THE GROOVE FACTORY STUDIO

Part of The Groove Factory – Music, Events & More (www.thegroovefactory.it), the studio is located in Udine, inside the huge Città Fiera shopping mall.

Four sound-proof boxy rooms (www.boxysystem.com) with over 35dbs of sound isolation and a specific acoustic treatment are the perfect environment for professional recordings, together with top-class gear to satisfy every kind of request.

Through the years The Groove Factory Studio has been specialising into the rock/hard rock and heavy-metal jar by recording, mixing and mastering a lot of releases: from demos to big productions, we had the pleasure to work with artists and labels from all around the world.

Today, together with Michele Guaitoli, there is a team of professional engineers to satisfy the needs not only of metal-heads, but of every musician coming from any style or genre.

LOCATION AND ROOMS

Four BOXY rooms for over 90 sound-proof square meters, with over 35dBs to 45dBs of isolation and treated walls, ceiling and ground;
2 relax areas
The Città Fiera shopping mall offers a huge selection of indoor stores and restaurants that surrounds the studio, without compromising the professional environment.
One 16 square meters sound-proof, sound isolated and sound-treated BOXY pre-production room

MAIN STUDIO GEAR

Apple Mac based systems with Cubase, ProTools and Logic DAWs (depending on the technician)
Focusrite Red 16line main audio interface

Adam a77x monitors
Yamaha NS10 monitors with Yamaha P2040 power amp
Yamaha HS8 monitors

TubeTech Mec1a channel strip
Universal Audio 2-610 preamps & strips
Chandler Limited Germanium preamp/DI
Focusrite ISA428 preamp
Joemeek TwinQ preamp
2x Joemeek SixQ channel strips
WarmAudio WA273 preamp
Focusrite Clarett 8pre preamps + audio interface
Motu 8pre preamps + audio interface
Lexicon MPX500 fx processor

Shure microphones
Neumann microphones
AKG microphones
MXL microphones
Audio-Technica microphones
Sennheiser microphones

IK Multimedia plug-ins
Audio Assault plug-ins
Brainworks plug-ins
Relab Development plug-ins
iZotope plug-ins
Native Instruments plug-ins
Oeksound plug-ins
Slate Digital plug-ins
Softtube plug-ins
Soundtoys plug-ins
Spitfire Audio plug-ins
Steinberg plug-ins
Toontrack plug-ins
Waves plug-ins
Wilkinson Audio plug-ins
XLN Audio plug-ins

Mapex Saturn IV drumkit
Mapex Meridian Maple drumkit
Mapex Horizon drumkit
Mapex Mars drumkit
Additional Mapex & Pearl snare drums (Machete, Chad Smith & more…)
UFIP Cymbals
ROLAND TD30-KV electronic drumkit

Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar
Ibanez RG7421 electric guitar
Fender Stratocaster electric guitar with Fender Noiseless pickups
Epiphone Les Paul Studio electric guitar with Seymour Duncan ’59 pickups
Jackson Pro Series Dinky DK2 electric guitar
Jackson JS32-7 Dinky DKA AH QM electric guitar
Ibanez AEG50 acoustic guitar
Fender CD acoustic guitar with Fender Mesquite pickups
2x Squier Affinity Stratocaster electric guitars

Gibson Thunderbird IV bass guitar
Ibanez SR305 EB bass guitar
Yamaha TRBX305 bass guitar
Harley Benton JB75 bass guitar

Roland Gaia Synth
ROLAND Juno DI Synth
ROLAND RD-700 digital piano
ROLAND RD-300 digital piano
ROLAND FP-4F digital piano

Kemper profiling amplifier
Line 6 Helix guitar system
Tech 21 SansAmp bass driver d.i.
Boss ME80 pedalboard
Boss Pedals (BD-2, GE-7, CS-3, TU-3, DM-2, DS-1, RC-3, DD-3, MT-2, CE-2, BB-1X, ODB-3, SYB-5, SD-1, DS-2, FZ-5, MD-2, OC-5, VB-2, BF-3, CE-5 & more)
Roland Katana bass & guitar amplifiers
Roland Cube bass & guitar amplifiers

Mackie HM400 headphones amplifiers
Swissonic Headamp 8 headphones amplifier
Behringer Powerplay HA4700 headphones amplifier

PRE-PRODUCTION ROOM GEAR

Apple Mac based systems with Cubase, ProTools and Logic DAWs (depending on the technician)
Possibility to connect to our gear with your own notebook
Motu 828mkII audio interface
Roland UA1010 Octacapture audio interface
Yamaha HS8 studio monitors
ROLAND FP-4F Stage Piano
Accessibility to all the additional gear
AKAI Tape, vinyl and CD-Player with original speakers