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Panorama of the studio: live room, drum kit and control room under the timber roof

Recording · Newton Abbot, Devon

Recording

Bringing 25 years of professional studio experience owning ‘Broadwater Studios’, Dez has a creative and exciting portfolio in production over a massive selection of genre; Singer/songwriter, Rock, Folk, Acoustic, Funk, R&B, Metal, Podcasting, Voiceover… even bespoke Children’s Educational Songs and Spoken Word.

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Portfolio

Artists we’ve worked with

Alongside South West regional breakthrough artists such as Naylee and Oscar Nash artists have included Decca/Universal’s ‘The Longest Johns’, classical legend ‘Katherine Jenkins’, international multi award-winning ‘Eric Bibb’, Devon’s own ‘Naylee’, BBC ‘All Together now’ winner ‘Michael Rice’, ‘Eric Redd’, ‘Lisa Williams’, ‘Reiss Harrison’ and Against Habit’s UK chart smash ‘Blurred Vision’.

For songwriters who don’t have a band/production team behind them, we offer a specialist service which has become our trademark. International breakthrough acts Lisa Williams, Reiss Harrison, L-Ray, Mark Race and Clara Bond are all testament to that service. For all the above artists we turned their initial acoustic demos into full release commercial projects – Mark being subsequently signed with Sony.

Not just restricted to rock/pop, we have a growing portfolio of Hip Hop/Rap/Dance/crossover artists such as Consept & D6ix – producing each track bespokely in-house.

  • The Longest Johns
  • Katherine Jenkins
  • Eric Bibb
  • Michael Rice
  • Naylee
  • Andy Flannigan
  • Eric Redd
  • Lisa Williams
  • Reiss Harrison
  • Philip Jonathan
  • L-Ray
  • Mark Race
  • Clara Bond
  • Leona Whitfield

Please do listen through to our portfolio and see our equipment list below.

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The portfolio playlist

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Naylee · Bossy Bossy ft Seth

Studio options

Three ways to record

Producer at the desk in the studio under the exposed timber roof

Asaphs Loft

Situated in the heart of Devon in Newton Abbot, Asaphs Loft is a place where creativity and musical imagination combine and projects become alive. A place where both established musicians and newcomers are supported by the team to produce the sound they dream of. Open vaulted ceilings, cosy and creative vibe, mixture of classic analogue and industry standard digital equipment. Many artists who have a Logic Audio setup at home create collaboratively between home and the studio – it’s never been easier to achieve your audio goals.

Emmanuel Chapel set up for a music production session with laptops

Emmanuel Chapel

Alongside our Music Production Tuition sessions, the Chapel is a great location for more open recordings such as choirs. Much less controlled than Asaphs Loft for voiceover and spoken word but a superb choice for big sounding drums!

We partner with our parent company ‘ThriveTech Learning Ltd (opens in a new tab)’ to make up to 12x MacBook Pro computers available as part of our music production tuition sessions and courses – all with their own professional headphones and condenser microphones.

location recording greenscreen

Location Recording

We have invested in a fully portable professional recording setup whereby we can come directly to you and record. Whether you have a particular church hall that you love the acoustics of, are an educational facility that would like us to operate on-site or would simply welcome the opportunity to be creative where you are – we can come to you!

Alongside the popular church choir and school options – our portable location studio has become increasingly popular for those wishing to podcast professionally.

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Equipment

The kit

Our studio equipment is an exciting balance of classic analogue and breakthrough industry-standard digital tools; our classic Vox AC30 and valve mic collection integrating seamlessly with Logic Pro and top plugins like Slate Digital, BFD and SSL Native. The bedrock of each capture is our SSL desk partnering with combinations of the preamps, compressors and microphones listed below.

For those artists wishing to book our location recording option – we discuss in advance which microphones and instruments are requested to be available for each bespoke session.

Instruments

  • Yamaha CYP1 Digital Piano

  • Roland Fully Weighted Piano

  • Korg Triton

  • M-Audio Full size key controller

  • Roland JX1

  • Vox AC30c

  • Fender 2×12 Twin Channel Guitar Amplifier

  • Ashdown Bass cabinet with 150w head

  • Jalapeno Custom Drum Kit 18, 10, 12, 14, 16, 14 snare

  • Premier Classic Genista 22, 10, 12, 14, 14 snare

  • Alesis Nitro midi drumkit

  • Wide range of percussion inc Timbales, Congas and a Cajon

  • Range of acoustic, electric and bass guitars inc 2x Fender Telecaster & Strat, Les Paul Special, Fenix Strat, Fender Jazz Bass, Yamaha RGXa, Ibanez acoustic bass and Ibanez Acoustic

  • S.E. Large Reflexion Filter and a set of smaller instrument Reflexion filters are available to use in any of the live rooms

Hardware

  • Apple M Silicon & 2x Apple cinema Displays

  • SSL ‘Big Six’ Desk

  • Avid ‘Control 24’ digital mixing console

  • Focusrite ‘Claret’ series pre/convertors

  • ’73 Preamp

  • ’76 Compressor

  • SSL Alpha Channel Strip

Mics

  • S.E. Gemini 2, SE Gemini 5 and S.E. z5600 valve mics

  • 2x AKG C414

  • 2x S.E.4s

  • 2x Rode NT2 Mk1

  • 1x Rode NT1a

  • 2x Shure MV7

  • 1x Neumann U87 ‘MOD’

  • 1x SExRibbon

  • Shure SM Drum Mic Set

  • Audix D6

  • 2x AKG C1000

  • 2x SM58

  • 4x SM57s

  • 2x Joe Meek (WA 84 clone)

Monitoring

  • Focal Shape Twin alongside a reference pair of KRK G2 6” monitors/w/sub are in the main control room.

  • Each room has individual stereo monitor mixes with Beyer DT150 headphones.

Software

DAW

  • Logic Pro

Plugins

  • SSL Native

  • Arturia V Collection 5

  • Slate full plugin subscription

  • Waves Gold

  • iZotope Suite

  • Antares Autotune 8 & Pro

  • BFD3

  • Vienna Symphonic

  • Kick Ass Brass

  • Sound Replacer

  • Omnisphere

  • Smack

  • TL Native Plugins

  • Hybrid Synth

  • KOMPLETE

  • Slate Drum Replacement

  • Focusrite ‘RED’ series

Although all the equipment above is situated in the studio, if you are relying on a particular piece of equipment being there for your session you must confirm prior to the session to ensure it’s not hired out and is available for you to use.