Music Recording & Production at SHStudios

Here at The Coolest Recording Studio in London Town - we don't half like our sounds Au Naturel - I mean we got some beautiful outboard (& plugin) reverb & delay units - & they're amazing - but sometimes - specially on drums - you just want that hyper real sound of the drums in their recorded space - & for that - the best thing to do is set up a condenser or ribbon mic about 6 - 12 feet away - & compress the living crap out of it. Solid state compressors will be faster & more accurate that tube comps - but tube comps will add warmth & tasty distortion. compressors & a lexicon verb You won't need to mix too much of this track in with the close mics - but get it right at the recording stage - & boy will it take your audio to another dimension! ..... I mean literally! You can also use proper outboard 'verbs or delays to add space & richness to your mix - these are Our main outboard spatializers : tc & dy

Here at the Coolest Recording Space in South London - we like to get sounds down right! It is easy to over eq audio at the recording stage - so always err on the side of caution - & use it judiciously !!!  ( Word !) There are a plethora of different types of hardware eq out there - & they all react uniquely to the audio you throw at them. Graphic equalisers are useful for cutting & boosting instrumentation - but Parametric equalisers are much more creative & music tools - so we tend to use these in our studio. This is a vintage solid state Orban stereo parametric - it's not as defined as modern units - but has a very sweet tone so great for adding weight to vocals & guitars - or for giving drum ambient / overhead mics a classic texture: orban   TC make some superb equipment from live gigging gear to high end studio verbs, eq's & preamps. This monster is so sharp it can cut the tiniest sliver of offending frequency from a troublesome