THE 7TH HEAVEN STUDIO
Read all about Jon Dixon’s 7TH HEAVEN studio, based in Oakham, East Midlands.
Finished in early 2017 the 7th Heaven studio is a purpose built self contained studio designed and built by Jon to be the ultimate workspace for modern music production. Fully sound-proofed and extensively acoustically treated it’s the perfect space for stress free creativity. The equipment is constantly evolving to reflect modern production techniques with extensive investment in audio interfaces and computer horse-power. Based around 2 Apple Mac computers with Universal Audio Apollo and Focusrite interfaces it’s perfect for tracking vocals, guitars and small ensembles. Logic X is the DAW of choice together with numerous 3rd party plugin from UAD, Waves, PSP, Soundtoys, and Isotope together with virtual instruments from Native Instruments, Spitfire Audio, reFx, LennarDigital, uhe Diva, GForce, Rob Papen, Vienna Symphonic Library together with Jon’s massive personal sample library, acquired from over 20 years working in music production. Monitoring is by Quested with Yamaha speakers as well as an array of ‘grot’ boxes for real world monitoring.
Computers:
Power Mac 2015, 2 x 25″ Displays
27” iMac 2017
8TB G-Tech Drives
4 x G-Tech 2TB Drives
3 x Lacie 2TB Drives
Software:
Logic Pro X, Melodyne, Numerous 3rd party plugins inc UAD, PSP, Soundtoys, Izotope, Native Instruments,
Rob Papen, Waves etc.
Virtual instruments: Native Instruments Komplete, G-Froce, reFX, Rob Papen, Toon tracks, Steven Slate etc
Sample Librarys: Vienna Symphonic, Spitfire Audio, Native Instruments, etc.
Hardware:
Universal Audio Apollo twin interface
Focusrite Pro24DSP
Soundcraft UI24R
Art Pro channel II
Symetrix 511A
Lexicon MXP1
Allen & Heath Keys Submixer
Roland FA08 workstation
Korg Kross keyboard
Novation Bass Station II
Roland EP
Impact LX88+ master keyboard
Arturia 32 keyboard
Various bass, acoustic + electric guitars
Various effects pedals, pods + percussion
Monitoring:
Yamahan NS10s
Quested SR8mkIII
Acoustic Research AR18
Fostex PM04
Sennhesiser HD25SP x2
Quad 404
Microphones:
SE2200A
Shure SM57
AKG D112 x 2
Shure Beta87
AKG D40 x 3
AKG C430 x 2
AKG C1000s
2x Karma mini condensers