Claycastle Recording Studio, Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland. Offering you the latest digital and analogue recording for your professional needs.

Welcome to Claycastle Recording Studio Our new state of the art recording facility boasting an impressive 250 square meters of studio live room (the largest in the south of Ireland), isolation booths, vocal booth and a spacious control room. All the rooms are professionally treated with acoustics, each with its own unique sound characteristics designed to help you bring out the best in performance. For your comfort we also have a kitchen, green room (lounge), toilet & shower.

Situated on the south coast of Ireland, Youghal Co. Cork is a beautiful and historic town, which offers some great leisure activities as well as great dinning & entertainment.

Media Transfers - Transfer your cassette or vinyl to CD.

Adverts & Messages - Get a professional Phone Message or Radio Advert for your business recorded here.

The Studio we have a large selection of microphones (nuemann, shure, akg, rhode, shenniser etc) in the studio. claycastle studios uses neve & audient preamps with manley eq and comprssion ,recording both 16 and 24 bit digital with logic pro, digital perfomer, ableton live .to optimize your recording. There is also a selection of in house instruments, amplifiers and synthesizers (analogue & digital) for your convenience.

Live Music Recording - CD Mastering - Outside Recording - Live sound engineer for your gig/event.

Highly competitive rates and special deals for young bands.


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Ableton Live Course

The course will take place June / Sat. 28th – Sun.29th
@ Claycastle Recording Studio Youghal Co. Cork.

Course description

Ableton live is a music production / DJ technology software package. Whether you are an absolute beginner or already using Ableton Live, this weekend crash course is designed to give the user a good overview/introduction to the software. The course may not be suitable for advanced users.

System Configuration:Setting up mac/pc for use with Live and audiocard settings for MIDI and audio applications within Live.
MIDI Programming:Creating drumloops, Basslines, Hooks and synth-leads in Live.
Audio Editing/Programming:Warping, cut’n paste, top'n tailing and sequencing audio loops for use in music productions.
FX / Processing:Using Ableton plug-in FX to bring colour and life to tracks.
Tips & Tricks: For more effective mixing results.
Audio Mixdowns & Rendering:2 - track mix creation for playing out.
DJing in Live:Warping / MIDI Controllers / Audiocards / Live Looping / Live performance.
Sound Creation:Creating your very patches using Ableton Live; including leads, percussion and the all-important 'hook'.
Basic Mastering for CD:Rendered 2-track mixes get the final works before burning to CD!

Instructor - Barry Dempsey: Barry Dempsey (Virtue, Monad)
www.myspace.com/djbarrydempsey

Students are required to bring their own Mac/Pc (desktop/laptop), audiocard and headphones. The course begins at 10am and ends at 6pm, with an hour for lunch from 1pm to 2pm each day.

Total Cost: €300 (with a deposit of €150 to be paid by or on the 20th of June)
To book a place, please call 024/90885 or email ableton@claycastlerecording.com

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Getting there
http://www.buseireann.ie
http://www.irishrail.ie/home
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN

Local accomodation
Hostel - www.evergreenireland.com
Guest House - www.rosevillebb.com
Hotel - www.walterraleigh.com


Drum Line

Drum- Line is an online drumming service that enables a musician/band/artist from anywhere in the world, recoding at home or elsewhere to have drums tracked to their song. All they have to do is send the track (without drums) to Drum-Line and Drum-line will track the drums for the artist at the studio and return the newly recorded drum tracks to the artist for mixing upon payment.

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Warren Tivy takes an ASP008 for a spin

Check out the latest review from Audient.com a company whose mixing console designs set new price/performance standards during the '80s and '90s in both the recording and live sound fields



Latest Albums ::   Video Production :: We offer video production

Sarah Cummins: A collection of Pop / Soul sounds

Shane Supple: A collection of Country Music with a Blues feel

True Deleusion: A collection of hard hitting Rock songs

Nicole Maguire: A singer songwriter with melodic indie soulful sound

Bev Hurley: Collection of Rock and hard hitting self penned Original songs

Barry Teirney: A collection of contempory folk /trad & rock songs

These are just some of the artists who have recorded in our studios recently

 

 

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CLAYSOUL -
M. Violations (sunset mix) video sample


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