The Blue Studio console 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."  Audio Network

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engineered by Andrew

The Blue Studio is a mixing/mastering facility with well-specified control room. A small live room for overdubs and small acoustic projects.

Console
Sony DMX R100 – 24 bit 48 Input digital console. Flying faders, Full dynamic automation with total recall of all parameters. 4 band fully parametric EQ with HPF & LPF filters + notch filter on all channels. Gates, Compressor/duckers on all channels. Various sample rates possible up to 96khz.

Recording
Pyramix 5.0 Production System - Fully specified digital audio production system using 32 bit floating point technology.
Proprietary Pyramix plug-ins with audiophile quality plugs from Vincent Burel. Direct X and VST plug-ins supported also.
‘Open TL’ and ‘Dark Matter’ interchange allowing import of Open TL and ProTools 5.0 sessions. Pyramix can read any file format and allows any combination within the same session. Full mastering capability to ‘ Red Book’ CD-R.

Tascam MX2424 – 24 track digital HDR . 24 bit 96khz capable with DAW waveform editing. Cross platform compatibility with Pro-Tools on PC or Mac formats.
Apex Studer CDR 40 – CD recorder
Sony DAT recorder
Monitoring - Klein & Hummel 0300D, Yamaha NX E300

KO in Blue Studio with Bill Bruford (center) & Tim Garland (right) John Etheridge in Blue Studio

Outboard
Manley Massive Passive - Dual channel valve mastering Equaliser
DAV Electronics - High quality mic pre’s from the original Decca design
TL Audio EQ2 - 2 channel valve equaliser & mic amps.
2x TL Audio Fatman - Stereo valve compressors
Focusrite Mixmaster - Multiband Comp/ Limiter, Eq filters + stereo enhancer.
LA Audio LA2 - 2 Chnl Gate & frequency dependent compressor

Lexicon PCM 91 - Reverb
Lexicon LXP-15II - Reverb/FX
TC Electronic M3000 - Reverb/FX
TC Electronic M One - Multi FX
Alesis Midiverb 4 - Reverb/FX
TC Electronic D2 Digital Delay
EMU Proteus 2000 - Sound Module

Plug Ins
Universal Audio - UAD1 Pultec EQ, 1176,LA2A, Fairchild 670, Dreamverb etc...
TC Powercore - Bundle of high quality powered plugs
Flux : : - Pure Compressors ( high end plugs developed for the Pyramix system)
MPEX3 - Pitch Shifter ( Pyramix)
Waves - Complete suite of most popular plugs
Antares - Autotune 4, Tube, Mic Modeller
Vincent Burel - Compressors (inc 10 band mulitband)
SSL - Talkback compressor
PSP - Vintage Warmer

Microphones
Neumann U87 - 2x
Neumann TLM193 - 1x
Neumann KM 84 - 2x
AKG 414 - 2x
AKG 451/CK1 - 5x
AKG C3000 - 2x
AKG C1000 - 1x
AKG D112 - 1x
Oktava MC012 - 4x
Oktava MK 219 - 2x
Oktava Ribbon - 1x
Shure SM58 - 1x
Shure SM 57 - 1x
Audio Technica ATM35 - 1x
Sennheiser e604 - 2x

The Blue Studio console