Woodridge Studio
Woodridge Studio is a private studio located 10 miles north of Atlanta’s 285 perimeter near Peachtree Industrial Blvd and Pleasant Hill. We are an invitation only studio. Our product is mixed 2-track stereo compact disk (CDR). We have a separate control room and a well equipped tracking room where moderate sized groups can play together. The tracking room has four isolation booths/rooms where amplifiers can be placed. We have a PA system, a drum kit, several amplifiers, basses and guitars, all ready to record.
We serve acquaintances, friends (and kids of) people we would spend time with outside of recording. My goal is to help my friends make quality recordings. My ultimate goal is to find a very talented band that wants to spend the time and energy to make a very good sounding original record. That being said, what we seem to spend most of our time doing here is our version of preproduction.
Typically a talented multi-instrumentalist song writer wakes up to a new song playing in their head and all they can do is tell their band mates," it goes like this,"?"". Well that worked in past mellinia however there is a better way now. In about five hours we can record and arrange all the parts that person can play to a click track and now the song writer can go to other musicians and play a CD and ask them to learn this song. With the right songwriter we can bang out a four or five minute song with several instruments and vocal tracks, mix it down and master it in five hours.
We do sessions two ways here:
Express
sessions are recorded live, all at once. Everyone sets up in the
main tracking room and songs are recorded with the group playing live. Vocals
are usually mixed into the room with the PA system and headphones are not used.
but sometimes we will run the vocals through the phones for these
sessions. Our directional mics provide ample isolation for a quality mix however;
isolation is not sufficient for removing tracks from the mix completely. (Think
Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love “Woman
– You Need”) You can add more tracks to the mix once the basic song is
performed, but if you will need to overdub (replace one sound with a new sound
after it is recorded) you will need a multitrack session. Typically a band can
bang out two to five songs that accurately represent your performance in one
session.
Multitrack sessions are recorded live or in pieces one-track-at-a time. The instrument amps can be set up in our 4 isolation rooms to minimize bleed through to the drum microphones or the songs can be done with bleed through like in the days of old. All of the musicians perform in the tracking room but listen to the amplifiers and drums through one of 4 headphone mixes. Vocals can be recorded in isolation or overdubbed later. Up to 24 basic tracks can be recorded simultaneously for a good vibe. Multitrack sessions are for original tunes only!
What makes this studio special?
The relaxed environment and good vibe focused on giving you what you need to perform well is why most people keep coming back here. One place we paid a lot of attention to in the studio design is the monitoring systems. Although we use a computer system for recording, the control room live monitoring and live headphone mixes heard while performing do not go through the computer and do not have ANY latency. Latency drives us crazy and we assume you would go crazy hearing the delay "low latency computer mixes" cause on your live headphone mix while you are playing.
Each
of the four headphone mixes have complete level control of the three things
you need hear in order to play well. The click track, the recorded backing
tracks you are
playing along to and the sound of what you (and or others) make while playing or
singing live. The control room mix allows the engineer to process
the incoming live signals and mix them with the rest of the tracks being played
back in a way that what is being recorded can be monitored in-the-mix for the
perfect fit on the way into the recorder. Some times the performer sits in the
control room and listens to their instrument in the mix while performing/recording.
This system leaves very little guesswork. Having nice equipment ain't
squat if you do not set it up so musicians can be comfortable performing with
it.
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Equipment List: Nuendo / Wavelab DAW (UAD-1 powered plug ins, Waves Platinum and Waves L3 multiband ) - Theta Probasic IIIA DAC, Superphon Preamp- Allen and Heath Mixwizard WZ:3 16:2 and Soundcraft FX 8 mixers – Audioarts 4200A parametric EQ – Behringer HA440 headphone amp – ART tube channel – ART MDC mastering compressor - Pass Labs, Aragon amps – Monitors using Accuton Ceramic drivers and Focal woofers Aura 1808 subwoofer -Yamaha PA system – Marshal VS65R, Ampeg Jet 12D (tube) Peavey Delta Blues Guitar (tube) amps & David Eden/Bag End/Ampeg bass amp – Pearl/Zildian/Pastie drum set - Rode NT2 (2) Sennheiser 421(3), HD600; AKG D112, K240; Studio Projects C1; Marshal 603S(2); Shure- SM81, SM57(3), SM58(2), Beta 58, green bullet; Audio Technica-ATM63(2), ATM Pro25; Oktava MK319; Tascam PE125(2); Behringer ECM8000(2), Sony MDR 7506(2), 4 and five string electric bass, acoustic 4 string bass, electric and acoustic guitars, keyboard, percussion instruments and the list goes on.