ABOUT US

Newmarket Studios, conveniently located at 87-91 Arden Street, North Melbourne, is fit and ready for your next recording project.

Get in touch with Guus for any studio enquiries! Email is preferred.

Newmarket offers high end, well maintained recording equipment fitted into a purpose built  studio, laid out across 4 tracking rooms, ready for the artist to get into creativity quickly and easily.

 Here are just a few projects!

Vance Joy – album ‘Live at Sydney Opera House’ (Mixed)

Vance Joy – album ‘In Our Own Sweet Time’ (Recorded & Mixed)

Courtney Barnett – The Jimmy Fallon Show (Recorded & Mixed)

Courtney Barnett / Vagabon / Sharon van Etten – ‘Don’t Do It’ for album ‘Epic Ten’ (Recorded & Mixed)

Tones & I – singles (Recorded)

Kingswood – albums ‘Juveniles’, ‘Reveries’ & ‘Home’ (Recorded)

Andrew Anderson & Syzygy Ensemble – Chamber Works (Recorded & Mixed)

Elena Katz-Chernin & The Lux Australis Orchestra – Various Compositions (Recorded & Mixed)

Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile (USA) album “Lotta Sea Lice” (Recorded & Mixed)

Saskwatch – album – “Manual Override” (Recorded & Mixed)

Jim Lawrie – album “Slacker Of The Year” (Recorded & Mixed)

Dorsal Fins – album “Digital Zodiac” (Recorded & Mixed)

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard –  album “Sketches of Brunswick East” (Mixed)

Little May – forthcoming singles (Recorded)

Broads – album “Vacancy” (Recorded & Mixed)

The Seven Ups – album “Drinking Water” (Recorded & Mixed)

Milk Records “Good For You” Compilation (Recorded & Mixed)

(Courtney Barnett, Jen Cloher, East Brunswick All Girls Choir, Och My Face, Fraser A Gorman & The Finks)

Alpine – forthcoming Album (Recorded)

The Northern Folk – Forthcoming Single (Recorded & Mixed)

The Hunter Express – “Bluestone Lane” EP (Recorded & Mixed)

North City  – Single “Soul Medicine” (Recorded & Mixed)

Romeo Moon – “Garden” Single (Recorded & Mixed)

Steve Boyd’s Rum Reverie – Forthcoming Album (Recorded)

The Black Heart Death Cult – Forthcoming Album (Recorded & Mixed)

Dirty Rascal forthcoming Album (Recorded & Mixed)

Erica Bramham “Twelve Moons” Album  (Recorded & Mixed)

Have Hold – Singles (Recorded & Mixed)

Gabriella Cohen – Live Studio Performance

Teeth & Tongue – Live Studio Performance

Lost Animal – Live Studio Performance

Sampha (UK) – Live Studio Performance

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The studio consists of:

  • 40 Ch MR4 Harrison In-Line Console with VCA Automation
  • Pro Tools HD 2020
  • Analogue 24 Track 2” Tape
  • Extensive Vintage microphone collection (Neumann, AKG, RCA, Sennheiser, Schoeps, Beyerdynamic…)
  • Vintage Outboard
  • 4 Isolated Recording Spaces with sight-lines between all of them
  • Kawai GS-50 Grand Piano
  • Bright, sunny & relaxing common space for in between takes 🙂

The Studio has been quietly achieving in Melbourne since 1986. Quite a diverse range of artists have completed projects at the studio, as the space allows for a wide range of Genres.

Some artists to note are: Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile, The Avalanchers, Vance Joy, Thando, Kingswood, Orchestra Victoria, Andrew Anderson, Syzygy, Saskwatch, Dorsal Fins, Jim Lawrie, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizzard, Cash Savage & The Last Drinks, Fraser A Gorman, Jen Cloher, Alpine, Litte May, Sampha, The Seven Ups, Sons Of Rico, Beasts Of Bourbon , You Am I, Rocket Science, The Pictures,  Money For Rope, Maddy Hay, Broads, Joe Chindamo, Allan Brown, Anton Delecca Quartet, Katie Noonan, Adam Simmons Quartet….

We can offer the studio with one of our very experienced Engineers, or if you already have your engineer of choice, they are welcome to come in and engineer your session with the help of one of our assistant engineers.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions, we would to love to have you in for a tour of the studio.

Drop Guus an email – [email protected]

GEAR

Console

Harrison MR4 40 Channel Desk With Full Fader And Mute Automation

Recording Machines

Otari MX80 2″ 24 Track
Pro Tools HD Native 2020
w/ Antelope (32 i/o)
Plug-ins
  • All UAD
  • FabFilter Bundle
  • Waves Platinum Bundle
  • Waves SSL Bundle
  • McDSP
  • Sony Oxford EQ
  • Focusright d2/d3
  • Soundtoys 5
  • Avid….

Instruments

Kawai Gs-50 Grand Piano
Rex Valve 5 Watt Distortion Amp
Handwired VOX AC30
Goldentone
Various Percussion
2 x Upright Pianos (tuned on request)
DMX Drum Machine

Outboard Equipment

Microphone / Line Pre-Amps

Calrec PQ1253 x 4 Channels
API 512v x 2 Channels
LaChapell 583s x 2 Channels
Dex VTMA VTube x 4 Channels
Dex NCMA2 Noise Cancelling x 2 Channels

Compression / Limiters

Fairchild 663 X 8
Urei 7110
Urei 1176ln X 2
Calrec DL1656 X 4
DBX 162 Stereo Compressor
DBX 160 Compressor x 2
Orban 418a Stereo Limiter x 2
Inovonics 201
Dex Al-200 X 4 Channels

Equalisation

Pultec Stereo Passive Filter SPF-2
Klark-Teknik DN 410 Dual Parametric
TC Electronic Parametric
Modified Sansui Se7 Broadband Graphic Equaliser

Gating

Allison Research / Valley People Keepex Ii X 8

Delays

Korg SDD-3000
Lexicon Primetime
Eventide H910 Harmoniser

Reverbs/Effects

EMT 140TS Stereo Plate
EMT 250 Reverb / Chorus / Phase / Delay
Yamaha REV 7

Microphone’s & DI’s

Valve

Neumann U47
Neumann U48
Neumann U67
AKG C12B X 4

Dynamic

AKG D12
Beyer M88 X 2
Beyer M69 X 4
Beyer 201
Sennheiser 441 X 2
Sennheiser 421 X 1
Sennheiser MD 409 X 2
Shure Sm57 X 2
Shure Sm58 X 3

Condenser

AKG C3000 X 2
AKG C3000B
Schoeps CMC5-U X 2
Sony C35-P
Sony EMC 33f X 2
MILAB DC 96-B
Sennheiser MKH 406 P48 X 2
Sennheiser MKH 40 P48 X 2

DI Boxes

DEX VTLS 100 Valve DI
DEX Tubeboy Valve DI x 2
DEX ALS-P48c Active Di X 3
DEX RLS-P48 Rev Di X 2 (Re-Amp Boxes)
DEX Passive Di X 2
DEX Active 4 Channel Rack DI

Ribbon

RCA 44 bx Ribbon
RCA BK5b Ribbon

Headphones

AKG K171 MkII x 4
AKG K141 MkII x 4
DEX Headphone Amp System

FLOORPLAN

Four isolated recording rooms with windows, allowing sight lines between them all.

floorplan

 

STUDIO PHOTOS

ENGINEERS

meet our team

Clients

Vance Joy, Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile, Finneas, Onyx, Tones & I, Kingswood,
The Avalanchers, Thando, Big Scary, Elena Katz-Chernin, The Neurotics,
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizzard, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,
Saskwatch, The Northern Folk, Grace Jean, Tek Tek Ensemble, Fraser A Gorman,
Broads, The Hunter Express, Fractures, The Black Heart Death Cult, Dorsal Fins,
Erica Bramham, Sampha, Mijo Biscan, Alpine, Methel Ethel, Little May,
Jen Cloher, East Brunswick All Girls Choir, Steve Boyd’s Rum Reverie,
Jess Locke, Honk, Moon Rooney, Romeo Moon, North City, Tullara Conners,
Natalie Long, Ouch My Face, The Finks, Money For Rope, Major Cord,
Foy Vance, You Am I, Beasts of Bourbon, Rocket Science, Suzanne Kinsella,
Ollie Browne, Joe Chindamo, Katie Noonan, Anton Delecca Quartet,
Son’s Of Rico, Gun Street Girls, The Tiger & Me, The Seven Ups,
Maddy Hay, The Nymphs, Georgia Fields, Henry Joseph, Richard Pavlidis,
The Mightnight Scavengers, The Eighty 88’s, Moshe Feiglin, Axe Girl
Sabrina Sandapa & The Red Vans, La Mauvaise Réputationm,
The Grant Rapids, David Blyth, Chris Cavill, Domenic Bello, Clint Wilson,
M J Halloran & The Sinners, The Pictures, Brian Henry Hooper
Lights on at Heathrow, Ancient Free Gardeners, Richard Butler,
The Disheveled Gentlemen, Sunny Koll, Keshie, Cavanagh & Argus,
Michael Hazelman, Have Hold, The Good Minus, Alan Brown…

Contact

Newmarket Studios
87-91 Arden Street
North Melbourne
Victoria 3051
Australia

For Bookings & Enquiries, please contact Guus Hoevenaars via email
Email: [email protected]

You can call Reception on 03 9329 2877 and they can arrange for Guus to call you back.

Please note, email is preferred as we cannot always answer the phone while in sessions.