Record Producers, Recording Equipment, Recording Studios
Producer Series: William Orbit Thursday 9th September 2010 – FREE EVENT “You’ve got to sign up 100% to the idea of being the ‘producer’ and not competing with the artist for attention. That’s why I like it, I get plenty of opportunity elsewhere to do my thing, but you’ve got to pick artists that you totally [...]
Fran Ashcroft: Why You Should Keep Mice Out Of Your Studio You need to keep mice out of your studio, because they:- need really small headphones eat cables at lunchtime haven’t had a hit in ages play havoc with your faders insist on bringing their girlfriends along to the session drive the cat mental always [...]
I thought it would be a good idea to put a showcase of photos taken with musicians in the studio – Many of them are also producers but all are excellent musicians. Here they are seen in a range of recording environments, from big name studios to small home studios. Click on any of the [...]
Fran Ashcroft: Kiss Your Career Goodbye Why don’t more unsigned artists use producers? Some think that good producers wouldn’t be interested in anything without a label – but the majority simply expect that any producer would be too expensive to consider using, or are under the impression that an engineer fulfils the same role. Not [...]
Fran Ashcroft: Am I being Realistic? Whatever happened to Tandy? The one stop shop for emergency guitar leads, shite cassette players, inflatable motorised robots and occasionally useful PZM mics? It was just the place to go when you needed a plug. They must have gone out of business here when I was in exile. But [...]
Watch the Tony Platt video with Tony talking about recording AC/DC’s Back in Black Tony Platt’s career in the music business started at Trident Studios in London but he made his name as an engineer at the now legendary Island Studios. Working his way from assistant engineer to engineer on sessions with the likes of [...]
Paul Epworth is one of the fastest climbing producers in the UK. He won the Music Producers Guild Producer of the Year in April. Paul is possibly best known for his work with the Bloc Party, Primal Scream, Florence and the Machine etc etc. We popped in to Paul’s old studio to take a few [...]
Confessions of A Studio Owner, Pt 28 The Compressor’s Useless Facts I don’t have much this week I’m afraid. The band have been well behaved (the kitchen is as usual a shit hole) so I thought I would offer up a few nuggets of information that may be useful at times of trouble: 1. Does [...]
Fran Ashcroft: The No Future Jobs Scheme Summertime – sun, sea, sand and recording school students looking for work experience or job placements. Every year it’s the same – graduates who don’t seem to realize it doesn’t stand them in good stead to spam every producer and studio in the book with the same rubbish [...]
C27: Confessions of a Studio Owner: Kitchen Pickers Bigger Knickers Not long ago, a band entered Compressor Towers with a female lead singer. She arrived fit, healthy and pretty….let me put it like this….you wouldn’t kick her out of bed for eating crackers! One month and an album later, she left pale, lifeless and 20 [...]
