Recording is at the heart of Crown Lane Studio. Whether you want to produce your entire project here or want to use our facilities to get the best drum recording, we would love to put together a solution for you. We have had over 500 satisfied clients (and friends) over the past 3 years, with over 60% becoming returning customers. The team here are all musicians so understand the value of studio time. We want to give you the maximum amount of time possible to really focus on your music and not the clock.

The studios

Our rooms are acoustically designed by Cole Jarman (Acousticians to the Royal College of Music) in partnership with ARa Architects to capture the most incredible details in your music.

Studio Live Room: 170 sq ft;
Control Room: 104 sq ft;

	Live room		Control room

Coming soon

Autumn 2010 New! Break-Out Space:
Autumn 2010 New! Live Room: 200sq ft
Autumn 2010 New! Creative Meeting Room: 200sq ft

On site instrument and equipment list

Our gear is all lovingly hand-picked and always kept in top condition. From our brand-new (though stunningly characterful) custom built 24 channel Oram console (in Kent) to our SafeSound Audio Compressor, brand new SPL Frontliner and  Neve 9098 EQ Preamp with magic ’sheen’ and ‘glow’ functions – we will help to craft the exact sound you are after. Our equipment is all installed to making you sound your best.

	SafeSound Compressor		Neve Preamp

Instruments: Pearl Masters drum kits; Laney valve guitar amp; Marshall valve guitar amp; Hartke bass amp; Ashdown bass amp; Laney bass amp; Korg 5 octave keyboard; Korg VP1 Vintage Stage Piano; Acoustic Piano; A massive selection of World Percussion; (Delivery of 3 new guitar amplifiers expected in the next couple of weeks)

	Laney valve		Acoustic piano

Studio equipment list: MacPro; Pro Tools 8.01; Digidesign 002 mixer & MOTU interface; Westlake Audio BBSM-4 Monitors; Tannoy Reveal Active Monitors; Safe Sound Audio Dynamics Toolbox Processor; Amek Neve 9098 Pre-amp EQ; Oram (Trident) 24 channel T-series analogue console; SPL Preamp, EQ and Compressor; Antares Autotune; TL Space Convolution Reverbs; Vienna Strings; MOTU BPM Beat Production Machine; Various Softsynths; (gear list updated regularly)

	MacPro		Digidesign

On site microphones: AKG C1000s, AKG D112s, AKG C418s, C414s, Shure SM58s, Shure SM57s, Rode NT2s, Spirit IM1s, Spirit VM1s, Sontronics Sigma Ribbon Mic

Case study - Album on a budget

A band came to us wanting to produce a top quality album without breaking the bank. Here is how they did it:

• They booked the studio as rehearsal space for 2 full days at a discount rate
• All the guide tracking was done out of hours
• Production time (arrangement/structure/instrumentation planned)
• Drum tracking and bass DI tracking over 1 day
• They used all their own guitars (so no hire costs)
• Acoustic guitar and vocals
• Editing
• Mixing and production client present

£3000 budget split between band members and album sponsor costing the musicians in this case less than £500 each
In addition to these costs – mastering was undertaken (£250 for the album, as well as short-run duplication and on-line distribution costing a further £790.