Untitled - Castle Rohrsdorf

The Studio at Castle Rohrsdorf is a
vintage analogue recording studio
hidden away in the hills just 15
minutes east of Dresden.
Crafted into a 14th century castle, this boutique
recording studio has three dedicated live rooms, a
flat control room and assorted natural acoustic
spaces.
The Studio at Castle Rohrsdorf offers artists a
unique location in which to record, write, stay and
create. With it’s exceptional historic location, this
property will be uniquely positioned as a
experience destination for artists from across
Europe and North America.
The 14th Century was first time Schloss Röhrsdorf
was mentioned as a manor and the estate was
expanded to a castle by the Von Carlowitz family. It
burned down in 1890 and was quickly rebuilt. It
has been a personal residence,a school, hotel, and
now a boutique analog music studio.
The heart of our new studio is a NEVE
66 analog 36 channel desk. Originally
used in the famous Centenary Hall in
Frankfurt.
Also featuring a vintage Telefunken Ant TRS 800, 16
channels, equipped with discrete Telefunken
preamps and EQ´s, a great sounding 48 channel
Soundcraft Vienna that formerly belonged to the
Dresden state theater and a small 12 channel Studer
Revox mixer that we use mainly for mobile
recordings.
Our 3500 ft² main studio facility offers a control
room that delivers a RT60-time of 0.5 seconds down
to 40hz and 3 recording rooms, each with a
distinctly shaped sonic character.
The 700 ft² main recording room provides a flexible
acoustic through exchangeable wall mounted
diffusers and / or absorbers. The live room with its
massive wooden floor and its speaker-cone-shaped
diffusors is perfectly suited for drum and string
recording.
Every room is visually connected
to through an elaborated window
system.
The damped room is ideal for electric
guitars and serves as a dry vocal chamber
too. An outstanding feature rarely available
in commercial studio facilities are the extra
large soundproofed windows that provide a
beautiful view through the tree’s of the
former castle grounds.
An amazing sounding reverb room
connected to the Neve desk is another one
of our secret weapons. The Boesendorfer
grand piano lives in the carlowitz hall. This
hall serves another facette of soundpossibilities through the many different
rooms this amazing castle provides.
Equipment List
NEVE 66 Analog 36 Board
#Recorder:
Tape: Studer A80 MK1 16 track 2" and Studer A 807 ¼"
Dat: Panasonic SV 3700
#Monitoring:
Geithain RL 900, Genelec 1031, Klein & Hummel O98, Accuphase E-405
feeding a pair of Baurs & Wilkens Matrix 801 (the 801 served as main
monitor at Abbey Road studios in the fab four days )
#Tube Condenser Microphones:
7 RFT CM 7151 large bottle mics, built-in V41 based tube preamp with 2
Telefunken EF12k, usable with Neumann M7-M9 - Capsules
5 Neumann CMV 563 with M7, M8, M9, M5, M55k capsules
2 Neumann UM 57 with build in M7 capsule and switchable polar pattern
1 Microtech Gefell UM92.1 s
4 Neumann M 582 with M93, M94, M62, M70, M71 capsules
#Condenser Microphones:
1 Neumann U87 AI
1 Neumann TLM 103
3 Neumann KM 84i
1 Neumann KM140
1 Neumann KM 86
10 Neumann Gefell MV 692 with M93, M94, M70, M71, UM70 capsules
5 Neumann Gefell PM 860 ( great sounding ceramic capsules )
1 Neumann Gefell SM 690 stereo
1 Neumann-Gefell AM 740 clip
1 AKG C414 EB
1 Oktava MK 319
2 Oktava MK102 (Scott Dorsey Modifikation)
#Ribbon Microphones:
#Dynamic Microphones:
#Boundary Layer Microphones:
#Outboard:
1 Sontronics Delta
1 Sontronics Apollo
2 Oktava ML-52-02
1 Electrovoice RE 20
1 Electrovoice RE 38 N/D
3 Electrovoice ND 408 B
1 Electrovoice ND 857 B
1 Electro-Voice N/D 857 Supercardioid
2 Electrovoice PL 5
1 Beyerdynamic MD 88N
7 Sennheiser MD 421
2 Sennheiser MD 441
1 Sennheiser 509
1 AKG D 112
2 AKG D 202
2 Revox M3500
6 Shure SM 58
1 Shure SM 57
1 Shure Beta 91
1 AKG C-680 BL
Tube and discrete transistorpreamps from
Telefunken, Siemens, Maihak and TAB.
#Tube:
#Discrete:
#Twin Topology:
#Tube Compressors:
2 Tab V 76 /120
2 Tab V 76 / s
1 Tab V 76 / 80
1 Tab V 76 / m
4 Siemens V 72
3 Tab V 72a
2 Lorenz V241 ( ÜV 300 )
1 Manley Voxbox
6 Tab V 376
4 Tab V 376a
6 Telefunken V676a
6 Telefunken V672
1 Telefunken V372
1 Tab V372DS
1 Millennia Origin STT-1 1,
1 Millennia TD-1
2 Tab U73B 3 stage varable mu comp/limiter similar operational
design like the Fairchild 670
2 Aphex 661 Tube Compressor/Limiter
#Compressors:
#Equalizer:
2x Telefunken U373 BK
2x Telefunken U373a
1x EMT 266
1x Orban 424A
1x Aphex Compellor
Passive Pultec style :
2x Eckmiller W86
2x Eckmiller W68a
Active Discrete :
4x Lawo W995
#Reverb, Delay, Efx:
30 m² physical reverb chamber with speakers / microphones
insertable through Neve patchbay
Lexicon PCM 80
Lexicon Prime Time ( in service )
TC Electronics D two
Yamaha SPX 900
Yamaha Rev 7
#Headphone System:
#Other Gear:
Hear Technologies personal monitoring system, 6 headphone
mixers, AKG Headphones K270/271/171/240 etc.
2 Audiorail units
CM Labs Motor mix
20 channel transformer based signal splitter from Telefunken and
Beyerdynamic
#DAW:
#AD-DA Converter:
#Software:
#Plugins:
Mac Pro 3.3 GhZ Westmere 6 core
24 GB Ram, SSD, 2
RME HDSP-e AES, 3 Monitors, 1x30“ and 2x21“ : 4900x1600 total
resolution running Mac OS Lion / Snow Leopard or Windows 7
2 x Apogee AD 16X + 2 x Apogee DA 16X, 32 ch in + 32 ch. out
connected to the Neve desk through the tt patchbay
3 x RME Adi 8 Pro, 1x RME Fireface
DAW-Software : Pro Tools HD 9, Logic 9, Ableton Live 8, SAW
Studio, Samplitude
Waves Platinum, Waves Q-clone, Waves Masters, East West
Complete Composers Edition, Flux Epure, Flux Verb Session, Lawo
Plugin Set, Stylus RMX, Melodyne, Antares Autotune, Xlnaudio
Adictive Drums, Mixosaurus Drums, ToonTrack EZ Drummer, EZ
Mix, EZ Keys,Vsampler, SIR Convolution Reverb , Har Bal Mastering
Suite, Antares Tube, Orange Vocoder, Beatcreator, SuperCamelPhat,
Izotope Spectron & Trash, Anwida DX Modulation Pack, etc etc ...
Instruments and Amplification
#Amps:
#Cabinets:
#Electric Guitars:
Vox AC 30 non top boost mfd :1962
Fender Twin reverb silver face mfd :1974
Diezel Herbert
Marshall JCM 900
Orange OR 120 mfd : 1979
Fender Princeton recording amp
Hohner Jazz
Framus Acoustifier 120
Ampeg SVT2 Pro
Trace Elliot GP12
London City DEA 100 MK iV amazing 100w Marshall plexi clone
mfd : mid 70ties
Suprem Solist
Orange 4x12 Cab vintage Greenbacks mfd : 1977
London City 4x12 Cab w. Vintage Greenbacks mfd : mid 70ties
Marshall 1960A
Marshall 1960TV w. Celestion heritage speaker
Ampeg SVT-810AV
Trace Elliot 1048H 4x10 cab
Gretsch 6120 mfd : 1959
Heinz.Seifert master-craftsman custom build hollowbody guitar
mfd :1967
Rickenbacker 4001 mfd : 1975
Rickenbacker Model 480 mfd : 1979
Fender USA Stratocaster
Fender USA Telecaster
Danelectro Bariton green ( ex Chris Whitley )
Danelectro Bariton blue
Gibson ES 335 mfd : 1979
Music Man Sting Ray
Warwick Streamer
#Acoustic Guitars:
#Keys:
Martin OOO-15
Martin D16 RGTE
Gibson Gospel mfd : 1982
Ibanez Concord 12string mfd :1975
Otwin Harmony Jazz mfd : 1955
Kurt Seifert master-craftsman custom build jazz guitar mfd :
1957
Boesendorfer 280 grand piano
Hammond H100 with Leslie 760 cabinet
Fender Rhodes
Clavia Nord electro 2
Roland Juno 6
Korg Mono Poly
Korg Prophecy
Hohner Basset
Yamaha S 80
Yamaha DX 7
Roland MC 303
Vermona ET 6
Vintage Böhm organ
Yamaha Maple Custom Drumkit, Istanbul Cymbals,
#Drums:
Sonor HLD 590 Signature bell brass Snare ( some call it the
queen of snare drums )
Ludwig Drumkit with 18“ Kick
Vibraphon mfd : 1960 in Leipzig
Kettledrum (Timpani)
#More:
Cajon de la Peru, Djembe, Conga´s, mixed percussion stuff,
Trumpets, Trombone, Saxophone, several violins, clarinet, ...
Hauptstrasse 3 01809 Dohna OT Röhrsdorf
+49 351/4082681
Studio Bookings:
arno@sacredsounds.de