Ted McKenna... by Iain McKinna We are all gutted here at Offbeat as Ted played on quite a few of our productions to fantastic effect. Two Imaginary Creatures albums - Danse Macabre & Sometimes They Get Into The Machinery and "Maybe Someday" by Chris Summers and on some of Sir Chris Evans Evamore recordings. Sometimes session […]
Imaginary Creatures The 4th album from Imaginary Creatures is now on release on record shops, and iTunes and all online music distributors. Produced at Offbeat, this album features Cellos, Strings and a Rock based backing of Guitars, Bass & Drums. It's the brainchild of lyricist David Scott who has teamed up with musician and producer […]
A Unique Production Service Evamore is a project by Sir Chris Evans who created an album of songs based on letters sent back from soldiers from WW1. The album was a huge undertaking which involved many session singers and musicians. On this particular song I worked out the arrangement based on a rough demo sent over my […]
Offbeat Projects & News March 2015 Having had a series of important equipment upgrades we have been buzzing all year, the variety of albums, singers and musicians, voice overs and backing tracks has been astounding. BBC Radio 4 We recently had the pleasure of recording a program for BBC Radio 4 with respected journalist Alan Little. […]
Chris’s songwriting styles on the album are Blues, Folk & Rock influences which required different production approaches. The songs were laid down on average of a studio session per week. Chris established each track on Acoustic Guitar and rhythm tracks were created as a template for each song. Bass, Electric Guitar & Keyboards were played […]
Earthrise for Al-Jazeera with Russell Beard We are now currently working on Season 8 of the amazing series Earthrise for Al-Jazeera with Russell Beard, and about to embark on a new project for Time/Warner’s Turner Classic Films. In case you missed it, we started doing major Voice Over projects several years ago after meeting Film […]
His parts survived as midi exports which were then re-triggered with a Native Instruments piano that I had installed as a third party plug in on my Logic Pro-X DAW. Working on his ideas on his iPad was perfect for Mark who didn’t want to get bogged down with gear just to be able to […]
Amazing developments in the Voice Over area of our recording studio here at Offbeat in Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. The Eyes Of Orson Welles, a film by Director Mark Cousins, is to be premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year. We recorded the voice of Star Wars star Jack Claff who plays the great […]
Gavin Blackie Wins Prestigious Music Award Gavin and Offbeat Producer Iain McKinna co-wrote the winning track Get It On and it features on his recently released album Laid Bare which is available on iTunes. Gavin performed the track ‘live’ at his launch gig at Edinburgh’s Church Hill Theatre to a packed audience in November 2015. Gavin […]
Gavin Blackie – Laid Bare Iain says ” When I first started working with Gav we got immediate results but we have had to go through a process of experimentation to find out what did and didn’t work. Once we hit on the formula some of the songs that initially didn’t suit his style translated really […]
Music To Lyrics – A Unique Production Service Evamore is a project by Sir Chris Evans who created an album of songs based on letters sent back from soldiers from WW1. The album was a huge undertaking which involved many session singers and musicians. On this particular song I worked out the arrangement based on a rough […]
Skyler Jett – Grammy award winning singer ‘at Offbeat’. This extremely talented singer is full of energy and charisma and you can easily while away your afternoon listening to his many stories about his career in the music business. Skyler not only grew up in a musical family but was surrounded by and sung with so […]
2016 Gets Off To A Great Start 2015 was another amazing year at Offbeat. 2016 is lining up to be outstanding as it gets off to a great start with Ross Munro’s single Gravel Path (from his ground breaking album Twisted Traditions -Greentrax Records) reaching no1 in the Celtic Radio Charts. The album was produced here at the Offbeat Studio. The BBC/Swedish movie Stockholm […]
Imaginary Creatures album release ‘Danse Macabre’ Lyricist David Scott started off many years ago originally writing fiction and by using his creative writing skills he discovered that he could write lyrics which started seriously from 1995 to 2000 where he had a fertile period writing many lyrics for his own amusement. This culminated several years later and gave him […]
Ross Munro signs to Greentrax Well all his hard work has paid off as the hot news is that after an introduction by us at Offbeat he has just signed a recording licensing contract with Greentrax Records, who will be able to distribute the album worldwide to all of Ross’s many fans. And so Ross […]
Offbeat news from our Edinburgh Recording Studio. THE PRODUCERS BLOG GAVIN BLACKIE – LAID BARE (album) In the past couple of months we’ve picked up the pace with Gavin Blackie’s debut album Laid Bare and I am is now mixing six of the tracks he co-wrote with Gavin for the album. The album was started back in 2013 but […]
Pamela Stephenson Connolly – Josie Long It was fantastic to meet the Australian Sound Designer Derek Wilson who recorded all the spoken parts and announcements for the show. Pamela Stephenson Connolly, who is producing the show, and other members of the cast came into the studio the day before the opening of the show – which was […]
Hot News From Offbeat – Kirsty’s Blog WOW, it’s been a fantastic year so far for OFFBEAT RECORDING STUDIOS with lots of fantastic new talent and interesting projects – the outcome being seven albums of varying styles. from Dance, Hip Hop, Pop, Rock, Folk and even World. J.A Connor’s composition OPEN YOUR MIND has reached Number One in […]
My son, Producer Paul McKinna aka Vigilante talks about how he put together his mega trilogy of hip hop albums with producer Spytec based on his favourite movies. To get in touch with Paul about making beats for your tracks Contact Us. “I started making Hip Hop beats when I teamed up with Profisee to […]
The Voice UK Showcase for Series 4 at Offbeat We had seventeen unique acts in the Offbeat studio ranging from opera to jazz to pop, rock and soul. Thanks to Rich Anderson and Dave Valentine for their superb recommendations and our Kirsty did a great job of looking after the singers prior to their […]
IMAGINARY CREATURES – THE BUTTERFLY’S DREAM. A slow burning studio project. Since August 2012 and for most of 2013, lyricist David Scott was in the studio every Wednesday between 2pm and 6pm, working on his debut album The Butterfly’s Dream for his project Imaginary Creatures. In early January 2014 we put the finishing touches to […]
