50:50 Studios, London

Professional Recording Studio in Collage Artspace 2 (Chocolate Factory 2) North London. Wood Green for 15 years and counting.

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50: 50 Studios is a cosy little recording studio in Wood Green, North London which provides professional recording facilities for singer /songwriters, producers, bands, editing, and voice overs. It is the ideal place to record overdubs for full album projects, and is very popular with many of our clients who wish to write and record in one session. We have close ties with some of the best session musicians in the UK through our network and are happy to make introductions for appropriate projects.

The Studio is equipped with a Pro Tools HD2 Accel system on an 8 Core Mac Pro with 12 GB Ram, running Pro Tools 10 and Logic Pro 9.

We have a fantastically warm, playable and characterful Steck baby grand piano tuned to concert pitch that sounds like it's just fallen off a Joni Mitchell or Neil Young record, and for those wanting a brighter sound there is a wealth of samples including Synthogy Ivory. Currently, Ben Trigg has made 50: 50 the home for his staggeringly beautiful Baby Grand Butterfly Wurlitzer (with incredible working speakers! ) making this an ideal, vibey writing room. We provide an excellent option for artists, publishers, managers and labels alike.

There is a top selection of new and vintage mics including: Neumann U47 Fet; 2 x 70's Neumann U87; sE NEve RNR1 Active Ribbon; Brauner VM1; Neumann M149; matched stereo pair of Neve sE RN17 pencil mics; matched pair of AKG C451; AKG C414 XLII; sE TITAN; matched pair of sE Voodoo VR2 active Ribbons; Shure SM7, Beta 58 and SM58; sE X1 Ribbon; and a Golden Age R1 Active Ribbon.

We have 4 channels of custom racked Neve 1272 preamps; 2 channels of Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5012; 2 Rupert Neve Designs 5017 Preamp /DI /Compressors; 2 Golden Age 1073 Pre's; 2 channels of Rupert Neve Designs 5043 Compression; a rupert Neve Designs Master Buss Processor; a TubeTech MEC1A channel strip; a Urei 1178 stereo compressor and a TubeTech ME1A EQ as well as an Apogee Symphony 16x16 AD /DA converter. Summing is through a Neve Portico 5059 Satellite Summing Mixer and if you're in the mood, there's a Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5042 Tape Saturation unit too.

Monitoring is through sE Munro Eggs, Yamaha NS-10's, and Avantone Active Mixcubes via a Presonus Central Station along with Denon AH-D7000, AKG K271, Sony MDR 7506 and Beyer DT150 headphones, all making it the perfect place for top quality overdubs.

Alongside the baby grand there is also a Busilacchio electric Harmonium as well as the option to hire in one of Chris's vintage acoustic guitars including Gibson made vintage epiphones: 1963 Epiphone Frontier; 1964 Epiphone Texan; and 1965 Epiphone El Dorado. Also available is a Resonator, a Taylor K65 Koa 12 String and a Tanglewood acoustic set up in nashville tuning.

Electric guitars include a Gibson Les Paul standard, 1982 Fender Squier JV series Strat, Gibson 335, Epiphone Sheraton, and Watkins Rapier.
Amp-wise there is a 1960's Fender Twin Reverb Blackface, a Fender DeVille, and we have some good friends who we can hire pristine vintage amps in at a very reasonable daily rate.

There is of course, an extensive library of sampled keyboards, strings, drums and whatever else you can think of for Logic and Pro Tools.

Recent clients include Chris Difford, Martin Rossiter, Jonathan Jeremiah, Ayanna Witter-Johnson; Rosalie Deighton and Steve Balsamo, Cameron McIntosh (for Disney), Marti Pellow, Matt Deighton, Dennis Bovell, Athena, Linda Lewis, Ollie Sloan, The Bench Connection, Emma-Jane Thommen, Noel and Ewan Cowley, Christina Fielder, Ben Trigg and Chris Sheehan (me! )

Studio Rates:

Available on request.

Discounts available for multiple days and repeat bookings

For bookings and any other questions please contact us on here or email fiftyfiftystudios@me.com