Facilities

Black Cat Studios offers the following music facilities and equipment:

- State of the art digital recording setup using REAPER and Pro Tools software, 16x10 Roland interface (12 mic pre-amps) and full monitoring setup
- Soundproofed and fully acoustically treated live room for recording live drums, cranked amplifiers, or anything requiring a controlled environment, with both a 12-channel stage box to the control room and a laptop/4x4 interface in the room itself. Audix and Sure drum mics for up to 11-mic simultaneous drum recording
- Selection of microphones including custom re-capsuled Rode NT1-A "AK-47" by Auditus Electronics (Neumann K47 equivalent), Audix, Rode and Sure microphones for vocal and instrument recordings
- Full MIDI facilities including two keyboards with footswitches
- Vintage Kemble upright acoustic piano
- Selection of 6, 7, 8 and 12 string electric, acoustic and nylon-string guitars (PRS, Fender, Ibanez, Schechter, Yamaha, Epiphone), 5-string bass guitars (Music Man, Ibanez)
- 7-piece drum kit (we recommend you bring your own snare, cymbals and pedals, or bring your whole kit).
- Two Marshall amplifiers, or bring your own amp or head for recording
- A range of professional quality software modelled amplifiers and virtual instruments (Kontakt, EastWest, Toontrack, Amplitube, BIAS etc)
- Fully acoustically treated mixing and recording/control room

Also in the house we offer:

- Guest room with 2 double sofa beds, separate toilet and shower, large smart TV with Freeview and Nintendo Wii
- Private garden and nearby woods and fields
- James and Katrin's legendary home cooking
- Cats (only available in black)

The Mixing/Control Room

The Live Room

Duck is fully 64-bit, 3D, USB (Usually Sleeping in Bed), High Definition, available in 5.1 Surround Sound and fully compatible with a range of cat food plugins.

Yes, James does have a guitar collecting problem - he hasn't collected enough guitars, and this is a serious problem for him. (Note that 2 more guitars were obtained shortly after this picture was taken)