Just over an hour’s drive from Dublin city/airport, Grouse Lodge has been the creative home away from home for everyone from Bloc Party to Tom Jones since opening its doors in 2002.
The Grouse Lodge complex itself includes a world-class studio along with eight double bedrooms in three separate renovated stone outhouses. Facilities for guests include an indoor swimming pool, sauna, jacuzzi, gym, games room, private bar and home cinema/screening room!
The studio is purpose-built, integrating the existing 275-year-old stone structure, and features a huge control room with lots of natural daylight and a huge live room with superb acoustics. The extensive use of locally cut stone gives the space a unique feel and sound.
The studio is equipped with a Neve VR60 console with flying faders/total recall, a Pro-Tools HD3 core system and 5.1 surround monitoring by Dynaudio Professional.
Sheffield rock band Bring Me the Horizon released ‘That’s the Spirit’, their new album, today via RCA.
Engineer Al Groves and the band recorded during two-month sessions at Black Rock in Santorini, Greece. “We made the decision when we arrived to hit the ground running and ended up recording three of the songs in the first week,” says Al. “This gave us a huge head start and meant we could enjoy the island a bit more towards the backend of the session!”
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YouTube footballing star Spencer FC recorded a song at Livingston Studio 1 before his team played football at Wembley Stadium!
Spencer FC headed to the Wood Green, London studio with YouTubers Joe Weller, Poet and Vujanic to create a Spencer FC anthem that would lead them to victory!
‘The Wembley Cup’ is a series following Spencer FC’s journey to recruit an all star team of YouTubers to take on rival YouTuber MiniMinter and his Sidemen at Wembley.
Acoustic curtains have been fitted in the spacious drum room at Livingston Studio 1, a recording and mixing facility in Wood Green, London.
Open, half-closed or totally closed, the acoustic curtains vary the acoustics from really bright and reflective to a much drier sound.
Working alongside Abbey Road Studios, Miloco Builds were asked to provide UMG Vault, an archive facility consisting of five transfer suites and an oven room. The UMG Vault rooms needed to provide both good levels of isolation and internal acoustics but also needed to deliver an ultra-clean mains supply and low-noise components in the bespoke LED lighting system.
Miloco Gear were also on hand to help procure additional tape machines as the facility is able to digitise a wide range of analogue media.
“It was no mean feat for Pete and his team to run a building site within a building site,” says Simon Campbell, technical manager, Abbey Road Studios. “They did a marvellous job with excellent results.”
Studios 301 Sydney has offered free recording time to seven aspiring artists chosen for the new Converse Rubber Tracks program.
A total of 84 acts will record at 12 participating studios. From 14-28 September, studios including Converse Rubber Tracks in Brooklyn, New York and Boston, Massachusetts; Abbey Road Studios in London, England; Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, California; and Tuff Gong in Kingston, Jamaica will host chosen artists throughout a two-week period.
Selected acts will record alongside a team of experienced producers and sound engineers during 1-2 day sessions. Upon completion of their studio time, each act will retain all the rights to their music.
Reptiles (Australia)
The Attics (Australia)
Fever Charm (USA)
Motor City Madness (Brazil)
The Plastics (South Africa)
Heroes for Sale (New Zealand)
VIGILANTES (Australia)
Read more about Converse Rubber Tracks
Posted in European Recording Studios, London Recording Studios, Mixing Studios, Neve Recording Studios, Record Producers, Recording Studio Engineers, Residential Recording Studios, SSL Recording Studios, Tracking Studios, UK Recording Studios, Uncategorized |The MPG Awards 2016 gets underway today with the official opening of the online submissions process, which allows for the names of worthy recording professionals to be put forward for Awards consideration.
“This part of the Awards process is open to everyone,” says MPG Awards group director Tony Platt. “Anyone can submit a name, and indeed we encourage recording professionals to get online at www.mpgawards.com and submit their own names rather than relying on other people to do it for them.”
Now in its eighth year, the Music Producers Guild Awards recognises the enormous contribution made to the international music industry by the UK’s top producers, engineers, remixers and mastering engineers. Previous award winners have included Sir George Martin CBE, Paul Epworth, Brian Eno, Trevor Horn and Dave Stewart.
The MPG Awards 2016 will take place on 3 February 2016, at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London – a new venue for this event.
The submissions process for the MPG Awards 2016 will remain live until 30 September 2015. There are 12 Award categories that are open for submissions, while the remaining three (Outstanding Contribution, Award for Innovation and Award for Inspiration) are in the gift of the MPG. The winner of the Producer of the Year award automatically receives a BRIT for Best Producer.
The MPG Awards 2016 categories open for public submission are:
UK Producer of the Year
International Producer of the Year
Breakthrough Producer of the Year
Recording Engineer of the Year
Breakthrough Engineer of the Year
Mix Engineer of the Year
Mastering Engineer of the Year
Re-mixer of the Year
UK Album of the Year
UK Single Song Release of the Year
Studio of the Year
The A&R Award
The MPG Awards 2016 categories in the gift of the MPG are:
The MPG Innovation Award
The MPG Inspiration Award
Outstanding Contribution to UK Music
For Foals’ fourth album, titled ‘What Went Down’, the Oxfordshire five-piece teamed up with producer James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence + The Machine, Jessie Ware, Mumford & Sons) and retreated to the south of France to record in La Fabrique.
The result is a primal, intense, sometimes harrowing album of extremes – the record touches upon the depths of madness whilst also exhibiting some of the most beautiful pop songs the band have ever written.
Lyrically, vocalist Yannis Philippakis deals with themes around cultural identity, generational anxiety, cynicism, pessimism and heartbreak; “I wanted to tap into my inner madman and feel like I was channeling some sort of fevered creature.”
Posted in European Recording Studios, Miloco Clients, Mixing Studios, Neve Recording Studios, New Albums, Record Producers, Residential Recording Studios, Tracking Studios, UK Recording Studios, Uncategorized | Tagged Arctic Monkeys, Florence + The Machine, Foals, james ford, jessie ware, la fabrique, Mumford & Sons, what went down, yannis philippakis |
Oxford-based outfit Foals are giving fans free cassettes of their new album ‘What Went Down’ (recorded at La Fabrique) in advance of its release tomorrow.
The band have hidden cassette copies of the album in Madrid, Paris, Oslo, Amsterdam, Berlin and Hamburg; and shared the coordinates via social media.
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