Our ever-growing directory of partner studios has been made even bigger this week with the addition of Yellow Shark Recording Studio! Located in Cheltenham in the charming Cotswolds region north west of London, Yellow Shark is a world-class recording facility owned by Jeremy Drew, who named the studio after Frank Zappa’s final album The Yellowshark.
Yellow Shark comprises of two large live rooms, two small booths and a large control room, each room having its own special uses. The main live room is large and with low absorption generates a fairly live sound whilst remaining controlled, which is great for vocalists and acoustic instruments. The second live room and the booths are covered in absorption, creating a dead environment perfect for recording guitars and (depending on the sound you’re after) is also ideal for drums. Take a look through the virtual floor plan to get more of a feel for the space here.
While you’re at it, we recommend you browse through the extensive equipment list for all the gear goods they have in store, including an unusually wide variety of very fine instruments such as an original Hammond B3 with Leslie!
The control room, this room is centered around a Soundtracs Jade-S 48 Channel recording and mixing console, which stopped being produced in 1996 and is renowned for its warm sound, and ‘SSL’ like features. The team at Yellow Shark have gone to great lengths to ensure the monitoring is perfect, with wall mounted ATC 200ASLs, ATC SCM20, Focal Twins BE and Yamaha NS10’s. The combination of all these will give you the perfect sound and allow you to pick up every detail when recording and mixing.
It’s not all about the sound though! The team at Yellow Shark know how important the look and feel of a studio is for clients, and so the interior has been designed to produce a creative vibe and beautiful ambience without compromising on sound quality, with dimming lights in every room to set the mood.
Regardless of how big or small your recording project, from recording singles to albums, radio to corporate voice overs, the team at Yellow Shark can cater to your needs and budget. With an unmatched passion for sound, Yellow Shark offers the best technology at all stages of the recording process, and a team of experienced engineers who have worked with some of the finest musicians, producers and companies in the industry.
Explore the full studio page here and contact our bookings team for all enquiries.
In addition to having a directory of over 100 partner studios worldwide, Miloco Studios offers a great range of long term let studios in London. With an already impressive roster of production suites across the capital, we are pleased to welcome our newest long term let partner studio, Arcadium.
Located in north-west London’s Pall Mall Deposit in Barlby Road between Ladbroke Grove and Kensal Rise, this studio presents an amazing opportunity for producers, artists, a small label or a group of songwriters.
Designed and built in 2010 with prestige style in mind, this premier establishment is divided into 3 main areas over 1000 sq.ft – a control room, a spacious wooden floored Live Room (which can double up as a second writing room), and a lounge area & Kitchen.
The studio is available as a dry-hire studio and comes with no equipment (Images of equipment shown are from a previous setup). The studio has 24 hour access, 24 hour security, is alarmed, is air conditioned and has access to communal serviced toilets.
With its impressive rooms, excellent location and the great communal cafe on the ground floor, this is the perfect studio for producers to work on their own projects or artists wanting to work on an album or longer projects ,
Arcadium is available for lease now, please call our office team +44 (0) 207 232 0008 or email bookings@miloco.co.uk for details and viewings.
After our saga of pianos in Livingston 1 last year, we are so happy that the Steinway Model B grand piano we waited so anxiously for is performing as well, if not better, than we hoped!
Someone who wholeheartedly agrees with us is London-based pianist, composer, arranger and producer Janette Mason! A well known figure in the British jazz scene, we hosted Janette and her new jazz trio Red Alert in Livingston 1 this past January
The trio, comprising of Janette on piano, Jack Pollitt on drums and Tom Mason on bass, spent two days in Studio 1 recording promotional videos for their new project, which they are can the middle of crowdfunding.
“The Steinway is sounding fantastic,” says Janette. “The results we achieved both visually and sonically are fantastic!”
With a background as prestigious as hers, we’re inclined to take her word on these things! Janette was nominated for a Parliamentary jazz award for her second trio album Alien Left Hand and she reached the Grammy ballot for The Live Smoke Sessions with Lea DeLaria for which she took on the dual roles of arranger and producer.
She has written music for Film and TV including the score for the award winning Ruby Blue, starring Bob Hoskins and has had music placed in countless TV programs from The Drew Carey Show to Sex and the City. As a performer she’s worked with Oasis, Pulp, Robert Wyatt and collaborated with many high profile jazz musicians including Ian Shaw and Gwyneth Herbert.
This new work is inspired by Janette’s passionate belief that jazz needs to constantly evolve to attract a younger, more diverse audience. Several of the tracks are a direct musical response to the political and social challenges now facing us all – hence the title Red Alert.
The upcoming Red Alter project will be released on Dot Time Records. For all enquiries, please contact Janette’s management at khadiee@chapelstmusic.com.
To support the new Red Alert project, you can contribute to their crowdfunding campaign which runs from March 1-31, 2017 here.
Posted in Uncategorized |Welcome to Tic Studio, our new partner studio in Austria’s beautiful capital, Vienna. Located in the historical and trendy Neubau district, the 150m2 studio was newly renovated and opened its doors in November 2016. Part of the large Tic Music complex built in 1989, the studio hosted countless recordings of the glorious Austro-Euro Pop era, and is the perfect space for bands and solo artists alike to write and record, or mix via console or summing.
All the recording spaces at Tic are flooded by daylight from the huge windows on the top floor of the old building, including the the main live room which features a great sounding Boesendorfer Piano. There is a second large recording room, usually used for tracking drums, and a 16m2 vocal or amp booth, making a total of three live recording spaces plus the large, luminous control room. The spaces are well connected with high-quality Mogami cables, to provide the maximum flexibility for live recordings or solo/writing projects. Take a virtual walk through the studio with our interactive floorplan.
With an impressive gear list, the studio boasts a large collection of analogue gear, including classic and modern microphones. The core of the studio is a Pro tools 12 HDX with monitoring provided by a beautiful sounding Tannoy System 15, The K&H O300 and the classic ATC SM20. You will find a marvelous arsenal of gear at Tic, many of the classic everyday use preamps, Eq’s and compressors, plus a selection of boutique modern processors, and a 128 input Euphonix CS2 console.
The studio also features a comfortable kitchen & lounge area, with a fantastic and varied food selection available to order for delivery from several nearby places. The Tic Music complex is a creative hub, housing two busy state-of-the-art post-production suites and two film studios just two floors down. Plus many of Vienna’s attractions are easily reachable from the studio location, making it a great destination for those wanting to record away from the distractions of their home city.
With a rich history of clients under their belt, more recent bands to record at Tic Studio include Martin Klein, Russell Morgan, Atlas, SheLoom, 5th Projekt, Apache Darling, Black Sirens Wendepunkt, Julia Siedl, Bamdad Xosh, Maddes and Soft Plastic.
For all booking enquiries at this stunning facility, please contact the bookings team at bookings@miloco.co.uk
Posted in Uncategorized |We have welcomed our newest partner studio, Principle Pleasure, a writing room in the hear of Downtown Los Angeles’ up and coming Arts District neighbourhood.
Housed in a 925square foot warehouse in an industrial 1920’s factory building with 19ft ceilings, Principle Pleasure is unique space that specialises in vintage analogue synthesizers and drum machines. With it’s abundance of daylight, unique setting and stunning views of LA’s skyline, this studio is the perfect hub for creative inspiration, and is amongst a growing creative community which is home to a number of internationally acclaimed artists, galleries, venues and musicians.
Owned and run by producer and Sample Magic founder Sharooz Raoofi, the studio boasts a collection of instruments accumulated over a 20 year period, many of which are one-off or custom made. Principle Pleasure has a ‘plug and play’ approach, with an impressive digital set up where clients can simply bring in their own laptop and plug into the existing studio framework.
Amongst the legendary instruments in the studio are an Oberheim OB-8, Roland TR-808, TR-909, MKS-80, Jupiter 6, Juno 60, TB-303, SH-101, Emu SP-1200, Emu Emulator, Linn Drum, Linn 9000, Akai MPC 60, Korg MS-20, Sequential Circuits Pro-One and an original Arp Odyssey. Check out the full gear list here.
With a treasure trove of plugins, stomp boxes, toys and industry standard outboard gear like the Empirical Labs Distressor, DBX compressors, Neumann U87, Fender Rhodes and a selection of classic electric guitars, Principle Pleasure is an analogue playground that oozes character.
The studio has a state of the art kitchen for those much-needed studio breaks, but also benefits from being in LA’s only real ‘walkable’ neighbourhood with plenty of amenities close by. View the studio’s location here.
Owner Sharooz Raoofi runs sound design company Sample Magic, has a host of electronic music production credits and is frequently updating the impressive kit list with collectables from around the world. With over 25 vintage drum machines and 35 synthesizers, Principle Pleasure is a true retro purist’s delight!
The studio can only be hired with Sharooz or in-house staff engineering, so contact our bookings team to enquire about booking your session at Principle Pleasure at bookings@miloco.co.uk.
View our list of Los Angeles recording studios here.
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We have a great selection of long term let studios in London, perfect for artists to be able to hunker down in for longer projects. It’s not often that one of these gems becomes available for lease, but we are pleased to say that The Yard in Highbury & Islington will soon be back on the market.
This large long-term let space in an amazing location next to Highbury and Islington tube station is a great, large space for producers, musicians and writers. It has a booth, air conditioning and alarm stystem, and also comes with cleaning 5 days a week, internet and TV.
There is a shared kitchen and rec room with other rooms in the building, plus all the many amenities of Islington’s Upper Street.
The studio is hired without equipment, or for an extra charge equipment can be included. Contact the office for more details.
This studio is available to hire from the end of April 2017. Please call +44 (0) 207 232 0008 for details or email bookings@miloco.co.uk
It’s been a big week for awards, with Paul Epworth and The Church winning at both The GRAMMYs and the MPG Awards, but we’re not done yet!
Arguably the coolest music awards, The NME Awards, were held in London this week, and we were pleased to see quite a few familiar names on the winner’s list.
We’re so lucky to work day in day out with some of the best talent in the industry, and it’s even better when their work (and the work of our team) is recognised. Check out the list of Miloco client winners, and click on their names to read about our work on their projects:
Skepta – Best British Male
MIA – Best British Female
Bastille – Best Album, Wild World
The 1975 – Best Live Band
Adele – Best Festival Headliner
The Church has had a huge week of awards this week! Just a day before Paul Epworth won Producer of The Year at the Music Producer’s Guild Award, Paul and Miloco engineer Matt Wiggins, won big at The GRAMMYs for their work on Adele’s 25.
The British singer-songwriter swept the 2017 GRAMMYs, winning Album Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Album Of The Year for 25, as well as Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for the album’s lead single, ‘Hello’
Having previously collaborated together on 21 and the Oscar winning ‘Skyfall’, Adele recruited Paul to produce the tracks ‘I Miss You’ and ‘Sweetest Devotion’, on which Matt engineered.
Congratulations to Paul and Matt, and the whole Church team for their brilliant work on 25. Watch the stunning live video of Adele performing ‘When We Were Young’ in The Church’s Studio 1.
Posted in Uncategorized |Not one, not two, but FOUR. That’s the number of times Paul Epworth has now taken out the top honour of Producer of The Year at the annual MPG Awards.
The 2017 awards ceremony took place earlier this week at London’s Grosvenor Place saw the music industry’s best and brightest gather to honour some of the best work to come out of the UK this year.
Having won Producer of The Year in 2010, 2013 and 2015, Paul was nominated this time around for his work with Adele, The Stone Roses and Usher, at his north London studio complex The Church Studios.
Always humble, on accepting the award Paul said, “I’m a dreadful musician…but I’m not afraid to try.” It could be this attitude that has allowed him to work with some of the world’s biggest artists, such as Florence + The Machine, U2, Kanye West, Lorde, Maroon 5, and many more. Explore his full discography here.
As a mentor to many young producers and engineers, Paul shared the limelight on the night with his engineer, Miloco’s Matt Wiggins.
As a mentor to many young producers and engineers, Paul shared the limelight on the night with his engineer, Miloco’s Matt Wiggins.
A big congratulations to Paul on his well-deserved win, and all the other nominees and winners on the night.
Take a look through Paul’s award-winning studios The Church Studios here.
Posted in Uncategorized |We are so pleased to announce a new addition to our incredible roster of Miloco engineers, Simon Todkill!
Simon has joined us from his native Australia, where he worked as Senior Engineer st Sydney’s most prestigious recording studio, Studios 301.
Having worked with the likes of Kanye West, Matt Corby, Hiatus Kaiyote, Charli XCX, Movement, The Griswolds, and more it’s no wonder Simon has garnered quite a reputation for his natural aptitude and ability to translate an artist’s vision into sound. Simon’s career has seen him earn various accolades, including numerous Gold and Platinum album credits, such as on Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and Matt Corby’s ARIA Song Of The Year ‘Brother’.
With an appreciation for a wide range of styles and genres, Simon has worked on many alternative, independent and major label projects. Explore his full (and impressive!) CV on his engineer page, and contact our bookings team to enquire about working in Simon.
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