The Cr2 studio is not even 1 year old yet, and it has already produced massive hits including 'Bounce' by Delicious & Abigail Bailey, 'You Know What's Up' by Brown & Slim, 'New Heights' by Mark Brown, plus numerous high profile remixes of artists such as Duran Duran, Calvin Harris, Nik Kershaw, The Orange Lights, Stereo MC's and The Freestylers by the select few clients who have been lucky enough to book a session with in house engineer Richard Searle whose credits include Chicane, Joey Negro, Jakatta, Paul Jackson, Dab Hands, Kidstuff, Carl Kennedy v M.Y.N.C Project, Mark Knight, Dave Lee, Raven Maize plus many, many more.

Limited bookings will be taken throughout 2009, to enable producers to come in and work with Richard on their productions.
   
Digital mastering services ar carried out to the red book standard.



Studio Specifications:


Hardware:

•    Apple Quad-Core G5
•    RME Fireface
•    Moog Voyager
•    3x Pioneer CDJ-1000
•    Pioneer DJM-800


Hardware available on request:

•    Korg MS-20
•    Roland Juno 106
•    Roland Jupiter 6
•    Korg Polysix
•    Formanta Polivoks (Russian Minimoog)


Software:
•    Logic Studio 8
•    UAD-2 (DSP card)
•    Waves bundles
•    Sonnox Plugins
•    A full compliment of soft synths
•    200GB Sample library


Monitoring:

•    Dynaudio BM12A
•    Genelec 8020A
•    Acoustically treated room


Pricing:

•    Digital mastering - £45 (+ VAT) per track (to red book standard)
•    Digital mastering - £150 (+ VAT) per 4 track E.P.
•    Other discounts are available for albums or multiple orders.
•    For studio hire please email for further information (studiobookings@cr2records.co.uk)


Reqiurements for delivery of master recordings to Cr2


24bit    44.1khz or 48khz     wav or aiff

If you are using any mix buss/master processing to maximise the loudness of your mix i.e. limiters / compressors / maximisers, please remove these before delivery of the final master.
A bit of gentle compression to keep the mix together is fine but "brick walled" files leave us no scope to master the tracks effectively.
Ideally we would prefer at least 3db of headroom to work with as this gives us enough scope to bring the best out of the track.
If you are running a compressor over your final mix to "keep it in check" just reduce the output gain of the plug in / outboard compressor to bring the level down. If no compression is used then simply reduce the level of your master fader.
We understand that the 3db headroom level may not always be achievable but the closer you can get to that, the better the final result will be!

Many thanks


Cr2 Mastering