Contact OxRecs DIGITAL

CONTACT DETAILS & Other Services Offered

Any enquiries about our products may be directed here, otherwise the address and telephone number appears at the bottom of this page. Apart from the recordings featured on this site, OxRecs DIGITAL is able to offer a range of other services. Please write, telephone or email for further details. With thanks. Bernard Martin

Location Sound Recording
For most recordings, OxRecs prefers to use only two microphones carefully positioned to give both equal preference to whole soundstage, whilst capturing the natural ambience of the building acoustic. Several microphone configurations can be used, of which two are favoured. The first is somewhat unique in that each unit has a different pickup characteristic using either a Sennheiser MKH 30 (figure-of-eight) for left/right signals, plus a Sennheiser MKH 40 (cardioid) for forward pickup. The signal from both these microphones is processed and matrixed such that the two channels may be adjusted to allow the image to be altered from mono to a very wide stereo perspective. Alternatively, two spaced (previously B&K) DPA 4006 omnis are used. Choral and instrumental recordings are made using a combination of the above and supplemented by further DPA 4011 or AKG microphones as necessary.
OxRecs records directly to harddisk thereby reducing transfer time from tape following the recording sessions. Backups may be made on DAT or minidisk recorders as required. Headphone monitoring is performed using Sennheiser or Beyer headphones. Quad amplification drives PMC TB1 monitors on location and PMC AB2 monitors at home for critical editing and listening.
As of June 2007, we now record in 24-bit using Apogee Rosetta AD/DA converters.

Digital editing, P/Q encoding and CD mastering
Digital editing is always performed using FastEdit, and SoundForge is occasionally used to process the soundfiles before mastering onto CD using CDRWIN.

Typesetting & Design for CD booklets, inlays, promotional material, and catalogues.
Design and typesetting from rough draft to camera-ready copy is all performed in-house a selection of DTP packages including InDesign, QuarkExpress, or CorelVentura plus a selection of specialist graphics applications. Most of the booklet and inlay text is researched and written by Bernard Martin, with the help of valuable resources from the Bodleian Library Music Section, and text provided by our customers.

Sound Restoration and processing
Recent acquisition of a Ferrograph Logic 7 (half-track) allows the transfer of tape recordings (3.75, 7.5, 15 ips).
Sound restoration tools to aid tidying of old recordings (de-hiss, de-crackle)

One-off promotional CDs

Music typesetting using Personal Composer

Snail mail address

OxRecs DIGITAL, 37 Inkerman Close, Abingdon, OXON OX14 1NH (Click to show map)
Tel: +44 (0) 1235 550589