Trackdown presents Australia's premier purpose-built Orchestral Scoring Stage. Located adjacent to Fox Studios, Trackdown can accommodate all recording needs for solo artists, bands, film, television and commercials, including voice overs and large scale orchestral recordings. Trackdown has the highest quality equipment to ensure that your session is world class.

At 440sq metres (4,800sq foot) with 10 metre (30 foot) high ceilings, the Main Hall can comfortably hold over 100 musicians. The facility includes a 5.1 Monitoring Control/Mix Room, 2 Isolation Booths (both overlooking the Control Room and Main Hall), a Viewing/Producers' Lounge, Musicians' Green Room and a comfortable outdoor recreation area.

Control Room

Yamaha DM-2000 96 Channels
for monitoring & virtual ProTools surface
5.1 Monitoring
Quested HD210 Pair Far Field Monitors
Mackie HR824 Near Field Monitors
Mackie HR626 Centre Speaker
Mackie HR824 Surround Speakers
48 Channel Custom made Raindirk (UK) Mic PreAmps
- 16 Channels through 2 x 8 Channel A/D Genex Converters
8 Channel Millennia Preamp
- through 1-8 Channel Genex Converter
6 x 8 Channel Genex D/A Convertors Available for Hire.
Bricasti Design M7 - Stereo Reverb Processor or
Behringer V-Verb Pro
Rolls RA62 Headphone PreAmp (Control Room only)

Large Composer/producer table
9 seater client couch
42" Plasma screen (above centre speaker)
Rear Schroeder diffuser
Suspended infinite ceiling diffuser
Full DMX dimmer control of all studio lights (to set the mood)
High speed internet connection with Airport
DAT, VHS, DVD, DA-88 also available.

ProTools A Record/Mix

Mac OSX Leopard (Switchable to Tiger) Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5 6.5 Gig Ram 4 Drive SCSI Bay
Accessible to 12 x 15,000 RPM 150GB DrivesCards - HD Accel 2
Interfaces - 4 x Digi 192 I/O
56 I/O Channels of Optical
24 Digital & 32 Analog Inputs
Digi Sync I/O
Digi Midi I/O - (Patchable to PTB)
Big Ben Word Clock Distributor

Plug-Ins ProTools A

ProTools 8 Standard Plug-Ins
Access Virus Indigo
Amp Farm 3
Bomb Factory BF-3A
Bomb Factory BF-76
Bruno/Reso
Clockworks Legacy Plug-Ins
Cosmonaut Voice
Drawmer Dynamics
Focusrite d2/d3
Impact
iZotope Vinyl
JOEMEEK SC2 Compressor
JOEMEEK VC5 Meequalizer
Line 6 Amp Farm HD
Maxim
Moogerfooger Lowpass Filter
Melodyne
PitchDoctorPromo
Pultec EQH-2
Pultec EQP-1A
Pultec MEQ-5
ReVibe
Reverb One
SansAmp PSA-1
Signal Tools
Strike
Tape Head
TL EveryPhase
Tel-Ray Variable Delay
Voce Chorus/Vibrato
Voce Spin

ProTools B - Playback/Mixdown/Source Connect

Mac OSX Leopard (Switchable to Tiger) Dual 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5 1.5 Gig Ram
4 Drive SCSI Bay
Accessible to 12 x 15,000 RPM 150GB Drives
ProTools V8 (Switchable to V7.4)
Cards - HD2
Interface - 1 x Digi 192 I/O
16 I/O Channels of Optical
Digi Sync I/O
Digi Midi I/O - (Patchable From PTA)

Plug-Ins ProTools B

Access Virus
Access Virus Indigo
Alti-Verb 6
BF Classic Compressors HD
Bruno/Reso
DINR
Focusrite d2/d3
Line 6 Amp Farm HD
Maxim
PitchDoctorPromo
ReVibe
Slightly Rude Compressor
Sonic NoNoise
SoundCode For Dolby Digital
Source-Connect Pro 3.0
Source-Connect Replace
Source-Live
TC MasterX3 HD

Headphone System

4 Stereo or 8 Mono Headphone sends from the DM2000
All sends powered by 100V Lines for multi headphone daisy chaining without volume drop.
All sends can be monitored in control room as a complete replica of headphones sends.

Microphones & Stands

Condenser Mics

5 x Schoeps CMC6-U (Body)
5 x Schoeps NK2H (Capsule)
3 x DPA 4006
1 x Neumann TLM 170
2 x Neumann KM184 (Matched pair)
1 x Neumann U87
1 x Neumann U89
1 x Neumann KMR81
2 x Microtech Gefell M930 (Matched pair)
1 x Microtech Gefell MKG1Y (Stereo)
2 x AKG C414B (Matched pair)
2 x AKG 451E (Matched pair)
16 x Rode NT5 (8 x Matched pairs)
6 x Rode NT1000
5 x Rode NT2
1 x Rode NT4 (Stereo)
2 x Rode NTG-2
1 x Audio Technica AT4033
1 x Sony ECM22
1 x Rode NT6

Dynamic Mics

1 x AKG D190
1 x Audio Technica ATM21
1 x Beyer Dynamic M88
3 x Beyer Dynamic M201
1 x Beyer Dynamic M55
2 x Sennheiser MD211
1 x Sennheiser MD421
3 x Sennheiser MD441
3 x Shure SM57
1 x Shure 545

Valve Mics

2 x Rode Classic II

Ribbon Mics

1 x EMI 2351E

Mic Stands

1 x AEA Decca Tree
7 x Overhead Mic Stands
45 x Medium Mic Stands
5 x Small Mic Stands