The Airfield Studio

St Merryn

Owned by guitar legend Jo partridge and crammed with vintage gear, the airfield has been home to hitmakers including Muse and Steve Harley – multiple live rooms, and accommodation available.

£550 per day discounts available for longer bookings

Wide view of a professional recording studio control room with a large mixing console, speakers, and equipment racks.
Recording studio live room showing a drum kit surrounded by microphone stands and cables on a decorative rug, with a floor lamp providing warm light, a guitar leaning against a mic stand, and vintage amplifiers visible to the right.
Close-up overhead view of a large professional mixing console with rows of faders, knobs and channel strips, flanked by studio monitor speakers and a computer screen displaying a DAW desktop.
Atmospheric recording studio live room with a miced-up drum kit on a patterned rug, a sunburst electric guitar on a stand, a floor lamp, exposed wooden ceiling beams, and coloured ambient lighting in purple and blue tones.

Sample work

Equipment List

Control Room
  • Audient ASP8024 36 channel console
  • Mac Pro with Logic Pro
  • Focusrite RedNet A16R Mk2 (2)
  • Quested 212C monitors
  • Yamaha NS-10M monitors
  • KRK Rockit monitors
  • KRK 10S active sub woofer
  • Auratone monitors
Power amps and crossovers
  • HH
  • Studiomaster
  • Harrison
  • Quad
  • ATC
  • Amcron.
Outboard
  • DBX 160 compressor/limiter
  • DBX 160X compressor/limiter (2)
  • Bellari RP583 compressor/limiter
  • Urei LA-22 compressor/limiter
  • Yamaha GC2020B compressor/limiter
  • Joe Meek VC7 mic pre
  • Focusrite ISA 428 four-channel mic preamp
  • Focusrite ISA One analogue preamp (2)
  • Focusrite Liquid 4Pre
  • Focusrite Liquid channel
  • Klark-Teknik DN 780 digital reverb
  • Lexicon PCM 91 digital reverb
  • Lexicon PCM 70 digital reverb
  • Yamaha REV 7 digital reverb
  • Yamaha SPX 60 Mk2 digital reverb
  • Roland SRV-2000 digital reverb
  • MXR digital time delay
  • Korg SDD-3000 digital delay
  • EMT plate
  • Orban 622B parametric EQ
Rack mounted synthesizers, samplers and drum machines
  • Akai S900 sampler
  • Shadow GTM 6 guitar to MIDI converter
  • Roland MKS-50 synthesizer module
  • Yamaha TX 81Z FM tone generator
  • Yamaha TX 802 FM tone generator
  • LinnDrum drum machine
  • Roland TR-808 drum machine
Microphones
  • Neumann U87
  • AKG C414 EB (3)
  • AKG451E
  • Rode Classic
  • Electro-Voice RE320Soundfield SPS422
  • Audio Technica AT3035
  • Sennheiser E604 (4)
  • Shure SM57 (6)
  • Shure SM58
  • Shure Beta 58
  • Groove Tubes SYS2
  • Schoeps Collette
  • Rode NT2
  • Audio Technica 4033A (2)
  • Neumann KM 84
  • AKG 451 (6)
  • AKG D12 (X2)
  • Beyer Dynamic RE20
  • Beyer Dynamic M260 (2)
  • PZM pressure zone mics (2)
  • Beyer Dynamic M619
Headphones
  • Beyer Dynamic DT100
Drums and Percussion
  • DW Deep Blue Oyster kit
  • Premier Goldsparkle kit
  • Zildjian and Paiste cymbals
  • Premier Vibraphone
  • Wooden xylophone
  • Glockenspiel
  • Congas
  • Assorted handheld percussion
Guitar and bass Amplifiers
  • Marshall
  • Ampeg
  • Vox
  • Mesaboogie
  • Fender
Keyboards and synthesizers
  • Rhodes Seventy-Three electric piano
  • Steinway upright piano
  • Hammond organ and Leslie Speaker Cabinet
  • Moog Grandmother semi-modular analog synthesizer
  • M-Audio Keystation 88ES controller keyboard

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