The Blue Studio
"A great sound engineer is like gold dust. Andrew Tulloch combines the irreplaceable skills of taste, precision, technical expertise, patience and a great attitude with top of the range gear and a complete understanding of how to use it effectively. All the recordings we've done with him sparkle with the clean, fresh sound which is his trademark."
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engineered by Andrew
The Blue Studio is a mixing/mastering facility in London with well-specified control room. A small live room for overdubs and small acoustic projects.
Console
SmartAV Tango Control Surface – combined patented ARC Technology with 2x 22" wide (16:9) touch screens enables control of every edit & mix parameter within Pyramix. The 20 Motorized faders can control up to 256 tracks within the DAW making it feel like a huge analogue desk but with all the advantages of digital recall and small footprint etc.
Recording
Nuendo 5.5 – Audio Production System. This is an excellent system for recording, editing & mixing. It has great features like variAudio whereby quick and intuitive pitch correction can be performed along with high quality timestretch etc. Automation is comprehensive along with VST plug in support. AAF, OMF import/export also supported for easy interchange between pro tools and other DAWs.
Pyramix Virtual Studio 7 Masscore Production System – Fully specified digital audio production system using 32 bit floating point technology. Proprietary Pyramix VS3 plug-ins with audiophile quality plugs from Flux. All VST plug-ins supported with full delay compensation on channel paths and busses. AAF, OMF & Open TL and supported allowing crosspath session interchange with Pro Tools, Logic Audio, Nuendo etc. Pyramix can read multiple file formats and allows any combination within the same session. Full mastering capability to ‘ Red Book’ CD-R.
Monitoring - Klein & Hummel 0300D, Genelec 1029, Avantone Mixcubes
Outboard
Manley Massive Passive – Dual channel valve mastering Equaliser
Manley Vari MU – Compressor/Limiter
Neve 33609 – Compressor Limiter
Neve 4081 – Classic 1081 Mic Pre's
DAV Electronics – High quality mic pre’s from the original Decca design
TL Audio EQ2 – 2 channel valve equaliser & mic amps.
TL Audio Fatman – Stereo valve compressors
Bricasti M7 – Reverb
Lexicon PCM 91 – Reverb
TC Electronic M3000 – Reverb/FX
TC Electronic M One – Multi FX
TC Electronic D2 Digital Delay
EMU Proteus 2000 – Sound Module
Apogee Big Ben Masterclock
Plug Ins
Universal Audio – UAD1 & UAD 2
(Studer A800, Lexicon 224, Pultec EQ, Neve 1073, 1176, LA2A, Fairchild 670, Dreamverb etc…)
Strip Tools – Channel strip designed by Flux
EQ-X – High resolution Equaliser designed by Flux
Flux : : – Pure Compressors ( high end plugs developed for the Pyramix system)
Sonalksis – SV 315 Comp, SV517 Eq, SV719 Gate, CQ-1 Multiband compander
Sonnox – Oxford Dynamics
Slate Digital – FG-X
Soundtoys -Echoboy
iZotope – Ozone 4, Trash, Vinyl
iZotope – RX2 Pro – Full suite of restoration plug ins
Abbey Road – TG 12413 Limiter, RS 124 Compressor
PSP – Vintage Warmer 2, Lexicon 42, Neon HR, Xenon
MPEX3 – Pitch Shifter ( Pyramix)
Celemony Melodyne – Industry standard pitch correction
Voxengo – LF max punch, SPAN, Beeper
Drumagog 4 & 5
Knufinke – SIR 2
112db – Redline Reverb
Room Machine 884
Microphones
Neumann U87 – 1x
Neumann TLM193 – 2x
Pearlman TM-1(valve) – 1x
Peluso P28(valve) – 2x (matched pair)
DPA 4099 – 1x
AKG 414B-XLS – 1x
AKG C3000 – 2x
AKG C1000 – 1x
AKG D112 – 1x
Audix D6 – 1x
Oktava MC012 – 4x
Oktava MK 219 – 2x
Oktava ML52 Ribbon – 1x
Shiny Box 46MXL Ribbon (Lundahl Transformer)
Shure SM86 – 1x
Shure SM58 – 1x
Shure SM 57 – 1x
Audio Technica ATM35 – 1x
Sennheiser e604 – 3x
