Music Studios

Daft
Music
Studios

Residential Music Studios
in the midst of nature
Built to serve the artist’s vision

#capturethemagic #5088

© Kenny Leys

Daft
Music
Studios

Residential music studios in the midst of nature,
built to serve the artist’s vision.

DAFT Music Studios is a high-end, Rupert Neve Designs 5088 Shelford Limited Edition equipped facility, consisting of one of the biggest recording rooms in Europe, a large control room and 4 isolated booths.

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We bring home
to the studio

Mics are set up, tubes are warm, it’s getting dark outside, everything sounds killer and the musicians are playing a take. And then suddenly it’s there: this moment of magic when everything comes together.

That’s what we feel recording is about, and that’s what we do best.

To create that magical moment, you need more than immaculate technical conditions. You need the right vibe, you need to feel at home. As a residential recording studio, we feel very strongly about this:

A good vibe, good food and a relaxed atmosphere.
We bring “home” to the studio.

Main recording hall

Booth 1

Booth 3

Recording
Spaces

The main recording area has a floor space of 200 m² with an 8 m high ceiling. Three isolation booths of various sizes and acoustic properties are accessible from the main hall. The wardrobe in the entrance, with its concrete walls, doubles as an excellent echo chamber.

Dimensions

Live room: 15 m × 12.5 m × 8 m
Booth 1: 6 m × 6 m × 3 m
Booth 2: 2.4 m × 3.3 m × 2.8 m
Booth 3: 6 m × 3.3 m × 2.8 m
Booth 4: 1.8 m × 2.3 m × 3.8 m
Control room: 7 m × 6.3 m × 3 m

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Spacious
Control Room

Like in Abbey Road Studio 2, the control room is on the first floor; the difference being that Daft adds a spacious gallery to one side of the live room, overlooking the open space and offering direct views into the control room.

At 70 m², the control room is very spacious and it provides access to yet another isolation booth often used for vocal tracking or hiding loud guitar amps.

Tech Specs

Equipment List

Consoles

  • Rupert NEVE 5088 Shelford Blue Edition 32 tracks, with Swiftmix automation
  • Cadac A-Series 15 tracks

Multitrack / Hard Disk Recording

  • Avid Pro Tools HDX 48 inputs / 48 outputs and Pro Tools 2022

Monitoring

  • Bowers & Wilkins 800 D3 Main Monitor × 2
  • Labgruppen amps
  • ATC SCM45A × 2
  • Quested S8 × 2
  • JBL 305p × 6
  • JBL 308p × 2

Headphones

  • Beyerdynamic DT100 × 12
  • Behringer Powerplay P16-M × 8

Dynamics

  • Rupert NEVE Shelford 5051 EQ compressor × 9
  • Urei 1176 LN Blackface × 2
  • AL.SO Dynax 2 compressor
  • Joemeek Stereo Compressor Rev. 1.07
  • Tube-Tech CL1A Compressor
  • Tube-Tech LCA 2A Compressor
  • Urei LA-3A compressor × 2
  • Urei LA-4 Compressor × 2
  • Eventide Omnipressor
  • Valley People 610 stereo compressor

Equalisation / Mic Pres

  • Rupert NEVE Shelford 5052 Mic Pre EQ × 32
  • Focusrite Red 1 4 mic/line preamps
  • ‘72 CADAC A Series channel strips (Mic Pre EQ) × 15
  • DBX 120XP Subharmonic Synthesizer
  • Oram Sonics HD-EQ High Definition
  • Pultec HLF-3C Passive Filter Silver × 2
  • Pultec MEQ-5 Mid-Range EQ Blue
  • Pultec MEQ-5 Mid-Range EQ Silver
  • Tube-Tech PE 1A Program EQ
  • Aphex II Studio Aural Exciter

Reverberation

  • AMS RMX16 Digital Reverb
  • Lexicon 480L Digital Effects System
  • Roland SRV-2000 Digital Reverb
  • Yamaha REV-5 Reverb
  • Klark Teknik DN50 Spring Reverb

Delays / FX Processors

  • Lexicon Super Prime Time Delay
  • AMS DMS 15-80S Digital Delay
  • Ensoniq DP/4+ × 2
  • Lexicon LXP-15 Multi-FX
  • Lexicon PCM-41 Digital Delay Processor
  • Lexicon PCM-42 Digital Delay Processor
  • Lexicon PCM-60 Digital Reverberator
  • Lexicon PCM-70 Multi-FX
  • Lexicon PCM-80 Multi-FX
  • Lexicon PCM-90 Multi-FX
  • Roland SDD-320 Dimension D Chorus
  • Roland SDE-1000 Digital Delay
  • Roland SDE-2000 Digital Delay
  • Roland SDE-3000A Digital Delay
  • TC Electronic TC 2290 Delay × 2
  • Yamaha SPX1000 Multi-FX × 2
  • Yamaha SPX90 Multi-FX × 2
  • Echolette E51 Tape Delay
  • Lem Baby Tape Echo Mixer

Synchroniser

  • Avid Sync I/O HD
  • Apogee Big Ben Studio Masterclock

Microphones

  • Neumann U 47 FET × 2
  • Neumann U 67 Tube × 2
  • Neumann M269 × 2
  • Neumann U 87 × 4
  • Neumann CMV 563 with M7 and M8 capsules × 2
  • AKG C12A × 2
  • AKG C 414 B-TL II × 2
  • AKG C 414 ULS × 2
  • AKG C451 E × 3
  • AKG C451 EB Blue × 3
  • AKG C451 EB Silver
  • Coles 4038 × 2
  • Royer R-121 Ribbon × 2
  • RCA 44BX
  • RCA 74B
  • Sony C48
  • DPA 4090 Ribbon × 2
  • Sennheiser MD 421
  • Sennheiser MD 441 × 2
  • Shure SM57 × 4
  • Shure SM58 × 5
  • Shure SM7B
  • Shure Beta52A
  • Griffon Fuzzyphone × 2

Drums

  • 2 × Premier Spirit of Lily Bass Drum 22″ × 14″
  • 3 × Premier Spirit of Lily Rack Tom 14″ × 8″
  • 2 × Premier Spirit of Lily Floor Tom 16″ × 16″
  • Vintage Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl Kit
  • Joe Montineri Piccolo
  • Ludwig Supraphonic Snare
  • Radioking Slingerland Snare
  • Ludwig Timbales
  • Sabian Paragon Crashes, Rides, Chinas, Splashes & Hi-Hats

Amps

  • Fender Twin Reverb
  • Fender Super Amp 1955
  • Fender Super Amp 1962
  • Fender Deluxe Amp 1963
  • Selmer Futurama
  • Ampeg B25-B
  • Ampeg B15-n with Ampeg 215 cab
  • Acoustic 370
  • Fender Bassman Cabinet
  • Marshall Super Lead 100

Keys, Pianos & Synthesizer Modules

  • Yamaha C7
  • Pleyel baby grand
  • Hammond C3 & Leslie 122
  • Mellotron M300
  • Yamaha CP80
  • Hohner Clavinet-Pianet DUO
  • Fender Rhodes Seventy Three
  • American Organ Harmonium
  • Farfisa Compact Duo
  • Korg MS-10 Analogue Synth.
  • Korg Mono/Poly Vintage synthesiser
  • Korg VC-10 Vocoder
  • Roland SVC-350 Vocoder
  • Access Virus TI
  • Moog Grandmother
  • Elektron Octatrack
  • Behringer Pro-1
  • Behringer MS-1 × 2
  • Behringer RD-8

Plugins

  • Waves Platinum Suite
  • Audio Ease Altiverb 7 XL
  • Audio Ease Speakerphone
  • Antares Auto-Tune
  • Celemony Melodyne
  • Izotope Post Production Suite
  • Audiomovers Listento
  • Soundtoys Suite
  • Avid Standard Plugin Suite
  • Synchro Arts VocAlign
  • Sonnox Oxford EQ
  • Sonnox Oxford Inflator
  • Sonnox Oxford Limiter
  • Sonnox Oxford Reverb
  • Sonnox Oxford SuprEsser
  • Sonnox Oxford Transient Modulator
  • Fabfilter Pro Q3
  • Shadowhill Mastering Compressor
  • Focusrite Channel Strip
  • Oeksound Soothe 2
  • Steven Slate Trigger 2