Music Recording & Production at SHStudios

  Shrunken Heads Recording Studio London Recording Studio Here at the Coolest Recording Studio in London Town - we've made some mighty fine rekkids in our time - from Ghostpoets' Shedding Skin to King Krules' the Ooze - & more recently Man Alive released this last march.  King Krule Man Alive During Lockdown we've recorded, mixed & produced a bunch of muziks for our clientele - and ever recorded a tv show for a session fiddle player turned teacher. He was superb! Our Fave project this year though has to be Pineapple Empress - a indefinable mix of jazz , funk , punk , electronica and classical musics - & we went to town with the production toys creating new spatial realities & timescapes - it's freakin' amazing!  New Music Pineapple Empress New Music So ... If you want some Joy and Happiness in these odd & worrying times - grab yourself a bit of that Audio Loveliness !  You can Buy & / or Listen to all 19 (!) tracks HERE .  An...

recording studio south london   Mixing Music - in the Box - Analog Mixer - or Both ! Here at The Coolest Recording Studio in South London - we get a lot of different clients with a lot of different needs . Might be a folk group , jazz quartet or classic rock band that want to record everything live - possibly to tape - usually to hard drive as tape costs are a bit high. Those guys usually want a minimal amount of editing so generally come into the studio after playing a few gigs to get them super tight. Usually we'll track all the audio through our mammoth collection of analog preamps , equalisers & compressors , plus we'll send sets of audio to our selection of transformers for a bit of extra zing & juice - because we collect transformers (the black art of recording & Music Production) & have probably the largest collection in London Town ! Music Producing  After all that - it's mixing time. Analog equipment does odd & beautiful ...

south london recording studio London Recording Studio Life !!   Here at The Coolest recording Studio in South London - we got the creation craving! We just Have to make new, interesting & exciting recording & mixing devices for our excellent clients . Our most recent research has led us to develop a set of microphones (Coppermics - made out of copper!) the formats of which do not appear to be readily available on the market. You can of course get mics spec built - but boy does this cost a ton of moolah & takes ages - so .... we put our heads together & came up with This beauty - the Coppermic King ! Microphone - The King - for vocals - guitar - drums Coppermic The King All three capsules are identical in tone & volume - the centre mic picks up the centre image of the audio you're recording, and the left & right capsules pick up the stereo information. You should always eq the centre mic with a slight (1-3 db) boost at the fundament...

south london recording studio Recording Studio London Life ! Here at The Coolest Recording Studio in South London - we know that vibes create the finest music & connect us to the muse - so with this in mind we put together the most relaxed & creative space in which to put our musicians - which is why we're lucky enough to have recorded & produced some of the most interesting artists in the locale & beyond! Here's our live room - a little snifter of what to expect at the House of Music: shrunkenheads studio live room Recording studio live room Full of colour, natural light - drums & other musical instruments to inspire & uplift folks. The control room is more of the same: recording studio control room Recording studio equipment control room We cram a whole lotta vibes into a rather funky space. You can see the studio HERE . recording studio south london shrunkenheads recording studio

Recording Studio London Life ! Here at The Coolest Recording Studio in South London - we don't just make some of the finest sounding records - we help to mould them - by introducing our artists to various noise & sound generating equipment. This could be anything from recording tuning forks at half speed to generate spooky & odd harmonics to poking mics out of upper story windows & recording street noise & traffic to record interesting loops. Or ..... it could be old forgotten instruments - like the Casio range of digital guitars - recently used by Flight of the Concords - to great effect!! Recording studio toys - don't matter the cost if it's cool ! We were lucky enough to pick this one up - & it's already been used on a track by a very well known artist! It's packed with pcm sounds which maybe don't sound so good when played on a keyboard: Classic recording studio equipment But the odd way the strings react to p...

 Recording Studio London Life ! Here at The Coolest Recording Studio in South London Town - texture plays a key part in all our productions - it may be a Japanese post punk band looking for slowed down traffic noise to add girth to the verses - it may be an Electro artist looking to track authentic sounding Soul to add to their palette - or it may be an alt. folk songstress searching the universe for random voices to enhance or gell their repertoire ..... so what do we here at ShrunkenheadsStudios do? - We research & make stuff bespoke for our artists - that's what we do! Here's our latest & greatest venture into audio experimentation - SHS's own Eyecrophone!  Eyecrophone Recording studio microphones - funky is good !  Hand made at the studio - it picks up electromagnetic information from ipads , phones , computers & other electronic devices - it's quite odd hearing what your phone is thinking - especially when you go online & c...

Here at the Coolest Recording Space in London Town - we know All about the FX Effect - the way audio can trick & fool ya into tumbling head over heels into an audio void ..... we created !! Live tracking is all about capturing the immediate elements of a performance or song - but post production - or mixing - is how we embellish, twist, change or enhance that original recording - & time delay effects are some of the most interesting, mind bending tools at our disposal. Here's a few of our fave delay & modulation units: analog echo delay Analog echo - this one has had the time knob replaced by a volume pedal so the echo speed can be controlled by foot - keeps the hands free & adds to the nutso factor - which we like. The feedback control on this unit sends the echo back into itsself & can create insane DR. Who / BBC Radiophonic Workshop like soundscapes - this with the added bonus of the gain preamp overdriving beautifully makes it a fave ...

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...

Here at The Coolest Recording Studio in London Town - we got a Whole Gamut - a Plethora - indeed a Bounteous selection of audio toys to bleep, blurp, click & whistle their way into whichever compostiton fancies a bit of extra shting !  Extra Toys - most definitely do not need to be expensive - but they do need to be interesting - here's a few we've used recently to embellish various musics. 1. Drum Synth   These are great - you can trigger them by either cv/gate, hitting the front face with a pencil or finger, or even better - from an audio source like a live snare or kick drum.  They are made by Rakit & are based on the electroharmonix drum synths from the 70's - which were the coolest of the bunch.  It's excellent for adding subs or modulation to a kick drum - noise to a snare - or indeed just playing along live to add odd rhythmic textures to a track.  Next up in a very odd looking thing we got from a £1.00 shop in peckham, Londo...