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Virtu Studios

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Virtu provides professional music production and audio services for members of the Music and Film industries in Ireland. Projects completed at Virtu recently are current commercial music releases, radio and televison advertising and music and sound in cinema and dvd releases.We as a company are dedicated to providing the highest acheviable standard in all their areas of business and comitted to serving clients on a continous basis with professional courtesy and dedication.Key staff in Virtu Studios are Barry Dempsey and David Slevin. In addition to being busy record producers and recording engineers in their own right they are also popular and experienced lecturers and tutors. Barry's Ableton Masterclass seminars enjoy a high turnout around the country, he is also a performing DJ and regularly releases music on a variety of lables. In addition to this Barry is also a lecturer for the Vocational Educational Commitee and with David is involved in the development and delivery of a number of courses and levels for them. David Slevin has nearly 20 years experience as a professional engineer and is one of the countrys most experienced recording engineers. Known for his skills as and engineer and producer of rock bands, he has a large list of credits from some of the biggest local and international artists around. David is also known for specialising in location music recording and has recorded everything from large orchestras to folk bands in a variety of weird and wonderful locations. As well as lecturing in Recording Techniques, Microphones and Recording Studio design David also has experienced in the design and implementation of training courses for the music industry.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 26/04/2006
Band Members: Actually we are not really a band. But there's David Slevin and Barry Dempsey.Barry does the Programming and Re-Mixing etc. and Dave does the Microphone stuff!!! and it works out very well thanks. .. type="text/javascript" src="http://app.icontact.com/icp/loadsignup.php/form.js?c=35 3206&l=127607&f=12591"..
Influences:
Sounds Like: desk: Cad Maxcon Mixing Consolerecorder: Pro Tools HD 2 Apogee AD 16X Apogee DA 16Xmic pres: Focusrite ISA 215 Audient ASP 08microphones: AKG C-12 Shure SM-7 Blue Ball Bluebird. Rode NT-5 x 2 SE 2200 x 2 others...other stuff: TC M5000 (fx) Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Ableton. Loads of soft synths Loads of fx plugins
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Now Enroling for Ableton Courses April 25th.

Places are currently available for Ableton Beginners and Advanced courses for begining April 25th. Price for each (4 week) Course is (¬349 + VAT)The courses cover the following and more...Beginner:Abl...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:32:00 GMT

Ableton Electronic Weekender

ABLETON LIVE  USERSDEMONSTRATIONVIRTU Studios in association with Italian FactoryAbleton Live music production and performance software - live demonstrationSunday, 30th November 2008Italian Facto...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:22:00 GMT

Recent Film and TV work @ Virtu.

Heres a short list of some of the films weve been involved with recently. More to come. If we've left anyone out or you need any changes to links etc. Please let us know.ThanksAnniville Films  Time...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:30:00 GMT

Music Production and Software Training @ Virtu

  Virtu Studios are pleased to announce upcoming music production courses.  We are now enrolling for the following part time courses at Virtu :Electronic Music Production (level 1 ...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:58:00 GMT

This is how we do it. Vol iv. Barry's Re-mix Reviewed.

From Progressivehouse.comContrat's to Barry and the great review on Progressive house website on the new Monad release...[QUOTE}When a release has such a strong original version, most often the remi...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:34:00 GMT

This is how we do it Vol 2.

Well the dates have been finalised so I guess it's pretty safe to let people know about the recording we're planning to make in Morocco. The end of July will see myself and hopefully some others in th...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:10:00 GMT

This is how we do it. vol. 1

Hello,We'lll I've finally got around to trying to write a little about VIRTU here on Myspace to try and describe the different kinds of jobs we do here at VIRTU.So what I'm posting here is a few pictu...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:30:00 GMT