Music Recording & Production at SHStudios

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...

 Recording Studio London Life ! Here at the Coolest Recording Studio in London Town - we do try to rise to every occasion, so when we have repeated requests to reinstall our amazing Soundcraft one inch \ eight track multi channel tape recorder - well - couldn't say no could we. So - here she is in all her full Analog Glory!! Recording studio tape recorder machine There are of course tape hire costs & machine maintenance costs  (£40.00 & £55.00 respectively) - but the beauty of the sound far outweighs any extra £Poundage. It sounds as gorgeous with any of our vintage tube microphone preamps as it does with our modern solid state units on all sound sources - drums / keys / guitars / bass / vocals - & we're now officially the biggest recording geeks in London Town! You can see the studio HERE :

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...