Music Recording & Production at SHStudios

Here at The Coolest Recording Studio in London Town - we get all kindsa musicians rolling through the door to conceptualise & make real their dreams & visions.  Here's how we deal with your live singer guitarist - your performance artiste - they may not have great recording technique - but they sure can turn the fire on - & that's what we got to capture. Generally sonorous, storytelling types like Joan Baez / Woody Guthrie   \ Leadbelly et al - these folks need to be in the zone - there's generally no overdubs or performances stitched together - they want it done live - they want it done proper! So - this time with Mr Ben Holland - we set up a dedicated vocal mic set approx 18 inches away from his mouth. Then we set up two identical ribbon microphones - one facing the head, & one facing the guitar body. Angled like this the top one should reject guitar noise, & the bottom one should reject vocal noise - done right it works beautifully. We

Modding Microphones for that Extra Shazzle!  Here at The Coolest Recording Studio In London Town - we like to tweak - until things are just that little bit extra - & that little bit better. Modifying microphones - why woudja? Well - ribbon microphones all have that lovely natural openness about them - but! They also all suffer (to greater or lesser degrees) from shell resonance - frequencies generated by the protective casing built around the ribbon. This is a ribbon mic we had built & modified by xaudia a few years back - it is made from a modern ribbon, a vintage reslo transformer, a piece of meccano & part of a light fitting - looks a little nuts - but sounds heavenly - & because it has no casing - there's zero shell resonance - so it gives a very pure image of what its' recording. Here's a better view of the transformer :     This is a dynamic mic made by Peavey - of all people - it's the one cap