£180

per day

RECORDING

MIXING

Large live room with adjacent amp booths making it possible to record live with varying degrees of separation as required.

Analog /digital mixing performed with high end analog outboard and large plug in collections.

THE STUDIO

Joe's Garage is a recording studio located right in the heart of Old Market in central Bristol specialising in capturing exciting live performances. Covering everything from a live 'band in a room' sound to more Hi-Fi results and recording all styles of music from Jazz, Blues and Folk to Rock and Metal.

We have a nice big live room and adjacent amp booths to accomodate a full band tracking completely live.

The studio was set up and is run by engineer Joe Garcia. Joe has been touring as a live sound engineer around the world and recording music professionally for over 15 years.

OUR EQUIPMENT

The studio houses a great selection of equipment and is constantly being upgraded
 

Thermionic Culture Little Red Bustard

(valve summing mixer)

SSL Nucleus 16 fader controller with 2x SSL pre's
SSL, RME and Universal Audio convertors

Neve 1073 DPA (2 channel preamp)

Neve 33609 dual/stereo compressor

API 3124+ (4 channel preamp)

16 channels of Audient preamps
(Able to record up to 28 mic channels live)
Roland RE201 and SRE-555 Space Echos
Vesta Fire RV2 stereo spring reverb

Great British Spring

Empirical Labs FATSO and EL8 Distressor

TK Audio BC1-S (SSL style bus comp)
2x DBX 160

2x Universal Audio UA610 valve preamp

Universal Audio LA610MK2 valve channel strip

2x Klark Teknik Pultec style valve EQ

2x Klark Teknik KT2A valve comp/limiters

SPL Transient Designer

2x Phoenix DRS-1R pre's

2x CAPI VP312 pre's
Mac Pro 5.1  running Logic Pro X 10.1
Plug ins from Slate, Sound Toys, Waves and UAD among many others

Adam A7X  monitors

Auratone 5C monitors

Wide selection of mics including:

Neumann U87ai

2x Earthworks SR30 (MP)

2x Neumann TLM102
3x AKG C414ULS
2x Josephson C42s (MP)

Ear Trumpet Labs Edwina

Audio Technica AT4041

Sennheiser MD441
EV RE20

Solomon LoFReQ sub kick 
Shure SM7b
Blue Bluebird

Blue Ball

2x Crown CM310a
2x Sennheiser e906s
4x Sennheiser e904s

Sennheiser e935

6X Telefunken M80

Telefunken M82

Shure KSM9
2x Audio Technica ATM450s

Audio Technica AT804

STC 4032
Shure Beta91a
Realistic PZMs
2x Beyer M88

Beyer M69
4x Beyer 201s
4x Shure SM57s
Beyer TGX-50

EV ND868

2x Bang & Olufsen BM3 (RCA ribbons fitted by Xaudia)
2x Bang & Olufsen BM5 (stereo XY ribbon) 

2x Bang & Olufsen MD8

Beyer M130 figure 8 ribbon

4x Beyer M260  ribbons (refurbished by Xaudia)

Radial JDX48 and Palmer speaker DI/sims
Sansamp, Orchid, Radial, EMO and BSS DI’s

Guitar/bass amps (usually many others to close from)
1970’s Fender Twin Reverb ‘silverface’ 

1970's Laney LC60 (modded)
1970’s Burman Pro501 combo
1970’s Burman Pre/Power 100w head
1969 Ampeg SVT / Aguilar GS412
1970’s Ampeg V4 + 4x12
1970’s Ampeg B25B + 2x15

1970's Orange OR120 + 4x12

Mesa Boogie 400+ + 1x15

Beyerdynamic DT770 and DT150, Audio Technica ATH M50, AKG K271 and K171 and Superlux 'Iso'  headphones  

Premier Genista drum kit

(22" kick, 12", 13", 16" toms and)

Premier pre international vintage drum kit 

(20" kick, 10" and 14" toms with snare and bongos)

Snares:

Ludwig Supraphonic, Gretsch COB, Yamaha 9000, Big Dog

Loads and loads of FX pedals including pieces from Strymon, Bugbrand, Earthquaker Devices, Snarling Dogs, Proco, EHX, Catalinbread, Alesis, Boss, Vox, Jim Dunlop, DOD and Marshall among others

We also have some great contacts to hire in vintage amps, keys and drums when required.

CLIENTS

Some recent clients include:

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Anthroprophh

Rose Kemp and Maddy Prior

Ogives Big Band

Run Logan Run

Wilderness Hymnal

Sugar moon

Kuro

Snails

Davey Woodward

Eddie Martin

Urzah

Antoni Maiovvi

Warrior Pope

Vena Cava

ANTA

IDLES

The Blunders

The Plainviews

BOOK A SESSION

Have some questions or ready to book a session? 

Call us on 07761471809

or fill out the contact form & we’ll get you rolling

RATES

The studio is available with engineer for £180 per day

Please get in touch if you'd like to discuss your session in more detail.