All analogue and digital audio copied, transferred, restored or prepared for archiving.

“I’m a long-time user of the FX Copyroom. The service and attitude is fantastic, nothing is too much trouble, the price is right and they’ve got every recording format available!” Conor O’Mahony, Atlantic Records

Audio format transfer division FX Copyroom boasts three fully-equipped suites where any audio format can be copied, transferred or prepared for archiving. Analogue tape which has suffered oxide shedding can be restored by baking in specialist ovens before transfer. FX Copyroom also offers a low-cost File Transfer Protocol service (FTP), which transfers data files via a high speed internet server.

Call 020 8746 2121 for more information on the Copyroom

CURRENT PROJECTS IN
THE FX COPYROOM

THE PIXIES CLASSIC ALBUM, DOOLITTLE

Copyroom Manager Kevin Vanbergen reports – Steve Webbon at Beggars Banquet/4AD has recently asked us to remix this entire classic Pixies album in order to provide stems for future use with the computer games Guitar Heroes & Rockband. I’m having to mix by ear, using a cd as reference as after 20 years, the Recall Sheets have been long lost. Fortunately FX have a huge armoury of classic reverbs and eqs to make this possible, although I would say that 98% of the work is being done digitally within Pro Tools. The reverbs have been particularly tricky as reverb plug-ins have progressed so quickly that they’ve left the old hardware reverbs behind. On ‘Here Comes Your Man’ I spent around 8 hours trying to find the right sounding reverb to the point I ended up pulling PCM70s & SPX90s off the shelf. The plug-ins just don’t have the same early ‘digital’ sound that were used at that time. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to work in professional studios 15 years ago so I kinda knew what I was looking for.

The audio stems are basically submixes of the song which, when lined-up together recreate the final mix of the song. This enables the computer programmers to breakdown the song elements accurately for precise audio-visual synchronistation.

We’re also using this project as an opportunity to archive the whole album which is widely regarded as a classic. Steve at Beggars asked that we deliver the mixes as Pro Tools WAV files at 24Bit 96KHz using Prism ADA-8XR A/D Convertors.

As a point of note, we delivered all the files to the US client via Digidelivery – see below!

FX DELIVERS DIGIDELIVERY

We’ve recently installed the popular DigiDelivery system at our London HQ. DigiDelivery offers an easy, fast and secure way to transfer digital files across the internet without the need for recipients to enter IP addresses, usernames or passwords. The system is already popular within the film, broadcast and pro-audio industries and is used internally by the FX Pro Tools and Copyroom departments. We also offer clients the facility to hold their own account within FX’s system, allowing them to transfer their own files directly from studio to client.

For more information, call the Copyroom on 020 8746 2121

But also look at the Digidesign website.

FX Copyroom features in
Sound on Sound magazine.

Click here to read an article published in September 2005