Star Audio Studio

Star Audio Studio is a professional recording studio located just north of Brisbane.
We are a small but powerful recording and production facility capable of outstanding results using quality analogue and digital equipment in great sounding rooms with a relaxed atmosphere surrounded by the beautiful beaches of the Redcliffe peninsular.
The control room, live and vocal rooms have all been acoustically designed, built and treated.
Star Audio Studio offers flexible recording and production packages that will suit most budgets, we offer some of the cheapest studio rates in Brisbane,  real quality at realistic prices.
So for your next recording project come and check us out or give us a call.

The studio is built into a beautiful residential surrounding and consists of 4 acoustically treated rooms comprising of a 6 x 4.5 mtr control room, 6 x 5 mtr live room, a vocal booth and several Iso rooms.

Control Room
This beautifully neutral control room is a joy to work in, with Mic pres’and DIs from Neve, Focusrite and Avalon Designs a great mix of Analogue and Digital equipment, its a great listening environment with a large viewing window into the live room and a big comfy lounge suite, its everyone’s favorite place to hang out.

Live Room
The ‘Red Room’ is the 6 x 5 mtr live room and is a nicely balanced room that has adjustable acoustic properties and great tones with lots of warmth and feel.

Vocal / Iso Booth
This professionally designed and fully treated vocal booth is designed for its acoustic properties with plenty of room and is a great Iso booth for when your after that huge guitar sound with plenty of gain and volume.

Gtr and Bass / Iso Booths

We also have separate Iso booths for live tracking purposes.

Studio Hourly Rate – $50/Hr   –   min. 2 Hrs

Studio Hire inc. Engineer – $350 / Day   ( 9 – 5 )

3 Day Package inc. Engineer – $1000

5 Day Package inc. Engineer – $1500

We can also tailor a package around your budget and situation, so give us a call, we believe we offer a top quality product and Brisbane’s best recording studio prices.

A 50% deposit is required to lock in a booking date non-refundable if cancelled within 48hrs of booking.

All invoices to be paid in full before material is released.

Cockpit

DAW running Cubase 5
German quality RME audio interface 24/96
Neve Portico Mic Pres’
Focusrite ISA 828 Preamps w/ Digital Card
Yamaha 01V96 with various i/o cards
Waves Plug-ins
Focusrite Liquid Mix Plug-Ins
Steinberg Midex 8
Mackie HR824 nearfields
Hayes F80 nearfields
Studio amps by AT and Trace Elliott
GE3101 Graphics
Presonus HP60 Headphone distribution x 6
Sennheiser HD25 II x 5
128 way patchbay

Outboard

Neve Portico Mic Pres
Neve Portico Compressors
Focusrite ISA 828 Preamps
Avalon U5 D/I
DbX DDP Digital Dynamics Processor
DbX 266XL Compressor
DbX 296 De-Esser
DbX 120XP Subharmonic synthesizer
Alesis 3630 Compressor
Alesis Nano Compressor
Behringer 9024 Ultra Dyne Pro
Behringer Ultrafex Pro
Alesis Wedge master reverb
Ensoniq DP/2
Electrix Filter Factory
Digitech Studio S200

Microphones

1.     AKG C414B-ULS
2.     AKG C3000B
3.     AKG SE300A
4.     AKG D112
5.     Sennheiser MD421 Mk11 x 2
6.     Rode K2
7.     Rode NT2A
8.     Rode NT3
9.     Rode NT5 x 2
10.     Shure Beta 52
11.     Shure Beta 91
12.     Shure Sm 57 x 2
13.     Shure Sm 58 Wireless UC
14.     Shure Sm 58 x 2
15.     Shure Sm 57 Beta
16.     Studio Projects C3
17.     CAD 95 x 2
18.     MXL 603S x 3

Instruments

Korg Trinity Plus fully expanded
Korg MS2000R
Korg 707
Korg Poly 800
Kawai K5000 fully expanded
Emu E-Synth Sampler
Emu Proteus 2000 fully expanded
Novation Nova
Novation Drum Station
Technics SL1210Mk3D x 2
Stylii by Shure and Stanton
Pioneer CDJ 2000
Citronics CS-3 mixer
Marshall JCM 900
Marshall 1960 A
Epiphone Les Paul Studio Ltd Edition
Ibanez Acoustic
Line 6 M9 Stompbox Modeler
Various Boss pedals and Tuners

BJ McGuinness

With 20 years experience in the audio industry BJ has been around the block once or twice. After an international DJ career that saw him on stage with the whose who of the music scene, to a touring sound engineer with the world famous Cirque du Soleil and working on stage with the biggest names in the music industry like U2, Pink, Green Day, AC/DC, Pearl Jam and Prince just to name a few. BJ has learnt a few tricks along the way, and a lot of industry secrets. So now after a 2 year build, Star Audio Studio is open for business and BJ is ready to pass on his extensive experience and knowledge to your next recording session.

Dan Dan Nebe

A career spanning the likes of  mixing the Beach Boys to current work with the Hoodoo Gurus and the Robert Cray Band, Dan Dan has a great ear that helps get your production to that next level, another ol’ dog that has a few cards up the sleeve and treats in the bag.

Vinyl Restoration & Duplication

Here at Star Audio Studio, we specialize in the Duplication and Restoration of Vinyl records to CD or DVD.
 
Why bother you ask?

For a start it just sounds great, we digitally transfer the audio using state of the art equipment at DVD quality and we even remove most of the annoying cracks and pops associated with old vinyl records, and secondly a lot of music, especially older music and different genres, just isn’t available to buy on CD or DVD, and owning turntables is a bit of a pain these days, but there is a solution … just bring them to us and we will transfer them to CD or DVD so you can listen to your favourite music again in pristine audio quality at home, in the car or wherever you want to take your favourite music.

Backline Hire

Through our strong industry ties, we are able to offer our clients a huge range of backline, so if your looking for that special snare sound or that massive guitar rig to make your next song a hit, and money doesn’t give you the luxury of owning a DW Custom drum kit, easy, just hire one for the session, and get that sound your after.