Untitled - Castle Rohrsdorf

Castle Studios is a vintage analogue
recording studio hidden away in the
hills just 15 minutes east of Dresden.
Crafted into a 14th century castle, this boutique
recording studio has three dedicated live rooms, a
flat control room and assorted natural acoustic
spaces.
Our specialized services like cd and t-shirt factory,
backline and tour-bus rentals, the band hotel, a
nice rehearsal room and booking support qualify
this place as an excellent starting point for any
touring musician.
Castle Studios offers artists a unique location in
which to record, write, stay and create. With it’s
exceptional historic location, this property will be
uniquely positioned as a experience destination for
creative minds from across Europe and North
America.
The 14th Century was first time Schloss Röhrsdorf
was mentioned as a manor and the estate was
expanded to a castle by the Von Carlowitz family. It
burned down in 1890 and was quickly rebuilt. It
has been a personal residence,a school, hotel, and
now a boutique analog music studio.
The heart of our new studio is an analog
42 channel NEVE 66 desk, which formerly
served as a live recording desk in the
famous centenary hall in Frankfurt.
Also featuring a Studer A80 MK1 2“ tape machine, a
selection of rare vintage outboard gear and microphones
that helped shaping the sound of countless hit records
make it possible to explore the realms of classic sound.
Our 3500 ft² main studio facility offers a control room
that delivers a RT60-time of 0.5 seconds down to 40hz
and 3 recording rooms, each with a distinctly shaped
sonic character.
The 700 ft² main recording room provides a flexible
acoustic through exchangeable wall mounted diffusers
and / or absorbers.
The live room with its massive wooden floor and its
speaker-cone-shaped diffusors is perfectly suited for
drum and string recording.
The dry room is ideal for electric guitars and can also
serve as a commentators booth.
Every room is visually connected
through an elaborated window system.
The musicians are able to see each other while
maintaining a perfect sound isolation. Proper
communication and individual headphone mixes
are available in each room through multiple eight
channel personal monitoring systems, enabling a
real time „live“ recording possibility, where all
musicians can play instantly together while
tracking. This saves a lot of time and will most
often perceptibly enhance a band´s performance.
An outstanding feature rarely available in
commercial studio facilities are the extra large
soundproofed windows that provide a beautiful
view through the tree’s of the former castle
grounds.
An amazing sounding natural reverb room
connected to the Neve desk is another one of our
secret weapons.
A Boesendorfer 280 grand piano waits to be played
in the carlowitz hall. The hall shows another aspect
of the sheer endless sound-possibilities this
amazing castle provides.
Equipment List
#Mixing Decks:
#Analog Recording:
#Monitoring:
#Tube Condenser Microphones:
#Condenser Microphones:
Neve 66 42 channel, RTW metering, TT-patchbay, motorfader. Fully recapped in 2010/11
Telefunken TRS 800, 15 channels of discrete Telefunken eq´s and pre´s
Soundcraft Vienna 2 44 channel, classical recording console
Studer 12 channel portable mixer
Studer A80 MK1 16 track 2"
Studer A 807 ¼"
Telefunken M36 ( military-version of M15a)
Geithain RL 900
Klein & Hummel O98
Genelec 1031
B&W Matrix 801 & Accuphase E-405
7 RFT CM 7151 large bottle mics, usable with Neumann M7-M9 - Capsules
6 Neumann CMV 563
1 Neumann UM 57
1 Microtech Gefell UM92.1
1 Neumann KM254
4 Neumann M 582 fits M93, M94, M62, M70, M71 capsules
2 Neumann U87 AI
3 Neumann KM 84i
1 Neumann KM 86
5 Neumann Gefell PM 860
1 Neumann-Gefell AM 740
1 Oktava MK 319
1 Sony ECM 50
1 Neumann TLM 103
1 Neumann KM140
8 Neumann Gefell MV 692 (M94,UM70...)
1 Neumann Gefell SM 690 stereo
1 AKG C414 EB
2 Oktava MK102 ( Scott Dorsey modification )
#Ribbon Microphones:
#Dynamic Microphones:
#Boundary Layer Microphones:
1 Sontronics Delta
2 Oktava ML-52-02
1 Sontronics Apollo
2 Golden Age R1 MK3
1 Electrovoice RE 20
1 Electrovoice ND 168
3 Electrovoice ND 408 B
1 Electro-Voice N/D 857
1 Beyerdynamic MD 88N
3 Sennheiser MD 441
1 AKG D 12
2 AKG D 202
6 Shure SM 58
1 Electrovoice ND 868
1 Electrovoice RE 38 N/D
1 Electrovoice ND 857 B
2 Electrovoice PL 5
7 Sennheiser MD 421
1 Sennheiser 509
1 AKG D 112
2 Revox M3500
1 Shure SM 57
1 Shure Beta 91
1 AKG C-680 BL
#Outboard:
#Tube:
#Discrete:
#Twin Topology:
#Tube Compressors:
Tube and discrete transistorpreamps from
Telefunken, Siemens, Maihak and TAB. 2 Tab V 76 /120
2 Tab V 76 / s
1 Tab V 76 / m
3 Tab V 72a
1 Manley Voxbox
1 Tab V 76 / 80
4 Siemens V 72
2 Lorenz V241 ( ÜV 300 )
6 Tab V 376
6 Telefunken V676a
1 Telefunken V372
4 Tab V 376a
6 Telefunken V672
1 Tab V372DS
1 Millennia Origin STT-1 1,
1 Millennia TD-1
2 Tab U73B 3 stage varable mu comp/limiter similar design like Fairchild 670
2 Aphex 661
# Discrete Compressors:
#Equalizer:
#Reverb, Delay, Efx:
2x Telefunken U373 BK
1x EMT 266
1x Aphex Compellor
2x Telefunken U373a
1x Orban 424A
passive pultec style :
active discrete :
2x Eckmiller W86
2x Eckmiller W68a
4x Lawo W995
30 m² physical reverb chamber
with speakers / microphones insertable
through Neve patchbay
Dynachord Echocord Super
tube tape delay
Lexicon PCM 80
Yamaha SPX 900
Digitech IPS 33B
TC Electronics D two
Yamaha Rev 7
Super Harmony Machine
#Headphone System:
#Other Gear:
Hear Technologies Hear Back, personal 8 channel Headphone
monitoring system, 10 headphone mixer units, several AKG
Headphones K270/271/171/240 etc.
Control room : 2 Stax electrostatic headphone systems
2 Audiorail units
CM Labs Motor mix
20 channel transformer based signal splitter Telefunken/ Beyerdynamic
Black Lion Audio Micro Clock MK2
Panasonic SV 3700 DAT Tape recorder
#DAW:
Mac Pro 3.3 GhZ Westmere 6 core, 24 GB Ram, SSD
Pro Tools HD Native card,
2 x Digidesign digital 192 I/O,
30“ Dell U3011 TFT
PC Intel Core I5 Haswell 3,4 Ghz Quad Core 8 GB Ram, 2xRME
Digiface OS : Lion / Snow Leopard & Windows 7
#AD-DA Converter:
#Software:
#Plugins:
2 x Apogee AD 16X + 2 x Apogee DA 16X, 32 ch in + 32 ch. out ,
fully routable to the Neve desk, outboard gear or the studer tape
machine through the tt patchbay
1 RME Fireface
3 RME ADI 8
2 x Pro Tools HD 9, Logic 9, Ableton Live 8, SAW Studio,
Samplitude
Waves Platinum, Waves Q-clone, Waves Masters, East West
Complete Composers Edition, Flux Epure, Flux Verb Session, Lawo
Plugins, Slate Digital FG-X, Stylus RMX, Melodyne, Xlnaudio
Adictive Drums, Mixosaurus Drums, ToonTrack EZ Drummer, EZ
Mix, EZ Keys,Vsampler, SIR Convolution Reverb , Har Bal Mastering
Suite, Antares Tube, Orange Vocoder, Beatcreator, SuperCamelPhat,
Izotope Spectron & Trash, Anwida DX Modulation Pack, etc etc ...
Instruments and Amplification
#Amps:
#Cabinets:
#Electric Guitars:
Vox AC 30 non top boost (1962)
Diezel Herbert
Marshall 1959 "Plexi"
Hohner Jazz
Ampeg SVT2 Pro
Trace Elliot GP12
Suprem Solist, 30W Tube combo
Fender Twin reverb (1974)
Marshall JCM 900
Orange OR 120 (1979)
Framus Acoustifier 120
Fender Bassman 50 w. orig. cabinet
London City DEA 100 MK iV (1975)
Orange 4x12 Cabinet
London City 4x12 “
Marshall 1960A
Ampeg SVT-810AV
vintage Greenbacks (1977)
vintage Greenbacks (1975)
Marshall 1960TV
Trace Elliot 1048H 4x10 cab
Gretsch 6120 (1959)
Heinz Seifert Master build guitar (1967)
Rickenbacker Model 480 (1979) ( auf Tour )
Fender USA Stratocaster
Fender USA Telecaster
Danelectro Bariton (1972, ex Chris Whitley )
Danelectro 63 Hornet
Gibson ES 335 (1979)
#Acoustic Guitars:
#Keys:
Martin OOO-15
Martin D16 RGTE
Gibson Gospel (1982)
Ibanez Concord 12string (1975)
Otwin Harmony Jazz (1955)
Duncan Africa Suubi OM-SR
Kurt Seifert master-craftsman custom build jazz guitar (1957)
Boesendorfer 280 grand piano ( in the castle )
Hammond H100 with Leslie 760 cabinet
Fender Rhodes
Clavia Nord electro 2
Roland Juno 6
Korg Mono Poly
Korg Prophecy
Hohner Basset
Yamaha S 80
Yamaha DX 7
Roland MC 303
Vermona ET 6
Vintage Böhm organ
#Drums:
Yamaha Maple Custom Drumkit, Istanbul Cymbals,
Sonor HLD 590 Signature bell brass Snare ( heavy metal ...)
Ludwig Drumkit with 18“ Kick
#More:
Cajon de la Peru, Djembe, Conga´s, mixed percussion stuff,
Trumpets, Trombone, Saxophone, several violins, clarinet, ...
Hauptstrasse 3 01809 Dohna OT Röhrsdorf
+49 351/4082681
Studio Bookings:
[email protected]