Major Correction to Nigel’s Page
For many years, Nigel's page included gear used on Zero 7’s 2006 album The Garden. While additional recording for that album was done at Nigel’s “The Hospital” studio, most of the album was recorded at Henry Binns’ home studio in Glastonbury, called the “Roundhouse” (not to be confused with the Roundhouse venue in London where Radiohead and Jonny Greenwood have performed). As such, a lot of gear that we thought belonged to Nigel was totally unrelated to Nigel, and instead was part of Binns’ studio. You can now see that list of gear on this page. But it’s worth noting that Nigel and Binns have similar taste in gear, which is unsurpring since they’ve been friends since they shared classes at the William Ellis School in London. Both are frequent users of Acoustic Energy AE1 monitors, Neumann U47 and Shure SM57 mics, Urei 1176 compressors, and the Protools DAW.
The list of gear at Binn's home studio was originally listed in interview with Sam Hardaker of Zero 7 from Electronic Musician magazine. The original article is gone, but you can read an archived version here.
Fixing this correction made us realize that Nigel’s page is missing a lot of information about the mics used for his From The Basement recordings, aside from the well-known vocal mics. We’d greatly appreciate any submissions identifying the instrument mics used for those sessions.
