Music Recording & Production at SHStudios

Here at The Coolest Recording Space in London Town - we get a whole bunch of vocalisers - from full on rock gospel belters to sofly spoken folkists - & they all generally need one thing - attention to detail. There's not One go to mic for any session - but you can betcha life that the Shure SM7 is a good place to start for most sessions - to test the waters so to speak. It's got a good full range - and just sounds excellent - especially if you've got someone who doesn't have great recording technique - like your live singers etc. We always double it up with either a condenser or tube microphone to add either variety of tone or airiness - looks a bit like this. The sm7 is sung into from about 5-6 inches away - the tube or condenser mic is set further away to pick up more air. Another great trick is to set up either an omni condenser or ribbon microphone & face the side to the singer - this means the voice will hit the side of the mic body & e...

Here at The Coolest Recording Space in London Town - we got The Science! You can't always rely on the luxury of a huuuuge space to record your drums / guitars or bass in - so how do you make a drum kit sound huge - in a not so huge space? Well ..... there are tons of ways to expand audio in post production using phase (non) alignment, compression, delays/reverbs - transient shapers etc - but all these methods can get to sounding a bit Processed ! - how do we achieve a nice - natural sounding drum kit recording - by using a Big Assed ribbon mic! - & a tasty eq (either at source or in production). So - you got a coupla spot mics on the drum skins - and a nice pair of overheads to capture the stereo spread - you're nearly there! What makes the difference though - is planting a large diaphragm ribbon mic right above the snare at overheads height - or - right above where the kick, snare & rack tom meet. You can control the toms & mid content by equalising out ...