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NTFC Studio

NTFC Studio is the place were our ideas take form and get ready to be plaied live. At the studio we also make the tests for Chitarre and accordo.it magazines. The studio is thought for pre-production, mixing and mastering. Many albums have been processed here and client such as HER and Franco Ventura (among others) had their music stepping in the studio.

 
NTFC Studio

What they say about us

Indaba Music Community, sep 2009:
e-miliano has been a featured artist at Indaba: "Emiliano Girolami is a guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and recording engineer from Rome, Italy. He has worked with several prestigious artists, has traveled the world, and was featured in Festival Pigro 2007. His newest musical project, No Trip for Cats, combines rock, blues, funk, electronica, jazz, and even bossa nova as gracefully exhibited in "Giallo d'autunno." Certainly a well-accomplished veteran worth checking out"

Recording Review, jul 2007:
Brandon Drury ( recordingreview.com) talking about our mixing skills: "(...) Your mixes sound very clean but very good. Maybe just a tad too clean for my tastes, but that's just an engineers preference and consumer would ever give a damn. Great work. It doesn't sound like you are having any trouble with your monitoring rig"

Computer Music Magazine, may 2006:
Nell'ambito del concorso Jingle Mania per la ricerca di un commento musicale ad un video proposto dalla rivista: "il suo downbeat è sembrato interessante, giocoso e fresco. Il ritmo, pur essendo scandito, è fluido e mantiene una sua semplicità fino alla fine in cui un effetto ci introduce al labirinto visivo del logo CM2 (...)"

Studio gear

The new studio has been setup to simplify the workflow and improve the audio and video quality. Hw and Sw components have been carefully selected (price has been kept into account too), this is the result:

PC:
CPU Quadcore i5 at 3,4MHz, 8GB RAM, 2x1TB HD (7200 rpm, SATA3)

Audio card:
TC Electronics Konnekt 24D (14 in - 14 out with 1 Power core DSP to support Fabric C and Fabric R plugins), Zoom R16 (mobile recorder, audio card, controller), Behringer ADA8000 ADAT A/D/A converter

Controller:
Presonus Faderport

Software:
Cakewalk Sonar X1 Producer Expanded, Cockos Reaper 4, Sony Soundforge Studio 10, Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD 10, Sony DVD architect 4.5

Plugins and DSP cards:
Focusrite Liquidmix 16, iZotope Ozone 4, IK Multimedia T-Racks Singles 3.1 and CSR Reverb, Cakewalk Dimension Pro

Monitors:
Tascam LF-S8 subwoofer, AKG 271 headphone, Adam A5X and KRK Rokit 5 monitors

Outboard:
Audient Black Pre, Eq, 2xComp, 2xGAP Pre-73 preamp, Channel strip (A class) Focusrite Voicemaster pro, Tube channel strip TLAudio 5051, multieffect TC Electronics M-OneXL and M350, compressor/gate TC Electronics C300, stereo compressor Focusrite Compounder, processor Behringer DEQ-2496, Mackie VLZ3-402 mixer, SM Pro Audio PM-8 passive summing mixer, EP84 8 channel mic preamp

Mics:
2xNeuman U87 (vintage), AKG solidtube, Audio Technica 4040, Shure SM58, SM57, Behringer B5, ECM8000, AKG D310

Guitar amps:
Brunetti SingleMan 16, Koch Studiotone combo, Koch Studiotone head, Blackstar 2x12 Artisan speaker, Fender Blues Junior, Fender Champion 600, Ibanez ValBee, Blackstar HT5 head, Blackheart Little Giant 5 head, Blackstar HT-110 cabinet

Guitars:
Gibson Les Paul Standard 2008, Gibson SG Special Faded, Gibson Les Paul Junior, Fender American Special Tele, Eastman AR805CE, Cort CJ10X, Line6 Variax 600, Dano '63

Guitar effect processors:
Line 6 Pod HD500, Boss GT10, TC Electronics Nova System, 2xNova Drive, Boss OD-3 and DS-1, Ibanez TS-808 overdrive, Jam pedals Dyna-ssoR and TubeDreamer, EH Little Big Muff, ProCo RAT, Chandler Tube Driver rack, Roland GP16.


Drum machine:
Boss DR-880

 
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