Sidrat Studios is a place of creativity, supplying professional Graphic Design and Audio Production for next to nothing. This page is purely intended as a port folio, so please take some time to listen to some tunes and browse through the gallery.
Meanwhile, here's a little about what we do and the services we offer....
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Graphic Design:
We can produce 2D designs for anything from business cards to booklets, logos to labels, flyers to forms, posters to Point Of Sale. We design corporate ID's, CD inlays, brochures, banners, greeting cards, business and wedding stationery, magazines, T-Shirts and pretty much anything else you can think of. If it can be printed we can design it.
Along with standard design, layout and artworking we can also turn our hand to highly creative graphic illustration and fine art, as well as having contacts with illustrators, artists and photographers for bespoke images.
Photo editing is another of our areas of expertise. We can make basic amendments to photographs such as getting rid of scratches, red eye and skin blemishes; colour correction of old faded photos, resizing, cropping and sharpening of blurred images.
We can also make rather more complex alterations such as removing a telegraph pole from an otherwise beautiful landscape shot; or we can add a missing family member to your incomplete group photo; or, as is shown in our slideshow gallery to the left, we can make a photo taken in the Summer look as though it's in the depths of Winter.
Basically, if you can think of it, we can probably do it.
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Audio Production:
We've all heard the saying, "Size isn't everything; it's what you do with it that counts!". Well, we at Sidrat Studios fully embrace that proverb when it comes to our recording facilities. The studio looks small (and it is!) but the result is BIG!!!
We have a multi-channel digital recording system routed directly to our mixing and editing software which currently allows for up to 8 (more than enough for most purposes) and will soon be up-graded to 16 simultaneous channels of 44.1khz, 16 bit digital audio. The sound quality is crisp and there is no discernible background noise.
The recording process is usually based on a multi-session step and record system, meaning that, for a band, we would, for instance, first record the drums then the bass, followed by the guitar and finally the vocals. This method avoids such problems as 'bleed over' from other instruments and the necessity for audio separation and generally produces a much clearer finished mix.
We have a wide range of microphones for all purposes and can record anything from voice-overs to violin, drums to didjerido, guitar to guiro. We also have access to a huge variety of professional session musicians and can create sequenced backing tracks in pretty much any style.
Another one of our favourites is re-mixing. We can take your original audio tracks and produce a remix in the style of your choice which you can then use as a b-side for your single or EP.
Check out the tracks on this page to get an idea of the high level of quality we can produce.
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PA Hire & Live Sound Engineering:
We offer a high quality PA system which can be arranged to suit a variety of venues and events. We also supply an experienced professional sound engineer to set up and run the sound system, working directly with you and the musicians to get the best possible live sound for your event.
If you're interested in technical information, below are some detailed specifications of our PA equipment, quotes for which can be given upon request, subject to your requirements.
PA Specifications:
-- Standard PA --
Amplification:
600W main PA amp and 2 300W Mackie full range speakers
400W monitor amp and 2 200W Peavey full range speakers
Outboard:
12 channel mixing desk
15 Band Graphic Equaliser
Dual Multi-effects Processor
2 x DI Boxes
Microphones:
1 x Large Diaphragm Dynamic Kick Drum mic
2 x Dynamic Instrument/Percussion mics
6 x Dynamic Vocal/Instrument mics:
(3 x Sure SM58's & 3 x PG48's)
Stands and cables:
2 x Speaker Stands
5 x Vocal/Instrument Microphone Boom Stands
1 x Kick Drum Microphone Stand
2 x Speaker cables @ 15 Meters
2 x Speaker cables @ 10 Meters
1 x 8 XLR Channel Multicore cable @ 15 Meters
4 x XLR Mic cables @ 3 Meters
4 x XLR Mic cables @ 6 Meters
8 x XLR Mic cables @ 10 Meters
1 x Mono Jack cable @ 10 Meters
3 x Double Mono Jack cables @ 1 Meter
1 x Double Phono to Jack cable @ 1 Meter
4 x Power Cables @ 1 Meter
2 x 4 Socket Power extention cables @ 4 Meters
-- Additional PA Items --
Amplification:
2 x 100W Peavey full range monitor speakers
1 x 120W T-Amp powered foldback speaker-amp
Stands and cables:
2 x Speaker Stands
2 x Speaker cables @ 10 Meters
1 x Power Cable @ 1 Meter
1 x 4 Socket Power extention cable @ 4 Meters
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If you have any enquiries regarding our services or would like to discuss an upcoming project or event, please feel free to message us. And if you'd like to leave a comment we're always interested to hear people's opinions.
