Scarlette O'Harlette at Southern Studios. Photo courtesy of Damon Allen Davison.

News

Southern Studios now offers a tape restoration, baking and digital archiving service in addition to the recording services. Please contact us at the studio for more information.

Input

Console

• 24Ch Raindirk Series III Vintage Desk
• B & B Sub Grouper with 8 different Mute and VCA groups
• Plus 32 input Mackie for additional returns

Outboard Equipment

• Chiswick Reach stereo valve compressor
• Focusrite Green mic pre amp/equalizer
• Drawmer 1960 Valve mic pre-amp/compressor
• T.C. 4-Band Parametric Equalizer
• BSS/Valley People Compression Drawmer Gates
• Behringer Ultra-Q 5-Band Parametric Equalizer

Microphones

• AKG D110/D12/C451
• Beyer M201 x 5
• Neuman U87 x 2
• Sennheiser 509
• Shure SM57, beta SM58
• U47 fet x 1

Live Room

Dry-sounding room with good separation and space to record full drumkit and backline live.

We are also able to create ambient-sounding spaces for accoustic instruments and vocals.

Processing

Programming

Pro Tools for Macintosh

• PRO TOOLS 7 HD2
• PRO TOOLS Mix Plus TDM

Digidesign

• Digidesign 192 I/O
• Digidesign 888/24 I/O
• Digidesign USD synchronisation

MIDI

• AKAI S2000 sampler
• DRUMKAT (with audio to midi triggers)
• Freebass FB383
• Mutator (midi version)
• Roland Juno 106 and SH101 keyboards

EFX

• AMS Tape phase simulator
• Alesis MidiVerb 4
• Boss SX700 (with 3D RSS)
• EMT plate reverb
• Eventide Eclipse
• MXR Phasers and Flangers
• Roland SDE3000
• Yamaha D1000
• Yamaha Rev 5
• Yamaha Rev 7
• Yamaha SPX90 II

RAM

Mastering Machines

• STUDER A827 2" Twenty Four track
• STUDER A820 1/2" and 1/4" two track
• 2 X Sony PCM2700A DAT machines
• Digidesign 192 I/O

Output (more recent sessions)

• Alan MX - 'Warpsichord' LP mix (Smalltown America)
• Alien Sex Fiend - Live mix and dub
• Arnmar - 'Speed' mix
• Buzzcocks - site - 'Buzzcocks LP' and new LP 'Flatpack Philosophy'
• Chrome Hoof - site - 'Pre-Emptive False Rapture'
• Flesh for Lulu - site - Catalogue retrospective
• Good Shoes - site - Demos, singles, singles and LP tracks
• Jim Jones Revue - LP mastering
• Johnny Foreigner - 'Champagne Girls' EP, B-Sides (Best Before Records)
• Johnny Panic - site - tracks
• Latitudes Sessions - site - various artists
  • Alexander Tucker
  • Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
  • Blood & Time (Scott Kelly)
  • Bohren und der Club of Gore
  • Circle
  • Gang Gang Dance
  • Ginnungagap
  • Gowns
  • Grails
  • Magik Markers
  • Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses
  • Paradise Island (Jenny Hoyston)
  • Shit & Shine
  • Sir Richard Bishop
  • White Magic
  • William Elliott Whitmore
• Miocene - site - 'Cellular Memory' EP and 'A Perfect Life with a View of the Swamp' debut LP
• Rachel Stamp - site - various LP and Single tracks
• Rudimentary Peni - site - LP
• Suns of the Tundra - site -
• The Heights - site - 'Toys and Kings LP and singles', 'Jamaica Beer Eyes' single and forthcoming LP
• The Hop La - site - 'Rigolous' LP
• The King Blues - B-sides
• Todd - site -
• Trailing Laces - site - 'Make Your Mind Up' single
• Yokozuna - Tracks

Memory (Less recent sessions)

• ADRIAN SHERWOOD & ONU SOUND
• BAMBI SLAM
• BAUHAUS
• BIG BLACK
• CRASS
• CULTURE SHOCK
• FLYSCREEN
• FUGAZI
• JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
• LEE "SCRATCH" PERRY
• LES SHERRIF
• MEGA CITY FOUR
• MINISTRY
• MY BLOODY VALENTINE
• PJ HARVEY
• RDF
• REVOLTING COCKS
• SENSELESS THINGS
• SHELLAC
• SILVERFISH
• SKIPPIES
• SNUFF
• TACKHEAD
• THERAPY?
• THRILL KILL KULT