The piano room centres on a handcrafted Shigeru Kawai SK5 grand piano - an instrument chosen for its depth of tone, refined action and expressive control. It rewards nuance: soft passages hold their shape, low notes carry weight, and performances can move from intimate to cinematic without feeling forced.
The control room is anchored by an analog 32-channel TOFT ATB32 console with 24 lines in and out, supporting sessions up to 192kHz / 32-bit depth. It gives engineers the feel of a real desk - faders, routing, gain staging and musical decisions made by hand.
Neumann U87, Rode K2, Rode NT3, Rode NT5, AKG C1000s, Audio-Technica AT4041, Shure SM57 and Shure SM58.
Avid Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Studio One/Fender Studio and GarageBand are available so visiting engineers can work in the package they know best.
24 channels of compression and gates provide dynamics control for tracking and mix decisions before the sound reaches the screen.
The private theatre gives mixes and references a dedicated space for depth, detail and emotional playback.
The Roland XP-50 adds a distinctly musical late-90s workstation character to the room. With multiple expansion cards available, it opens up classic synth textures, pads, orchestral colours, basses, keys and familiar era-defining sounds that can be layered into modern productions or used as a deliberate retro centrepiece.
The Tascam 424 4-track tape machine is integrated for artists who want a more tactile, imperfect and analog edge. It can be used for saturation, limitation, cassette texture, sketching parts, or committing a sound that feels less clinical and more alive.
