THE FAMOUS VINTAGE CADAC IN STUDIO ONE   

What's a CADAC? Never heard of it?

A Vintage CADAC of this era is probably the best recording console ever made. In its day, it was also the most expensive to produce. Now, they rarely come onto the market and are much sort after.

The CADAC in The Lodge was originally commissioned in 1976 and installed at the legendary Battery Studios in North London where it was used to record some of the greatest recordings of the day (The Sex Pistols, The Police, Queen, The Who, Def Leppard and Duran Duran). It was acquired by Robert John Godfrey for The Lodge in 1986 and has remained our most valuable asset.

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about us

At The Lodge you will find gifted people with experience, skills, creative imagination and brains, plus all the gear you are likely to ever need to get the best possible results recording a demo or full album for release. The Studios give large discounts to unsigned bands, small independent labels and young bands still at school.

We have built our reputation recording bands. It is what we understand and do best. We are constantly improving our facilities. All in all, The Lodge represents unbeatable value.

A FAIRLY RANDOM SELECTION

ARBITORS - CALORIES - BISON - THE CLICK - THE BRINK - BRASSKATS - THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS - THE JACKS - 4 GET ME NOTS - SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND - LAND OF CAIN - THE JUVIES - COUSIN AVI  -  UPTOWN DECADENCE UNIT - Vice Like Grip - DANNY CONNORS - ALAN MOORE - Peach Rhino - JONATHAN  ROSS -  BBC - UNIVERSAL -  PARLOPHONE -  MAGIC SKOOL BUS - DEAF HAVANA -  IRRITANT - BEE STUNG LIPS -  THE MOONS - MIRROR MIRROR -  HEARTS IN ATLANTIS - THE NINE BELOW - RATTLESNAKE REMEDY - SEVEN YEARS  - ZOOT ALORS - VINDICTION - THE ARTIZANS - LAST STOP CHINA TOWN - SHEEP THIEVES  - GYPSY DOGS - THE ON OFFS - SEGA RALLY REVO (surround soundtrack)

PARADISE LOST - DO ME BAD THINGS - KATRINA AND THE WAVES - NEW MODEL ARMY - KIM WILDE - MARRILLION - CONFLICT - SPIRITUALIZED - FUN BOY THREE - ASWARD - MARI WILSON - THE BELOVED - THE RUTS - THE WISHPLANTS - JAZZ BUTCHER - FIELDS OF THE NEPHILLIM

Whether you are an unsigned band from out of town with a recording project, a producer with a young band who needs a creative space to work in or a signed band needing a serious rehearsal and preproduction facilities, The Lodge can provide extremely cost effective student style accommodation and in house catering for up to ten people.

Yamaha DM2000 VCM in Studio Two

Total Recall will save you time and money and bring your mixes that nearer to perfection than possible previously. Gone are the days of "Hit 'n Miss" mixes.

Large Live Room - Wonderful Vintage Desk
Ideal for full band line up and other large scale recordings.

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Fully Automated Digital Studio with Total Recall and 5.1 Monitoring. Ideal for Tracking - Overdubbing - Mastering and Mixing.

 HIGHLIGHTS

• Digital and Analogue

• Pro Tools HD

• Cubase 4  & Nuendo

• Vintage Cadac

• 192KHz Apogee 32 Channel Digital I/O

Stress-free -  Creative - Comfortable and Affordable

 HIGHLIGHTS

• Yamaha DM2000 VCM 96 Channel Console

• 56 Channel Digital I/O  

• Cubase 4

• Massive range of creative tools and plug-ins

• 5.1 Surround Sound Monitoring

• Sound to Picture

• Mastering

• Accurate Monitoring

• Grand Piano

• Vast Sound Libraries

• EZ Drummer

• Decent Mics

• Piano Room

• Vocal Booth

• Studio Drum Kit

• New Dead Drum Room

• Back Line

• Air Conditioning
   

• Monitoring by Tannoy

• Vintage Studer 24-Track

• Lexicon 480XL

• Substantial Live Room

• Back Line

• Loads of Outboard

• Decent Mics

• Air Conditioning

  RECORDING ROOMS AT THE LODGE 

       STUDIO ONE

• LIVE ROOM
• SEPARATE DEAD AREA
  
• NESTED BOOTH


• LARGE CONTROL ROOM

      STUDIO TWO

• VOCAL BOOTH


• DEAD ROOM


• CONTROL ROOM


• YAMAHA GRAND PIANO


• GOOD RANGE OF MICS
  

UNIQUE RECORDING ENVIRONMENT

GEARED UP FOR RECORDING BANDS WITH DRUM KITS

The main Live Room is geared up for bands. With 20 feet of space above the drum area and a ceramic ceiling the naturally created ambience gives a superbly huge sound.
 

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There are also two quadruple-glazed, nested dead rooms having visual contact with all areas enabling unparalleled separation when recording all-at-once performances.

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Great Atmosphere - Great Acoustics

THE ROOF GARDEN

In summer this is a spectacular space for chill, chat or to have a smoke.

 THE GREEN ROOM

The new chill out room is very popular. Providing a home from home space in which to relax and collect your thoughts. To eat and drink. To have a smoke and a chat with friends. To make and take those inevitable calls. To take a break.

• Cable TV
• Home Cinema (10ft Screen)
• Hi-Fi
• Broadband
• Email
• DVD
• Kitchen
• Bathroom
• Roof Garden

• Sleeps a maximum of ten.

• One large room containing four comfortable single beds.

• One large room containing four full size comfortable bunk beds.

• One room containing a double double bed or two singles.

• Two bathrooms

• Large living room with a Computer for email and web surfing -  Home Cinema  -  Broadband - Cable TV.

• Roof garden

• Catering: Very flexible and very good  home cooked food to suit all tastes.

RECORDING
Cadac Console

72 Channels At Mixdown, 32 Channels Of Automation, Full Parametric EQ, 10 Sends, 32 Track Routing.

Fast PC running
32 I/O of up to 192 kHz 24bit
Apogee Rosseta 800 x 4
Studer A800 2" - 24 Track Tape Recorder
Studer A80 1/4" - 2 Track Tape Recorder
Pioneer D-05 DAT Recorder
Sony MiniDisc Recorder
CDR Burners
DVD Data Archiving

DAW
Silent PC System With 240 Gigs +
Cubase 4.1 or Nuendo 3
Wavelab 6.1 (Red-Book CD Mastering)
Waves Platinum

INSTRUMENTS
Yamaha Grand Piano C3

MAIN MICROPHONES
Neumann U87 (2)
AKG 414 B ULS (2)
AKG 451(4 inc CK22)
AKG D112
AKG D12 Vintage
AKG SE300B (CK93 & CK91)
Audix D1 (3)
Shure SM58 (4), SM57 (6), Beta 57 (1)
Sure Beta 52
Electrovoice RE20 (2)
Sennheiser MD421 II

DYNAMICS & EQ
Aphex 109 - 2/4-Band Valve Parametric EQ
Aphex 661 Expressor (Valve Compressor) (2)
TLAudio Ivory Series C-5021 (Valve Compressor)
Focusrite Platinum Compounder  (2)

Pearl Export Drum Kit
Emulator X2 Studio with large library

MONITORING
Vintage Tannoy Super Reds
Tannoy Reveal 8D Direct Field
Yamaha NS100 Near Field
JBL 4850 Studio Monitors (Studio Playback)

Yamaha DM2000VCM 96 Channel digital desk -  Fully automated with total recall and flying faders.

Tannoy Reveal Surround Sound Monitoring 5.1 - B&W Monitoring (Classical Music)

A choice of Nuendo, Cubase, Pro Tools HD : 32 I/O at 96K

Lexicon 480XL: Highly sought after industry standard high end reverberation and processing

DAW: (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6GHz, 3Gb RAM, 500Gb HD), EMU 1820m Sound card + Emulator X Sample

Yamaha S90 ES with TX816 (Vintage FM)

Inputs from Tape, Vinyl, Betamax F1, Reel to Reel etc.

Mastering
Main Tools: Waves Diamond Bundle Digital Mastering Tools plus many other sophisticated digital tools for the unforseen.

Orchestral Library
Studio 2 features a magnificent symphonic sound library. Built by Robert John Godfrey using Emu's highly acclaimed Emulator X software and top quality sound libraries from SAM, Vienna and various sources

Yamaha G3 Grand Piano
The Lodge's Yamaha grand piano is located in Studio 2. It is played daily and tuned regularly. Balanced tie - lines enable recording of the piano from either studio.
 

01604 475399 : All Enquiries - Bookings and Admin

07915 610735  : Max Read - Direct

studio_enquiries@lodgerecording.co.uk

Neighbouring Towns and Cities:

The Studio is located in Abington Square in Northampton, a couple of minute' s walk from the centre of town. To find us from the M1:

• Leave the M1 at junction 15 and take the Dual-Carriageway (A45) towards Northampton
• Travel down the A45 about 3 miles, then take the Bedford turning
• Keeping left round the roundabout, head towards Northampton Town Centre (don't go to Bedford!)
• Turn right at the lights (BMW garage)
• Follow the road up the hill and go straight on past 2 sets of traffic lights
• At the top of the hill (T-Junction), turn left onto the Wellingborough road.....

then, to unload outside studio:

• After about 500 metres you will reach an island with pedestrian crossings and statue
• The studio is on the other side of the island to the left of Molly's Bar, the grey-fronted building with a blue canopy
• You can do a u-turn around the end of the island and unload directly outside the door no. 23

or, to go straight to St. Michaels multi-storey car-park:

• After about 600 meters, follow the road round to the right past BBC Northampton
• Keep in the right hand lane and turn right at the lights into St. Michaels Road
• Keeping to the right again, the car-park is on your right