Joe's Garage is a recording studio located right in the heart of Old Market in central Bristol. We specialise in capturing exciting, vibey live performances with varying (or no) degrees of separation for live 'band in a room' sounds or more Hi-Fi results. The studio is located in a basement with a comfy, down to earth feel. Joe’s Garage has a large main live room, separate amp booth areas and cont
rol room. The main live room is big enough to have 5-6 people playing live together. The studio houses a great selection of equipment and is constantly being upgraded
Thermionic Culture Little Red Bustard
(valve summing mixer)
SSL Nucleus 16 fader controller with 2x SSL pre's
SSL, RME and Universal Audio convertors
Neve 1073 DPA (2 channel preamp)
API 3124+ (4 channel preamp)
16 channels of Audient preamps
(Able to record up to 28 mic channels live)
Roland RE201 and SRE-555 Space Echos
Vesta Fire RV2 stereo spring reverb
Great British Spring
Empirical Labs FATSO and EL8 Distressor
TK Audio BC1-S (SSL style bus comp)
2x DBX 160
2x Universal Audio UA610 valve preamp
Universal Audio LA610MK2 valve channel strip
2x Klark Teknik Pultec style valve EQ
2x Klark Teknik KT2A valve comp/limiters
SPL Transient Designer
2x Phoenix DRS-1R pre's
2x CAPI VP312 pre's
Mac Pro 5.1 running Logic Pro X 10.1
Plug ins from Slate, Sound Toys, Waves and UAD among many others
Adam A7X monitors
Wide selection of mics including:
Neumann U87ai
2x Earthworks SR30 (MP)
2x Neumann TLM102
3x AKG C414ULS
2x Josephson C42s (MP)
Ear Trumpet Labs Edwina
Audio Technica AT4041
Sennheiser MD441
EV RE20
Solomon LoFReQ sub kick
Shure SM7b
Blue Bluebird
Blue Ball
2x Crown CM310a
2x Sennheiser e906s
4x Sennheiser e904s
Sennheiser e935
6X Telefunken M80
Telefunken M82
Shure KSM9
2x Audio Technica ATM450s
Audio Technica AT804
STC 4032
Shure Beta91a
Realistic PZMs
2x Beyer M88
Beyer M69
4x Beyer 201s
4x Shure SM57s
Beyer TGX-50
EV ND868
2x Bang & Olufsen BM3 (RCA ribbons fitted by Xaudia)
2x Bang & Olufsen BM5 (stereo XY ribbon)
2x Bang & Olufsen MD8
Beyer M130 figure 8 ribbon
4x Beyer M260 ribbons (refurbished by Xaudia)
Radial JDX48 and Palmer speaker DI/sims
Sansamp, Orchid, Radial, EMO and BSS DI’s
Guitar/bass amps (usually many others to close from)
1970’s Fender Twin Reverb ‘silverface’
1970's Laney LC60 (modded)
1970’s Burman Pro501 combo
1970’s Burman Pre/Power 100w head
1969 Ampeg SVT / Aguilar GS412
1970’s Ampeg V4 + 4x12
1970’s Ampeg B25B + 2x15
1970's Orange OR120 + 4x12
Beyerdynamic DT770 and DT150, Audio Technica ATH M50, AKG K271 and K171 and Superlux 'Iso' headphones
Premier Genista drum kit
(22" kick, 12", 13", 16" toms and Big Dog 13" snare)
Premier pre international vintage drum kit
(20" kick, 10" and 14" toms with snare and bongos)
Loads and loads of FX pedals including pieces from Strymon, Bugbrand, Earthquaker Devices, Snarling Dogs, Proco, EHX, Catalinbread, Alesis, Boss, Vox, Jim Dunlop, DOD and Marshall among others
We also have some great contacts to hire in vintage amps, keys and drums when required.
