new recording facility opening

DamagedTrax

hi guys,

just letting you know about my new engineering job and a new studio opening.

on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ballyfermot-Ireland/Base-Recording-Studios/128260883885461?v=app_2373072738&ref=mf#!/pages/Ballyfermot-Ireland/Base-Recording-Studios/128260883885461

ill be finalizing pricing very soon but if you want to have a chat about your project then drop me a line here or at facebook.

Base Recording is a new facility based in Ballyfermot, Dublin 10.
Originally a training facility, Base Recording Studios has recently turned to the commercial market.

With an extensive collection of gear and years of experience between our engineers, we can provide for all your recording needs

while our engineers specialise in rock/indie/pop, we also have a producer with a number of releases in the dance/electronic scene.

Clients will also have access to the on site cafe and a state of the art swimming pool.

Gear List:

fully treated live room & control room

neumann u87
akg 414 st pair
akg c1000
km 184 st pair
akg d112
sm57
sm58
+ more

gibson les paul studio
fender custom american tele
Mesa combo
Ashdown bass combo
pearl masters kit

genelic 8050 monitors
prodipe monitors
tascam dm4800 desk and interface
multiple tl audio compressors/pre amps
emperical labs mike-E preamp
tc electronic reverb 4000

waves gold bundle
softube bundle
+ various other software

Rockshamrover

Good luck DT with the new job.

DamagedTrax

cheers man

PaulBrewer

Dt what are Prodipe monitors ?

DamagedTrax

they're studio monitors. we only use them for the protools le rig if clients need it. the genelecs are our mains.

flyswatter

Hey DT,

Would just like to know how the opening of this place came about. Is it partly funded by the engineers working there or otherwise?

Hope you don't mind me asking, just interested how studios like this one are set up.

trackmixstudio

Looks great.
Best of luck with it.

DamagedTrax

flyswatter wrote: »

Hey DT,

Would just like to know how the opening of this place came about. Is it partly funded by the engineers working there or otherwise?

Hope you don't mind me asking, just interested how studios like this one are set up.

hey man, being that it was originally a community training project it was fairly well spec'd out already. there is still funding available to us because we still run courses on the community side (such as drum workshops in conjunction with social workers, and project recordings for the local kids) and after wages the profits are all pumped back into the studio so we can upgrade gear, do repairs etc. we also brought an amount of our own gear in so all in all we've got a pretty good set-up.

Rockshamrover

Hi DT, looks very nice from the photos.

I'm just wondering how much time has to be given over to the community, is it a set number of hours per week?

Cheers

DamagedTrax

very little at the moment hence the reason for us going commercial.

we have a 90 seater venue in the facility aswell (http://www.thebase.ie/getinvolved/fac_blackbox.htm) and a lot of the community music aspects will be moving into it. eventually we hope to train some teenagers to a level where we feel they could act as help on certain sessions but to get to that stage theres a few requirments we'd have to meet due to the nature of some of the work done on the premises.

we'll also be sorting out a newer website for the studio soon enough. thebase.ie will be directed towards the community and arts programs while (hopefully) baserecordingstudio.ie will be a seperate entity.

Rockshamrover

DamagedTrax wrote: »

very little at the moment hence the reason for us going commercial.

we have a 90 seater venue in the facility aswell (http://www.thebase.ie/getinvolved/fac_blackbox.htm) and a lot of the community music aspects will be moving into it. eventually we hope to train some teenagers to a level where we feel they could act as help on certain sessions but to get to that stage theres a few requirments we'd have to meet due to the nature of some of the work done on the premises.

we'll also be sorting out a newer website for the studio soon enough. thebase.ie will be directed towards the community and arts programs while (hopefully) baserecordingstudio.ie will be a seperate entity.

That sounds cool, the black box looks great too.

I had visions of the place being full of kids on summer camp or you having an old folks day once a month (some of the older members here would love that, me included:D)

Fair play DT.

Rock.

DamagedTrax

dont get me wrong, there are generally a lot of kids about but they have their own area for hanging out with table tennis, airhockey, computers etc. they have no access to the studio unless with an engineer as we have security coded doors for all the seperate areas.

Rockshamrover

DamagedTrax wrote: »

dont get me wrong, there are generally a lot of kids about but they have their own area for hanging out with table tennis, airhockey, computers etc. they have no access to the studio unless with an engineer as we have security coded doors for all the seperate areas.

Watch out for the geeks so, they'll crack the codes in no time:D

Best of luck with it DT.

brettzy

Studio looks great, fair play to ya.

Best of luck with it

dav nagle

Great to see you have got your feet on the ground DT well done indeed, best of luck with your new venture you will do fine :):)

DamagedTrax

cheers guys

alan kelly

+1... Good luck with it...:)

DamagedTrax

introductory prices now confirmed. 300 per day (incl. house engineer).

this offer will run for the next few months. anyone looking to block book should get in touch for better deals.