Palmerston North City Library’s Latest Initiative – a Recording Studio!

A recording studio in a library? That must be a world first! To be honest, we don’t know, but it’s certainly a bold step.

Beatbooth is a brand new initiative by the Palmerston North City Library, launched on May 24th 2007. Any member of the Library is able to book our music recording room, which is equipped with the following:
- an iMac computer
- Pro Tools (and Garageband) recording software
- Digidesign MBox 2 in/out box
- 4-way headphone splitter
- Axiom49 MIDI keyboard

Pro Tools is the industry standard recording software, so patrons are able to record tracks anywhere and come and work on them at the Library. We’ll be keeping things reasonably quiet at the Library (no amps or drumkits please!), but patrons can bring along their guitar and can plug straight into the computer. Using the Amplitube guitar amp simulator means you can pretend you’re playing through a wall of Marshalls. We provide microphones to record vocals, or patrons can bring their own.

The Axiom49 allows users to input MIDI data, which means they can play strings, bass, drums, and all sorts of other sounds on it. And with the headphone splitter you can have up to 4 people listening to the mix at whatever volume they like.

Once the masterpiece has been finished it can be burnt onto a CD to take home.

So if you’ve got a song in your head that’s just waiting to get out, come to Beatbooth and unleash it!

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