Great Studio Improvements!
We’ve been very busy!
So, as well as being really busy with loads of great bands coming through (we had the wonderful “Adore” in today) , we’ve also been hard at work improving the studio. We’re so pleased with the changes, we thought we’d share them with you in a quick blog post.
If you are a liker of our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/univibeaudio1) you may well have seen some small previews of the additions and improvements, and if you don’t frequent the page, you should!
Firstly we spent some time on tweaking the Live Room. It sounded great anyway, and we’ve always been proud of the great drum sounds we achieve. Things changed a little after gained some space from removing the little used vocal booth. This changed the room quite substantially so took the opportunity to really test the acoustics and improve them wherever we could. After measuring the room’s reverb time and other characteristics, the treatment was designed and built and, in our opinion, was a complete success.
We pride ourselves on not only sounding amazing, but creating a vibe and being a great environment in which to be creative. The new live room is an absolutely great tracking space and we’re sure that you’re going to love the huge sound. We’re keen to always make sure that our customers are getting the best bang for their buck, so we’re proud to show off these amazing improvements.
Another thing we wanted to make better was the headphone monitoring situation. We really like to give the band/artist the power to control their own headphone mix. This makes for the most comfortable experience and better performances. We had a good setup, with cables going to 4 separate mixers in the room, but this was limited in some ways.
Now, we’re supremely proud to say we’ve upgraded our setup to the Hearback Headphone Monitoring system! You can read all about this on their Website, but we can tell you that we now boast the highest quality headphone monitoring! We can now offer up to 4 separate mixes (up to 8 monitor points for players) in pristine stereo quality. The system is run digitally, so latency is less than 2ms and there is absolutely no loss of quality, no matter how long the cable run.
We strive to offer the best recording experience we can, and this system will allow unrivalled comfort and ease during the tracking stage of your recording.
Don’t forget to head over to the Facebook page and hit like to keep updated with the studio. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram!
Cheers.
Bovine – Military Wife
Here’s an amazing track from a great band.
Bovine are a Birmingham band that champion “big drums, low SGs and fiery riffs”. They describe their sound as a “chop suey of time signatures, with a stabbing backpain of ambient fuckery” and this, we reckon, is pretty accurate. They spent an amazing 7 days with us recording, mixing and mastering their debut album “The Sun Never Sets On The British Empire” which is due for release in april on the excellent FDA Rekotz.
The first single off said album is the excellent “Military Wife” and they’ve made it available to stream right here:
http://bovine.bandcamp.com/
Make sure you search the band on Facebook and give them a like. You’re going to be hearing a lot about them and we’re really proud to have had them in. With plenty of airplay already from Kerrang! Radio, we know this will be big.
While you’re at it, check out the video too:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3rhxmCHGeU
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Your B(r)and
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