The Control Room

A spacious room with great acoustics with plenty of natural light. Featuring a full range Adam monitoring system.

Preparing for a session

Re-skin your drumkit for recording. At least the top skins on snare and toms (Aquarian seem to be a very good make at the Minute) Make sure all your hardware is in order.

Re-string guitars the day before you arrive with a few spare sets in case of breakage. Get your instrument professionally set up for the type of strings that you use in whatever tuning. This will save a lot of time messing with screwdrivers or fixing out of tune guitars. The general rule of thumb is the lower the tuning the thicker the gauge of string.

Cables do make a difference so invest in some proper guitar leads. Planet Waves/Monster Cables are a safe bet. Also proper speaker leads. guitar leads are not speaker leads!

Be realistic about the amount of tracks that you would like to record. If you are after something live/raw for your new Myspace page then 4 tracks in 2 days.

If you want radio/broadcast quality then at least 5 days recording, 4 days mixing for a 4 track EP

A working day is 10 hours (10am start)