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Equipment

The USSS comprises six studios with a wide range of hardware and software for use in music production and sound recording, post-production and editing, and composition and design.

Studio hardware and resources

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The USSS has a wide collection of microphones from leading brands such as Neumann, DPA, AKG, SE Electronics, Shure, AudioTechnica, and Sennheiser.  

The six studios are designed with different approaches to music and sound creation in mind:

Studio 1 - Large Control Room

• Audient ASP8024HE 24 channel analogue console with patchbay and Dual Layer Control (DLC)
• Mac M2 Studio Max
• Neve 33609/N stereo limiter/compressor
• Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor compressor
• RME Digiface Dante
• Ferrofish A32Pro Dante audio interface
• Audient ORIA Immersive audio interface and monitor controller
• Stereo & 8.1 channel Genelec monitoring

Studio 2 - Large Live Room

• Live room variable acoustic
• Marshall Origin 50 Head & Origin 2x12 cabinet
• Orange CR60 amplifier
• Ampeg SVT-7 Pro bass head and Pro Neo 410HLF cabinet
• Yamaha Stage Custom drum kit with Sabian AAX cymbals
• Upright Piano

Studio 3 - Stereo Composition and Playback Room

• Mac Mini M2 Pro
• RME Fireface UCX
• Arturia MatrixBrute Synthesiser
• Ableton Live Push2
• Genelec monitoring

Studio 4 - Surround Sound Composition and Playback Room

• Mac Mini M2 Pro
• RME Fireface UFX
• Genelec 5.1 monitoring

Studio 5 - Stereo Control Room

• Mac Mini M2 Pro
• RME Fireface UFX
• SSL UF8 Control Surface
• Octopre microphone preamp
• Genelec stereo monitoring

Studio 6 - Foley Studio and Live Room

• Foley pits and materials
• Large screen with connection to studio 1

Software

• Logic Pro
• Ableton Live
• Sibelius
• GRM Tools Complete II
• UAD Plugins
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Reaper
• Audacity
• MuseScore
• PureData and the USSS Tools
• Supercollider
• Csound
• The USSS Tools

Concert sound system

The USSS Sound Junction concert system is a 32-channel 3-dimensional diffusion system with custom software and hardware. The majority of the 32 loudspeakers are Genelec (10*8040A, 1032, 1031, 8030, 7070subs). Playback is from a dedicated PC running the software (written by in Supercollider) through a control voltage fader-box. Audio interfaces are MADI RME (MADIface and M32DA).

The development of the concert sound system has been made possible by the generosity of alumni and staff through contributions to the University’s Alumni Fund.