CONTROL ROOM
LIVE ROOM
DEAD ROOM
FLOOR PLAN
CONTROL ROOM
The meticulously designed control room sounds incredibly balanced throughout with ATC mains and several nearfield options.
It is spacious enough for everyone to comfortably hang out together, with stacks of pedals, keyboards, amp heads etc all ready to hook up together and send out to cabs in different rooms. It’s a really creative and inspiring space for writing and overdubbing.
The Cadac J-Series console is the heart of Black Bay and sounds exceptionally warm and open – a real discovery for anyone who isn’t familiar with the Cadac sound.
LIVE ROOM
With oak floors and pitched ceilings, the Black Bay live room is something really special, having gained a reputation for an incredible drum sound. It brings acoustic instruments to life without overwhelming them, piano, guitars and strings really sing and drums can sound properly massive. It is very easy and quick to get any sources sounding superb.
This huge space has been designed to sound big and open when you want it to, but the bespoke acoustic design is highly adaptable. Through the use of positioning, and our movable treatment, you can use the room to achieve a wide range of acoustics. We also have ties into all neighbouring rooms that can be used as isolation booths for amps etc.
DEAD ROOM
The dry acoustic space is a big room in its own right at 40 square metres and has good sight-lines to the Live Room and Control Room beyond.
It has a very close acoustic thanks to the heavy acoustic treatment, but still sounds balanced.
There’s ample space to record a full drum kit and/or multiple musicians and the room also houses our extensive range of vintage, weird and wonderful guitars and backline – all ready to be picked up and played. It is often utilised as a standalone 'b' room for recording, overdubbing, writing, editing etc.
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“Black Bay is one of the best studios I've ever worked at. It has one of the greatest drum rooms in the UK and a beautiful control room - in the most stunning locations. Why would you want to work anywhere else?!"
Adrian Bushby - Foo Fighters, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, Placebo, Everything Everything...
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Black bay is perfect. pete is perfect. cal is perfect. cosmo is perfect. i am so lucky to have made a record there. thank you for all of it. i love you black bay.
Kathryn Joseph - Artist
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"Black Bay is a rare gem, the combination of an amazing sounding live space and a quality control room, that just so happens to be situated in one of the most idyllic locations in the UK"
Dan Moyler - Dua Lipa, George Ezra, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, BANNERS…
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Black bay studio is one of those special places that you hope you could come back to record as soon as you leave. from its location to the owner pete and his engineer cal. its the perfect place to make a record.
Dani Castelar - Paolo Nutini, REM, Snow Patrol, Black Foxxes…
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"THERES NO PLACE I'D RATHER MAKE MUSIC THAN BLACK BAY, IT FEEL LIKE A HOME AWAY FROM HOME AT THE SAME TIME AS IT FEELS LIKE STEPPING INTO ANOTHER WORLD."
Lucia & The Best Boys - Artist
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"Black Bay is the best residential studio I've ever been to - it's the new Rockfield; but better!
Cam Blackwood - George Ezra, London Grammar, Florence & the Machine…
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“Black Bay is a hidden gem. An equisitely kitted out studio in the most secluded setting. 10 Stars.
Stuart Braithwaite - Mogwai, Silver Moth…
