The Studio
After over a decade of running and working from commercial facilities, I’ve finally been able to build my dream studio. Nestled in a suburb less than ten minutes from the centre of Leeds, my place is a private boutique studio packed to the rafters with enough instruments, amps and pedals to make every single record unique and special.
The day-lit live room was designed by Wise Owl Acoustics to capture a focused, articulate and powerful drum sound with minimal processing. An air conditioned, soundproofed room within a room design, it’s created to leave the outside world outside, so we can focus on crafting the best record we possibly can without distraction.
The control room is acoustically flat. It follows the golden ratio for control room designs, soffit mounted Unity Audio Boulder & Avalanche speakers, and more acoustic treatment than I thought was physically possible. All of that basically means that we can hear every single tracking, mixing or mastering decision with crystal clear precision.
The control room is designed for efficiency. If we have an idea, we want to be able to act on that as quickly as possible to keep the creative spark, so everything is within arms reach, plugged in and ready to go. The centre section of the studio features a desk containing Neve, Burl, Great River, CAPI, Phoenix and LEV preamps, SSL and JDK EQs and a pair of EL Distressors alongside the holy grail Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor. To the left, we have some of the best amps of all time from Marshall, Orange, Peavey, Fender and Vox, and to the right we have a collection of fantastic guitars and basses.
Outside the studio, we have a garden area, kitchenette and bathroom. Plus a couple of cats, Seth & Fil.
Bands & Artists
Jools, Reno & Rome, Love Is Noise, Ten Hands High, WSTR, Citizen, Sky Ferreira, Self Defense Family, Ginger Wildheart, Allusinlove, Ferocious Dog, Angel Number, The Roughneck Riot,The Orielles, Nai Harvest, Nervus, What We Lost, The Deadnotes, Muskets, Ducking Punches, Catch Fire, Cultdreams, Cold Years, itoldyouiwouldeatyou, Cassels, Insist, Don't Worry, Hot Mass, Pnau
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Record Labels
Sony
Hopeless Records
Run For Cover Records
Topshelf Records
Deathwish Inc
Rude Records
Big Scary Monsters
Xtra Mile
Specialist Subject
Tiny Engines
Clue Records
Art Is Hard Records
React Records
Let's Make Your Record!
Please fill out these details about your project and i'll get back to you as soon as possible! For any non-project related contact, please email : Bobcooperproducer@gmail.com
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Equipment List
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Instruments
1997 American Fender Stratocaster
2006 American Fender Telecaster Highway 1 60th Anniversary
1994 Japanese Fender Jaguar Special (HH)
2004 Gibson Les Paul Special Faded
2016 Gibson SG Standard
ESP Lemondrop Evertune
ESP Ben Weinman Evertune
1975 Hagstrom Viking
Gordon Smith GS1
1978 Music Man Stingray (pre-EB)
1994 Japanese Fender ‘Geddy Lee’ Jazz Bass
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Amps
Marshall JCM800 (1983)
Marshall JCM900 (1990s)
Vox AC50 (1965)
Orange Rockerverb 50 Head
Orange AD30
Orange Tiny Terror Head
Fender Twin (1976)
Selmer PA100 SV (Treble N Bass – 1970s)
Peavey 6505+ Head
Carlsbro 50 Top (1973)
AMT Stonehead
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Cabs
Mesa Boogie 4×12 Cab w/ Celestion Vintage 30s
Mesa Roadking Spec’d 2×12 w/ Celestion Vintage 30 & Fane F70
Orange Closed Back 2×12 Cab w/ Celestion Vintage 30s
Orange Closed Back 4×12 Cab w/ Celestion Vintage 30s
Zilla Fatboy 2×12 Cab w/ Celestion Greenbacks
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Drum Kits
North Custom Kit - Mahogany – 13″ 16″ 24″
Shine Custom Kellered Maple Kit – 12″ 14″ 20″
Ludwig Classic Maple Kick Drum 24x18"
Gretsch Round Badge Kick Drum 22x16"
Yamaha Oak Custom Floor Tom 16"
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Snare Drums
Ludwig Black Beauty 14×6.5
Ludwig LM400 14×5 (1978)
Ludwig Pioneer (1976)
Dialtune Maple 14x6.5
Dialtune Brass 14x6.5
Sonor Benny Greb Beech Snare 13×5.75
Pork Pie Zebrawood / Rosewood over Maple 13×7
Pearl Free Floating Steel 14×6.5
Pearl Free Floating Brass 14x6.5
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Cymbals
1970’s 14″ Zildjian New Beat Hi-Hats
1970’s 22″ Zildjian Ride
1970's 18" Zildjian Crash
18″ Zildjian K Custom Crash
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Pedals
Fuzzrocious Superheaven Fuzz Pedal
Fuzzrocious Demon
Fuzzrocious Cat Tail
Strymon Big Sky
Strymon DIG
Mesa Boogie Throttle Box
Empress Distortion
OBNE Fault
Union Tsar Bomba Fuzz
Rockett Archer Klon
Noisemaker Effects Loveless Fuzz / Reverb Pedal
Tech 21 Sansamp Bass Driver
Fulltone OCD
Fulltone Plimsoul
Custom OCD Clone
Seymour Duncan Palladium
Horizon Devices Precision Drive
Zvex Box Of Rock
Zvex Mastotron
DOD Gunslinger
Walrus Audio Iron Horse
ThorpyFX Warthog
Life Is Unfair Audio ‘The Dream Left Behind’ Fuzz
Life Is Unfair Audio ‘Awkward Breed’ Fuzz
Ibanez Tubescreamer
Electro Harmonix Russian black Big Muff
Electro Harmonix Holy Grail +
Electro Harmonix Memory Man W/ Hazerai
Electro Harmonix Big Muff
Electro Harmonix Bass Big Muff
Electro Harmonix Small Clone
Danelectro Fab Tone
Boss Super Chorus
Boss Blues Driver
(This list might be constantly out of date as I'm always buying more pedals, at my last count I have 55!)
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Preamps
2x Neve 1073
2 x Great River MP-500NV
1 x Burl B1D
2 x Classic Audio Products of Illinois VP26
8 x Phoenix DRS
2 x LEV Integrity
1 x Lindell 6x-500
1 x BLM Audio Pultec Tube Preamp
4 x Prism Titan
EQs
SSL 511
JDK
Compressors
- Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor
- 2 x EL Distressors
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Microphones
Blue Kiwi
Coles 4038 x2
Royer R121
Violet Design Amethyst Vintage x 2
JZ 67
AEA N22
AEA N8
AKG D20
Beyer MC930 x2
Beyer M201
Little Blondie x 2
Heil PR30
Heil PR20
Audix D6 x 2
Shure SM57 x 9
Shure SM7B
Shure Beta 52
Shure Beta 91
PZM Boundary Microphone
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Interfaces & Conversion
16 Channels of i/o
Burl Bomber AD
Prism Titan
Ferrofish Pulse 16
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Monitoring
Unity Audio Boulders
Unity Audio Avalanche
Unity Audio The Rock
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