New year/ New Noise

New Years resolution #7: Do studio blog.

I think we do some fun stuff here in our soundproof boxes, so I’ll endeavour to catalogue the most interesting stuff. and update! Quality promise: there will be no “So… Steven Guitarman was here this week and it was good”, but there will be lots of “Dave dropped the compressor/now it sounds like Satan/we put it on everything and now everything sounds like Satan” or “…then we gaffa-taped microphones to a pigeon and recorded a guitar part with the thing flying round the room/it really gave an organic sense of movement to the track”.

2011 was one of the funnest years for us so far. We started the year with a varied influx of album projects, from Symptom tracking a live 5-piece band in two days to Grey Goes Down labouring for a month on their debut long-player (and we’re excited about recording those guys again next month). GGD’s “Love Letters To Rock And Roll” proved to be our last hyper-slick, digitally edited record – a month later we were plumbing in all the spaghettimess of cabling for our gorgeous 24 track Otari tape machine. It’s been a blast over the last eight months recording everything from whole bands live in one room- vocals and all- to intricately layered pop, crushing hardcore, industrial synth-goth and low-down gritty blues.

For this year we plan to find more excellent bands, root ourselves more in the local and online scenes, build a further load of custom recording gear and – most of all – make even more bands high-five/jump up and down/weep for joy on playback of their music. That bit’s our favourite.

Mark