Digital Recording Studio

Tel: 0044 (0)1666 825030

Moonstone Studios was originally set up in 1994, by Dave Bankhead, with its primary aim as a resource for Christian musicians and worship leaders, and for the making of professional quality worship albums.

Since 2001, it has undergone several major changes, and now has many state-of-the-art equipment additions (see equipment list)

For some time, it has been used by a wide range of Christian organisations and individual worship leaders based in the U.K.

As the ministry of We Are One! has developed, the studio is being increasingly used as a resource to foster and encourage the worship cultures of other much less affluent countries.

List of Clients

A full list of worship albums made at Moonstone Studios would be too long to include here; instead here are the names of some of the Christian organisations and record companies that have put the studio to good use at some time or other:

• ALLIANCE MUSIC
• ICHTHUS FAMILY WORSHIP (All FW Albums)
• KEVIN MAYHEW PUBLICATIONS (WORLD WIDE WORSHIP)
• KINGSWAY MUSIC
• NEXUS CHRISTIAN MUSIC ACADEMY, COVENTRY
• (YOUTH FOR CHRIST Affiliated)
• OUT OF THE ARK (Childrens Educational Resources)
• TEAR FUND (Radio promotional music tracks, reports and interviews)
• THE BIBLE SOCIETY (various video soundtracks)

A number of individuals have also used the studio facilities extensively for major projects.

If you are a worship leader, recording artist, or Christian musician with an upcoming project in mind, do feel free to e-mail or contact us direct at the studio!

Equipment List

Recording

• Inta-Audio X4R Pro Music Quad Core PC
  running Cubase 4 midi and audio sequencer
  with MOTU Audiowire 24 i/o audio interface
• Mackie 32/8 analog mixing desk
• Dynaudio BM15 & Yamaha NS10 monitoring

Processors

• Waves Renaissance software processing
• Antares AutoTune Evo
• TC Electronics M3000 reverb,
• Lexicon MPX 1; MPX500 reverbs;
• TC D2 delay; M1XL reverb;
• Focusrite and Alesis compressors,
• Drawmer gates

Microphones

• Full range of drum and vocal mikes;
• Neumann TL103; Beyer M201; Rode NT3’s;
• Sennheiser 401’s; AKG D12; etc

Keyboards and Modules

• Spectrasonics Stylus RMX expanded; Trilogy; Atmosphere
• Korg, Kurzweil and Roland keyboards and modules

Mixing and Mastering

• Digital Mastering via Steinberg WaveLab
• TC Electronic 96k Finalizer

Two Sizeable Recording Locations

• Visual linking from one of these to spacious control room.

Reasonable Rates

• Normal studio rates £18/hour, or £180 per day