Our comfy and well-equipped boutique recording studio is situated bang in the centre of Edinburgh's Royal Mile, we are just 5 minutes walk from Waverley Station and a few minutes from Princes Street.
BBC Approved
We're a BBC Approved studio and make regular recordings for BBC TV, BBC Radio and BBC Bite Size.
Equipment
We operate a Mac based Logic Pro X set-up as well as Pro Tools using Metric Halo converters along with the amazing DM2000 mixer which boasts 96 channels with warm pre-amps and up to 96k bandwidth. Our equipment includes a range of pro microphones including Neumann U87, KM84s, Coles Ribbon Stereo mic, AKG 414, rode NTK and AKG Solid Tube and excellent signal processing equipment A huge sample library and a top class selection of plug-ins. Check out a full rundown of all our Equipment.
Award Winners
Award Winners recordings we have been involved in include The Story Of Film, an Odyssey, which won The Stanley Kubrick Award for best Documentary at the New York Film Award. Earthrise by Al Jazeera won best documentary at New York Film awards for Ice Stupas of Ladahk. The Eyes Of Orson Welles was runner up for best Documentary at Cannes Film festival in 2019.
No.1 in the Classical Charts and a Classical Brit Award for Spirit Of The Glen in 2009 for Decca Records and 2 top ten hits in the World Music Charts for Solas by Talitha Mackenzie for World Music Network in 1996 and Akassa by Hamed Kanein 2000as well as 3 iTunes no1 hits in 2019.
Making sure the recording of audio parts are as good as they can be, it’s important that things are recorded correctly.
Studio engineering skills are crucial in blending sounds that need to work together on the same track. When comparing studios and rates, it's not about the cost per hour, it's about what can be done in an hour! And with our decades of engineering experience we will save you all the cost and pain of using inexperienced engineers.
And naturally we have the best tools for the job. That means a professional array of top quality microphones including condensers, valve and tube and ribbon mics, each of which will be chosen to match the characteristics of particular audio applications.
Signal processing is employed at the recording stage too, so that the fundamental sounds that exist in the track are properly optimised.
Noise Gates, Compression, Expansion, EQ and of course recording at the correct levels are all crucial.
“This was by far the best recording experience we’ve had together to date."
OLIVIA HUMPHRIES
RADIO PRODUCER
"Thank you for the beautiful audio you recorded for our BBC 3 programme The Essay."
MELVIN ROCKARBY
BBC PRODUCER
"It all worked out well and the sound on you recorded for Soul Music was really lovely."
Save Time
If you have written a song and need musicians to create and play parts for the song this can be very time consuming and expensive , even if you have your own band.
Save Money
We can work with a basic demo of your idea and develop it along the lines of your own preferences, influences and references to music you like which you think might fit with your song.
Save Worry
We create custom backing tracks from a wide pallet of live and sampled instruments, sound designed to suit a range of styles. If the budget allows we can also employ our roster of top class session musicians to add to your tracks.
You can take our recording as separate stems into the studio where you live and add your own parts there and mix to your own taste too if you want. Or if you live locally to our studio you could book into Offbeat to add your parts.
