Located on the top floor of a working art gallery, BMG’s The Gallery is a state-of-the-art, four-room recording studio unlike anything else in the world.
Designed to inspire and ignite the senses, The Gallery is the only recording studio on the planet to feature Coelux lighting, a revolutionary new Italian skylight product that washes the entire studio in analogous sunlight at any time of the day (or night).
While many studios feel like monochromatic ‘man caves’, every facet of The Gallery’s design is painstakingly bespoke with a design palette that more closely resembles a high-end hotel suite in Europe than a recording studio in inner Sydney.
The Gallery sounds as good as it looks, designed and tuned by acclaimed Sydney-based acoustic engineer Michael Fronzek from SoundSpaces.
Not only a feat of audio engineering, The Gallery is also a feat of structural engineering. In order to support the 55 tonne structure in the penthouse of the building, more than 8 tonnes of structural steel was installed underneath the floor to support the mass required to create an optimal acoustic environment.
Featuring a Rupert Neve Shelford console, a range of analogue outboard gear, a wide selection of microphones including a Telefunken ELA 251 E and a Sony C800 and a selection of monitoring options from Amphion, Barefoot and Genelec, The Gallery offers a high end solution for all recording and mixing applications.
“The Gallery is our masterpiece - a place for our artists to play, listen and record in an environment that has been built exclusively for them. There is something completely appropriate about building the new BMG Sydney office around a working recording studio, and we are convinced that the songs and recordings made in The Gallery will reverberate around the world”. - Heath Johns, Managing Director BMG Australia.
The Gallery can only be booked in blocks for recording projects by enquiry to jodie.feld@bmg.com.
Gear List
Console
Rupert Neve 5088 Shelford - 16 Channel
Monitoring & Headphones
Barefoot MicroMain26
Amphion TWO18
Genelec 8341 40th Anniversary Edition
Hear Technologies HearBack Octo Hub
Sennheiser HD 280 Pro Headphones
DAW
Macbook Pro (13 inch, 2018)
24 Channel UAD Apollo x16 & x8p
Pro Tools 2020.12
Ableton Live 10 Standard
Logic Pro X
Plugins
Waves Mercury bundle
Soundtoys 5 bundle
AutoTune Pro
AutoTune EFX
Serato Pitch and Time Pro
Vocalign Pro
Valhalla Vintage Verb, Plate and Room Shimmer
Outboard Gear
GML8200 Parametric EQ
Bricasti M7 Reverb
Empirical Labs Distressors EL8-X
SSL FX G384 Stereo Compressor
Tubetech CL-1A Compressor
Tubetech CL-1B Compressor
Tubetech MEX 1A Channel Strip
Retro Doublewide 500 series
Shadow Hills Vandergraph 500 Series
Meris Mercury7 500 Series DSP Reverb
Mic Pre-Amps
Neve 5052 Shelford (x16)
Focusrite 115HD
Manley VoxBox
Microphones
Sony C800-G
Telefunken ELA M 251E
Neumann U87 Vintage (x2)
Neumann TLM 170 (x2)
Neumann KM 184 (x2)
AKG C414 XLII (x2)
Neve sE RNR1 ribbon mic (x2)
Neve sE RN17 (x2)
Neve sE RNT
Coles 4038 (x2)
Sennheiser MD421 (x4)
Shure BETA 52A
Shure SM57 (x3)
Shure SM7B
Instruments
Moog One 16 Voice Analogue Polysynth
Moog 16 Channel Vocoder
Sequential Prophet XL Synth
Dave Smith Tempest Analogue Drum Machine
Ludwig Classic Maple Drum Kit
Ludwig Black Beauty Snare
Zildjian K Series Cymbals
Fender American Elite Telecaster
Gibson SG Standard '61 Sideways Vibrola
Taylor 517e V-Class 'Grand Pacific' Acoustic
Rickenbacker 4003
Fender Flea Signature Active Jazz Bass
Amplifiers
Marshall 2061X & 2061CX 20W Handwired Stack
Fender '65 Deluxe Reverb Combo