Rates:

Online / Post: £60 + VAT per track.
At Studio: £60 + VAT per hour.

ALBUM DEAL:
£500 + VAT (Unattended)

Mastering is the crucial, critical, and final creative step in the audio process and is what will bring your tracks depth, punch, clarity and higher perceptive volume. In short, the final professional gloss on your recording.

Our setup for mastering is extremely high end with gear from TC Electronic, Maselec Prism & Manley through to SSL with a good balance of both analogue and digital processing to achieve the best results possible. All fronted by experienced and highly skilled engineers.

The process can involve:

• Equalisation
• Noise Reduction
• Stereo Width Adjustment
• Addition of Ambience
• Dynamic Expansion
• Dynamic Compression
• De-Essing & De-Clicking
• Phase Correction
• Balance Correction
• Peak Limiting
• Track Sequencing
• Fades & Crossfades
• Track Markers (PQ)
• ISRC Codes
• Output to DDPi or PMCD


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Rates:

£350* +VAT per day
*Unsigned Artists: £275 VAT

Blue Pro Studios is the perfect place to record. Our control room and recording booth have been acoustically treated to extremely high standards and are fully air-conditioned.

Whether it is achieving your perfect drum sound, vocal or guitar take, you are in the right hands to get the best of you sounding its best.

We have a large selection of high-end microphones from Neumann, AKG and Seinnheiser and pre-amps from Universal Audio, CLM and Envoice, guaranteeing a quality recording chain.

Our engineers know how to get you results when recording and Blue Pro Studios has the right gear to make that happen at the highest level and the right price.


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Blue Pro Studios is the perfect place to record. Our control room and recording booth have been acoustically treated to extremely high standards and are fully air-conditioned.

Whether it is achieving your perfect drum sound, vocal or guitar take, you are in the right hands to get the best of you sounding its best.

We have a large selection of high-end microphones from Neumann, AKG and Seinnheiser and pre-amps from Universal Audio, CLM and Envoice, guaranteeing a quality recording chain.

Our engineers know how to get you results when recording and Blue Pro Studios has the right gear to make that happen at the highest level and the right price.

Recording Rates: 8 Hours (e.g. 10am - 6pm) £350 per day*


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To get your material produced by one of our superb team of producers including Charles Westropp, John Webber, Paul Borg and Jerome Schmitt please visit The Team page, decide whom you would like and then contact us with details of your project.

We can then arrange for you to meet and discuss your project with the producer of your choice at Blue Pro Studios.

Once approved and paid for, your track will be worked on by the producer of your choice, at the time of your choice, and the finished version can be sent to you in the post or made available as a secure download.


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Rates - £60 + VAT per hour.

Are you looking for a career in music? Then why not get one-on-one tuition with an experienced engineer?

Whatever area of music or media you are involved or looking to be involved in it always helps to know how things work. From learning Pro Tools (The Industry Standard Professional Recording and Sequencing Software) and professional approaches to a variety of modern recording, production and mixing techniques including advanced vocal tuning and compression we can arrange a bespoke program just for you.

You may have a small home setup and are just looking for the initial understanding of applications to help you profile your songs or recordings, are just tweaking your skills in lesser-known areas or are setting the foundations for a long career as a engineer.

Not only do we offer tutorials on an individual basis but you will learn from someone who is currently working in the industry and in a state-of-the-art commercial facility that is relevant and completely up-to-date with the ever-changing industry standards and more.

Lesson programs can be arranged to any duration of tutorial. Each lesson is booked in hourly slots.


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Blue Pro Studios is a division of AB Entertainment Ltd and is responsible for managing the engineers, songwriters and producers at Blue Pro Studios as well artists under development in its production division.

We also hold open auditions at times when we are looking for artists or session vocalists for new projects. These will be advertised via The Stage newspaper at least two months prior to auditions taking place.

We also look out for a wide variety of session musicians for both studio work with our commercial clients and our also own in-house production and writing projects.

AB Entertainment is also always searching for new songwriting talent.

If you believe your material has what is takes please send it in.

Please do remember to include full contact and track details on any material you send in.


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Recording Hardware: Pro Tools HD3 Accel, Digidesign 192 I/O, Digidesign 96 I/O, Digidesign 96i I/O, Digidesign Midi I/O, Apple Mac G5

Consoles: Mackie Control Universal, Mackie Control Extender X 2, Mackie C4, Mackie Control Big Knob

Monitoring: Dynaudio Air 20, Yamaha NS10-M Studio

Pre Amps: Universal Audio 2-610 Dual Channel Tube, Envoice Mindprint, Digidesign Pre, CLM DB200S

Dynamics Processors:
TC Mastering 6000 & Reverb 6000, Maselec MLA-2 Mastering EQ, Maselec MEA-2 Mastering Compressor, Manley Massive Passive EQ, SSL X-Logic G Series, DbX 160a, DBX 1066, SPL Transient Designer

Host Software:
Pro Tools 7, Logic Pro 8, Bias Peak 5

Microphones: Neumann M149, AKG C414 B-XLS (X2), Sennheiser MD 421 II (X3), Electrovoice RE20, Audio Technica 4050/CM5, Shure SM58, Shure SM57 (X2)

Sound Sources:
Korg Triton, Roland JV2080, Emu Vintage Keys Plus, Virus Indigo, BFD, Ivory, Stylus RMX, Atmosphere, Trilogy

Tape Machines: Tascam DA-30 MKII, HHB-850 CDR, Tascam MD-350

Plug Ins: Antares Autotune, Vocalign Pro, Line 6 Echo Farm, Waves Diamond Bundle,
Waves SSL Bundle:
Sonnox (Sony Oxford) Bundle

DJ Hardware: Pioneer CDJ1000MKII X 2, Pioneer DJM-600, Pioneer EFX-1000, Technics Sl1210MKII X 3

Additional: Lexicon MPX-1 Multiple Processor FX, M-Audio Pro-Keys 88 Weighted Keyboard


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Lounge:
Make full use of the spacious lounge where you can sit back and relax between takes, eat lunch (if you have an assistant booked they will be happy to go out and get it for you) and watch TV (free view). We also have a selection of several hundred movies for you to choose from to help you get through those epic sessions!

Wireless Internet:
All clients can also have unrestricted wireless broadband internet access for the duration of sessions so you can sit back and update your myspace, post your blogs or even start sending out your material as it gets finished in the studio!

Kitchen:
Clients can also make full use of the Kitchen. If you have an assistant on your session they will happy to collect or order lunch for you from a selection of local restaurants.

Storage:
We have an additional storage space to house cases for all your guitars and drums during sessions so that it doesn’t get under your feet.

CD Reference Library, Vinyl Sample Archive & DVD Movie Collection:
When recording, producing, mixing or mastering, some clients continually reference other commercial material that they may wish to emulate or are influenced by. With this in mind we have an extensive collection of material on hand. Just ask your engineer in your session.

We also have several hundred movies available for clients to watch during sessions on request and a vinyl sample archive.

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