Studio Tour
Kings & Prophets , Aizawl
Tell us about space
We have two Studio rooms which we labeled Studio A and Studio B . Studio A has a bigger space , a Live room , Iso Booth and of course the Control room . Studio A is where all kinds of Live sessions happen . Stu-dio B has a much smaller space with a well equipped Control room and a Vocal booth . Besides these studio rooms we have a spacious lobby and a pantry .
Take us through the process of Production
Our process starts with a proper Pre- Production , where our engineers get all the necessary information needed in order to get the best recording flow in a session . Say , for instance we ’ re setting up for Live Band , getting the production idea , what kind of music style , how many band members and the respective instruments requirements are basically the first things on the list . Then once the instruments are placed in their respective stations , we start
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42 highonscore . com putting up the microphones which we intentionally select to match the sound & tone we are looking for . Fortunately , we have a decent microphone collections why not make use of it . There are times we have three mics on the snare . Once that is done , we connect it to the wall panels and then send it the the patch bay and into our awesome sounding SSL & API preamps , always sound of amazing with these . After documenting everything in our Track Sheet then we finally setup our DAW that is ProTools . That would be the brief version of our session setup .
What are some of the studio essentials you would recommend ?
Few studio essentials that I think are a must are , number 1 on my list would be Coffee :) You need to have a good black coffee to get you started for the day after working late the previous night . You also need to have a measuring tape and a duck tape . When miking up using a measuring tape and documenting it helps to maintain precision even if we have to come back for the session in a different day . Duck tape or any other similar materials help to adjust the tonality of certain instruments specially drums . Other than these , have tools like screw driver , Allen Wrench set , plyer , drum stick , guitar picks and guitar strings . If you have those in check you ’ re usually good to go .
What equipment do you use ?
Our equipments :
We have Apogee Symphony I / O , Universal Audio Apollo Firewire & Antelope Orion 32 + as our main Converter . 2 Apple Mac Pro ’ s and 2 Apple Mac Mini ’ s .
Preamps - Solid State Logic Alpha VHD , API 3124 , Audient ASP 800
Monitor Speaker - Focal Solo6 Be , Monkey Banana Gibbon 8 & Yamaha HS50
Outboard Gears - SSL Fusion , Art Pro VLA II Compressor , Dangerous Music