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Major Key Studios
Welcome to Major Key Studios, The Midland’s premiere recording studios. Based at The Public, a unique media and arts centre near Birmingham, we offer services for artists and professional producers who need reliable, repeatable top quality audio.
At Major Key Studios we cater for any size of ensemble, whether you’re a solo artist or an orchestra, we can provide the space your require. Our modern and spacious control room is tie-lined to a 300 capacity theatre and two recording booths. It also houses the award winning SSL 4000E recording console, which is linked to both analogue and digital recording systems.
The team at Major Key Studios has a wealth of experience and are always at hand to offer friendly and expert advice.The Public
The Public in a nut shell...
Sandwell Arts Trust is a registered charity set up to run The Public - an exciting creative, community, cultural and business space in the heart of West Bromwich.
It is a world class building set in the heart of Sandwell – today one of the most deprived areas in the UK but with a long history of creativity, innovation and community pride which changed the world.
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MAJOR KEY STUDIOS!
The Company
The vision of Major Key Studios has always been to combine the traditional and modern, bringing young fresh thinkers and industry professionals together to create a recording environment that is unique and unparalleled anywhere in the Midlands.
Major Key Studios was founded in 2007 by Phil Savage. Phil debuted as a singer at the Star Club in Hamburg at the age of seventeen and was later signed as a recording artist to Decca Records. He then went on to run his own recording studios, the infamous Outlaw Sound studios in Birmingham, working with the likes of Duran Duran, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Fine Young Cannibals, The Specials and Black Sabbath.
The Family
With over a 100 years combined experience, the staff at Major Key Studios are at hand to help you through every step of the recording process. Besides Phil, our two senior engineers Don and Ian have worked closely with many artists and a vast array of equipment, and put this experience to good use within the studio. Ian Grimbley has also toured extensively throughout Europe and America both as a musician and front of house sound engineer. He has worked with the likes of Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Ministry, Rage Against The Machine and Ramstein. He is an established studio engineer and producer.
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Equipment
About Our Work
SSL 4000E mixing desk as favoured by many top producers because of the combination of features such as compression, expansion, noise gating and limiting on all channels coupled to its renowned flexible, accurate and transparent equalisation.
JBL large format monitoring system features 2 x 15" speakers per side which means that low frequency content can be heard within the sub sonic range which allows accurate mixing decisions to be made that are critical to the quality of the final product. Many near and mid field systems run out of energy rapidly below 50 hz meaning that sub sonic balance becomes largely guesswork.
Pro Tools HD3 is combined with dual quad core Mac Pro technology and converters by Lynx and Digi Design provide multitrack recording, editing and processing to professional standards. We also offer Otari 24 track analogue tape recording and the option of mixing either format onto an ex EMI Classic Studer C37 valve stereo tape recorder circa 1962.
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Contact Info
Major Key Studios
The Public, New Street, West Bromwich, B70 7PG
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Email:0121-533-7137
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Based within the Public building the recording suite has been built to the highest specification and features a 48 square metre control room, a drum booth and an additional booth for vocals, brass, amplifiers etc. A comfortable green space with kitchen facilities is available for rest and relaxation.
Don Stewart began his career working as a test engineer at Audio Developments in Walsall. He then went on to start up the company Rebis Audio with two friends and then built Mike (Tubular Bells) Oldfield's customized wrap around mixing desk. Rebis Audio ran for 15 years and built recording equipment for a host of studios, including the BBC. His designs were subsequently taken up by Klark Technik who still manufacture and supply to professional users worldwide.
JBL large format monitoring system features 2 x 15" speakers per side which means that low frequency content can be heard within the sub sonic range which allows accurate mixing decisions to be made that are critical to the quality of the final product. Many near and mid field systems run out of energy rapidly below 50 hz meaning that that sub sonic control becomes largely guesswork.
Joe Savage is our ‘vision’ guy, filming and editing our studio sessions, and any other events that take place at Major Key Studios. Joe graduated with a Masters in Documentary Film Making at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2008 and has put his accreditation to good use by filming over 200 videos since starting work at Major Key in 2008.
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