Recording Studio blog
I’m the chief engineer at Circle Recording Studios in Birmingham. If you’ve made it here you may have previously read my column over on Supajam: Machiavelli’s Guide to the Music Industry. While Machiavelli’s Guide is aimed squarely at helping artists/musicians to develop so they can get ahead in the music business, this one is a bit more of a personal ramble.
Somedays it will be all about the music, on others it will be a wider rant on the state of the business, sometimes it might just be a review of a mic, guitar or amp we have used, occasionally it will be a bit of a geek-out on the analogue/digital issue and how it’s affected this industry. Whichever it is feel free to have your say in the box at the bottom of each blog!
Cheers, Trev
Trev
Chief Engineer
Recording engineer & record producer. Owner of Circle Recording Studios, Birmingham, England. Grammy 2015.
Analog v Digital: why digital plug-ins make you stupid
I realised today that using digital plug-ins in recording software when you are mixing records makes you stupid. Now this may seem like a bold assertion to anyone who read my earlier blog on the analog digital debate here:...
Acoustic Guitar Review: Tanglewood TW1000 Heritage Sundance
So today I had a Tanglewood TW1000 acoustic guitar here in the recording studio so I thought I'd do a little review. Apparently it's from their "Heritage Sundance" collection, which is one of the very top models in their range. At around a thousand pounds it's the...
Machiavelli’s Guide to the Music Industry
So almost a year ago I heard that a music industry website, Supajam, were looking for a recording studio engineer or record producer to write a regular music industry column for publication on their site. The idea was to provide an insight from behind the glass. Not...
Why do you want to record (part 2)?
So you may have read part 1 of this recording studio blog over on Machiavellis Guide. If not, you should go check it out before you read on: http://www.supajam.com/blog/article/Bands-Never-Mind-the-Bollocks-why-ar.... In the first part of this blog, I suggested that...
Machiavelli’s Guide: Press Kits & EPK
So a question bands and artists ask time and time again is 'what goes into a great press kit?' And if you've been following my blog, Machiavelli's Guide to the Music Industry over on Supajam, you'll know by now that I'm not just going to feed you the answer. Instead I...
Analogue v Digital – where did it all begin (part 1 of many…)?
So this whole analogue vs digital thing... What's it all about? Why do they call it a debate? Would it be better characterised as a bicker? And is it a good thing or bad for musicians and artists? And where did it all come from? Now I'm sure if I asked a hundred of...
Studiospares Headphone review
Recording studio headphone review: we were feeling a bit sniffy when we were first asked to review these closed back headphones from Studiospares. We run a pretty high end set up here and our gut feeling was that this budget offering wouldn't stand up to scrutiny. As...
Recording Studio Life
There are some great things about recording studio life. But some things aren't so fun. Like when a 10 day recording session on a metal album finishes at 3am and you are exhausted and all you want to do is go home and die but you know you've got to clean the place up...