TAMA Superstar Kit
Our standard rehearsal kit, available for all rehearsal sessions. It features a 22" kick drum, 10" high rack tom, 12" low rack tom, 16" floor tom, and enough hardware to hang your washing on.

Gretsch Renown Drum Kit
The Swiss army knife of drum kits - it'll do jazz, it'll do blues, it'll do hip hop and metal. It's done it all. The last time we took the padding out the kick drum the aftershock was reported in Belarus by a plumber named Dmitry.

"The Humbug"
A kit assembled by James throughout years playing in noisy bands and collecting bits of kits from long-forgotten places. Stripped down, hardware replaced and repainted, it's exact composition has been lost to time but it definitely has an unusually large rack tom, super high hats and a kick sound like your head is caving in. 

Premier Modern Classic Snare Drum
14x6" maple snare drum, stripped down, re-hardwared and painted minty fresh.

Pearl Seamless Aluminium Snare Drum
14x6" aluminium snare drum. Has plenty of "thud" whilst maintaining good presence.

Tama Metalworks Snare Drum
14x5.5" steel snare drum. Very bright sounding; just the right amount of snap to punch a hole through your mix. More conventionally "pop" sounding than our other snares.

Vox AC30
A classic valve guitar amplifier. No description necessary, suffice to say that if it's good enough for David Evans, it's good enough for us. Available as standard for all recording sessions.

Fender Twin Reverb '65
85-watt, all-valve combo amp. Sound made of glass. Crystal clear tone at frighteningly loud volume. An excellent amplifier. Available for all recording sessions.

Peavey Valve Amp
Old, cranky but gnarly sounding amplifier. It sounds like it's broken but all the better for it. Perfect for adding that "almost broken up" sound to your guitar recording.

Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier Solo
A punishingly loud, extremely versatile guitar amplifier. Kept in our live room for rehearsals and recordings. Its distortion excels for metal, but can used to beautiful effect for basically any genre.

Marshall AVT 150H Valvestate
A fairly standard guitar amp for rehearsal sessions. Use it for recording as well if you like. It probably has a button for that.

Fender BXR 300C
An extremely versatile bass amp capable of satisfying players of any genre. Fantastic when overdriven and sporting excellent EQs for extreme tone shaping.

Laney DP150
150W bass amp with a plethora of flick switches and slidey knobs that provide good tone shaping functionality. Can drive you to the shops on a rainy Sunday.

4x12 Speaker Cabinet
Generic speaker cabinet for guitar. Contains 4x 12" speakers.

Marshall AVT 4x12 Speaker Cabinet
Guitar cabinet containing 4x 12" speakers.

Kustom 2-15B Speaker Cabinet
A huge speaker cabinet containing 2x 15" speakers. Makes your bass sound loud. Also aids fracking.

Peavey 410TX Speaker Cabinet
4x 10" bass speaker cabinet with very powerful low frequency output.

Trace Elliot 4x10 Speaker Cabinet
Bass cabinet containing 4x 10" speakers.

Epiphone SG
An electric guitar whose history with the studio is every bit as long and complex as its owner's.

Fender Precision Bass
Re-wired and re-potted, it's everyone's favourite: the P-Bass.

Coles 4038
Classic BBC ribbon microphones, useful to make any abrasive source sound like angels eating ice cream.

CAD Trion 8000
A versatile, dual-diaphragm, class-A valve condenser microphone. Great for vocals and for flattering your mother.

Neumann U87
Large diaphragm condenser microphone, very popular as a vocal mic. Great for female vocals in particular with its high dynamic range and neutral tone.

Shure Beta 98
This suspiciously small hypercardioid condenser microphone can take a whacking SPL and sounds fantastic on snare drum. It gets used in that application a lot.

Audio Technica AT4050
Workhorse large diaphragm condenser microphone. Has a crisp top-end response, useful for situations that require extra sizzle.

Audio Technica ATM450
Small diaphragm, side-address condenser microphones that can handle abnormally high SPL. These find applications everywhere, not least all over the drum kit. Reaches places other mics can't.

TCR-61A
Proprietary electret condenser microphone unique to Third Circle Recordings. Uses a Panasonic WM-61A capsule modified to enable phantom power. Used almost exclusively as room and ambient microphones, they are designed specifically for mounting to surfaces. Different heads denote subtle performance mods.

Electro-Voice RE20
Classic, powerful dynamic microphone with pronounced proximity effect for extra Woganism. Great on kick drums and Frasier Crane. Doubles as a steak tenderiser.

AKG D112
Offspring of the famed D12 but improved in tonality. Very strong mid-range, if you go for that sort of thing.

Beyerdynamic DG58
Condenser mic for percussion, modded with an extra-long gooseneck for those hard-to-reach places. Adds attack when it's needed most.

Beyerdynamic M201
Dark sounding hypercardioid dynamic microphone. Good for bass amp mid-range and jet engines.

MXL R144
An inexpensive ribbon mic that I get a surprising amount of use out of. It's fantastic on a guitar amp, especially when combined with a more trebly counterpart.

Rode NT5
Matched pair of small diaphragm pencil condenser mics which sound great in a wide stereo configuration on stringed acoustic instruments.

Shure SM57
Weird sounding dynamic mic.

Shure SM58
The drunk man's SM57. Ours have black grills, for extra slickness.

Allen & Heath Saber Mixing Desk
We use an Allen & Heath Saber MkII 32-channel, 16-bus mixing desk, providing us a quiet signal path, great sounding parametric EQ and plenty of routing flexibility.

Adam A7X
These are our control room near-field monitors. 8" cones and ribbon tweeters, these speakers are transparent, non-fatiguing, and have excellent bass response.

Seventh Circle Audio Modular Preamps
The 8 microphone preamps within this module were custom built by us here at the studio. Containing 3 distinct flavours, the N72 delivers the character of the highly sought-after Neve single-ended, class A, transformer-coupled console modules, whilst the transformerless C84 and single-stage A12 offer greater transparency but still with up to 70dB of clean headroom.

Revox B77 Tape Machine
2-track, quarter-inch tape machine, popular in the 80s. Fun to mix down to.

PA System + Subwoofer
This PA System has survived the last two great extinction events (the Cretaceous-Tertiary was a close one). It has two Yamaha S112V speakers and 15" subwoofer. Available as standard for all rehearsals; makes your synth sound fatter than your mamma's mamma.

Dehumidifier
The DD122 Mk5 Classic delivers over 300 Watts of sheer air sucking power. One of the most effective pieces of hardware in any studio, this little baby represents the gold standard of desiccant dehumidifiers, easily securing its reputation in the elite pantheon of modern ambient control devices.