RBF FREE STATE
Music Studio:
Built and designed by South Africa’s top acoustic engineers at a cost of nearly R2 million. RBF at the SABC, Bloemfontein offers the professional musician and sound engineer one of the best equipped music production studios in the country.
The recording studio is acoustically designed to offer 2 different acoustic areas. The first, with wooden refraction panels, is a live reverberation area for instruments with natural sound like piano, acoustic guitar, violins, flute and voice where you need the pure sound delivered to harmonize with the softer reflected sounds getting a dynamic, full, natural sound.
The result is a versatile recording studio offering you world class acoustics right here on your doorstep in the Free State.
Control Room:
- AMEK Rembrandt 32 Channel Mixing Console
- Digidesign Control|24 control surface with 16 x Focusrite Pre-Amps
- Cubase SX3 on a Pentium 4 Dual-Core with 2 Gigs of ram
- MOTU 24 I/O Soundcard
- Pro Tools HD-2 Accel system on a Mac Pro Quad Processor with 5 Gigs of ram
- 192kHz Digidesign audio interface with following commercial plug-ins:
- BF Fairchild Bundle & Pultec Bundle
- Eventide Anthology II bundle
- TC Electronics MD-3 Mastering Processor (from system 6000)
- TC Electronics DVR-2 Reverb
- Waves Platinum TDM Bundle (Gold/Renaissance/Masters)
- Pro Tools HD-2 Bundled plug-ins
Monitoring:
- 1 Pair Dynaudio Acoustics C3 Main Monitors
- 1 Pair Genelec 1031 Near-field Monitors
- Crown Studio Reference II Amplifier
Microphones:
- 4 x AKG C-414 B-ULS
- 2 x AKG C-414 BXL
- 1 x AKG D-112
- 4 x Audio Technica AT2020
- 4 x AKG SE300B with CK91 and CK92 caps
- 4 x AKG MD421
- 2 x Beyerdynamic M201
- 2 x Beyerdynamic TGX 5
- 3 x Beyerdynamic TGX 10
- 1 x Beyerdynamic TGX 50
- 2 x Crown PZM 30
- 6 x Shure SM 57
- 4 x Shure Beta 57A
- 1 x Shure VP-88
- 2 x Neumann U87
- 1 x Neumann SM69 FET
- 2 x Neumann KM84
- 4 x Neumann KM100
- 2 x EV RE-20
Outboard Gear:
- 1 SPL Charisma – 8 Channel Tube Processor
- 1 Eventide DSP 4000 – Ultra Harmonizer
- 1 Aphex Dominator II – Multi-band Processor
- 2 Aphex 104 – Aural Exciter with Big Bottom
- 1 Drawmer M500 – Dynamic Processor
- 1 T.C. Electronic M5000 – D.A.M
- 1 Yamaha REV 5 – Digital Reverb
- 1 Yamaha SPX 1000 – Multi-effect unit
- 1 Yamaha SPX 990 – Multi-effect unit
- 1 SPL Vitalizer – Psycho-acoustic Equalizer
Midi outboard:
- Roland R8M Drum Module
- Roland JV 1080 Sound Module
- Roland U220 Sound Module
- Roland D70 Super LA Synthesizer
- Roland XP80 Music Workstation
- Korg iS5 Interactive Music Workstation
- 2 Opcode – Music Quest 8 Port / SE Midi Routers
Analog Recorders:
- 2 Fostex D10 Digital Master Recorders
- 1 Tascam DA88
- 1 Nakamichi DRI Cassette Deck
