Our Studio

Our Sound Engineer – Richard Brooker

Richard has worked in the sound industry for over 30 years, specialising in sound design and Mixing. Theatre credits include Dreamgirls, Funny Girl, The Bodyguard & Bend It Like Beckham. Richard has also mixed numerous live music television productions including the BBC Proms & BBC Glastonbury Festival as well as mixing live shows for artists such as Bjork, Tom Bailey, Simon Le Bon and Petula Clark.
He has also recorded and mixed projects for various artists including soundtracks and individual artists’ records.

Richard is the main engineer for all of Brookspeare Music’s online recording sessions and is also available to mix projects for clients that have recorded projects elsewhere.

To hear examples of Richard’s work, please click here. Or for more information, visit his website here: http://www.richardbrooker.co.uk/

Studio Information:

Studio 1 – Brookspeare Music Main Studio
Control room and live room
SSL Origin 32 console and PMC6-2 monitors

Studio 2 – “The Kiln Room”
Pro Tools mix /edit / writing room
C24 control surface and Quested monitors

Software:
We record in Avid Pro Tools (we can work with Logic Pro sessions)
We work with Avid Sibelius Ultimate & Dorico for score preparation etc.
We have multiple Waves plug-ins

Equipment:
SSL Origin 32 Console
Digidesign C24 Control Surface
Grace design Pre-Amps
AMS/Neve 1081 Mic Pre-Amps
SSL PureDrive Mic Pre-Amps
SSL Alpha VHD Pre-Amps
Antelope Audio Mic Pre-Amps
KV2 audio Mic Pre-Amps
24 x Analogue mix and summing buses with SSL inserts

Microphones:
Neumann
DPA
Sennheiser
Shure
Royer 121 ribbon microphones
Royer R10 ribbon microphones
Sontronics Apollo Stereo Ribbon Mic
Sony
Audio Technica
A selection of ribbon mics
KV2 audio D.I. boxes

Monitoring:
PMC monitoring
Quested monitoring

Other:
Digidesign/Avid control surfaces
Headphones and headphone amps/distribution
Van Damme Starquad cabling infrastructure