Candy Ice D.Va@StarMount Studio

Candy Ice, celebrity and pop sensation was here for her recording on D.Va debut album. Lead by Candy as the executive producer, the young and talented team of Kido Lee (Producer) and Wee Ting (Vocal Coach) came up with some nice tunes, covering fast paced and slow ballad.

Vocal Chain: Tree Audio Branch and Fredenstein F200 for the fast and slow songs. Microphones were sE Gemini MK2 and Telefunken AK47, going into Lavry Blue AD. Tree Audio Branch was cranked up hot, and we worked the opto compressor for the rich harmonics and extra saturation on the song D.VA.

Fredenstein F200 was being used (courtesy of Ganz from Soundbuz) for the ballad. We were looking for a clean and big but not in the face vocals. It was great to have the F200 as it was not only has 2 channels, it has a compressor (transformer) and it can be used as parallel or just pure transformer sound from the compressor. I would say its such a thoughtful and effective way, especially for recording. We love the versatility and wished it could be de tented for a more accurate recall.
We blended Telefunken AK47 with AE2000 just to get the body and top end, mostly from the AK47.
Fredenstein can be clean and also colorful, compressors are forgiving and easy to operate as well.


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Classical Piano Recording

All the way from Qatar, we had Wassim Kaissi coming in for his piano solo pieces. sE4400 pair in AB spaced pair, carried by Analysis Plus Yellow Ovals, through the Neve Portico 5012 with Silk mode. 

Off The Cuff @StarMount Studio

Off The Cuff, a young and promising band came all the way from Singapore for their debut album. Featuring Meryl Joan Lee on vocals, Sooty Heng on the piano, Seow Yi Zhe double bass and Benjamin Low on drums.

We were excited to record the band as they also brought in the whole arsenal of Analysis Plus cables for the recording. Most were hooked up with the Yellow Ovals except Vocals and Double Bass on the Pro Ovals.

As usual, sE4400 stereo pair is our favorite for piano, JZ V12 for vocals, Ribbon tube on the double bass (sounded so rich and warm), as for drums, overheads sE 3, snare SM57 and bass drum e902.

We were lucky to have Artisan series of Dixon for the recordings as well. The set is coated with Dixon's patented liquid gold finish and we like what we see. As for sound we love what we're hearing from the drum kit. Although the 22"x 18" is a bit too large for us, but we're loving the warm lows from the kick. The flexible tuning range is definitely helpful in getting the right tone for the songs.

We had all Analysis Plus cables for the entire recordings, including the interconnects to the monitor speakers. Blue Ovals really helps the Quested V2108 to reveal more especially on the high frequencies, wider stereo field and we also noticed faster transients as well.

Neve Portico on vocals, and bass, Chandler TG2 for pianos and the rest through Zen console. All in all, the audio quality was surprising and it's definitely another pleasant and enjoyable session to all. We'll keep you posted on their album release, definitely not to be missed.

Enjoy :)

Great times and lots of fun. Frm left: Meryl, Yi Zhe, Sooty & Benjamin

Artisan with some really interesting cymbals.

Its full on Analysis Plus Cables! The white capped, purple one is the Pro Ovals...

Pro Ovals Instrument Cable for the DI.

Our already favorite sE4400 sounding ever awesome with the Yellow Ovals.

You must watch out for her.. great vocals!

The bass camp.

Even the piano is getting cozy with the comforters... Off the Cuff in action.

Pictures provided by Felix Voon@StarMount Studio

Cables ShootOut @ StarMount Studio

We had the opportunity to get our hands on a wide range of cables lately. We'll be doing cables shoot out with the following:
Analysis Pro- Black Ovals, Choc Ovals, Blue Ovals, Yellow Ovals, Pro Ovals.
VOVOX- Link Cables
LAVA Cables- Magma, Vintage Tweed, Retro Coil, Soar, LAVA ELC, Clear Connect, and LAVA Custom.

Other brands includes : DiMarzio instrument cables, Planet Waves instrument cables and Canare Star-quad cables.

We welcome all to join in the fun from 22 Dec 2011 till 27 Dec 2011. For enquiries or map to get here, please contact info@StarmountStudio.com for more informations. Sound samples will be up soon!