If we’re completely honest, when the call came in from Toontrack asking to book the studio for many days to do a drum sample project with us we weren’t quite as excited as we pretended to be. We imagined days of listening to 50 dynamics on 100 drums before moving on to a different pair […]
Conventional opinion has it that one of the sillier things one might do is to build a recording studio in a rural area. It is a well-known rule that even a studio built in central London, where all the musicians live, is a pretty bonkers idea from a business point of view. I did that […]
In a lowly cattle shed Back in the 16 and 1700s they didn’t really think very hard about sound proofing their barns. They were more interested in keeping hay, grain and perhaps an occasional ox or horse dry, so all that was needed were some hefty beams that wouldn’t blow over and skinny planks nailed […]