Ready? Rolling…

It’s coming on for two months since we kicked our Powermac down the stairs and told the insurance company it “just stopped working one day” and things have never been better.

After a day of recording to tape the consensus was simply “please don’t make me record music onto a hard drive again”. For the first time since I quit my first tape engineering job in, like, 2001 I’ve felt like I don’t have to fight the medium to get a record to sound good… and the records have been more than good!

I feel massively lucky that our first bookings have been a list of Nottingham bands we think are really important right now – we’ve rolled tape with interstellar lady-raider Dick Venom and his Terrortones, the mucky-as-you-like When A Train Hits A Truck,  big rock from JD&theFDCs <represent>, the Blippy-yet-crushing postrock of Aparatus Of Sleep and a whole bunch more. Everyone’s left having a really positive recording experience and it’s tremendous how uncluttered the process is here now.

One thing that’s surprised me is how many people want us to mix to 1/4″ tape as well as/instead of CD so the band can hand it to a mastering engineer in an analogue format, as well as having a copy of their music that will still be playable in decades to come. Try doing that with a non-brand CDR with a couple of scratches in five years time…

Sounds will be up soon. Real, real soon! We’ve been aquiring more extraneous chunks of cool gear – spring reverbs and tape echos and things that massively distort other things. I plan on using those on EVERYTHING.

Please please drop us a line and let me talk your ear off about recording. Maybe even do some songs with us!

Mark