About
“the only limitation is your imagination…”
dbstudios is Shanghai’s premier digital studio; based in the heart of tianzifang shanghai’s tai kang lu art district we offer seven dedicated recording/mixdown rooms, a dedicated piano room (housing a beautiful japanese built Yamaha), a 72 square metre live room, a 55 square metre wooden floor drum booth, a “Disney standard” vocal booth & a funky electronic music development suite (with 5.1 mixdown facility) alongside a comfortable reception/preview room with our own well stocked bar!!!
5 x i-macs running Mac OS X 10.8.2
Protools 10 (throughout studio)
also Logic Pro/Ableton Live/Cubase 7 & iZotope Ozone 5 pro with Slate Digital Virtual Tape Machines for unsurpassed in the box mixdown and mastering…
Lots of controllers/interfaces/submixers & most importantly channel after channel of class A Avalon. Focusrite & Universal Audio pre-amps for that depth & warmth of sound that only this quality of pre-amps & A-D converters cab deliver…
also profire-lightbridge/NRV 10, M-Audio 2626 giving optional 36 simultaneous microphone inputs (with additional award winning Drawmer gating, Focusrite Liquid Saffire and Octane pre-amps and Tampa (temporal harmonic alignment) compression available in studio 2).
with unsurpassed monitoring facilities (award winning M-Audio EX 66s/Yamaha HS50Ms & KRK Rokit 5s)
what about microphones?
our microphone range is second to none boasting a Neumann TLM 103, a pair of sE Titans, a pair of sE R1 ribbon microphones, a Sputnik (used on Madonna’s last album), three Lunas, a matched pair of Pulsar IIs, Superlux R 102 mkII a pair of Superlux s241s, three SM 58s, two 57s an AKG D112 and a full Audix drum kit with lots of great headphones/splitters and sub-mix possibilities…
with a host of keyboards and MIDI controllers…
the “only limitation is your imagination.”
For details of our live/rehearsal room please see “Live Sound & Recording”