Located in north London's fashionable Queens Park / Kensal Rise area in a Victorian dairy yard, The Famous Yard studios are luxurious and comfortable, ensuring the most creative atmosphere for music production.
Large live recording spaces and easily the most creative team on board supplied by the highest quality recording equipment, The Famous Yard is the dream environment for your project.
Contact us via email or call +44(0)7792750309
Our studio is equipped with (but not limited to) :
A unique control room with 15' ceilings, and our large luxurious live room.
Pro Tools HD3 Acel with these Plug-Ins:
Sony Oxford Dynamics and EQs
Waves EQs and Compressors
Focusrite EQs and Compressors
Pultec EQ
Bomb Factory BF76 / BF-3A
Fairchild
Purple Audio
Moogerfooger
iZotope Ozone 3, Restoration (RX), Vinyl, and Spectron
Celemony Melodyne
Sonalksis bundle
Digidesign Strike
Many Others.....
Other software :
Ableton Live 7 (includes all Ableton Instrument software)
Digital Performer
Logic
Melodyne pitch correction
Reason 4 (with Reason Pianos)
FXpansion's BFD with 90GB library
Komplete
Ivory Piano program with 88 key weighted controller keyboard
Albino 2
Arturia V-Synth collection :
Moog Modular
Minimoog
ARP 2600
Prophet 5
Jupiter 8
CS80
and various other soft-synths
An assortment of class A and valve mic pre-amps and compressors including:
Siemens V72 mic-pres from the 50s x 3
Matched pair of TAB-Telefunken 372/2 mic-pres from the 60s
Universal Audio valve (tube) mic-pre x 2
Calrec Soundfield 4 channel pre-amp for the Soundfield microphone
TL Audio Valve classic dual mic-pre & EQ
Urei LA4 x 2
Focusrite Green Vocal Channel Strip
TL Audio C1 dual mic-pre/compressors
Valley People Dyna-mite compressors x 4
Apogee Rosetta A/D Converters
Others by TLA, Bellari, Drawmer, Lexicon, Deltalab, ART, Digidesign, Yamaha, Roland
Other outboard oddities:
Roland RE 501 Space Echo
Binson Echorec Baby (1960's Magnetic Disc Echo)
WEM Copycat tape echo
Sherman Filterbank analogue resonant filter
MXR vintage delay
Loads of groovy guitar pedals (see below)
Keyboards including:
2 Rhodes Mark I Electric Pianos as well as a suitcase model
Wurlitzer EP200 Electric Piano
Upright Overstrung (recently tuned) piano
Moog Opus 3
2 Roland Juno 106 analogue synths
Roland JD800
Oberheim Xpander
Oberheim Matrix 6
Kurzweil K2000RS
Access Virus
Novation BassStation
Novation SuperBassStation
Hammond XB2 + Pro 3 Leslie Rotating Speaker amplifier
Casio CZ5000
Casio CZ1
Casio VL Tone
Yamaha CS1x
Many software synths
Guitars:
Fender Strat Jeff Beck Signature Model 1991
Gibson Les Paul with P90s
Fender Tele with Seymour Duncan pick ups
1957 Gibson ES 175
1960s Gibson ES 175 (flatwounds)
1971 Gibson SG with P90s and Bigsby
1978 USA Epiphone Sheraton
1962 Gibson acoustic
Takamine Acoustic
Nylon string Acoustic
Basses:
1972 Fender Jazz USA
1978 Musicman Stingray (pre-Ernie Ball)
1962 Gibson EB2 semi-acoustic
1992 SDGR custom Bass
1969 Gibson Les Paul "Recording" bass
1965 Fender VI 6-string bass
Amps:
1964 Fender Dual Showman
1970s Hiwatt Custom 100 DR103
1970s Hiwatt 100w P.A. Head
1970s Orange 100w P.A.Head
THD Univalve
Mesa Boogie Studio PreAmp
Mesa Boogie 295 Simul-Class Stereo Power Amp
Marshall All Valve Stereo Power Amp
Ampeg V4B
1970s Marshall JMP Superbass 100 (non master volume)
1970s Fender Vibro Champ
Fender Blues Junior
1965 Gibson Skylark
1970s WEM Dominator
1970s WEM Westminster
1970s Selmer Treble'n'Bass 100
Phillips Strange Old Grey Amp which sounds great!
Trace Elliott V4 Valve Bass amp
Trace Elliott Series 6 with valve preamp
All our guitar amps are valve models.
Speaker Cabs :
1970s Marshall 4 x 12 cab
Ampeg 2 x 12 cab with Vintage Celestion 30s
2 X Fender 1x12 cab
2 X Marshall 2 x 12 1922 cab
Trace Elliott 2 x 15 Bass cab
Ashdown 4 x 10 Bass Cab
Ampeg 1 x 18 Bass Cab
Guitar effects :
Mutron : Bi Phase (vintage) Mutron III envelope filter
Lovetone : Big Cheese, Meatball, Wobulator, Doppelganger
MXR : Phase 90, Dynacomp, M 104 Distortion, 10-band Graphic EQ
Electro-Harmonix : Holy Grail, Memory Man (2), Hot Tubes, Small Stone (1970s)
Morley : Wah/Fuzz (1970s), Pedal Flanger (1970s), Volume
Chandler Tube driver
Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere
Cry baby Wah X 3
Roland chorus (1970s)
Mics by Neumann, AKG, Groove Tubes, Audio-Technica, Calrec, SE, EV, Shure etc...
Many other bits and pieces. Too Many.
If you are still reading our gear list, then you are probably as obsessive as we are and should seek help. We do. We offer in-house counselling (during tea breaks only).
Full Tea Range (from builder's to herbal) and Coffee facilities with biscuit upgrades, Internet, TV, creature comforts (but no actual creatures)....