[Technical Information]  [Auxiliary services]  [Staff]  [Credits]

Red Led is located at a privileged place in Madrid, just about ten minutes long from the cultural and historic city centre, the main shopping mall, Barajas airport, AVE train station, and next to the access to the M-30, the main road belt of the city. Furthermore, the underground and a lot  of bus stops are located around the studio. (MAP)

Despite being so well communicated, the studio is located in a quiet residential neighbourhood which provides a nice and discreet environment. Red Led's facilities take up more than 500 m2, integrating a full-equipped recording studio with a maximum and up-to-date technical level as well as wide areas of auxiliary services and entertainment facilities. All of them are at just one production disposal.

It’s fitted with the most high-class standards in analog and digital resources for audio recording,  mixing and mastering. A complete professional staff are friendly attending during 24 hours the technical and auxiliary services.

The facilities and services are distributed on two floors naturally lighted,  assuring an environment of confort and privacy

Red Led works on top spanish and international production projects,  and it’s the only recording studio in Spain selected for the last years by the prestigious World Studio Group.

Control Room

Entrance hall

Technical information

Control room

The recording studio is focused on recording, mixing or/and mastering all type of music production, except the symphonic one. Apart from the 40 m² control room, it is included a 80 m² general use area with an hyperarmonic piano room, a 15 m² mid-dead room, a dead room, and a 25 m² live room. All rooms have got a good visual communication, and own silent microphonic lines as well as a customizable foldback system.

Despite the high level of complexity of the studio equipment  (see equipment list), the technical infrastructure, human and material, makes easy the work of any free-lance engineer who might handle a project. A fluent operation is guaranteed by the permanent assistance of three highly qualified sound engineers with a large experience in our studio. Besides, Red Led has its own complete service of full technical maintenance.

Technical plan

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DESK	Neve VR 72 channels. Flying Faders + Recall
MULTITRACK	Sony PCM 3348, 48 track / Otari MTR 90 II, 24 track + Dolby A (SP Series) / Adam-Smith syncronization(2)
STEREO	Dat Sony PCM 7010 / Dat Sony PCM 2500 / Otari MTR 12 1/4"+ Dolby A/SR / Otari MX 5050/ Yamaha CD-R
HD RECORDERS DIGITAL EDITORS	ProTools HD3 PCIe  48/56 I/O (Digidesign 192 I/O + Apogee AD-8000) + Digidesign DIGI 002 + Sadie
MONITORS	Genelec 1025A/ 1031APM / 1030A / Yamaha NS 10M /KRK 7000 / Alesis Monitor One / Audix Studio 1A/ DCM Time Window/ Auratone QC 66 / Auratone 5C
MICROPHONES	Neumann / Bruel & Kjaer / Sennheiser / AKG/ Electrovoice / Groove Tubes / Shure , etc.
OUTBOARD GEAR	Lexicon 480 L / Lexicon LXP-15 / Quantec QRS/ Publison Infernal Machine 90 / Eventide H3000 SE / TC Electronics M5000 / TC Electronics 2290 / Roland SRV-3030D / Manley Massive Passive / Millennia TwinCom / Korg DRV-3000 / Korg SDD 3300 / ART SGE / ART LT / Electrospace Time Matrix / Spanner SP2 / Aphex Compellor / Aphex Expressor / Aphex Dominator II / Valley People 440 (2) /Urei 1176 LN / Groove Tubes EQ1 (2) / Groove Tubes MP1 (2) / Tubetech LC2B / DBX 165 A (2) / DBX De-esser/BSS D-I, etc..
BACK-LINE	Estonia concert piano  / Sonor drums seven elements / Paiste cymbals/ Siel PX electric piano  / Roland Bolt-100 amplifiers  / Keyboards: Akai S-1100 and S-900 ( Trigger-Midi Interface), Emu Proteus, Roland MKB-300, Roland D-550, Roland Juno-60 + midi, Roland R-8, Roland Super JX, Acoustic guitars.
MISCELANEOUS	Apogee AD-8000 (AMBus: Pro Tools + SDIF), 2x Apple G5 Atari ST-1040, Cubase, Notator, Sound Works, etc. Sync. SMPTE-MIDI: Steinberg SMP-24, Roland SBX-80. Analizador de espectro Klark Teknik DN-60. Monitorización sincronizada de vídeo.

Auxiliary Services

The area of auxiliary services, wider than the studio itself, provides a private parking for clients, a big lobby and, in the upper floor, completely illuminated by natural light, you can find the Producer Office, the bar - restaurant, the Games Room, computer service with free Internet access, and a Hi-Fi & TV-sat room. The environment provides privacy and comfort. The auxiliary staff is 24 hours dedicated to the attention of clients, with a personal and absolutely flexible service for the needs of each production.

Auxiliary areas
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PRoduction logistics	Technical workshop and qualified staff Equipment and back-line rental Data networks, Net servers, BBS's, etc.
Client attention	Whole production assistance. Typewriting, photocopies, e-mail, fax, Internet, etc.
Production office	Private exclusive room Exclusive telephone and fax line,answering machine Direct com with Control Room  Private folders Daily production statistics Hi-fi equipment
Production stats	Daily reports and summaries of all production item. Unique codifying system CodIt (own development)
TV Hi-fi Room	Hi-fi equipment TV SAT services Video-library Press, books, etc.
Coffe shop	Snack-bar, exclusive dinning room Meals at any time Customized menus Service at the studio
Games Room	Videogames Computer with free Internet Access Table Games, Darts, etc,
Other services	Customized lodging arrangement: - Hotel - Apartments - Villas Travel and hotel arrangement Third party special services consulting. Planning and management of external deals.
Private parking	5 places Direct studio access

Staff

The highly qualified staff are attending all the time every need of the client and take care of the facilities in order to keep them in the best conditions to satisfy  the most strict requirements of the present music production.

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Credits (and links)

Record productions:

40 aniversario 40 principales, abigail, adelide ferreira, alba molina, alberto iglesias, albertucho, alejandra guzmán, alejandro fernández, alejandro sanz, álvaro urquijo, amaral, amistades peligrosas, ana belén, ana torroja, andrés calamaro, antonio flores, antonio vega, ariel rot, bach to cuba, balboa, barbarroja, barricada, beatriz luengo, bebe, bebo valdés y el cigala, belinda, björk, bunbury, cabas, caetano veloso, carlos jean, carlos nuñez, carlos varela, carmen parís, carolina vitrey, celtas cortos, chano domínguez, charly garcía, chenoa, cherokee, christopher slaski, compay segundo, cómplices, concha buika, david bisbal, david carmona, david de maría, david summers, davinia, def con dos, dhira, diego montoto, diego vasallo, dover, duncan dhu, easy rider, elefante, ella baila sola, el canto del loco, el consorcio, el tiempo, enrique morente, esclarecidos, esmeralda grao, espliego, estrella morente, extremoduro, fangoria, fey, fugees, gatos locos, golpes bajos, gossos, hevia, hombres g, homenaje a duncan dhu, homenaje a noel nicola, homenaje a pablo guerrero, homenaje a pablo neruda, homenaje a sabina, hurria, ira thomas, iván ferreiro, jaime urrutia, javier álvarez, javier krahe, javier gurruchaga, javier vargas, jennifer rush, joan manuel serrat, joan valent, joaquín sabina, john malcovich, jon secada, jorge salán, josé manuel méndez, josé mercé, juan perro, ketama, kiko veneno, la cabra mecánica, la caja de pandora, la frontera, la oreja de van gogh, la rabia del milenio, la unión, lliso, lolita flores, loquillo, los enemigos, los especialistas, los limones, los planetas, los rodríguez, los ronaldos, los secretos, los sencillos, los suaves, luar na lubre, lucrecia, luis eduardo aute, luz casal, luz de lourdes, macaco, mago de oz, maike lüdenbach, malú, mamá ladilla, mano negra, mano solo, manolo tena, marlango, marta sánchez, m-clan, mecano, melendi, mercedes ferrer, miguel bosé, miguel ríos, mikel erentxu, mota, nacho campillo, nacho garcía vega, narco, najwa jean, najwa nimri, niña pastori, nuno da cámara, obk, old man bebo, orujo de brujas, pablo guerrero, pablo vega, pasión vega, pastora, pastora soler, pedro guerra, penélope cruz, pereza, pilar jurado, pilar machi, piratas, por herencia, porretas, presuntos implicados, radio futura, raimundo amador, ramoncín, raphael, reyli, ricardo arjona, rocío dúrcal, rocío jurado, rosario flores, rsk, sandra mihanovich, sau, second, sergio dalma, siete 7 black, sin papeles, ska-p, sons of rock, sperm, steve van zadt, tahures zurdos, teo cardalda, the locos, tina tuner, tomasito, tontxu, tributo a radio futura, u2, v pipes, vanesa martín, vega, víctor manuel, victoria abril, will i am ,x.m. budiño, zodiacs, etc…

40 aniversario 40 principales, abigail, adelide ferreira, alba molina, alberto iglesias, albertucho, alejandra guzmán, alejandro fernández, alejandro sanz, álvaro urquijo, amaral, ana belén, ana torroja, andrés calamaro, antonio flores, antonio vega, ariel rot, bach to cuba, balboa, barbarroja, barricada, beatriz luengo, bebe, bebo valdés y el cigala, belinda, björk, bob sands big band, bunbury, cabas, caetano veloso, carlos jean, carlos nuñez, carlos varela, carmen parís, carolina vitrey, celtas cortos, chano domínguez, charly garcía, chenoa, cherokee, christopher slaski, chucho, compay segundo, cómplices, concha buika, david bisbal, david carmona, david de maría, david summers, davinia, def con dos, dhira, diego montoto, diego vasallo, dover, duncan dhu, easy rider, elefante, ella baila sola, el canto del loco, el consorcio, el tiempo, enrique morente, esclarecidos, esmeralda grao, espliego, estrella morente, extremoduro, fangoria, fey, fugees, gatos locos, golpes bajos, gossos, hevia, hombres g, homenaje a duncan dhu, homenaje a noel nicola, homenaje a pablo guerrero, homenaje a pablo neruda, homenaje a sabina, hurria, ira thomas, iván ferreiro, jaime urrutia, javier álvarez, javier krahe, javier gurruchaga, javier vargas, jennifer rush, joan manuel serrat, joan valent, joaquín sabina, john malcovich, jon secada, jorge salán, josé manuel méndez, josé mercé, juan perro, ketama, kiko veneno, la cabra mecánica, la caja de pandora, la frontera, la oreja de van gogh, la rabia del milenio, la unión, lliso, lolita flores, loquillo, los enemigos, los especialistas, los limones, los planetas, los rodríguez, los ronaldos, los secretos, los sencillos, los suaves, luar na lubre, lucrecia, luis eduardo aute, luz casal, luz de lourdes, macaco, mago de oz, maike lüdenbach, malú, mamá ladilla, mano negra, mano solo, manolo tena, marlango, marta sánchez, m-clan, mecano, melendi, mercedes ferrer, miguel bosé, miguel ríos, mikel erentxu, mota, nacho campillo, nacho garcía vega, narco, najwa jean, najwa nimri, niña pastori, nuno da cámara, obk, old man bebo, orujo de brujas, pablo guerrero, pablo vega, pasión vega, pastora, pastora soler, pedro guerra, penélope cruz, pereza, pilar jurado, pilar machi, piratas, por herencia, porretas, presuntos implicados, radio futura, raimundo amador, ramoncín, raphael, reyli, ricardo arjona, rocío dúrcal, rocío jurado, rosario flores, rsk, sandra mihanovich, sau, second, sergio dalma, siete 7 black, sin papeles, ska-p, sons of rock, sperm, steve van zadt, tahures zurdos, teo cardalda, the locos, tina tuner, tomasito, tontxu, tributo a radio futura, u2, v pipes, vanesa martín, vega, víctor manuel, victoria abril, will i am ,x.m. budiño, zodiacs, etc…

Music for Film Productions:

7 días al desnudo, asfalto, ausentes, bajo las estrellas, bienvenido a casa, bienvenido a farewell-outman, live flash (carne trémula), darkness, disney, donkey xote, el año de la garrapata, el aura, el corazón de la tierra, el espinazo del diablo, el jardinero fiel, el menor de los males, el milagro de candeal, el milagro de p. tinto, el palo, entre tú y yo, incautos, inconscientes, fuera de carta, talK to her (hable con ella), la lengua de las mariposas, bad educación (la mala educación), la vida que te espera, lovers of the arctic circle (los amantes del círculo polar), goya´s ghosts (los fantasmas de goya), lucía y el sexo, the sea inside (mar adentro), melissa p, novios, obaba, óscar una pasión surrealista, princesas, regreso a moira, rojo sangre, te doy mis ojos, the kite runner, all about my mother (todo sobre mi madre), una de zombies, virgen rose (una rosa de francia), vete de mí, volando voy, volver, y tú quien eres...

Various

documental el siglo XIX en el prado, el amor brujo – rafael amargo, el baile de los vencejos-manuel comesaña, festival de ortigueira, fuente ovejuna – antonio gades, himno del atlético de Madrid, himno del sporting, kethike, la fontana del placer, la mirada del ouka lele, las locuras del quijote, mariana pineda – sara baras, musical juguetes y sueños, pegadas no ceo, sintonía de aida, the fury, etc…

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