We’ve announced our first major launch of the year, Online Mixing…
Online Mixing is a brand new service where we mix your records remotely and send them back over the internet. This is a flexible and affordable option for clients who are working on a budget, but who require a professional mix studio and engineer. It also allows clients from anywhere in the world to benefit from our exceptional choice of UK-based engineers and mix studios, including SSL rooms, Neve rooms, Pro Tools Mix Studios and vintage studios. All you have to do is send us your tracks via post, courier or web server – we’ll do the rest…
There is a varied choice of studios, engineers and packages available for online mixing, so hopefully you’ll find the perfect combination for your individual project.
The studios currently available for Online Mixing comprise a great choice of SSL, Neve, Protools-only and vintage rooms. The SSL rooms are as follows (click on the studio names to view details): The Engine Room, The Square, Fisher Lane and Assault & Battery 1. The Neve mix studios available are Assault & Battery 2, Musikbox, The Garden and The Motor Museum. There are two ProTools-only rooms – The Yard and The Bridge, and two vintage rooms – The Garden and The Ironworks.
We have a great selection of engineers available. All of them have huge amounts of experience in our studios. A lot of them are mixing chart releases day in/day out. The majority of them are included in the price of our packages but some may be subject to an additional charge. Click on the engineer names to view biogs and CVs: Matt Wiggins, Adrian Breakspear, Darren Lawson, Dan Goudie, Jarrad Hearman, Mike Spink, Pete Hofmann, Matt Foster and Matt Lawrence.
Once you have an idea of the studios and engineers available for Online Mixing, you can then start to think about which package deal to choose. There are three ‘pack of card-themed’ online mixing packages: the Club Tropicana package for £150.00 / mix where we choose an engineer and studio to suit your tracks; the Heart of Gold package for £300.00 / mix, where you get to choose either the engineer or the studio for your project; or the Ace of Spades package for £400.00 / mix, where you get to choose both the engineer and studio for your mix.
Find out more on Online Mixing at www.miloco.co.uk/studios/onlinemixing.php. You can also call the Miloco office on 0207-232-0008 to for all enquiries.
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Having toured the stadium and arena circuit throughout 2010 as support to the likes of Muse, Kings of Leon and Coldplay, London 3-piece
White Lies are back with their second album, and one which will surely make one of the biggest impacts on the charts in 2011.
Ritual is the follow-up to 2009’s To Lose My Life…, and was produced by Alan Moulder and Max Dingel. We’re proud to announce that the album was
tracked and mixed at Miloco, in Assault & Battery 2 and 1 respectively. It hits the shelves on January 17 following lead single ‘Bigger Than Us’.
The snappers have been up in Liverpool to take some fantastic new shots to show off The Motor Museum’s amazing collection of backline gear in all its glory! These great new photos are now uploaded to the Motor Museum website at www.miloco.co.uk/studios/
motormuseum_gallery.php.
To view the full selection of backline at the Motor Museum, including mouthwatering choices of guitars, amps, pedals, drums and more, visit the studio’s spec page: www.miloco.co.uk/studios/motormuseum_equipment.php.
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The shortlist of nominees for 2011’s Music Producers Guild Awards, and we’re thrilled to announce that Interface engineer Matt Lawrence is amongst 3 engineers up for ‘Recording Engineer of the Year’
Matt has had a staggering 12 months recording tracks for a mass of high profile artists including Foals, Magnetic Man, Pixie Lott, Alexandra Burke, Macy Gray and the high-flying ‘Your Song’ by Ellie Goulding.
We wish Matt the best od luck on the night, which will be held at Floridita, London on February 9th 2011.
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One of our popular Longterm-let rooms at Hoxton Market will become available at the start of 2011. Here’s some exciting news for anyone looking to get their hands on their own private creative space, but don’t hang around – these rooms get snapped up faster than a sausage in a piranha pool!
Hoxton Suite 5 is a good-size daylit space, with shared use of an office/lounge area (which occasionally can be used for recording). The studio is situated on the first floor of our Hoxton Market premises and has 24-hour access and a red-care alarm system monitored around the clock.
The room is perfect for a writer / programmer / musician. To find out more call the office on 0207-232-0008 or email info@miloco.co.uk.
www.miloco.co.uk/longterm/hoxton_suite5.php
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Channel 4’s InputOutput show music show debuted on November 27 and featured exclusive performances from Egyptian Hip Hop and Slow Club. It was shot in Miloco’s Pool studio in London SE1. Presented by Rich Fulcher, the episode is being aired on the C4 website for a limited time. Click the link below to view…
It’s a pleasure to welcome guest blogger Mike Crossey, our partner at the Motor Museum Studio in Liverpool, to share his thoughts on the latest piece of gear at the studio, the Endless Analog CLASP – Tape to DAW synchronization hardware…
I have always been a big fan of recording to analogue tape, for me it adds another dimension to the recording that is impossible to get with digital. It emotionally has more impact on me. All of the records I have worked on that have stood the test of time with me personally have all had tape in the chain at the recording process.
As a huge fan of this way of recording I can list many advantages to recording this way!
Tape gives those slight differences in tone that provide cinematic width to your stereo sounds.
Tape thickens your transients providing a more meaty punch to your drums and percussion.
Tape smooths your dynamics in a much more musical way than any compressor can, leaving you with more power in your raw tracking.
Tape provides a sonic thumbprint to all your individual tracks that allows them to marry together perfectly in the mix.
Tape forces you to use good engineering practice with your gain structure and levels.
Tape laces your sounds with harmonic richness that makes your EQ feel more powerful in the mix.
Tape running at 15 ips gives a huge tight low end that has to be heard to be believed.
All that vintage gear everyone loves, U47s, Vintage Neve mic pre-amps etc, were all designed to hit tape and sonics of that process were allowed for in the design. Check it out!
In my view, the reasons that tape has been left behind to the pro tools generation have never been sonic reasons but financial reasons and convenience. Much of modern culture makes this sacrifice, quality for convenience/cost.
Imagine being able to work with the speed and editing possibilities of pro tools but still have all of the benefits of tape! I never thought this would be possible until now!
When I first heard about the Endless Analog CLASP system on youtube I was literally straight on the phone to the designer Chris Estes In Nashville to have him explain it to me more. The main challenge for Chris is to actually get across how seamlessly CLASP works and how this is achieved. I’ll have a go…
CLASP allows Pro Tools to take complete control of your tape machine. Once the tape is loaded on the machine, you never need to touch the tape machine again for the whole session. You can work in Pro Tools as you would normally! How amazing is that!
CLASP has a built in switching system that automatically controls how your performers can monitor what they are playing (with zero latency!) and what is routed to tape.
CLASP learns your tape machine and can take control of the pro tools delay compensation engine to automatically compensate for the delays between the record head and the repro head in real time.
CLASP is constantly sending information about the status of your tape machine to pro tools via MIDI and in vice versa, can control your tape machine through the cable that would normally run to your remote transport.
CLASP allows you to change tape speeds on the fly mid session. Would you like to record your bass and drums at 15ips and your vocals at 30ips? No problem. This was never possible before when working just with tape.
Lets say for example you have a singer with the vocal chain patched into multitrack input 3, you then arm track 3 in pro tools ready to record…
1. CLASP routes the live mic directly to channel 3 on the console from here the vocal can be sent to foldback, this allows the performer to monitor themselves with ZERO LATENCY.
True zero latency monitoring is not possible when monitoring post converter in pro tools. I have noticed a marked increase in the comfort and performance of a musician performing to a true analogue signal of themselves.
2. CLASP then also simultaneously routes this signal directly to the 3rd input of the tape machine, when you put Pro Tools into record, your tape machine automatically jumps into record also.
3. Whilst in record during the take, CLASP automatically transfers the take straight from the repro head into input 3 of Pro Tools.
All delays involved in this process are corrected in real time!
3. Once your take is finished and you press stop, as soon as you disarm track 3 in pro tools and CLASP automatically then routes Pro Tools output 3 to track 3 on your console in place of the original live mic ready for playback.
4. In summary, the recorded region in pro tools has hit tape, been played out off the repro head, transferred to pro tools and been placed in sample accurate time with your existing tracks. Seamlessly and instantly!
This process allows you to work with playlists, comp between takes, edit arrangements and everything else you would normally in a pro tools session but with every track recorded to tape with that sound 🙂
As you are working with the tape machine in a non linear way, there is no need to rewind the tape between takes. My preference is to work at 15ips on our studer A80, this allows for 30 minutes solid record time before a 45 second break is needed to let the tape rewind again, CLASP warns you when you are about to run out of tape and you can of course rewind the machine directly from pro tools without having to leave your workflow.
Because of the way CLASP integrates Tape with Pro Tools, you also see less tape wear and wear on the machine itself. This allows reels of precious tape to go a lot further and minimum maintenance required!
Anyway as I’m sure you can tell from this blog, I am blown away by this system and it has allowed recent sessions to run smoothly and quickly without any compromise to the sound quality, suddenly I am able to use tape on the single sessions where only a few days are booked for tracking!
Here at the motor museum, we have also been having fun experimenting with different lineups on the Studer. Adding a slight high lift at 10Khz on the record lineup at 15ips and setting the bias by ear on a 40Hz sub tone Steve Albini style being my favourites!
Producers and Engineers, Come and check it out!
www.milocostudios.com/studios/the-motor-museum/
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Slaves To Gravity and Pitchshifter drummer Jason Bowld went down to Lightship95 with his very tasty Mapex Meridian to thrash it out in front of a camera to basically testify to the brilliance of this kit. The promotional video is now wowing viewers on YouTube – you can check it out here too.
The BBC’s ‘Sound of…’ poll is out, meaning we can rest easy knowing which new artists we’ll all be shacking up with in an arranged musical matrimony for 2011 – thank you Zane, Grimmy and associates for yet another annual list of your enlightened prophecies.
This time around there are 4 up-and-comers set for big things over the next 12 months which we are proud to have welcomed through the Miloco studio doors this year…
Anna Calvi‘s pale and haunting electric folk was being mixed at The Garden in Spring by Craig Silvey. This year she toured with Grinderman, and earned the praises of Brian Eno who dubbed Calvi “the biggest thing since Patti Smith”. Her debut will be released in January by Domino.
Clare Maguire‘s debut album has been three years in the making. During that time not only has she popped in and out of various Miloco studios, but has also been courted by a handful of movers and shakers including Rick Rubin and Jay-Z before eventually signing with Universal. The Birmingham-born songstress has toured with Plan B and Hurts this year. 2011 expects…
Jamie Woon is described by the Beeb as one of the key figures within the vanguard of post-dubstep. His mum sang for Michael Jackson, he went to the BRIT School to become a troubadour, before finally finding his sound within electronic soul at the Barcelona Red Bull Music Academy. He’s had some friendly support along the way from the likes of Burial, Mary Anne Hobbs and of course Miloco (!), whose Yard studio he has used in 2010.
The Vaccines‘ singer Justin Young was momentarily bubbling under the surface of the same folk scene which spawned Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons and Noah and The Whale. Back then he was known as Jay Jay Pistolet, but now he fronts one of the most hyped new indie bands in the country, described by Clash Music as, “game changers…that will launch a hundred wannabees”, and Radio One DJ Zane Lowe as a band that would “kickstart a new era”. The Vaccines recorded their debut album in Miloco’s Square studio in October/November.
The Top 15 Sound of 2011 tips are:
Anna Calvi, Clare Maguire, Daley, Esben and the Witch, Jai Paul, James Blake, Jamie Woon, Jessie J, Mona, Nero, The Naked & Famous, The Vaccines, Warpaint, Wretch 32, Yuck.
www.bbc.co.uk/music/soundof/2011/
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Ellie’s beautiful cover of the Elton John classic has become one of the unofficial theme tunes to Christmas 2010, thanks to the air time
given to it by John Lewis’ TV advertising wing. It has remained lodged at the top end of the singles charts since release, so far peaking at Number 2
‘Your Song’ was recorded and mixed in The Pool by Interface engineer Matt Lawrence in October 2010.
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