The Gallery Studios is located beneath a church in the heart of Ottawa's Glebe. It also doubles as an art gallery, hence the name.
Upstairs in the old chapel there's a baby grand piano, hardwood flooring, and a giant ceiling. There's also some pretty sweet mood lighting too.
Downstairs there's the main room that we can adapt to almost any recording situation, a tiny vocal booth that we never use for vocals and the control room, featuring flashing lights, knobs and buttons galore. There's also a kitchen and a surprising number of bathrooms for all genders.
We've got all kinds of fancy gear and microphones. If there's specific gear your want/need we can always rent it. Arturo works at Steve's. It's pretty handy. Or we'll just say we rented it and you'll never know the difference. We're that good.
The studio is run by active, indendent musicians if you take comfort in that sort of thing. It also means that if Dean likes your band he doesn't shut up about it until everyone's heard the record.
Our central location in the Glebe means you're right next to everything your body needs: music, beer and pizza.
Kettlman's, Pizza Pizza, Civic Shawarma, the Beer Store, the Wild Oat, Booster Juice and Subway are all within a short walk. Songbird, Long & McQuade and the Folklore centre aren't too far either. There's another music store close by for emergencies, and an all-night convenience store/ATM across the street for all your afterhours essentials.
Dean Watson is the man to talk to about almost everything (but Arturo also has some pretty good answers up his sleeve).
Want to book a session, studio tour or ask some rock and roll advice?
Contact Dean (613)236-6676 or @ [email protected] or Arturo (613)799-6681 or @ [email protected] .
Gear List:
Console:
- Soundcraft Spirit Studio 24
Front End:
- RME Fireface 800
- Steinberg Cubase 5
- Steinberg Nuendo 3
- Digidesign Protools M-Powered
Monitoring:
- Dynaudio BM5a (Pair)
- Genelec 1029A (Pair)
- Genelec 1091A Sub
- Yamaha NS160 (Pair)
- Auratone Supercube 5C (Pair)
Preamps:
- A-Designs P-1
- A-Designs EM-Silver
- API 512c (X2)
- API 3124+
- API 7600 Channel Strip
- Chandler TG2
- DBX 786
- Sage SE-Pre1 (X2)
- Universal Audio 6176 (610B)
Microphones:
- Blue Kiwi
- AKG C1000S
- AKG C418 (X2)
- AKG D112
- AKG 451 b (x2)
- Audio-Technica ATM-25
- Audio-Techinca AT-3035
- Audio-Technica AT-4033
- Audio-Techinca AT-4047/sv (X2)
- Cascade Fathead (X2)
- Microtech Gefell M930
- Peluso P12
- Rode NT1
- Rode NT5 (X2)
- Rode NTK
- Sennheiser MD 421 II (X1)
- Shure SM57 (X7)
- Shure SM7B
Dynamics/EQ:
- API 525a (X2)
- API 550b (X2)
- Focusrite Liquid Mix
- Pandora LM-402 (Comp/Limiter)
- Universal Audio 6176 (1176LN)
- Universal Audio UAD-1 ( LA-2A , 1176 , Pultec Pro , Cambridge , Fairchild 670 , etc)
- Universal Audio UAD-2 Duo (With most available plugins)
Others:
- API 500-6B (X2)
- Radial JDI
- Radial X-AMP
Effects:
- Lexicon MPX100
- Roland RE-201 (Analog Tape Delay)
- Universal Audio UAD-2
- Alesis Microverb
- Ibanez DM 2000 delay
- TC Electronics M350
Other Available Software:
- Hypersonic 2
- Halion 2
- Groove Agent 2
- Reason 2
- Various SoftSynths (Korg Legacy Series, GForce M-Tron / Imposcar / Oddity , Arturia Yamaha CS80v , Tassman 4 )
- Celemony Melodyne Plugin v1.0
Available Instruments:
- Baldwin 6' Baby Grand Piano
- Tama StarClassic Birch (4pc) + Cymbals, etc. (Not always available so please ask if you need to use this)
- A banged up but awesome sounding 5pc Premier kit
- 2 mandolins, baritone ukelele, other stringy instruments
- Ernie Ball Stingray Bass
- Glockenspiels
Analog Synths/Drum Machines/Organs/Keyboards:
- Moog MultiMoog w/ Kenton ProSolo MIDI to CV converter
- Roland Juno-60 w/MD-8 MIDI controller
- Roland Jupiter-4
- Roland JX-3P
- Roland SH-101 (w/ Mod Grip)
- Roland TR-707
- Roland TR-808
- Roland TR-909
- Hammond X5 w/ Leslie 760 and Preamp pedal
- Korg Polysix
- Korg Poly 800mkII
- Korg Triton LE
- Paia Fatman
Amplifiers:
- Peavey 5150
- Fender Deluxe
- GK 4x10 bass cab with Hartke Transient attack head
- Roland JC 60
* Please ask if you need to use any of the above instruments as they may not always be available
