Cinderford SoundSpace
Music Makers new building is in the grounds of Heywood School, Cinderford. (see “How To Find Us” on rh menu for directions). It offers four soundproofed rooms and a small control room for music rehearsal production and recording. Each room is equipped with drum kits, bass amps and vocal PA. Other equipment is available including computers, keyboards, DJ decks and African percussion. (see below for full list).
Rooms can be hired for any period between 1 hr and all day depending on availability. Rates depend on age. For under 25s these are based on a payment per person per hour. Payments must me made in advance.
There is an after school club for ages 11 to 16 on Thursdays from 3pm to 5pm.
Meetings, training and conferences
The space is also available for meetings, training and conferences. Tables, chairs and Audio Visual equipment can all be booked.
Recording
Recording is available at various levels. There are computers that can be hired to make a simple recording within your practice room. For high level recording, the whole building can be booked, and up to 16 tracks recorded at once with mic feeds from separate rooms and monitoring via up to 4 separate headphone mixes. We have recording engineers available.
Availability and Equipment.
Full list of equipment and room availability see www.fdmm.org.uk/bookings To request a booking please email Mark Bick or call 01594 825124. Availability depends on staffing as well as other bookings. We cannot usually staff the building for a single room booking.
Equipment
Four drum kits – Mapex pro M and VX Rock, Pearl Export ELX, Premier Cabria Fusion.
Cymbals - Sabian XS20 and Pro Sonix Zildjan ZBT
Four bass amps - Ashdown Electric Blue, Eden E15S and Hartke B600
Vocal amplification – Mackie SRM450 powered speakers, Studiospares 10″ actives. Mackie, Behringer and Tapco mixers. SM58 mics and stands.
DJ decks –Vestax PDX-A1MK2
DJ mixer - Numark DMX-09
Electric piano - Roland EP 880
Mico Korg synth and vocoder
Keyboard - Yamaha CS1X keyboard
Set of West African drums
Desktop Soundbeam - movement to midi converter with associated switches. This device is primarily to enable music making for those who would struggle to physically control a conventional instrument.
Recording equipment
Mackie ONYX 1640 16 channel mixer with 16 channel fire card
PC recording computer, custom built with Cubase, ACID Pro, Reason and Ableton Live software.
Adam A7 studio monitors.
Joe Meek JM47 vocal mic
AKG D112 bass drum mic x 2
AKG C18 drum mics x 4
Shure SM58 and SM57 mics.
Behringer DI100 DI boxes x 6
AKB 1000s condenser mics x 4
Lexicon MX200 Graphic EQ
Behringer MDX2200 Composer Pro Compressor/gate/limiter
TC Electronic M300 reverbHeadphones – Beyer DT100 x 5, AKG K-271 and Sennhieser HD28 x 2Alto HPA46 and Sampson S’phone Q5 headphone amps.