Spirit Studio

Spirit Studio - Advanced level

This 1500sq ft facility located on our fourth floor houses a Neve VRP60/48 Legend console and some of the finest analogue & digital equipment available. Our top end 'Spirit Studio' rivals any studio in this area and across the UK. The space was designed with help from the world renowned Acoustic Design specialist, Jochen Veith.

As Mike Joyce, ex-drummer for The Smiths said,
"Manchester has never really had a professional, top end studio, this is it. I can’t wait to bring some bands here. They will be blown away."

Whilst the main space is open plan, an isolation booth has also been constructed as well as a dedicated machine room. There are many new studios now following the concept of an open plan control room/live room, as it offers a far more creative environment by breaking down the conventional boundaries that exist between performers, producers and engineers.

Complimenting the Neve are the world renowned PMC MB2S-A monitors. According to PMC, SSR is the only education centre in the country to house these top end PMC monitors. We are very proud that our students will have such state of the art equipment at their disposal.

Key Features:

• Open plan control room/live room, isolation booth & machine room
• Neve VRP60/48 Legend with Flying Faders and Recall
• Saturn 624 2” 24-track multi-track
• Pro Tools HD3 Accel with Sync & 192 I/Os (24 Inputs / 48 Outputs)
• AMS RMX16 Reverb
• AMS DMX 15-80s Stereo Delay
• Roland Stereo Flanger
• Roland Chorus Echo SRE-555
• Connor Audio 1107 Stereo Compressor
• Connor Audio 1180 /Calrec M-Series Mic Pre & EQ (x2)
• Lexicon 224XL
• Avalon VT747SP
• Urei 1176LN
• Tubetech CL1B
• Audio & Design Vocal Stresser F769X-R
• Tascam CDRW901SL CD Recorder
• Tascam DA-30 DAT Recorder
• Apple Mac Pro
• Well stocked, dedicated microphone cupboard

Monitoring:

• PMC MB2S-A with PMC/Bryston crossovers & amplification
• Yamaha NS-10M with Crown amplification