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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Private garden and nearby woods and fields
- Cats (only available in black)

The Mixing/Control 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)