Tuesday 28 February 2012

Understandings on Recording Studio in London

There are many recording studios in London which provides best facility. The main emphasis in recording studio is on sound acoustics and room treatments. With the help of computers and other advance technology, whole process of recording can be done in home studios but with real orchestral people recording studio is necessary. Along with good acoustics, there is also the issue of aesthetics. A recording studio has all facilities for sound recording and mixing. Studio control room must be with mixing console, monitors, speakers and MIDI workstations. Optimum acoustic isolation means absorption of reflected sound totally. A studio or live room where instrumentalists and vocalists perform and a control room where professional audio equipment for either analogue or digital recording, routing and manipulating the sound. There may be smaller rooms called "isolation booths" present to accommodate loud instruments such as drums or electric guitar, to keep these sounds from being audible to the microphones that are capturing the sounds from other instruments, or to provide "drier" rooms for recording vocals or quieter acoustic instruments.

Equipment found in a recording studio commonly includes variety of equipments like Mixing console, Multitrack recorder, Microphones, Reference monitors, which are loudspeakers with a flat frequency response, Keyboard, Acoustic drum kit, Equipment may include - Digital audio workstation, Music workstation, On Air or Recording Light, Outboard effects, such as compressors, reverbs, or equalizers etc.

Now a day computers play a lead role in the recording process, being able to replace the mixing consoles, recorders, synthesizers, Splers and sound effects devices. A computer thus outfitted is called a Digital Audio Workstation, or DAW. Popular audio-recording software includes Apple Logic Pro, Dig design’s Pro Tools— near standard for most professional studios—Cubase and Nuendo both by Steinberg, MOTU Digital Performer—popular for MIDI. Other software applications include Ableton Live, Cakewalk Sonar, ACID Pro, FL Studio, Adobe Audition, Audacity, and Ardour.

A small, personal recording studio is sometimes called a project studio or home studio. Such studios usually used by an individual artist, or are used as a non-commercial hobby. The first modern project studios came into being during the mid 1980s, with the advent of affordable multi track recording devices, synthesizers and microphones. The phenomenon has flourished with falling prices of MIDI equipment and accessories, as well as inexpensive direct to disk recording products.

There are variations in isolation concept, including a portable standalone isolation booth, a compact guitar speaker isolation cabinet, or a larger guitar speaker cabinet isolation box. A gobo panel achieves the same idea to a much more moderate extent; for example, a drum kit that is too loud in the live room or on stage can have acrylic glass see-through gobo panels placed around it to deflect the sound into the other microphones, allowing more independent control of each instrument channel at the mixing board.

Radio studio: Radio studios are very similar to recording studios, particularly in the case of production studios which are not normally used on-air. This type of studio would normally have all of the same equipment that any other audio recording studio would have, particularly if it is at a large station, or at a combined facility that houses a station group, but is designed for groups of people to work collaboratively in a live to air situation. Broadcast studios also use many of the same principles such as sound isolation, with adaptations suited to the live on-air nature of their use. Such equipment would commonly include a telephone hybrid for putting telephone calls on the air.

Recording Studio London:- At SoundStage Studio you get all the state-of-the art facilities that a recording studio in London UK should have as well as rehearsal space, kitchens & easy parking.

Monday 6 February 2012

Film Studio London uk

There are number of good studios in London as Film Business plays a major role in London economy. Many of the studios has adopted green screen theme. Following is some information about London’s famous studios.

Camber well Studio: They offer 2 Film, Video and television production studios throughout the week.  It provides relaxed working environment. It provides facilities like hospitality rooms, wardrobe and changing rooms, an Internet cafĂ© style common area and plenty of onsite parking. This all facility is provided in very competitive price. Other facilities like HD cameras, CD player for playback, Sound equipments, autocue, laser projectors, 19” monitor, strobe light, smoke machine and a range of useful lights are available for hire. Green screen props and green screen cloth, different flags are available here. They also provide experienced crews to operate cameras and other technical equipments.

Ealing Studio: It is basically a television and film production company which provides facilities for the same also. It is the oldest continuously working studio facility for film production in the world. The number of films produced in this studio is very big. Many TV shows, Documentaries, music videos are produced here. Main films among them are Shaun of the dead, The importance of being earnest, The lady killers, The lavender hill mob, Kind hearts and coronets.

Lime Grove Studios: It was built by Gaumont Film Company in 1915. It is described as the finest studio in Great Britain.  From 1949 to 1991 the studio was used by BBC.

Riverside Studios: It is a production studio as well as theatre and independent cinema on the bank of river Thames. It also hosts contemporary and international dramatic and dance performance and film production. Jack Whitehall, You are fired, Celebrity juice, You have been watching, Russell Howard’s good news, Robert’s web are some of known articles.

Twickenham Film Studios: is used by many motion picture and television companies. At the rime of its construction in 1913 it was the largest film studio in United Kingdom. The mirror  cracked, An American werewolf in London, A fish called wanda, Blade runner, Brother Sun , Sister moon, The others, Layer Cake, Crucible, Interview with the vampire, and sweet revenge are some latest productions of the studio.

Merton Park Studios: It was a British film production studio started in 1940. Noticeable thing about the studio is, unlike many other studios, they remain opened during World War II and producing the films for Ministry of Information.  The actor/author Stanley Morgan has a number of pages dedicated to the Merton Park films he starred in.

Waterloo film Studios London: It is green screen TV and film studio for hire located nearby waterloo station.  All facilities like Green room, kitchen, parking, make up room, production office, Free Wi-Fi, hot shower, wardrobe, sitting facility for 50 persons, Showroom, vehicle access, Disabled access, Camera crews  and equipments for hire, props, grip equipments, black drapes are available here.

Elstree Studios: The studio is home to famous TV shows like Dancing on ice, who wants to be millionaire, Big Brother. Some famous films produced over here are Star wars, Indiana Jones, Kick Ass, The king’s speech and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Other than film and TV production it is also good for booking a rehearsal or promo or any corporate event. It is located 20 minutes away from London’s heart.

Film Studio London :- London NW10 have versatile studios used by film and independent video makers for Film and TV footage, music videos, photography and Green screen (chromakey / chroma-key) shoots.