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CONTACT DETAILS & Other Services Offered

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 has recently acquired an Edirol R-44 4-track recorder for its location work. Backups may be made on DAT or minidisk recorders as required. Headphone monitoring is performed using Sennheiser or Beyer headphones. PMC TB1 monitors are used on location and PMC AB2 reference monitors at home for critical editing and listening.
As of June 2007, we now own an Apogee Rosetta featuring high resolution 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 or CDArchitect.

Typesetting & Design for CD booklets, inlays, promotional material, and catalogues.
Design and typesetting from rough draft to PDFs is all performed in-house a selection of DTP packages including InDesign, QuarkExpress, or CorelVentura plus a selection of specialist graphics applications. All our titles are now barcoded.

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

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Please click on the above link to send us an email, otherwise the address and telephone number appears next. Apart from the recordings featured on this site, OxRecs DIGITAL is able to offer a range of other services. Please contact us for further details. With thanks. Bernard Martin

Snail mail address

OxRecs DIGITAL, Maytree Cottage, 51 Eaton Road, Appleton, Abingdon, OXON OX13 5JH (Click to show map)
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 862310