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, great 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 and NS10 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.  Vocals and drums sound great, and all sorts of instruments can be accommodated.

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 ADSL internet access.

Equipment

The recording system is based around an Apple Macintosh with Logic Pro 8 or Pro Tools LE 7 fronting a Yamaha 02R console.  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 MacBook Pro
Digidesign Digi002 18 I/O Audio Interface
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
  

Pro Tools LE 7
Synthogy Ivory Piano
FXPansion BFD Drums
GMedia MTron Mellotron emulator
Grand Electrix CP70/80 Emulator
Wave Arts Power Suite Mixing and Mastering Effects
Izotope iDrum drum sampler
Yamaha 02R with ADAT Bridge
Yamaha NS10, Genelec and Dynaudio Monitors

Clavia Nord Stage weighted digital piano/organ/synthesiser
Korg Trinity 61 key synthesizer
Korg 01/Wfd 61 key synthesizer
Korg Prophecy 3 octave PM synthesizer
EMU UltraProteus sound module
Roland Octapad drum controller
Roland U20 synthesizer
Roland R8M drum machine
Roland JV1010 sound module
Boss DR660 drum machine
Technics sxP30 weighted digital piano
Yamaha CP33 weighted digital piano
M-Audio Keystation Pro 88 weighted digital controller
Novation BassStation analogue synthesizer

Focusrite and TLAudio Preamps/Compressors
AKG SolidTube Microphone
AKG C414 Condenser Microphone
Neumann KLM 184 X 2 (hire)
AKG C451 (hire)
AKG D112
Audix drum mics
Rode NT5 stereo pair
Neumann KMS 105 (hire)
Neumann U87 (hire)
Studio Projects B1
Shure SM58s
Shure SM57s
Shure SM98 mini condensors X 2 (hire)
Beyerdynamic M201 (hire)

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 an Avid video editing suite AND 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.