Experienced Music Producer
Broadcast Quality
Studio Engineering
Musical Accompaniment
Help With Arrangements
Flexible Sessions
Realtime Remote Facilities
Studio Instruments Available
Includes Sound Engineer/Editor
Free Set Up
Free File Transfer
Programme Editing
Sound To Picture Included
Experienced in ADR
Includes Dial In Facilities
BBC Approved Studio
The studio owners Kirsty & Iain McKinna are back onto recording new songs for the forthcoming album 'The Afterglow' which is due for completion and release in 2020. Their debut single You Inspire Me was featured on Tom Robinsons show on BBC Radio 6 and the youtube video of the song is garnering more plays.
We have been working with BBC Producer Melvin Rickarby on two episodes of a forthcoming documentary series about the life of Arthur Cravan, the nephew of Oscar Wilde. His proclivity for shock was what endeared him to the New York Dadaist movement, who adopted him as a poster boy after his death despite the fact Cravan never self-identified with the movement.
Singer & Songwriter Majk Stokes is back at Offbeat recording his 3rd album. With a great collection of new material, Majk's maintains his humourous approach to songwriting while managing to convey some serious points in the process. Acoustic Guitars, Vocals, Didgeredoo & some guests.
After mixing and mastering an album from a live recording of this award winning 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Show, Offbeat is currently recording an audio book for Children's Theatre Company in New York as well as providing music scores of the entire Henry Box Brown show.★★★★★ - Musical Theatre Review
★★★★★- Diva
★★★★ - Fringe Review
★★★★ - The List
★★★★ - Herald
★★★★ - The Fest
The York division of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation headed by Craig Barton visited Edinburgh to meet up with colleagues from Edinburgh & Glasgow to record a podcast highlighting poverty issues in Scotland. The event was hosted by Times journalist Kenny Farquharson.
Norine Mindeyes has been in the recording a series of tracks with Producer Iain McKinna over several years now. Just back from a tour in her native Nigeria, she's back recording another of her compositions entitled 'Time'.
Haunted Voices is an audiobook of oral storytelling from Scotland.. Expect retellings of dark tales from Scotland’s history, performance poetry and narrative prose. Haunted Voices will include monstrous tongue-eaters, shadowy demons, haunted video tapes, wicked priests, strange shapes in the darkness, a retelling of Poe’s The Raven… and more!
Offbeat Radio Offbeat Recording Studios & Productions in Edinburgh’s Royal Mile have produced a one hour radio show / podcast entitled Offbeat Scotland - Adventures In The Studio!! … highlighting just some of the tracks that showcase the amazing diversity that’s been produced at the recording studio now and over the past 25 years, as […]
Catherine Cohen, an established and hilarious comedienne has recorded a complete series for a Netflix podcast by New York's Pineapple FM.
Recording the finale commentary for this popular CBBC series Gym Stars with Presenter and up and coming comedy star London Hughes & TV Producer Tamsin Summers for Drummer Television productions.
Watch the video!
Eddie Izzard was in the studio in his role as Piano player with Singer and Award Winning Director Sarah McGuinness
Rosalind Newton is in the Offbeat studio recording for BBC Radio 4 with producer Melvin Rickarby for the Soul Music series which focuses on music with an emotional impact.
Voice to Picture Session. Recorded the comedian Brendan Murphy who voiced an animated TV & Cinema Star Wars Promotion advert for Disney.
Recording a series of radio interviews / podcasts for Union Jack radio during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Featuring Christopher Biggins. Marcus Brigstocke, Simon Brodkin, Shappi Khorsandi, Lucy Phol, Basil Brush & Mark Dolan.
We recorded actor Jason Harvey who hilariously voiced a series of Tweets by Scottish people, gleaned by Twitter for an exhibition at this years Edinburgh Festival from Blackfriars Street. The tweets are now online and can be heard in a compilation we put together
Incredible Children's Author Stuart Reid is recording his first audio book from the successful Gorgeous George series entitled Grandpa Jock and the Incredible Iron-Bru-Man Incident.
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 6
BBC Radio 4
BBC1 TV
BBC Bytesize
Turner Classic Movies
Edinburgh International Festival
John Paul Getty Museum
Universal Music Group
Decca Records
Sky TV
Al-Jazeera TV
Film 4
More 4
STV
As both musician and producer Iain McKinna’s audio and musical journey – from Analogue in the 70’s to Midi in the 80’s to Digital from the 90’s to the present day — offers a wealth of knowledge and experience when collaborating with clients on their audio and music projects.
He's produced albums that have achieved World Music chart success and has received 2 Gold records and a Classical Brit award for recording the Spirit Of The Glen series of albums for Universal/Decca Records.
But even those achievements barely scrape the surface of Iain's background, past, worldliness, understanding and involvement in the industry to which he has devoted his life.
