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Welcome to Phonic Studios

Right in the heart of Dublin's city centre, Phonic Studios is designed to create the perfect atmosphere for making great music. With natural light, comfortable surroundings, amazing gear and great ears, Phonic lets you concentrate on what's important: the music.

The Space

Phonic Studios has 110 sq metres dedicated to giving you the service you need.

The control room is spacious and can accommodate 6 to 10 people easily and comfortably.  Genelec 8040 and NS10 or Dynaudio monitoring and acoustic treatment give the room a great sound for recording and mixing.

The live room is suitable for all sorts of recording and can be made "live" or "dead" to your requirements, thanks to a customised baffling system, and Auralex® treatment.  Vocals and drums sound great, and all sorts of instruments can be accommodated.

The signal path is everything in recording, and at Phonic, we have the very best, not only in mics, preamps, clocking and monitoring, but even in cables. Phonic Studios is Vovox® accredited, utilising the best cables in the business to guarantee a top quality signal.

If you need to get away from the music to clear your head, there's the kitchen and chillout room, with a Playstation and a PC sporting always-on broadband.

Equipment

The best of the analogue and digital worlds are at your disposal at Phonic Studios. Recording is based around an Apple Macintosh with Logic Pro 8 or Pro Tools 7 fronting a Manley 8+8x2 custom analogue desk. Handbuilt in the USA, Manley gear has attained a reputation as being incredibly high quality, and it shows!

Lots of effects and instruments are at your disposal.  On the hardware front there is an array of mics, preamps, samplers, and synthesisers available to you.  There's even an in-house drum kit and a huge range of percussion instruments. Our studio has wi-fi so you can surf while you work, or connect to our network for file transfer. Every night, your files are automatically transferred to our backup server to preserve your work in case something unforeseen happens!

The List

This is just some of the gear we have at Phonic

Apple Macintosh G5
Manley 8+8x2 Analogue Tube Mixer
Manley ELOP Electro Optical Stereo Limiter
Apogee Rosetta 800 Multichannel A/D & D/A Converter
Yamaha NS10, Genelec 8040 and Dynaudio monitors
Manley Tube Preamps X 8
TLAudio 5052 Dual/Stereo Tube Preamps
Neumann U87 Condenser Microphone
Neumann KLM 184 x2 Matched Condenser Microphones
Schoeps CMC5-U Condenser Microphone
SE Electronics x2 Ribbon Microphones
AKG SolidTube Tube Microphone
AKG C414 Condenser Microphone
AKG D112 Drum Microphone
Audix drum Microphones
Rode NT5 x2 Matched Condenser Microphones

Digidesign
Digi002 18 I/O Audio Interface

Pro Tools LE 7
Logic Studio including

  • EXS24 Digital Sampler
  • EVB3 Hammond
  • EVD6 Clavinet
  • EVP88 Digital Piano
  • Sculpture, EFM1, ES1 & ES2 Virtual Synthesizers
  • EVOC20 Vocoder
  • Guitar Amp Pro
  • Bass Amp
  • Space Designer Convolution Reverb
  • Pitch Correction
  • Full compatibility with Garageband


Waves Gold Native Bundle including

  • L1 Ultramaximiser
  • Renaissance Reverb
  • MaxxBass
  • S1 Stereo Imager
  • Q10 ten band paragraphic equaliser
  • Loads more effects

Wave Arts Power Suite Mixing and Mastering Effects
Synthogy Ivory Piano
FXPansion BFD Drums
GMedia MTron Mellotron emulator
Grand Electrix CP70/80 Emulator
ReFX Nexus
Izotope iDrum drum sampler

Clavia Nord Stage weighted digital piano/organ/synthesiser
Yamaha CP33 weighted digital piano
Korg Trinity 61 key synthesizer
Korg Prophecy 3 octave physical modelling synthesizer
Roland VK8M organ
Novation BassStation analogue synthesizer
M-Audio Keystation Pro 88 weighted digital controller

Roland Octapad drum controller

Sonar Signature Series Maple Drum Kit
Paiste and Sabian Cymbals
Assorted Snares
Various Percussion Instruments

Added Extras

Finally, if you get bored with all this gear we even have a Final Cut Studio video editing suite where we can cut your music video between takes. Or you can always use our expertise in multimedia to make your enhanced CD, DVD or website. For more information on this side of our business, see the Optophonic website.

 
















 





Phonic Studios
, 9A Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1, Tel + 353 1 8729457
Phonic Studios is part of Optophonic Ltd.