If there’s one thing we love more than making music (and helping others do the same) it’s football. And so each year we raise our banners and call on the best and brightest footballers the UK music industry has to offer for our annual Miloco Studios 2 a side football tournament.
With all proceeds going to charity, it’s always a great afternoon of football, friendly rivalries, food, drink and of course, music. The victors will take home the coveted winners’ medals and more importantly, a bottle of cava.
When: 18th of July, kick off 12pm
Where: Playfootball, Shepherds Bush
How Much: £50 charity donation
We’ve got space for 16 teams so round up your mates, dust off the boots and shoot an email to bookings@miloco.co.uk to register your interest.
Check out our recap of the 2018 Miloco 5 a side tournament to see what you’re in for!
Please help us welcome our latest addition to the Miloco Studios global studio directory, Silver Shark Studios.
Part of a large studio complex in the heart of South West London right next to Tooting Bec station, the complex hosts the main recording studio and a further five smaller studios occupied by producers, engineers, a mastering house, and a pro audio retailer offering clients a one stop shop for all their recording, creative and musical needs.
The studio comprises a spacious control room which is approximately 27sq metres and at it’s heart is a compact 24 channel SSL G series console offering that classic SSL sound. This is complimented with a host of rare and classic outbound gear and electronics including mic preamps from Thermionic Culture, Grace Design and Phoenix Audio amongst others and Dynamics and EQs from Empirical Labs, UREI, Summit Audio and many more.
The main live room is approximately 20 sq metres and features plenty of natural light, which is rare for a location in central London. It can comfortably accommodate a five-piece band and has been designed to provide a dead acoustic sound with excellent separation.
From the brand new industry leading Moog One to the stunning vintage modular Roland System 100m there is an endless variety of machines available in the studio. All the synths are controllable from MIDI and can be integrated into your DAW productions quickly and easily.
The studio has an excellent collection of guitars and instruments including an acoustic piano and a Fender Rhodes, along with amplifiers, percussion and effect pedals, all of which are available and included in the daily rate.
Silver Shark Studios offers a truly unique recording experience, with state of the art technology combined with rare and vintage equipment, providing the perfect creative environment for recording artists, producers and writers.
View the full studio page here and get in touch with the team at Miloco HQ to book your session.
Posted in Uncategorized |We are pleased to announce that Mount Street Studios has joined the Miloco Studios global studio directory.
Launched in 2018, Mount Street Studios is a brand new, state of the art, professional recording facility, located in the very heart of Nottingham city centre and is our first East Midlands studio to join our directory. Mount Street offers all the services modern day musicians, producers and writers require to inspire music creation.
With a spacious 30sqm live room, separate vocal booth and drum room, all with specialist floating floors and shared clean lines of sight between them; the recording spaces truly are Nottingham’s most professional environment to achieve the perfect sound. With the boutique control room, laid back rec room and useful kitchen, Mount Street Studios offers the perfect space for musicians to write, record and produce.
The studio aims to promote the regional and national music scene by providing a state of the art facility for both local and international artists, musicians and producers.
From a 1960’s disused boiler room housing industrial boilers serving the original office block above, the space has been stripped out and transformed over the past 18 months into a fully dedicated analogue recording studio. The purpose-built drum room started life as a coal bunker, complete with shaft, housing over 24 tons of industrial coal, all shovelled out by hand!
Mount Street Studios combines an easy, chilled out atmosphere with all the professionalism you’d expect from a first class professional recording studio, offering a full range of services including recording, mixing and producing.
Fully equipped with carefully selected cutting-edge digital and classic analogue hardware, each with their own stories to tell, we offer a balance between the very best of modern and vintage equipment available in the recording world.
View the full studio page here and get in touch with our bookings team to lock in your session.
Posted in Uncategorized |As you can imagine ear care is quite important around here, and to keep everyone’s lug ‘oles in check we recently had a visit from Dr. Riaz Rampuri of Auris Ear Care.
Being a sound production company, we take our ear health very seriously and clean ears help us hear better and thus provide our clients with an uncompromising service. A fully mobile, CQC-regulated company Auris Ear Care are specialists in providing microsuction for London postcodes.
Dr. Riaz Rampuri spent a morning at our London headquarters checking and cleaning all Miloco staff ears. He also offered some free educational care advice as to how to maintain healthy ears – cotton buds are a big no no! The service was brilliant from start to finish, took no more than 15 mins per person, and we look forward to continuing our relationship with Auris Ear Care.
Thanks to Dr. Rampuri, you can ensure our team’s ears are the best in the business.
To find out more about the earwax removal service in London they provide, please call 07539 248 324.
Posted in Uncategorized |We have some pretty quiet and remote studios around the world, but nothing quite compares to the surroundings of our new partner studio Black Bay. Located off the north west coast of Scotland on the rugged islands of The Outer Hebrides you will find Black Bay, nestled in a sheltered harbour.
House in a converted crab factory, the studio was meticulously redesigned and renovated in 2016 to accommodate a large 100 square metre live room with a 5 metre pitched ceiling, spacious control room and dead room, together with comfortable living accommodation catering for eight people. It’s a place like no other – the ultimate escape from the rest of the world – somewhere to lose yourself completely in music whilst watching the ever changing ocean and tides.
The comfortable control room is centred around a Cadac J-Series console that sounds exceptionally warm and open – a real discovery for anyone who isn’t familiar with the Cadac sound. The space is big enough to use to record guitar/bass/keys when tied into the live rooms. Its acoustics are perfectly balanced and the PMC IB2s are big enough to give that ‘main’ monitor sound with bass right down to the bottom octave, but not so huge that they don’t translate.
The live room is large at 100 square meters, with oak floors, and pitched ceiling and home to a gorgeous Bechstein Grand Piano. It’s been designed to sound big and open when desired, but with a highly adaptable acoustic both through positioning in the varied space, and using purpose build movable treatment.
The Dead Room is also a big space with good sight lines to the live room and control room beyond. It has a very close but balanced sound thanks to the heavy acoustic treatment, and has ample space to record a full drum kit.
Between takes, clients enjoy access to coastal walks, some of the most stunning beaches in the world, boat trips, surfing, fishing, wildlife including whales and White Tailed Eagles, ancient standing stones, and in winter months Northern Lights and incredible star filled skies.
In most studios around the world your neighbours will be other musicians, businesses or busy city apartment blocks. At Black Bay it’s more fishing vessels, goats and woolly cows.
It’s hard to get more remote in Europe, but Black Bay has great transport links to the mainland UK with daily flights to/from Southend (via Liverpool Street, London), Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness and several ferry sailings each day from both Ullapool and the Isle of Skye. And if you’re feeling a bit adventurous Black Bay as has moorings for ocean-going vessels and even a helipad.
Get in touch with the Miloco team to enquire about rates and bookings to take advantage of this truly breathtaking studio.
Posted in European Recording Studios |We’re absolutely delighted to announce that our Online Mixing service is now up and running. We’ve been working very hard here at Miloco HQ to design an online mixing service that is really easy to use and delivers the highest quality mix possible.
The concept is nice and straight forwards. Simply buy the number of mixes online using credit or debit card, then upload all the tracks and session in the user area. You’ll be assigned one of the engineers from our world-class roster, and when your mix is complete it will be uploaded to your account, and that’s it!
We’re really proud of our new Online Mixing service, we believe it offers a fantastic opportunity to have your tracks mixed by a world-class engineer without the time and expense of having to book the studios and engineers yourself.
To get started, head over here!
Posted in Online Mixing |To celebrate the launch of our brand new Online Mixing service, we’re giving away a free mix to one of you lucky people.
All you have to do is sign up to our newsletter, and at the end of the April we will pick one subscriber completely at random to send a 100%-off voucher to for one online mix.
To sign up to the newsletter and be automatically entered into the giveaway, click here!
Posted in Online Mixing |Our friend and owner of Miloco partner studio Sleeper Sounds has been very busy of late. Last week he announced the details of his forthcoming album, a collection of piano covers of Robbie Williams songs, which as Williams’ lag-time songwriting partner, he helped create. And today we release an exclusive video tour series Guy shot in his west London studio.
In the series of 30 1-2 minute videos Guy takes us around Sleeper Sounds, explaining the various features of the space, and introducing us to his favourite pieces of gear. From the Mini Moog to rarer instruments like the Alesis Andromenda and a quirky little Calliope organ, watch as Guy demonstrates how each one works, and provides some top notch anecdotes!
Head to our YouTube channel for the full video series, or watch below.
Posted in London Recording Studios, Record Producers |We’re proud to have a vast and unique array of studios in our Miloco Studio directory. We represent studios in converted churches, one in an old car factory, one that looks like a treehouse, and now we have our first studio housed in a nightclub. Enter, Tape Studio.
In the exclusive London borough of Mayfair, Tape is truly in the heart of London and provides a recording experience like no other thanks to its unique monitoring system, sleek aesthetic and the fact that it’s attached to one of the country’s most exclusive nightclubs. It’s the place where the likes of Bieber, Drake and Rihanna go to record when the mood strikes them during a night on the town.
The control room is based around the country’s only PMC QBI XBD main monitoring system. This ATL technology allows for exceptional low frequency extension with no colouration, fantastic tonal balance at all levels, higher SPLs without compression or fatigue.
The PMC team also worked closely with the designers and the Tape engineers to ensure that the room the QB1-XBDs were being put in could handle them. After all, there would be no point having such a high end system if the bass bounced around like a cricket ball in a lighthouse. All sorts of clever and invisible bass trap technology had been hidden in the ceilings and the walls of the studio. To view what other gear and toys Tape has on hand, view the full equipment list.
Given that the studio is nestled inside Tape Nightclub, a high-end an exclusive Mayfair nightclub, producers have been known to finish a mix in the studio and immediately play it to the packed club next door!
Tape is truly modern studio that’s perfect for producers and writers looking for a space that’s a cut above the rest.
View the full studio page for all it has to offer, and get in touch with our bookings team to enquire about sessions.
Posted in London Recording Studios |Let us introduce you to Snap!, our latest addition to the Miloco Studios global recording studios directory, and an award-winning vintage Neve recording studio based in North London.
Snap’s mission has always been to offer a place with the best classic gear, a good creative vibe and old school values at a price that is accessible and affordable.
Snap differs from many other studios, operating with a small tight-knit team who have been part of the studio for a long time. Since opening its doors 10 years ago, Snap have won an array of accolades, including Audio Pro International’s ‘Best New Studio’ and the MPG Award for ‘Studio Of The Year’. In that time they have also hosted some of the UK’s, and the world’s, most prominent musicians. Names like Liam Gallagher, FKA Twigs, Kaiser Chiefs, The Kooks, Stormzy, Kate Bush and more.
Comprised of a large live room and comfortable control room, Snap is centred around a vintage Neve 5316 analogue recording console from the early 70s, and an extensive mic collection with all the usual brand suspect, alongside plenty of top outboard and Pro Tools HDX.
For monitoring Snap relies on ATC SCM25A monitors, alongside Yamaha NS10s and Eastlake JM3Ts all fed by the incredibly transparent Grace Designs monitor controller, which also has excellent headphone amps.
Both our live room and control room are comfortable and spacious, providing the perfect space for full live band tracking, string ensemble recording or live acoustic performances.
The live room was designed to have a natural and balanced acoustic, and houses our gorgeous Bosendorfer 225 grand piano, plus Wurlitzer, a Hammond C3 and some nice vintage synths. Also, a few great drum kits like our 80’s Sonorlite and 1971 Ludwig Super Classic.
The team at Snap have taken a lot of care with the decor and lighting, as you can see in the photos, to create a space that is as conducive to working creatively and efficiently as possible.
So whether you’re looking to track a live band, acoustic performance or string ensemble, Snap is the perfect place to lay down your tracks with an experienced and dedicated team in a fun and vibey environment.
View the full Snap! studio page here, and get in touch with the Miloco Studios bookings team to enquire about rates and sessions.
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