Studios
We have three professionally designed, custom built rehearsal studios measuring 5m x 6m (Rooms 1 to 3) and one smaller studio measuring 4m x 3.5m (Room 4). The equipment in each room is flexible to some degree and should you require a particular setup, please advise us when booking and we will endeavour to meet your needs. The normal arrangements are as follows:
Room 1 - PA & drums - from £8 per hour daytime, from £9 per hour after 6pm
Room 1 comes with drum kit & PA as standard. Additional equipment may be hired as required.
PA Equipment
- Mixer: 4 mic ins, 4 mono/stereo line ins, built in effects
- Stereo amp - 400 watts rms per channel
- Two 15" 600 watt rated speakers
- Two boom mic stands, one straight mic stand
Drum Kit
- Drum Kit - 4 piece Premier Cabria XP with Sonor snare and stool
- hi-hat stand (Sonor 400 series)
- Two boom cymbal stands
- One straight cymbal stand
Additional Equipment
- Bass speaker cab - Laney 4x10". Use it with your own head f.o.c. or hire ours, see menu below.
- Up to two microphones (Shure SM58) may be borrowed free (£1 deposit each)
- Further mics 50p per hour
- Guitar and bass amp hire £1 per hour (£1 deposit required for leads)
- Single bass pedal (Sonor) (£1 damage deposit)
- Hi-hat and ride cymbals free (£1 damage deposit)
- Crash cymbal hire £1 per hour (£5 damage deposit)
Room 2 - PA & drums - from £8 per hour daytime, from £9 per hour after 6pm
Room 2 comes with drum kit & PA as standard. Additional equipment may be hired as required.
PA Equipment
- Mixer: 4 mic ins, 4 mono/stereo line ins, built in effects
- Stereo amp - 300 watts rms per channel
- Two 15" 350 watt rated speakers
- Two boom mic stands, one straight mic stand
Drum Kit
- 5 piece Drum Kit - Ludwig CS Accent
- hi-hat stand (Ludwig)
- Two boom cymbal stands
- One straight cymbal stand
Additional Equipment
- Bass speaker cab - Peavey 1x15". Use it with your own head f.o.c. or hire ours, see menu below.
- Up to two microphones (Shure SM58) may be borrowed free (£1 deposit each)
- Further mics 50p per hour.
- Guitar and bass amp hire £1 per hour, crash cymbal hire £1 per hour
- Single bass pedal (Sonor) (£1 damage deposit)
- Hi-hat and ride cymbals free (£1 damage deposit)
- Crash cymbal hire £1 per hour (£5 damage deposit)
Room 3 - PA only - from £6 per hour daytime, from £7 per hour after 6pm
Room 3 is normally hired out with PA only for those bands that like to bring all their own backline.
PA Equipment
- Mixer: 4 mic ins, 4 mono/stereo line ins, built in effects
- Stereo amp - 300 watts rms per channel
- Two 15" 300 watt rated speakers
- Two mic stands
Additional Equipment
- Up to two microphones free (£1 deposit each)
- Further mics 50p per hour
- Guitar and bass amp hire £1 per hour
- Drum kit hire £2 per hour - black Diamond rock size kit or blue Tama Imperial Star jazz size kit
Room 4 - PA only - from £5 per hour daytime, from £6 per hour after 6pm (pic shows with drum kit during recording)
Room 4 is normally hired out with PA only for those bands that like to bring all their own backline. It is most suitable for three piece bands although a five piece metal band has squeezed in before.
PA Equipment
- 4 input mixer with built in effects
- Stereo amp
- Two 15" speakers
- Two mic stands
- Up to two microphones free (£1 deposit each)
- Further mics 50p per hour
- Guitar and bass amp hire £1 per hour
- Drum kit hire £2 per hour - Tama Imperial Star jazz size kit
Guitar Amp Menu
If you want to bring your own head only, we have the following 4 x 12" cabs available to use at no cost, in order of sound quality, best first:
- Sound City straight ply cab retrofitted with Celestion G12-T75 drivers
- Kustom angled cab with Celestion G12-T75
- Marshall angled cab with 20w Greenbacks (heavily abused!)
- Hughes & Kettner straight cab
- Fender FM angled cab
- Laney mono/stereo angled cab
We have the following amp heads available to hire at £1 per hour, to use with the above cabs:
- Marshall AVT150 (4 channels of typical Marshall tones + fx)
- Marshall JCM900 (1 channel high gain valve head) (waiting repair)
- Laney Pro Tube 60MV (British made hand wired single channel master volume valve head)
- Kustom Quad 100 (2 channels + fx)
- Fender FM100H (2 channels + reverb, cheap and cheerful)
- Hughes & Kettner Warp 7 (2 channels, massive gain)
- Crate GT3500H (3 channels + reverb, hugely powerful)
We have the following combos available to hire at £1 per hour:
- Crate G160XL (160w 2 channel transistor combo)
- Line 6 Spider II
- Marshall MG50DFX (waiting repair)
- Traynor YCV80 (waiting repair)
Bass Amp Menu
If you want to bring your own head only, we have the following cabs available to use at no cost, in order of sound quality, best first:
- Laney 4x10" (usually Room 1)
- Peavey 1x15" (usually Room 2)
- Peavey 1x15" (usually Room 3)
- Nameless 1x15" (usually spare)
- Laney 1x15" (usually spare)
We have the following amp heads available to hire at £1 per hour, to use with the above cabs:
- Laney R4H 200/300 watts (2 of)
- Behringer 300/450 watts
- Dunc's homemade 200/300w mosfet head
We have the following combos available to hire at £1 per hour:
- Hiwatt Maxwatt B100-15
Other Stuff
We can also lend or hire you other items to help you with your rehearsal, for example:
- Vocal monitor setup to supplement PA (£1 p/hr)
- CD player to connect to PA
- Tape deck & mics to record live in the room (50p p/hr)
- music stand, keyboard stand, extra mic stands & leads, extra cymbal stands
- electric guitar (£1 p/hr)
- bass guitar (£1 p/hr)
- guitar leads and straps