Measuring 440sq metres (4,800 square
feet) and boasting 10 metre (30 foot) high ceilings, Trackdown ‘s main hall
comfortably holds over 100 musicians.
The facility includes a Yamaha C7 grand piano, two Isolation Booths with perfect
sight lines into the Control Room and Main Hall, a musician’s Green Room, and a
large undercover outdoor recreation area.
Trackdown offers the highest quality
equipment, which ensures that recording sessions and the end result are truly
world class.
The scoring stage control room is equipped
with a Yamaha DM2000 digital console and a Pro Tools HD Accel II system - with
56 inputs fed from 48 channels of Raindirk LN series microphone pre-amplifiers
and 8 channels of Millennia pre-amplifiers. There are also 48 channels of
Digidesign 192 interface analogue inputs complemented by 24 channels of Genex
high quality A/D converters.
With 5.1 surround monitoring, the Control Room is capable of up to 256 tracks and operates up to the sample rate of
192khz. This system is
complemented by a second Pro Tools HD2 system specifically for mastering, mix,
picture, and guide track playback and a third system for Virtual VTR picture
playback.
Trackdown’s scoring credits include Knowing, Australia, Happy Feet,
Echoes of War, Aquamarine, Salem’s Lot, and Soul Calibur IV.