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Do any of you have any experience or opinions about Miloco Studios? I confess to know bugger all about studio work, and my brother's band are thinking of using them.

Cheers

Mark

sparky wrote:Do any of you have any experience or opinions about Miloco Studios? I confess to know bugger all about studio work, and my brother's band are thinking of using them.

Cheers

Mark

Never heard of it, but it looks interesting; Neve desks I see...

do you need a neve desk for a demo? why noy get a 4/8track and a couple mics, and record in your practice space...you may learn a thing or two as well...is it me or did the term demo go way up in meaning the last couple years? think about the word you are using: demonstration. i am gonna start a thread.

My brother's lot are getting fairly serious, so I think it's probably appropriate. I think their main problem is getting someone to help them who has decent technical knowledge and knows how they sounds like on a good night. He's a canny lad, so hopefully it'll serve them well.

hiredgeek wrote:do you need a neve desk for a demo?

If it's reasonably priced, what's the harm?

And what's a 'demo' anyway? It's just a name for a band's first (few) recording (s), and why the hell wouldn't a Neve or EMI or SSL be as appropriate as a Mackie or a Behringer or a Soundcraft?

Might as well say that demo-ing bands should use Epiphones and Squiers rather than Gibsons and Fenders, non?

Champion Rabbit wrote:

hiredgeek wrote:do you need a neve desk for a demo?

If it's reasonably priced, what's the harm?

And what's a 'demo' anyway? It's just a name for a band's first (few) recording (s), and why the hell wouldn't a Neve or EMI or SSL be as appropriate as a Mackie or a Behringer or a Soundcraft?

Might as well say that demo-ing bands should use Epiphones and Squiers rather than Gibsons and Fenders, non?

good point...


Gramsci, I'm about to be in the exact opposite position from you, so I'll take a little space on your post to ask. I'm moving to London and just got off a recording school, and I made a bunch of demos for friend's bands in there like Champion rabbit said, with a SSL and lots of outboard gear and stuff. If i stayed here in Madrid, i could possibly keep recording them in the future, and maybe they'd talk about me and i could record some of their friends an so on... but I'm moving there, and i'd like to know the other hand, how an engineer (or a wannabe who can't charge for being learning things) can get in contact with bands like Gramsci's? Plus, i'm a foreigner there, and i guess it will be a little more difficult...

Hi, 1st time poster, thought I'd hang on 'til I could say something useful so here you are. I practice at a rehearsal space which also host's a Cheap, good, basic, 8 track analogue studio in camberwell, great if you do loud ROCKin' stuff that you want to record live... Tim Cedar (ligament/ part chimp/ etc) is the engineer, and my band have recorded a couple of tracks there (hey colossus), part chimp have done some stuff there and comanechi, and the gin palace have all used it too. PM for his number. Also I know the in house engineer at Mute, if you can get in there on downtime she's very good, that's a digital setup (pro tools) lot's of outboard, but the live room is kind of small. Although another band I'm in did two days in there and are going back next week and the stuff sounds great thus far..

Other studios in London. I've been in zed one in Camden but it's pretty expensive does have 24 track analogue set up, although actually I think they have moved since we were in there (2003). Pulse in blackhorse Lane do recording £150 for a day style thing.PULSE STUDIOS E17, UNIT K, BLACKHORSE MEWS, BLACKHORSE LANE, E17. 020 8527 0440. pulsestudiose17@hotmail.com. I've only practiced in there though. So i've no idea if it's any good.. Antenna is cool in crystal palace is run by very nice people and some of the stuff I've heard from there is pretty decent, (mainly kind of funky/ hippy stuff but some garagey rock too),

http://www.antennastudios.co.uk/

They had a good cheap deal for going in on week days recently. That's another digital deal though.


If you can travel a bit, a friend of mine in Brighton has an excellent 16 track analogue setup (he played in Cat on Form, and is currently in Blood red shoes and projections)... his contact is on www.catonform.co.uk

ianscanlon wrote:Hi, 1st time poster

Ha!

I knew you'd arrive eventually; I saved you a chair and some biscuits. Pink wafers, sorry about that...

hello champion rabbit, looking at your other posts, hmmm, I can't think, who might you be? Clues?