2012 Australian Blues Music Awards  Poons Head artists and recordings nominated for 5 out of the 6 possible categories!  Including  Album of the Year,  The Vibrolators, "Frangipani" and  Song of the Year , Ali Penney & the Money Makers, "Evangeline"

Bears and Dolls Winners of Rockingham Battle of the Bands tracking single

Pond signed to Modular new album to be released 2012

White Cross [80's Aussie legends] mastering

Scotch Of St James mastering single

Tame Impala recording piano for new album released 2012 [ sounding very nice indeed] 

The Floors single "You've Got To Move"/ "Aileen", mixed and mastered. Album due for release 2012.

Spedding Road Gibsons [NZ Rockers] mixing album.

Cortez recording album

Ali Penney And The Money Makers Album finished. Sydney Blues Diva Ali Penney records live at The Poon.

Sure Fire Midnights  mastering album "Strike At Midnight"

Pond album mixed and mastered

Black Board Minds single 'Hell With Me/ Wasting Away " mixed and mastered with great reviews and JJJ airplay

Mr Gentlemen ep mixed and mastered

The Vibrolators album "Frangipani" mixed and mastered [recorded together live and vibed right up in the poon main room]

Starcleaner single "Nameless" mixed and mastered.

Memoria album "Death Calls The Islands" mastered and released throughout Europe with Danish label MISANTROF

Mink Mussel Creek mix and master debut album to glowing reviews

Tame Impala win JJJ  J Awards Album of the Year !

The Lammas Tide EP  finished and released with glowing reviews

The Chevelles tracking drums

Tame Impala in the studio recording Bass and Guitars

Jeff Martin producing tracks for Seraphyn

Volcanics recording a new EP with Rob and Kenny

Death Cab for Cutie in the studio and have recorded a Paul McCartney cover for US radio station

Burke Reed is in the studio producing the new Kill Devil Hills album

Mick Harvey is in the studio producing an all star album for Mark Snarski

Jeff Martin has completed the recording of his first rock album since The Tea Party with new band The Armada and is booked in this month to mix with Rob

Home Brew are mixing their debut album 

Mixing and Mastering for Cinema Prague"s album "Snakes Alive" is now complete so get ready for the big release party<

Pokerface EP is mixed and mastered ready for release, balls to the wall rock with a great sense of melody and vocal delivery

Fletch's new album 'Anecdote' has been mixed and mastered and due to be released after his tour of Europe

Electromen's eagerly anticipated album is now mixed and mastered, ready for release. These Psychotic Hillbillies are challenging the very foundations of what is "Bent Roots music"

The Vibrolators album has finished recording and mixing and due to be mastered after their Eastern States tour. Live jumping energy was captured over two days as the band cut all tracks live in the same room

Producer Jeff Martin and Rob have been working with band Still Fire in the studio. Four songs have been recorded and mixed, awaiting mastering. Bon Scott meets Bonham for some good honest Aussie Rock

Melbourne band Hoss have completed recording and mixing their new album which is now awaiting mastering. Recoded live - all in the same room - over one very boozy, very balmy week end, the band layed down 18 inimitable Hoss classics. Additional equipment required for this session included one spittoon for vocal overdubs

New Patching System

Extensive rewiring and routing of studio has been undertaken. 1.5kms of cable have been re terminated to a new patching system employing 10 new patch bays and hundreds of new connectors. The new system has been designed to dramatically improve the speed of setup times and the time taken for re patching between recording and mixing. The new system proves to be highly efficient while still maintaining the minimum path for signal flow to maintain the highest quality.

New additions

Algorithmix Red and Orange linear phase EQs - Scratchfree, Noisefree, Renovator

Royer 121 and AEA R84 Ribbon Mics

Lavry DA-10 Converter

2 x Empirical Labs EL8SX Distressor

Lexicon PCM41 Delay

Weiss Saracon SRC

Computer Upgrade - 4800 Dual-Processor plus Magma PCI ExpansionBadCat - Extreme Tone pedal

Apogee AD-16X - The latest and best converter Apogee has ever made. 192Khz conversion with Big Ben C777 clocking, 16 channels, quoted as "The best converter ever made...bar none"

2 x Apogee DA-16x - (digital-in version of above)

Tascam DV-RA1000 - High definition master recorder. 192 KHz PCM and DSD recording

Sequoia 8.2 DAW - Latest version which includes DVD audio masters. We can now upgrade all previous 16 bit audio masters to 24 bit DVD audio (this is possible because all previous Poons Head masters have been done at 32 bit float). Sequoia is the ultra-highend German mastering digital audio workstation. 192Khz and over 64 bit internal processing POW-r dither. DDP export

Universal Audio UAD-1 Ultra Pack - Virtual versions of the best analog processors. 192 KHz mastering, EQs, Limiters. We now have BOTH real and virtual versions of Fairchild, Teletronix LA2A, Urei 1176 (black and silver), Pultec IA3, MEI1, EMT140 Tube Plate.

Lipinski L-707's - New York audiophile company Lipinski has finally started manufacturing speakers, their quality and performance is sending shockwaves into the world of mastering and recording. "Best reproduction I've ever had in 40 years of putting together stereo systems!" Bob Katz "Outstanding dynamic range within the mid spectrum, revealing incredible detail" Rob Grant Read More

Labs X2.5 - One of the best signal paths from the world's finest amplifier designer, Nelson Pass. Class A Pre-Amp/monitoring switching Read More

Benchmark DAC1 - fantastic depth with an ultra-smooth top end.

Manley Variable - with Mid/Side and T bar mods.

Urei 1176 Blackface - The Classic Class A 1176! (3 now in the rack)

2 x Urei LA3 - Classic hard-edge rock compression

Teletronix LA2 - Tube 60's joy compression (2 now in the rack)

Massive Passive EQ - "Does some things (most things!) better than anything I have ever heard" Bob Ludwig "Shit Hot!!" Rob Grant

We have completed reburbishment of all our Telefunken V74 line-amps and V76, V72a Mic Pre-Amps. The V72a tube pre-amps are the same preamps used in the classic EMI tube console as used by Abbey Road Studio for recording The Beatles, Pink Floyd and others. For the complete listing of studio equipment see the complete Poons Head equipment list.

Poons Head - Australian Guitar Magazine Feature

Volume 40 National Studio Round-up features Poons Head. "One of the biggest collections of tube recording gear in Australia" Read Full Article

New Monitoring Room Extension

Phase 2 of the monitoring room extension has been completed. The redesign now provides for 173 cubic metres (10m deep, 3.5 metres high) of acoustic space! The enlarged space, with the further acoustic treatment undertaken, provides an improved and more even frequency response across the entire spectrum with improved imaging, resulting in an overall better acoustic.

New Control Room!

The control room has been completely rebuilt offering a much bigger control room with improved acoustics. Acoustic design has been based on a classic model from famous acoustician M. Louden. The result has been a greatly improved low frequency response. The Duntech PCL 25 monitors, coupled with the new acoustic, are now performing far more efficiently, giving superior fidelity across the entire audio bandwidth.