Welcome to

Sound Pure

Recording Studios

 

Sound Pure Studios is the premier Professional Recording Studio Complex, located in beautiful downtown Durham, NC. Our multi-room Studios feature a nearly 1,000 square foot live room sufficient to handle orchestral-sized productions, coupled with a large A-Control Room available for recording seminars and clinics.

 

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The Studio

Sound Pure Studios is a multi-room recording studio featuring a nearly 1,000 square foot live room sufficient to handle orchestral-sized productions, coupled with a large A-Control Room.
The recording studio is located in downtown Durham, North Carolina, a few blocks away from Duke University and the historic Bull Durham ball park. Durham has an innovative and diverse music scene and is home to many artists and record labels including Merge Records, Branford Marsalis, 9th Wonder, Clay Aiken, The Mountain Goats, Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Old Ceremony, and Nnenna Freelon.

Sound Pure was founded, and is still operated by, a small group of music professionals in Durham, NC who have dedicated their lives to the art of making extraordinary musical recordings, as engineers, producers, musicians, and composers.

Gear

The live room features an immaculate new 7-foot Steinway Grand Piano, Hammond B3 Organ with Leslie Speaker, an early 70’s Fender Rhodes Suitcase model keyboard, and a Wurlitzer Model 200A electric keyboard. Both Control Rooms have Pro Tools HD-3 rigs, with an elaborate outboard collection, centered around a Digidesign D-command (Studio A). All studio room acoustics carefully combine beautiful weathered and exposed masonry-brick from the building’s original early 1900’s shell, coupled with carefully placed rough-sawn lumber, and a fabric ceiling.

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Audio Services

Tracking

Any form of audio recording is possible at Sound Pure Studios (or at your specific recording location). Whether you wish to track your entire project and finish it here, track only a part of it, or track your project and take it elsewhere to mix/master, we are at your service, and can work with you any way that you prefer.

Audio Editing

Our Studios are equipped with an array of excellent software tools above and beyond the already extraordinarily well equipped Pro Tools HD rigs in both our A and B control rooms. Additionally, we have a video editing suite, and other areas of our facility capable of tackling your editing requirements.

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Mixing

Whether your demands are analog or digital, we have a mixing solution right for every kind of music or other audio project. We also do mixing for film, video, TV, radio spots, etc. We are equipped with exceptional analog and digital options, and with an array of the finest outboard equalizers and compressors available.

Studio Mastering

We have some of the greatest outboard analog mastering EQ’s and compressors available on the market, as well as one of the largest possible arrays of digital tools and plug-ins for endless automation, restoration, and whatever other processing will be needed for your project.

CD Duplication

Sound Pure has the capability to made limited runs of CD-Rs and DVDs in-house. Additionally, Sound Pure can manage and outsource an unlimited quantity of discs using one of our affiliate duplication partners, or can simply produce you the finished master, ready for duplication.

Remote Recording

Whether your demands are analog or digital, we have a mixing solution right for every kind of music or other audio project. We also do mixing for film, video, TV, radio spots, etc. We are equipped with exceptional analog and digital options, and with an array of the finest outboard equalizers and compressors available.

Film Scoring, Sound Effects

In addition to tracking music, we can also record sound effects, and sync’d music for film. The same principles of studio design and state-of-the-art tools apply equally well whether we are recording sound effects, orchestra, or rock, or whether the work is for CD, MP3, or Film/Video/TV.

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Overdubs and Voiceovers

Looking to do some small tracking of voice, or other instruments where you simply cannot compromise on sound quality, and want to put it in the hands of one of the finest sounding studios on the East Coast, then consider Sound Pure no matter how big or small your studio needs might be.

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Video Services

Video Services Offered by Sound Pure:

  • Music videos
  • Corporate videos
  • Training videos
  • Location shooting
  • Professional voice-overs
  • Professional audio and music capabilities
  • Screen capture & software demos
  • Digital editing
  • DVD & Blue-Ray creation & duplication
  • Videos for the Web
  • Youtube marketing and online video promotion

 

Full HD capabilities

Sound Pure Studios has multiple HD video cameras capable of high resolution output (in color or black and white). We have the ability to produce video that is sync’d to your audio production, or shot completely independent from your audio production. We can adapt to your needs using our Sony PMW-EX1R HD Camera or we can even do a multi-camera shoot utilizing up to four great HD cameras for your project.

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Full-HD Video & Multimedia Editing

In addition to editing the videos that we shoot here, in-house, we can also edit video footage or audio that was independently captured. Any digital media that you wish to compile to create your finished video—whether photographs, video footage, logos, audio (effects, voiceovers, or music), computer screenshots of software in action, websites, etc.—can be combined here  at a fraction of the cost compared to other studios with similar capabilities.

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Our Engineers

Chris Boerner

Todd Atlas

Allen Palmer

Jason Richmond

On The Air

Satisfied customers

The Sound Pure Recording Studios client list includes Grammy Award winners and numerous nominees. Our massive client list includes artists in a huge array of musical genres from classical and jazz to rock and hip hop. We also handle voiceovers, sound design, and film work. The Sound Pure Recording Studios were designed to be an open platform for a large variety of production possibilities.