STUDIO 1 is a full service analogue and digital studio capable of handling the most demanding of sessions. The studio is owned and operated by engineer and producer Simon Berckelman and features a big, sun-drenched control room and a great large booth, big enough for all kinds of overdubs. The studio is modular in that it can be hired as a smaller mix/overdub space OR with the live room attached for tracking sessions.

The studio is a fantastic mixing and recording environment and has been tweaked to offer awesome mix translation as well as enough life to make writing and playing still fun. Simon has carefully built up a unique and extremely complimentary collection of analogue and digital equipment ranging from the obscure to the classics, the 50s through to the modern day. Vintage Neve, Quad Eight, API, Electrodyne, Neotek, and UREI are fed by an impressive new and old mic collection into analogue machines by Studer and MCI and/or Protools HD.

We are interested in and love to be involved with all kinds of sounds and artists from the underground all the way to the poppest of the pop. Get in touch for a studio viewing.

VIEW SIMON’S SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY HERE

Preamps/EQS:

• Neotek Series II 32 Channel/ 8 Bus console (recapped 2015) wired for 24 preamps/36 line ins

• 18 x Neve 1073 mic pre/eq (matched vintage mid-70s from the same console)

• 4 x API 312 mic pre custom racked for 500 series (vintage 70s original Huntington 2520 op-amps)

• 2 x API 550b 4-band EQ with Lieber Red Dot Op-Amps

• 2 x Neve 3115 mic pre/eq (vintage 70s, from Melbourn console)

• 1 x Great River ME-1NV mic pre/DI

Recorders:

• Studer A820 2" 24 track tape recorder (no extra charge to use one of the house reels, calibrated for 15ips, CCIR and ATR tape)

• Protools HDX Ultimate 2022 in Digidesign Chassis with Mac Mini

• Mytek Stereo96 AD (2 in & Clock)

• Mytek Stereo96 DA (2 out for monitor path)

• Burl Bomber DA

• AVID IO 24 in 32 out

• (Total 26 ins/ 36 outs)

• Ampex ATR 102 2 track half inch master recorder (30ips)

• 3m m56 2" 16 track tape recorder (15ips)

• Plugs from Waves, Soundtoys, Fab Filter, Valhalla, Weiss, Massey and more

Compressors:

• 1 x Highland Dynamics BG2 vari-mu tube compressor

• 2 x UREI 1176 Rev. D (Blackface) 1969

• 2 x UREI 1176 Rev. H (Silverface) 1978

• 1 x UREI LA-4 blackface optical compressor with mods

• 1 x Smart Research C1 LA VCA stereo compressor

• 3 x Quad Eight AM-2B optical compressor (70s)

• 1 x Federal (US Army Signal Corps) AM-864/U tube limiter (50s)

• 1 x MXR Dual Limiter stereo PWM compressor

• 2 x Valley People Gain Brain compressor

Outboard Effects:

• 1 x AKG BX20e Stereo Spring Reverb Unit (restored and recapped 2016) (1975)

• 1 x Eventide H910 Harmonizer/Delay (70s)

• 1 x Eventide H3000 SE Ultra Harmonizer

• 1 x Ursa Major Space Station SST 282 (vintage delay)

• 1 x Alesis Midiverb II

• 1 x 235 Tube Spring Reverb (custom built by Rerun Electronics)

• 2 x Dolby A Model 361

Mics:

• 1 x Voxorama u47 (hand built by Andreas Grosser in Berlin)

• 2 x Neumann U87 (1971 and 1972)

• 1 x RCA DX77 ribbon

• 2 x Coles 4038 (matched pair)

• 2 x Schoeps CMC5 with mk5 capsules (cardioid and omni switchable)

• 2 x Voxorama/MBHO m36 large diaphragm condenser MORE INFO

• 2 x Oktava MK 012-01

• 1 x STC 4021 "Ball and Biscuit"

• 1 x Yamaha NS10 Sub Kick

• 2 x BeyerDynamic M88N (1 x 70s, 1 x 60s)

• 1 x BeyerDynamic M88TG

• 1 x BeyerDynamic M201N

• 1 x Sennheiser MD421-2 (white)

• 1 x Sennheiser MD421-N (white)

• 1 x Shure SM7B

• 5 x Shure sm57

• 1 x Shure sm58

• 2 x Milab LC-25 Hyper Cardiod Stage Condenser (80s)

• 1 x Sennheiser 835s

• 1 x Shure Unisphere I 565SD

• 1 x Shure Unisphere B 588SA

• 1 x Akai computer mic

• 1 x Radioshack PZM

• 1 x RFT 50s East German factory telephone with XLR outs

• 1 x Radial JDI passive Jensen transformer DI

• 3 x Golden Retriever Custom passive Sowter transformer DI

Monitoring:

• Neumann KH310a 3-way powered mid/near fields

• Yamaha NS10-M near fields with restored Yamaha p2200 amplifier

• Mytek Private Q Headphone mixer system with 6 stations

• 1 x Stereo Custom Funk Elektronik headphone amplifier

• 6 x Extreme Isolation EX-29 headphones

• 4 x Fostex T40 RP headphones

• Panasonic Boombox

Instruments:

• Fender Musicmaster bass guitar (1978)

• Fender Mustang L series guitar (1964)

• Fender Mustang electric guitar (Japan 90s)

• Silvertone U1 electric guitar (1959)

• Fender USA Telecaster electric guitar (1999)

• Vester Korean Strat Copy with modified pickups

• Sigma 000-15 acoustic guitar

• Yamaha g3 Grand Piano (1960s)

• Steinway Model K Vertgrand upright piano (1907)

• Wurlizer 200a electric piano

• Roland RS-202 String Synthesizer (1976)

• Yamaha CS-5 analogue monosynth (with midi via Kenton Pro)

• Hammond B3 Organ and matching tube Leslie

• Hammond L-Series tube organ

• Yamaha YC45 Combo Organ

• 725 Leslie Cabinet (CURRENT BEING SERVICED)

• Modular Synth setup with many modules including Serge and Manhattan Audio

• Akai MPC1000

• Grestch Roundbadge drum set 22" Kick , 16" Floor (late 50s)

• Hoshino Japan drum set 22" Kick, 16" Floor. 12" Tom (1970s)

• Ludwig Vintage 1968 drum set 22" Kick, 16" Floor, 12" Tom

• Ludwig Vintage 1965 drum set 22" Kick, 18” Floor, 13” Tom

• Premier 1970s drum set 22" kick, 16" Floor, 12" Tom

• Yamaha Recording Custom 22” Bass Drum

• Yamaha Stage Custom 22” kick, 16” Floor, 13” Tom, 12”Tom

• Tama Superstar 22” kick, 16” Floor, 13” Tom (1980s)

• Rogers 60s 16” Floor Tom

• Rogers Dynasonic snare (1960s)

• John Grey & Sons Autocrat snare (1950s)

• Various Ludwig and other snares

• Zildjian Avedis 14" hi-hats

• Zildjian New Beat 14" hi-hats

• Zijdjian Avedis 20" ride (1960s)

• Zildjian "Sweet Ride" 21" crash/ride

• Ampeg B-15N "Fliptop" tube amp and 15" cabinet (1960s)

• Ampeg SVT-VR tube amp and 4 x 10 cabinet

• Kendrick bespoke Tweed Twin reverb clone 1990s

• Musicmaster HD 110 Tube guitar head

• Roland Jazz Chorus JC 120 2 x 12 Guitar Combo

• Marshall 2 x 12 Speaker Cabinet

• Fi-Sonic 2 x 12 Speaker Cabinet

• Fender Silverface Princeton re-issue

• Fender Deville 1 x 12

• Mesa Boogie Mk1 1 x 12 combo

• Guyatone transistor guitar combo (Tokyo, 1970s)

• Various other cheap tiny amplifiers

• 15" Eminence bass cabinet

• Lots of guitar pedals!