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Kev Lymer Joins Alt Mu Studios

Kevin Lymer is the newest team member at Alt Mu Studios, Kevin is an extremely talented artist and experienced youth worker, and having progressed very quickly through the Alt Mu training program his audio skills are also very good.

Kevin will be providing creative input to our design team as well as heading up our youth workshop and music club programmes.

Kevin will also be responsable for overseeing the majority of rehersal room hire so I'm sure you'll all get to know him very soon.

Kevin is still available to be commisioned as an artist via his own Green Shed Studios and please feel free to get in touch for contact details.

23 Apr 2008

New RSS Feed

We have recently updated the news section of our website to include an RSS feed so you can get news items delivered to your email client or RSS viewer the second they appear.

If you have never used RSS don't panic as it's really easy. Just click the link below and select subscribe to this feed from the page that appears.

23 Apr 2008

Software Piracy - Are you legal?

With the recent aggresive tactics used by software developers and huge lawsuits being raised against even home users of illegal software and plugins we have chosen to ask the question... Are you legal?

It may be no suprise to hear many studios and engineers are currently using illegal software and plugins in their work but did you realise that the end user could be held responsible?

Our advice is simple, make sure your projects don't use illegal plugins ask your engineer and the facility you plan to use if all of their software is legal and ask if they would mind providing proof of this.

At Alt Mu Studios all our software is legal and registered to us. This means you can rest assured you won't be involved in software piracy by recording at our studios and that we have the lastest versions and full technical support across our software titles.

If you would like to see proof of ownership for any of our software please feel free to email us at bookings@alt-mu.co.uk

23 Apr 2008

Hartke Bass Head and Laney 4x10 Cab Added to Rehearsal Room

We have added complete Bass amplification to our rehersal rooms spec sheet. Now included in the standard price is access to a 4x10 Laney speaker encosure and a Hartke HA 2500 Bass Head capable of producing 250 watts of transistor powered amplification along with onboard dynamics and 10 band graphic equaliser. Also provided is a tube emulation mode for that valve sound.

Or why not use your own head with our speakers to keep your tone without the lifting!

23 Apr 2008

1.2Kw Peavey PA System and Yamaha Mixing Desk

Our rehersal suites are now equipped with a Yamaha 16 Channel mixer with dynamics, eq and onboard digital effects.

The desk powers our new Peavy 1.2 Kw PA system that ensure what ever happens at your rehersal you can be heard! The PA consists of 2 x 15 inch bass bins, 2 x 10 drivers with horns.

We also have PA systems available for rental please get in touch for more information on: 01205 317 710.

23 Apr 2008

Bowers and Wilkins DM603 S2 Monitor 3 Way Speakers

Professional monitoring speakers are at the heart of any good studio and at Alt Mu we are no different.

The new Bowers and Wilkins 3 way speakers are a full range speaker that extend right down to 30Hz allowing us to focus on the bass of your projects and get the results you desire. On top of the bass the Mids and highs are fantastically accurate with a large soundstage that is not unduely bright.

23 Apr 2008

Project Rock Now Accepting Bookings!

Project Rock also know as the Easter band factory is now accepting bookings.

23 Apr 2008

Equipment List Updated With New Additions

Our pdf equipment list has recently been updated, please download our new version from the equipment section of our site.

23 Apr 2008

Mapex VX Series Drum Kit Added To Rehearsal Room

Our rehersal suites now come equiped with a 5 piece mapex VX drum kit.

Mapex are fast establishing themselves as a serious name in the drumming world and having spent some time on the new kits we can see why, the sound is amazing and the build quality out of this world.

Note: Drummers should bring their own kick drum pedal, cymbals and snare drum. These items can be hired if necessary at an additional fee.

23 Apr 2008

CD Duplication and On Disk Printing

Regardless of what your requirement ares we can offer profesional cd duplication and on body printing to meet your needs.

Please call our office on 01205 317710 for more information.

23 Apr 2008

Catch us at the Broadcast LIVE & Video Forum 30th

We will be at this years Broadcast and Video Forum at Earls court, so if you have any questions or just feel like popping over to say hi then we'll see you on at the court!

23 Apr 2008

Pro Tools Training Video Added to Play Back Section

We had some spare time together and put together a quick training video on how to use basic groups in Pro Tools, head over to the playback section to check it out.

23 Apr 2008

Valve amp servicing now available

Alt Mu staff have been servicing high-end valve equipment for years we decided it was time to let you all in on the fun.

Everyone knows that valve amps produce fantastic tone but unortunately those little tubes deteriorate and fail, infact a bad tube failure can even seriously damage your amplifier.

Valve servicing need not be expensive and should be considered general maintenance by any valve amp owner.

Here at Alt Mu we provide matched tubes and gaurentee them for 90 days, prices currently start from £45.99.

Please check our services page for more information.

23 Apr 2008

Full acoustic treatment added to control room

Our control room was designed to acoustic specifications but we thought that we could make a few improvements so we did!

Having added additional bass traps to deal with flutter echhoes and other sonic nasties the control room is now sounding beter than ever and you can here the results in your next mix.

Projects completed at Alt Mu are now generally transporting better between systems and the mix environment is now very accurate.

23 Apr 2008

Digidesign/Bomb Factory - Pultec Classic EQ Bundle

Yet again we add more plugins to the encyclopedic list at Alt Mu.

These pultec EQ's are what they say on the tin, CLASSIC. Modelled on the MEQ-5, EQP-1A and EQH-2 equalisers the units provide a sweet warm sound untill now only found in analog units.

Bombfactory are famed for their accurate recreations of studio classics and the pultec eq's are certainly no exception.

23 Apr 2008

Pro Tools Upgraded To 7.4

The recent release of Pro Tool 7.4 represents one of the biggest updates to the Pro Tools software environment in some time.

Top of the tree in terms of new features has to be the elastic audio function which allows engineers to stretch audio with ease, from tidying vocals or moving out of time notes and reworking samples elastic audio is a real time saver and a massive plus for the Pro Tools environment.

Elastic audio even works across multitrack audio without phase problems, how did we ever work without it?

23 Apr 2008

Digidesign Revibe Room Modeling Reverb

The already huge plugin list just keeps growing with the most recent addition being Digidesign's Revibe.

Revibe is a room modeling Reverb that sounds simply fantastic, it's intuitive user interface and optimised room reflections give users ultimate reverb in their projects.

Revibe is a TDM only plugin and not available on home versions of Pro Tools.

23 Apr 2008

Waves Gold Plugins - 24 New Professional Audio Processors

The Waves suite of plugins are to the Audio world what Bisto is to gravy! You have heard these processors on almost all of the audio released in the last 10 or more years and they are just as fantastic today!

Ranging from crazy effects to subtle and delicate and every tweakable degree inbetween the Waves plugins are simply awesome, and now as an Alt Mu user you have all the Waves processing power your project coud require.

23 Apr 2008

Over 40GB of Professional Samples Added

Over 40Gb of professional grade samples are now available at Alt Mu Studios, Ready for use within Logic, Pro Tools or the software of your choice.

23 Apr 2008

Logic Pro 8 Now Available

Logic has long been due a re-haul and Apple have not disapointed with version 8 of the software. More effects and fantastic bundled loops ensure Logic gets your project where you need it to be.

Logic 8 is now available along-side Logic 7 for users happier working in the older version.

23 Apr 2008

Backstage Academy - Record High School Musical Backing Tracks

Backstage Academy choose Alt Mu to provide backing tracks for a rendition of Disney's High School Musical.

You can check out Backstage Academy by clicking here.

23 Apr 2008

8 Channel Discrete Headpone Monitoring System

We now have the facility to create up to 8 discrete headphone mixes and distribute the mixes to 20 users, this allows fantatsic foldback for group performances and allows you to hear wha you want to hear!

23 Apr 2008

Bomfactory BF-2A Compressor Added

Bomfactory BF - 2A Compressor is now available as TDM and RTAS plugin

23 Apr 2008

Pro Tools MP3 Export Option Added

As well as working in many other industry standard formats we can now export your sessions as MP3 or load MP3 recordings directly into a Pro Tools sessions.

What should you know about MP3? - MP3 is a form of compressed audio and as such the quality is not as high as an uncompressed source. For recording and backing track purposes we preffer to have good quality uncompressed recordings however, for demo work or when users are collaborating over distance, MP3 can provide a reasonable working quality for demo arrangemnets and other similar purposes.

Other forms of compression include AAC, or Advanced Audio Coding, which has been designed to be the successor of MP3. It typically produces much better sound quality and comparitive bit rates and has already been employed by iTunes as the standard form of audio compression.

If you need small file sizes then AAC is preffered over MP3.

23 Apr 2008

Recording Guide Now Available

Our new recording guide is now available and includes usefull information for people using Alt Mu Studios for the first time.

It can be downloaded here

23 Apr 2008

Pro Tools Software Upgraded to 7.3.1

As part of our commitment to bringing you the latest technology at fantastic prices, Pro Tools has been upgraded to version 7.3.1

23 Apr 2008

Logic Pro 7 Now Available.

Logic Pro 7 Is still availiable alongside Logic 8.

23 Apr 2008

News
Equipment List Updated With New Additions Please download our new equipment list, Version 4 includes many additions including Bass Amplification, Video Equipment and more. The equipment list can be downloaded from the link on our home page or from the equipment section of our web site. 08 May 2008 Kev Lymer Joins Alt Mu Studios Kevin Lymer is the newest team member at Alt Mu Studios, Kevin is an extremely talented artist and experienced youth worker, and having progressed very quickly through the Alt Mu training program his audio skills are also very good. Kevin will be providing creative input to our design team as well as heading up our youth workshop and music club programmes. Kevin will also be responsable for overseeing the majority of rehersal room hire so I'm sure you'll all get to know him very soon. Kevin is still available to be commisioned as an artist via his own Green Shed Studios and please feel free to get in touch for contact details. 23 Apr 2008 New RSS Feed We have recently updated the news section of our website to include an RSS feed so you can get news items delivered to your email client or RSS viewer the second they appear. If you have never used RSS don't panic as it's really easy. Just click the link below and select subscribe to this feed from the page that appears. 23 Apr 2008 Software Piracy - Are you legal? With the recent aggresive tactics used by software developers and huge lawsuits being raised against even home users of illegal software and plugins we have chosen to ask the question... Are you legal? It may be no suprise to hear many studios and engineers are currently using illegal software and plugins in their work but did you realise that the end user could be held responsible? Our advice is simple, make sure your projects don't use illegal plugins ask your engineer and the facility you plan to use if all of their software is legal and ask if they would mind providing proof of this. At Alt Mu Studios all our software is legal and registered to us. This means you can rest assured you won't be involved in software piracy by recording at our studios and that we have the lastest versions and full technical support across our software titles. If you would like to see proof of ownership for any of our software please feel free to email us at bookings@alt-mu.co.uk 23 Apr 2008 Hartke Bass Head and Laney 4x10 Cab Added to Rehearsal Room We have added complete Bass amplification to our rehersal rooms spec sheet. Now included in the standard price is access to a 4x10 Laney speaker encosure and a Hartke HA 2500 Bass Head capable of producing 250 watts of transistor powered amplification along with onboard dynamics and 10 band graphic equaliser. Also provided is a tube emulation mode for that valve sound. Or why not use your own head with our speakers to keep your tone without the lifting! 23 Apr 2008 1.2Kw Peavey PA System and Yamaha Mixing Desk Our rehersal suites are now equipped with a Yamaha 16 Channel mixer with dynamics, eq and onboard digital effects. The desk powers our new Peavy 1.2 Kw PA system that ensure what ever happens at your rehersal you can be heard! The PA consists of 2 x 15 inch bass bins, 2 x 10 drivers with horns. We also have PA systems available for rental please get in touch for more information on: 01205 317 710. 23 Apr 2008 Bowers and Wilkins DM603 S2 Monitor 3 Way Speakers Professional monitoring speakers are at the heart of any good studio and at Alt Mu we are no different. The new Bowers and Wilkins 3 way speakers are a full range speaker that extend right down to 30Hz allowing us to focus on the bass of your projects and get the results you desire. On top of the bass the Mids and highs are fantastically accurate with a large soundstage that is not unduely bright. 23 Apr 2008 Project Rock Now Accepting Bookings! Project Rock also know as the Easter band factory is now accepting bookings. 23 Apr 2008 Equipment List Updated With New Additions Our pdf equipment list has recently been updated, please download our new version from the equipment section of our site. 23 Apr 2008 Mapex VX Series Drum Kit Added To Rehearsal Room Our rehersal suites now come equiped with a 5 piece mapex VX drum kit. Mapex are fast establishing themselves as a serious name in the drumming world and having spent some time on the new kits we can see why, the sound is amazing and the build quality out of this world. Note: Drummers should bring their own kick drum pedal, cymbals and snare drum. These items can be hired if necessary at an additional fee. 23 Apr 2008 CD Duplication and On Disk Printing Regardless of what your requirement ares we can offer profesional cd duplication and on body printing to meet your needs. Please call our office on 01205 317710 for more information. 23 Apr 2008 Catch us at the Broadcast LIVE & Video Forum 30th We will be at this years Broadcast and Video Forum at Earls court, so if you have any questions or just feel like popping over to say hi then we'll see you on at the court! 23 Apr 2008 Pro Tools Training Video Added to Play Back Section We had some spare time together and put together a quick training video on how to use basic groups in Pro Tools, head over to the playback section to check it out. 23 Apr 2008 Valve amp servicing now available Alt Mu staff have been servicing high-end valve equipment for years we decided it was time to let you all in on the fun. Everyone knows that valve amps produce fantastic tone but unortunately those little tubes deteriorate and fail, infact a bad tube failure can even seriously damage your amplifier. Valve servicing need not be expensive and should be considered general maintenance by any valve amp owner. Here at Alt Mu we provide matched tubes and gaurentee them for 90 days, prices currently start from £45.99. Please check our services page for more information. 23 Apr 2008 Full acoustic treatment added to control room Our control room was designed to acoustic specifications but we thought that we could make a few improvements so we did! Having added additional bass traps to deal with flutter echhoes and other sonic nasties the control room is now sounding beter than ever and you can here the results in your next mix. Projects completed at Alt Mu are now generally transporting better between systems and the mix environment is now very accurate. 23 Apr 2008 Digidesign/Bomb Factory - Pultec Classic EQ Bundle Yet again we add more plugins to the encyclopedic list at Alt Mu. These pultec EQ's are what they say on the tin, CLASSIC. Modelled on the MEQ-5, EQP-1A and EQH-2 equalisers the units provide a sweet warm sound untill now only found in analog units. Bombfactory are famed for their accurate recreations of studio classics and the pultec eq's are certainly no exception. 23 Apr 2008 Pro Tools Upgraded To 7.4 The recent release of Pro Tool 7.4 represents one of the biggest updates to the Pro Tools software environment in some time. Top of the tree in terms of new features has to be the elastic audio function which allows engineers to stretch audio with ease, from tidying vocals or moving out of time notes and reworking samples elastic audio is a real time saver and a massive plus for the Pro Tools environment. Elastic audio even works across multitrack audio without phase problems, how did we ever work without it? 23 Apr 2008 Digidesign Revibe Room Modeling Reverb The already huge plugin list just keeps growing with the most recent addition being Digidesign's Revibe. Revibe is a room modeling Reverb that sounds simply fantastic, it's intuitive user interface and optimised room reflections give users ultimate reverb in their projects. Revibe is a TDM only plugin and not available on home versions of Pro Tools. 23 Apr 2008 Waves Gold Plugins - 24 New Professional Audio Processors The Waves suite of plugins are to the Audio world what Bisto is to gravy! You have heard these processors on almost all of the audio released in the last 10 or more years and they are just as fantastic today! Ranging from crazy effects to subtle and delicate and every tweakable degree inbetween the Waves plugins are simply awesome, and now as an Alt Mu user you have all the Waves processing power your project coud require. 23 Apr 2008 Over 40GB of Professional Samples Added Over 40Gb of professional grade samples are now available at Alt Mu Studios, Ready for use within Logic, Pro Tools or the software of your choice. 23 Apr 2008 Logic Pro 8 Now Available Logic has long been due a re-haul and Apple have not disapointed with version 8 of the software. More effects and fantastic bundled loops ensure Logic gets your project where you need it to be. Logic 8 is now available along-side Logic 7 for users happier working in the older version. 23 Apr 2008 Backstage Academy - Record High School Musical Backing Tracks Backstage Academy choose Alt Mu to provide backing tracks for a rendition of Disney's High School Musical. You can check out Backstage Academy by clicking here. 23 Apr 2008 8 Channel Discrete Headpone Monitoring System We now have the facility to create up to 8 discrete headphone mixes and distribute the mixes to 20 users, this allows fantatsic foldback for group performances and allows you to hear wha you want to hear! 23 Apr 2008 Bomfactory BF-2A Compressor Added Bomfactory BF - 2A Compressor is now available as TDM and RTAS plugin 23 Apr 2008 Pro Tools MP3 Export Option Added As well as working in many other industry standard formats we can now export your sessions as MP3 or load MP3 recordings directly into a Pro Tools sessions. What should you know about MP3? - MP3 is a form of compressed audio and as such the quality is not as high as an uncompressed source. For recording and backing track purposes we preffer to have good quality uncompressed recordings however, for demo work or when users are collaborating over distance, MP3 can provide a reasonable working quality for demo arrangemnets and other similar purposes. Other forms of compression include AAC, or Advanced Audio Coding, which has been designed to be the successor of MP3. It typically produces much better sound quality and comparitive bit rates and has already been employed by iTunes as the standard form of audio compression. If you need small file sizes then AAC is preffered over MP3. 23 Apr 2008 Recording Guide Now Available Our new recording guide is now available and includes usefull information for people using Alt Mu Studios for the first time. It can be downloaded here 23 Apr 2008 Pro Tools Software Upgraded to 7.3.1 As part of our commitment to bringing you the latest technology at fantastic prices, Pro Tools has been upgraded to version 7.3.1 23 Apr 2008 Logic Pro 7 Now Available. Logic Pro 7 Is still availiable alongside Logic 8. 23 Apr 2008