Lamington Recording Service

Lamington Recording's home base is very much a quality project studio. It has everything you need to make fantastic demos and release quality tracks utilising the best in digital and analog instruments and recording equipment.

You could spend way more than we charge just to dry hire a 'big-city' studio and not get a better result because at Lamington Recording you also get the years of experience and the ears of master musician, composer, and producer Darren Watson working with you every step of the way to help you achieve your vision.

If there's something we don't think will suit being recorded at the Lamington we will help you find the right place to get it done - we won't bullshit you and do a half-ass job. We can also do small off-site recording without too much trouble. So if you need to record an acoustic piano at your place let's DO IT!

Here's a list of what we use at Lamington Lodge.

Computers
Desktop Apple Mac Pro 3,1
16GB Ram
1 x 320GB HDD
3 x 1TB HDD

Laptop Apple Macbook Pro 13"
8GB Ram
Recording to external drives

Interface/Preamps
Focusrite Saffire Liquid 56 Interface
8 x mic preamps including 2 x Liquid classic preamp emulations
Behringer ADA8200 Adat Mic Pre
8 x Midas mic preamps
Up to 16 channels recorded simultaneously
Up to 24bit/192Khz sample rate

DAW
Recording:
Cubase Elements 8.0.10
48 Audio tracks
64 Midi tracks
Mixing:
Harrison Mixbus 4
Unlimited audio tracks

Monitoring
Mackie HR624 Active Monitors
Audio Technica ATH-M50 Stereo Headphones
Sennheiser HD-202 Stereo Headphones (2)
Sennheiser HD-201 Stereo Headphones

Microphones
Audio Technica AT4047MP Condensor
MXL R144 Ribbon
MCA SP1 ('Schoeps' Modded) Condensor
SE Electronics SE1A [Matched Pair] Condensor
Sennheiser E609 Dynamic
Sennheiser E855 Dynamic (2)
Shure Beta 57a Dynamic
GLS Audio ES-57 Dynamic (3)
Electro-Voice ND68 Dynamic bass drum microphone
(More mics available for hire by prior arrangement)

DI/Preamps
Cloudlifter CA-1 Active Preamp
EWI FDB-101 Passive Direct Box (3)
Behringer Ultra-DI D120 Active Direct Box (2)

Plugins

Channel Strip/EQ
Waves Abbey Road REDD Console 17 (Mono & Stereo)
Waves Abbey Road REDD Console 37-51 (Mono & Stereo)
Waves Scheps 73 Mono EQ
Waves Scheps 73 Stereo EQ
Waves SSL-G Channel Mono & Stereo

Compressors
Waves Puigchild Fairchild 660/670 Compressor
Waves API2500 Compressor/Limiter
Waves dbx160 Compressor/Limiter
Cakewalk CA-2A Compressor
IK Multimedia T-Racks Classic Compressor
Molot Compressor/Limiter

Reverb/Delay
Waves Abbey Road Plate Reverb
IK Multimedia CSR Reverb (Hall, Plate, Room, Inverse)
Eventide 2016 Stereo Room Reverb
Waves Multi-tap Delay

Tape Simulation/Saturation
U-he Satin Tape Saturation
TAL-Tube
Waves Abbey Road J37 Tape Saturation

Amplifier Modeling
IK Multimedia Amplitube 3.0
Scuffham Amps S-Gear

Mastering
Izotope Ozone 7

Virtual Instruments

Toontrack Ezdrummer 2.0
Included kits:
Modern
Vintage
Pop/Rock
Southern Soul 60s
Southern Soul 70s
The Blues
Vintage Rock
Americana

Native Instruments KONTAKT 5
Included libraries:
Factory Selection
Upright Piano
Scarbee Clavinet/Pianet
Scarbee A-200 (Wurlitzer)
Scarbee MARK 1 (Rhodes)
Session Strings
Session Horns
Vintage Organs

XLN Audio Addictive Keys
Upright Piano

Behringer UMX610 - 61 note controller keyboard

Real Instruments
(available for hire by arrangement)
Gibson LG-2 Acoustic Guitar (1958)
Beltona Southerner Resonator Guitar (1998)
Fender '59 Thinskin AVRI Stratocaster (2007)
Fender '65 Hardtail Custom Stratocaster (2016)
Squier P-Bass (Setup with La Bella Flatwounds) (2014)
Gretsch Renown Drum Kit (5 pce)

Amplifiers
(available for hire by arrangement)
Headstrong Lil King Reverb (Fender Princeton Reverb clone)
Victoria 20112 (US boutique Fender Tweed Deluxe clone)
Fender '65 Vibroverb Reissue

Musicians
Access to some of Wellington's finest experienced recording artists. For a fee, naturally.