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Gavin Monaghan


Last Updated: 12/15/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: Married
Age: 47
Sign: Libra

City: Wolverhampton
Country: UK
Signup Date: 3/12/2005
Monday, March 06, 2006 

Current mood:  energetic
Category: Music
MAGIC GARDEN STUDIOS
Dedicated to the spirit of rock and roll since 1989.
Accept no imitations or substitutes. We are the originals.

Frequently Asked Questions and General Information, Part One.

SEARCHING FOR YOUR SOUND?
So are we. It's actually all we care about. You won't find any huge egos or primadonna behaviour here. Just a professional, quick, friendly service with no timewasting. We believe the place for rock and roll attitude is onstage, not behind the mixing console. We know your best is inside you somewhere, and we want to bring it out for everyone to hear.
Our reputation is at least as important to us as yours is to you, and since we don't advertise in the conventional manner, it's all we've got.
Oh... that, and our impeccable track record!
There are no "typical" sessions. Every single artist is different and deserves to be treated as such. This is our secret... Tell everyone you know!

VINTAGE GEAR?
Oh yes. Lots. Tube mics, Tube compressors, British, American, East German, Russian, SSL, Audix, Neve/TweedAudio, A beautiful AKG tracking mixer with six vintage 70's preamps, Altec, Lomo, Coles, RCA, Sony, Shure, Fairchild, Pride of place goes to a Neumann 1936 CVM536 pre-war tube bottle mic, a 50's AKG C12 rebuilt and modified, A TUSK Audio DAC with wordclock for pristine audio, a custom-built Plate Reverb, Raindirk and Groove Tubes custom DI boxes, vintage Marshall, Orange, MESA Boogie, RSC, Acoustic and Danelectro guitar and Bass amps, pedals, Valve mics, ribbon mics, A Dummy Head binaural stereo microphone called "Mavis", Dynamic mics, carbon mics, speaker mics, analog synthesisers, a Hammond, a Rhodes, a Vox Continental organ, other weird-ass keyboards, real piano, a sitar, a vintage valve recording console used on Bowie's "Space Oddyssey" (see Bowie and Mick Ronson sitting behind it it in the video) ATC monitor speakers from the legendary Rolling Stones mobile studio, two Audix compressors used by Brian Wilson, a Green Altec Valve compressor, and a six-channel Altec mixer from Abbey Road in the 60's, *NEW* Tech-Wizard Keith Tromans has made me Several beautiful hand-made germanium stereo mic preamps and Direct boxes using selected components from the 1950's in individual bakelite boxes (these have to be heard to believed), and a full range compressor with a frequency response of DC to 1Mhz!-Genius! a Drawmer 1960, several weird echo units, Lexicon, Klark Teknik, Roland, Korg, Zoom, Yamaha and Dynacord digital reverbs, Channel strips from the mixing console used to record "Creep" by Radiohead, a vocal mic once yelled into by Mick Jagger and slurred into by Ian Brown, an GBS spring reverb from the legendary Studio one in Jamaica... It's a veritable rock and roll circus of artefacts pressed into everyday use, and all of them sound Killer. We also have long years of experience and the necessary skills to make it all happen, and make your sessions as pain-free as possible.

NEW GEAR? DIGITAL EDITING, AND ALL THAT STUFF?

Absolutely.

Magic Garden is centred around a DIGIDESIGN PRO TOOLS HD4 system, on QUAD processors, Running 7.4 with ELASTIC AUDIO, with CONTROL 24 surface and an AUDIENT summing amplifier plus every plug-in and virtual instrument imaginable, including Autotune, SoundReplacer, Every DSP plugin in the amazing UNIVERSAL AUDIO range, McDsp, Waves, DUY,EMI/Abbey road, URS, PSP, Smack!, Line6, Nomad, Impact, SSL, Spectrasonics, Native Instruments, IK Multimedia AMPEG SVX, GRMtools, Pluggo, Vocalign, Fxpansion, BBE, Celemony, Steinberg, Bombfactory, Massey, Beat Detective and hundreds of others. There are also fully loaded versions of Cubase SX3, Wavelab, and Emagic Logic. We are experts with digital recording platforms and have years of experience. There's also bags of outboard including the legendary SSL mix bus compressor for making your mixes loud and proud. An accurate control room and five sets of monitors (ATC Eastmill SCM300, wonderful KRK E8's, NS10, AVANTONES, Epicure, and Panasonic and Pure blasters wired in permanently) ensure your songs will stay large all the way to the car or the radio.

WHAT ABOUT THE LIVE ROOM?
Quite simply put, the Magic Garden drum sound kicks ass. Ask anyone who's been here. We have a huge concrete stairwell as the ultimate echo chamber for those John Bonham/Dave Grohl power rock drum sounds, a huge selection of mics, and the drum room itself is equally suited to very dry sounds too, We can record practically any drum sound currently in your head, your heart, or your record collection. We have a separate dead room for overdubs and vocals, it's very dead indeed, which gives an extremely focused sound, great for crushing rock guitar tones and intimate vocals.

Magic Garden is purpose built to make music. It's not an afterthought crammed into someone's spare bedroom, it's been established over sixteen busy years with satisfied artists and hit records. A lot of hard work, constant updating and continual refinement continues to go into making it able to deliver the sound you want.
Need more info? See Part Two of the FAQ, or direct your queries to gavonmonaghan@gmail.com listed.

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