Propagation House Residential Recording
RESIDENTIAL RECORDING
IN THE HEART OF THE WEST COUNTRY
Nestled in the glorious North Cornwall countryside, Propagation House is a fully equiped residential recording facilty.
Control Room – 3 sets of speakers and all the knobs
Live Room 1 – treated and designed specifically for a controlled sound
Live Room 2 – wood panelled and a little brighter
Dead Booth – great for amps and anything/one that needs seperation
The Conservatory – 6m x 9m open and bright space, amazing for big drum sounds, lushious strings and brass.
All rooms are wired with mic/line/speaker and headphone connections.
In addition to the studio there are 5 individual bedrooms, all ensuite and can be made up as double or twin to sleep up to 10 people.
A farmhouse style kitchen for all your breakfast, lunch and dinners, and a large conservatory area, (pool table, TV, PA, woodburner) for hanging out, checking mixes, etc.
Recent guests to the studio include:
Sports Team
You Me At Six
The Mission
The Libertines
Tors
Electric Swing Circus
The Apex Singers
Imperial Leisure
Meadowlark
Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun
Microphones
Pre Amps
EQ & Dynamics
FX / Other
Monitoring
Instruments
Amplifiers
Cabs
Microphones
AEA R88 – classic stereo ribbon + Cloud Lifter
Extinct Audio BM9 + FetHead
Soundfield 422B – multi-capsule surround sound (B Format)
Advanced Audio CM12SE – LDC Valve (AKG C12)
2 x Neumann U87
2 x Neumann KM140 – SDC cardioid version
Neumann TLM 103
Neumann 170R
Sennheiser MD441 – supercardioid dynamic
ElectroVoice 625a/b – omnidirectional dynamic
ElectroVoice RE20
Shure SM7B
2 x AKG C414 XLS
2 x AKG 451B
2 x Beyer Dynamic m201 – hypercardioid dynamic
4 x Oktava 219
Heil – P40 / P30 x2 / P20
5 x SM57
3 x SM58
3 x Sennheiser 421
2 x AT 4033
JB Subkick
Pre Amps
AML 1073 x 10 – custom built, one of a kind with EQs and fader bank.
JLM Dual 99v – 2 Channels of 75dB gain
Hairball Elements x 6 (2 x Gold / 2 x Copper / 2 x Bronze)
DAV Broadhurst Gardens 1U 2 Channel
Avalon VT-737 Channel Strip
Focusrite ISA 428 & 828
Aphex 1788 – 8 Channel
Shure m267 x 2
EQ & Dynamics
EQ
AML 1073 x 10
API 5500 Stereo EQ
Great River Harrison 32 x 2
AML Pultec x 2 (Matched Pair)
Dynamics
API 2500 Stereo Compressor (Paul Wolff Mod)
Hairball 1176 x 4 (1 Old Rev D, 1 Rev A, 2 Stereo Linked New Rev D)
Distressor
GSSL Stereo Mixbus Comp (Turbo)
BSS DPR-402
Yamaha GC2020
FX / Other
Roland SRE-555
Revox B77 Mk2
Sansamp
Shure M267 x2
JBSonics Stereo Spring Reverb
Melos Echo Chamber
Moogerfooger MF101
Dolby 361 Stereo Pair
Universal Audio 2192 ADDA & Clock
Avid Artist Mix
UAD / Fabfilter / Waves / Soundtoys / etc
SSL ALPHA LINK Convertors
Monitoring
Quested H208 on an MC2 amp
Unity Audio Rock mk2
NS10m and Auratones on Quad 303
Genelec 1029As
Crookwood C3 relay switched and level matched controller. Includes 2 channels of DA.
Individual 16 channel P-16 mixers.
Several pairs of DT150s / DT100s / ATH-M50X
ATH-R70X open backs
Instruments
Drums – DW / Gretsch Renown Maple / Premier / Zildjan
Guitars – Fender MiJ Strat / Telecaster / Jaguar / Yamaha SG2000 / Epiphone SG Custom / Takamine Acoustic
Bass – Fender Precision / Fretless Bass / Fender MiJ Jag Bass
Piano – 1972 Welmar (from the Dickie Cox collection)
Synths – MS20 / MS2000 / Nord / Moog Sub Phatty / MS101 / Roland Sh01 / Yamaha SK20
Amplifiers
Fender Twin Reverb [Blackface]
Sound City 50
Blackstar Series One 100
Marshall JVM 410C
Leslie 760 [modded with line input]
Ampeg SVT-4PRO
Cabs
2 x Marshall 1×12″
Custom Built 4×12 & 2×12 with Celestion Vintage 30s
Ampeg 4×10