Recording Studio in London

The Best Value Pro Tools Recording Studio in London?

Quite possibly! Our London recording studio is equipped with the latest, cutting edge Avid Pro Tools HDX system, fabulous microphones and pre-amps, some great keyboards and a huge range of software instruments. It's a great, private environment in which to record and, with over 30 years of professional experience and expertise, is designed to guarantee that you complete your session with the ultimate in professional audio recording and production. If you're looking for a recording studio in London you can't beat Boomtown Studio's value

Check out our equipment list in the HARDWARE tab above.

Insulated Recording Booth

Our acoustically treated and insulated 2m x 3m vocal booth is of state of the art Studiobricks construction, both fully ventilated and daylight illuminated. When installed, it was one of the largest such booths in the UK. The directional LED lighting is adjustable to suit the performer's taste and the booth is big enough to accommodate several vocalists at a time. Up to eight pairs of headphones can be used simultaneously, all with individual volume controls to allow personalisation of monitoring levels. Yes, we have recorded groups of eight in the studio at one time - great for layering up choirs!

The booth can be both completely private (with no window to the control room) or with direct line of sight to the engineer if desired. This means that if a performer wants complete privacy whilst in the booth then no one else will see! We will, however, hear and record - and the results can be spectacular!

You can see more pictures of our booth here

Acoustically Treated Control Room

Our 4.5m x 3.5m control room is acoustically treated, air conditioned and has natural light. Although housing a console and a number of keyboards, we have room for about six people to comfortably attend a session - although a session with that many is rare! We have seating for 8 people max.

​Being daylight illuminated, you won't find yourself leaving the session thinking you've been in a cave all day and our air conditioning will help keep the atmosphere fresh!

You can see more pictures of our studio control room here

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Pro Tools 12 HDX Recording Studio

At the heart of Boomtown Studio is our Avid Pro Tools 12 HDX system. This allows recording to a full 256 tracks of 24 bit audio compatible with all other DAWs as well as industry film editing programs like Apple's Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premier. Our Pro Tools system is clocked by a rock-solid Apogee Big Ben synchroniser and complemented by a selection of top quality microphones and pre-amps.

Unlike London recording studios offering native-only recording rigs such as Pro Tools LE, Pro Tools HD Native, Logic, Cubase, Studio One, Nuendo, Ableton etc the HDX system allows true minimal latency monitoring as well as vastly increased processing power to run our substantial collection of AAX plug ins.

Latency is a major one - the ability to track (i.e. record) through plug-ins without significant latency is an important issue, and no native recording rig can deliver this at the moment. A vocalist recording through the right compressor will be encouraged to produce a better performance than without and Pro tools HDX allows this. Of the London recording studios offering Pro Tools HDX, we undoubtedly offer some of the best recording studio rates for such a highly specified system - a system used by AV professionals in similar studios the world over. 

Digidesign C|24 Mix Control Surface

Coupled with our multi computer Pro Tools set up is a Digidesign C|24 control surface. We truly believe that this piece of equipment, with the tactile feedback it allows, helps produce better sounding mixes as it encourages the engineer/producer to rely more on listening rather than staring at a computer screen - and that can only be a good thing. After all, what do all the Pros say? "Use your ears"!

Boomtown Studio Microphones

We have a carefully chosen selection of top quality microphones to suit all voices and styles, from valve condensers, a ribbon mic and small diaphragm capacitor mics through to dynamics. Our favourites are:

Pre-amps by Slate Pro Audio (the new, fabulous FOX being our latest addition), Broadhurst Gardens, Oram, TL Audio and Digidesign handle the audio inputs to our Pro Tools HDX rig.

Check out our microphone list and pre-amps under the HARDWARE tab above.

Boomtown Studio Plugins

Every Pro Tools based recording studio has its prized selection of digital plug-ins for enhanced processing and we are no exception. Our already highly specified system is, of course, complemented with a wide range of plug-ins to ensure that you get the perfect, professional recording. As well as those by Avid, we have the latest plug-ins by Antares, Aphex, Brainworx, Eventide, Izotope, Massey, MsDSP, Sonnox, Sound Toys, Source Elements, Synchro Arts, Wave Arts, Waves and more. We have all the top auto-tuning plugins - and we know how to use them - as well as some more esoteric ones. 

Check out our plugin list in the PLUGINS tab above.

Running a Pro Tools HDX rig, our plugins are all AAX. However, due to the wizardry of Blue Cat Audio's MB7 and Patchwork, we are able to run VST plugins in our DAW as well, so please let us know if you have any special requirements in that area. It could be that you have a favourite VST plugin which hasn't made it to the AAX platform. If that's the case we should be able to run it!