Artéma Recording Studio offers the following services:

Productions

ARTÉMA CD Label
Artéma Recording Studio offers a service that helps student, upcoming and established artists to be creative in a relaxed way. Fees are competitive and affordable. The professional equipment and software ensures outstanding quality. Help is also offered with graphic designs, copyright and contracts, duplication and music score layout.

Artéma Recording Studio is situated in a dynamic campus environment and offers a friendly, supportive and professional service that empowers artists to be fully creative in a relaxed way. The control room is equipped with a YAMAHA M7CL mixer, an ESU 1808 sound interface, a pair of KRK VXT8 nearfield monitors and professional software such as LOGIC 5, CUBASE 5 and SIBELIUS 5. Virtual instrument packs such as the Peter Siedlaceck Orchestra, EWQLSO Gold, Trilogy, RealGuitar 2, RealStrat, Saxlab 2, Garritan Bigband and Stylus RMX, together with various plug-in packs are available to give your arrangements just that professional edge. The recording space consists of a soundproofed  7m X 5m room as well as a drum booth with a Yamaha Custom Drumkit and a solo booth for vocals. The studio owns M-Audio, Shure KSM, AKG 414, Sennheizer and Shure Beta 57 microphones. JBL speakers and Pro Audio, Presonus and Tascam headphone amps are used for monitoring. The Fender Rumble 100 bass amp provides solid full bass lines while the Yamaha CLP Digital Grand Piano ensures professional sounding piano tracks. A choice between our Fender Deluxe and Peavey Classic 50 guitar amps gives you guitar tracks that make the cut. The studio also does basic mastering.

Administrative support
Artéma Recording Studio provides advice and offers help to musicians that don’t know what path to follow in copyright aspects, or which licences they need for their project (only in South Africa). Examples of typical contracts in the music industry are available to serve as a basis for own new contracts.

Design
At the request of the artist, Artéma Recording Studio will bring them into contact with young graphic designers that create quality designs in contemporary styles. A template of a personal Promo Pack, and help with creating one, is also available. Artéma Recording Studio uses Sibelius 5 to create professional score layouts in a professional style of your choice, as well as full orchestra scores and individual instrument parts.

Manufacture
Artéma Recording Studio has an agreement with a CD facility in Potchefstroom that offers duplication, printing and packaging of your product at a competitive unit price. We will also help to facilitate the process if you prefer to use a different CD plant.

Promotion and Marketing
Artéma Recording Studio aim to provide basic support with these aspects in future.

New backtracks and arrangements
Artéma Recording Studio creates professional backtracks according to the artist’s requirements for a reasonable fee. Arrangements for vocal groups, pop bands and big bands are also done.

Existing backtracks and sheet music
COMING SOON! Watch this space for our soon to launch ONLINE SHOP.

CD's and DVD's
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Books and articles
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