000b
Various effects pedals by Boss/Electro Harmonix/Moog etc.
Amps by Fender/Marshall/Ampeg/Selmer/Vox/Roland
Drums by Rogers, Hayman, Ludwig, Pearl, Yamaha

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/15/2007
Band Website: starttogetherstudio.com
Band Members: This year so far: Robyn G Shiels, The Desert Hearts, Ruby Colley, Tom McShane, La Faro, In Case Of Fire, The Jane Bradfords, The Ting Tings, Holy Fuck, Blood Red Shoes, Duke Special, And So I Watch You From Afar, The Dangerfields, Arcane, Serpentine Smile, The Terri Hooley Experience, Foy Vance, Oppenheimer, General Fiasco, Panama Kings, Mojo Fury, Robert Holmes, Kowalski, Cashier No. 9,Strait Laces, Cara, Not Squares and more.....
Influences: Saddle Creek, Electrical, Tape Op, Dischord, OSF, SST,
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

How have four months passed already???

We've all been so busy we've forgotten how to blog! Asides from all we've been working on, we're featured in the current issue of Tape Op Magazine! www.tapeop.comI'll update soon, when I figure out wh...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:45:00 GMT

The new year!!

So, this is the New Year.  Whats been going on?  Well Rocks is now married to the lovely Angie, congrats!  But, dont worry ladies theres still one single member of the start together crew available...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:40:00 GMT

It’s almost our birthday!!!

Whoop Whoop. Start Together is almost one year old! It's been an incredible twelve months for us. Recently I've been continuing to work on an album with Mojo Fury, recording with Dirty Stevie and Tom ...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:42:00 GMT

The End Of The Summer...

Summer is practically finished! We've been up to loads of interesting work. Back in June I finished recording with And So I Watch You From Afar. One of the last sessions was a 45 piece choir singing...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:59:00 GMT

April/May in being rapid shocker!

Rocky here - i've waited for cover of darkness to sneak in and update the Start Together page. It's been a deadly exciting time round here! We've all had some of the most exciting and surreal experien...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 18:04:00 GMT

"There isn’t a knob that does that..."

It has been a quiet few weeks at Start Together Studio.We had Robyn G. Shiels in recording his second album. Most of it was recorded live. He has no idea when it'll be finished/released. There were so...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:42:00 GMT

The last few weeks

It has been a quiet few weeks in Start Together Studio.We finished off a compilation album featuring a lot of really good bands. It was hard work and fast work but it was a lot of fun, and we're prett...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:02:00 GMT

The story so far.

After working hard to get ready to open, we've been continuing to get things in shape. Dancing with death in Ikea and somehow fitting a sofa and three people into a car is probably our greatest achiev...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:38:00 GMT