TAMA Superstar Kit
Our standard rehearsal kit, available for all rehearsal sessions. It features a 22" kick drum, xx" high rack tom, xx" low rack tom, xx" floor tom, and enough hardware to hang your washing on. Cymbals can be hired separately.

"The Humbug"
Comprised of bits of kits found on distant travels to imaginary places, this drum set was assembled by James over the years, stripped down, re-painted, upgraded and modded. Complete with go-faster stripes and Karate-chop action, its exact composition is now lost to time, suffice to say it has a disproportionately huge rack tom and a kick sound like your head's caving in.

Drum Kit 3
Another drum kit featuring plenty of things worth talking about...

Drum Kit 4
Yet another drum kit. This one is different and interesting because of all the things I'm about to talk about...

Snare Drum 1
Description coming soon...

Snare Drum 2
Description coming soon...

Snare Drum 3
Description coming soon...

Vox AC30
A classic valve guitar amplifier. No description necessary. Available as standard for all recording sessions, or to hire for rehearsals.

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. Signal-breaking fatness, can be hired as part of the "Equipment Cupboard" add-on with rehearsals.

BXR Bass Amplifier
This amp comes as standard with all rehearsal bookings. It's loud and powerful, and...

Marshall Valvestate
This Marshall amp is for rehearsals...

Line 6
This amp sits in our rehearsal space, looking, ever looking, for love.

One day, it knows it will come.

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 modified Panasonic WM-61A capsule with a schematic modified to enable phantom power. Used almost exclusively as room and ambient microphones, they are designed specifically for mounting to surfaces.

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.

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.

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 + Subwoofer
This PA System has survived at least the last two great extinction events (although the Cretaceous-Tertiary was a bit of a close one!)... and it's great because it has a subwoofer! ...available for rehearsals.

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.