Middlesbrough College recording studios

This is my third and final year attending Middlesbrough college, I can honestly say I have enjoyed my time here. The teachers in particular are what makes this college great (in my department at least).

This is the smallest control room, it features a Soundcraft desk, studio monitors, a PC this Cubase, a Fostex hard disk recorder, MOTU audio interface and a rack of outboard gear.

 The PC is merely an Intel core i3 desktop, mounted in a rack on the bottom. It does the job however, I don't actually do any mixing on the PC in this room so it doesn't need the processing power. All the mixing done in this room is done through the Soundcraft. The room is acoustically treated and sounds like a control room should (dead) it has an average noise level of around 30dB with the PC running, but can't really handle more than a couple of engineer in the room at one time. I'v spent some time recording bands into this room into Cubase, saving the files onto my USB stick and mixing the tracks down at home. Even though I don't have a good set of studio monitors yet at home (or even a treated room to place them in) I find mixing through this desk and a bit of outboard gear too limiting for my taste. 

The outboard rack consists of a Behringer headphone amp (which gets the job done I suppose but it's only Behringer) a compressor and the T.C.electronic M350 reverb and delay unit.

I enjoy using these effects but I can't see myself buying them for my studio. I particularly like the T.C.electronic M350 reverb/delay unit. T.C. are a great brand and some of their stuff is amazing... but software is so much more appealing to me!

I'v been keen on trying convolution reverb techniques recently throughout my house. Just because it means I can produce a reverb sound that I can design and control from the ground up. This could then become part of my signature sound to differentiate my mixes slightly from others, giving a Munro "sonic stamp" to my tracks!

This is one of the live rooms