Studio Focus: Studio 52
17 September 2015
Studio 52 has undergone some updates recently, with major improvements to Studio C. The studio has been extended with a new drum room, vocal isolation booth and amp isolation room. Previously, Studio C was mainly for soloists and electronic production, but now the studio can handle whole bands just like Studio A and B. The new drum booth has a very modern, bright sound, complementing the palette of unique sounds offered by each drum booth in Studio 52. Studio 52 uses a combination of SE, Audio-Technica and Sennheiser microphones along with TLA valve mic preamps for drum recordings.
Anna Mannering recorded her song Son Of Korah at Studio 52 late last year and recorded a music video with Brendan O’Shea. She has just been announced as a finalist in the US-based Unsigned Only 2015 song competition.
This is the 19th year of the Kool Skools Project for Studio 52 and Music Feeds in Sydney has again been hired to deliver the NSW recordings with around 40 albums between them. Over 700 albums have been recorded as part of the project since 1997. Some of the artists who have come through the project include Missy Higgins, Cat Empire, Delta Goodrem, Jordie Lane, Kelebek, Axle Whitehead, Dean Geyer, Marc Collis and Natasha Duarté to name just a few.
New to the mic locker at Studio 52 are a pair of 4400As and a T2 from sE — and they’re loving them. The 4400s are being used as drum overheads in the new Studio C drum room and the T2 is on bass instruments and guitar cabs, even lead vocals.
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