Avitra’s The padded cell recording studio

Audio And Video Production

Multi-track Recording

The multi-track process can be used for a variety of projects including musical demos, record albums (Alternative, Blues, Dance, Gospel, Hip Hop, Jazz, Metal, R&B, Rap and Rock Demo Sound Files), sales or training audio tapes, slide presentations, theater and radio productions, ambient sounds tracks for exhibits (VSS Sound Scapes) and film sound tracks .

It takes many things to make a recording studio successful: competent engineering, proper equipment, suitable room acoustics, and an understanding of the client's needs. These are all at the heart of The Padded Cell's success.

Our engineers/producers have the experience it takes to help you make the right decisions regarding budgeting, production quality, and distribution requirements.

The nerve center of The Padded Cell's equipment is our twenty-four channel Allen and Heath audio mixing console and our 8, 16 and 24 track digital ADAT. This, in combined with our Pro Tools digital mastering and editing workstation, make for a very hot combination. We also have a wide variety of high quality microphones that get the job done right, and of course, lots of post-production processing equipment such as gates, reverbs, delays, compression, limiting, pitch transposing, equalization, and much more.

Room design and acoustics are a very important part of any studio. At The Padded Cell we have taken extra care in designing a non-parallel, double-insulated, floating wall system. This, combined with a custom-tuned speaker system in our control room, gives our clients the highest production quality possible.

Midi Production

The Padded Cell has a full selection of electronic keyboards, drum machines, and audio samplers, to enhance any project with special instrument sounds or effects, like those that you would hear on top quality record albums. These Midi devices can be controlled manually or by our computer system with Cakewalk Professional for Windows.

Radio Production

The Padded Cell has been helping people in the field of radio for many years. We can write, produce, and engineer anything from an entire show to a thirty-second commercial. Demo tapes for news, sports, voice-overs, and on-air talent are common sessions done at The Padded Cell (Demo Sound Files). We often produce demos for professional D.J.s who would like their search for a new position kept confidential, or newcomers who would like to break into the field of radio broadcasting. The Padded Cell even offers remote location engineering services to the professional broadcast community.

Video Production

The Padded Cell can write, produce, direct, and engineer many  types of video production. We can assist you in the production of music videos, sales and training tapes, cable commercials, demos for television, documentaries, video resumes, sports training tapes, video for exhibits and special events. The Padded Cell can do in-studio or on-location productions. At the Padded Cell we primarily engage in non-linear digital workstation editing with the award winning Adobe Premiere Pro software revolutionizes nonlinear video editing. Powerful real-time video and audio editing tools give you precise control over virtually every aspect of your production. Built for the exceptional performance of Microsoft® Windows XP® systems, Adobe Premiere Pro takes video production to an entirely new level. (other formats and editing also available).

1567 South Cora Street, Des Plaines, Illinois, 60018                          847-803-4832