Located upstairs at Studios 301 in Alexandria, Sydney, The Attic was set up as a partnership between Graham Thompson from Compass Brothers Records and Brent Clark in April this year: the concept being to offer access to quality production and mixdown facilities. Brent’s noticed many a project fall down at the last hurdle during mixing, simply because the artist couldn’t afford to do it in a studio with good monitoring and quality gear, or couldn’t afford the studio time necessary, not to mention hiring someone who could do the job well.

The idea was to combine the best of digital and analogue equipment to ensure a great result with no compromise in quality.

The studio has its own overdub booth next door, which is suitable for vocals and acoustic instruments. Obviously there’s a few perks being located in the same premises as 301: such as quality wiring and hot and cold running technical support. For larger sessions Brent can tie into the bigger rooms downstairs and record utilising those spaces, along with access to instruments like the grand piano and Hammond organ.

The outboard list is adequate to say the least, and includes an SPL 16-channel Mix Dream summing mixer, Focusrite and API preamps, the staple compression options such as three Distressors, a pair of dbx 160xs, and an 1176, all tied into a ProTools 8, HD2 Accel system running a bucketload of choice plug-ins, including an SSL Duende Card.

The Attic: 0417 675937 or brent_clark@netspace.net.au