FX Rentals announces YourSpace

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Rob Hughes Nov 20 2008, 9:52am

Bespoke recording facility aimed at people who own their own gear

FX Rentals has announced a new type of recording facility, YourSpace. These are two bespoke recording spaces available to rent by the hour, with the benefit of company’s large selection of audio equipment and instruments for hire onsite.

The spaces are aimed at musicians, engineers and producers who own portable equipment. Each of the YourSpace facilities offers a spacious control room with 5.1 monitoring and dedicated sound booths for overdubs, voice-overs, etc, allowing clients to adapt the space to their own requirements. Clients are encouraged to bring in their personal equipment, which can be easily supplemented with some choice pieces from FX’s vast selection of musical instruments and audio equipment on the premises.

One of the first clients for YourSpace was music production company weeksweeksweeks, who record certain things at home before moving to larger spaces for the major part of their productions. “The FX space is perfect,” says Dan Weeks. “We have enough good recording equipment but regularly need a treated room to work in and don't necessarily want to pay £500/day for a space with tons of gear we're not going to use.

“YourSpace is an attractive, affordable alternative for people who don't have their own serious studio environment. The rooms are simple, acoustically treated, nicely decorated and well organised.

We brought a MacBook, Pro Tools, mics and some preamps and were set up in 30mins. We were doing some album overdubs and the artist was completely satisfied with the results and the space, which is also very suitable for presenting our music to clients.

“The most exciting part was that the FX warehouse is an essential part of the studio set up, like a door to a magical musical equipment world. It’s all there, from vintage mics to gongs, plectrums to Pro Tools rigs, and all at 75 per cent discount, and the FX boys are amazingly skilled professionals.”

Adds FX Rentals’ chairman Roger Evan, “We wanted to create a high-spec space, but we didn’t want the design to dictate the use. We’ve already had clients with a variety of projects for which the rooms have been ideal: mixing, tracking, rehearsals and composition. The added bonus of a huge range of equipment available to rent into the rooms has been very successful.”

FX YourSpace operates from 10.00am to 10.00pm, seven days a week, with three-hour session slots priced at £15 per hour and a 12-hour day at £135. Rental equipment is instantly available with a 75 per cent discount.
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