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Mayfair wrote:Hey, what about Mayfair studios in London?... in Mayfair I assume... Seems like a crazy high end place for the 'stars', yes?

When I was there I didn't care for it much. It was plenty expensive, but nothing special, and I've been in nicer places here and there.

If you're going to spend that kind of money, go to AIR, Abbey Road, Townhouse or the like.

OK, what about Mayfair Studios in New York (Hendrix, VU, etc)? Is that still open? My friend google is no help.

steve wrote:

Mayfair wrote:.

If you're going to spend that kind of money, go to AIR, Abbey Road, Townhouse or the like.

you can't go to Townhouse anymore cuz we're fucking closing - if anyone needs a cutting engineer...see you down the poorhouse

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ps. hi there Adam - is Tim in here?

mace wrote:I would record at Miloco. www.miloco.co.uk - They seem to be doing all the latest bands at the moment. Had some great success with an engineer called Finn down there. They just seem to be a studio that not only does a great job but cares about the artists.... Check out the site and look at the magazine page. If you don't have the right budget they are usually quite accommodating too !

Hmm. This plug looks (just) a bit suspicious...

However I recorded in a bit of Miloco a long while back when it was called Orinoco, and I give it the thumbs up for staff and gear and food. That was about eight years ago though.

No such thing as a cheap studio in London.

If you prefer digital or if you don't care if it's recorded on either tape or 'pooter then Onecat studios in Brixton is unreasonably cheap and of a very high quality. Jon, who runs the studio, is a very talented musician and is a great listener both in terms of understanding what the client wants and a musical ear. He has recorded a lot of commercially acclaimed UK artists including Chris T-T, The Speed Of Sound and Scarlett's Well (ex-Monochrome Set). He is also responsible for the recording of the new Manic Cough single that is currently doing the rounds on Radio 1.

http://www.onecat.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/onecatstudio

There are some things to listen to on the myspace site.

If it's that tape machine and 3rd harmonic distorition stuff you are after, then the Fortress in Old Street is the cheapest I know of. We used it with Steve Albini to record our album last year and it sounds ace.

http://www.fortressstudios.co.uk/

We used it for our album. The desk went on fire a bit but generally good for the money.

Otherwise Southern Studios is quite competative.

Gramsci wrote:

hollis wrote:The Fortress near Old Street is pretty cool.Some of the Neve switches are held in by paper clips but after you get over your initial annoyance you start thinking that its kind of charming. Good room, fair microphones, no one bothers you. Good MTR90, good MTR12, PTHD for those who do. For me its the best value room in London.

I've spoken to these guys, they were really cool on the phone. It wasn't that cheap, it seemed more like a place to record a self-release EP, rather than a demo for gigging.

Then I would definitely recomend going to one cat. It's only £100 per 8 hour day and your demo will sound 10x better than one from a student studio as you are paying for a good engineer in a project studio that gets results rather than a student who probably doesn't know how to get the most out of the equipment.

stuffy wrote:If you prefer digital or if you don't care if it's recorded on either tape or 'pooter then Onecat studios in Brixton is unreasonably cheap and of a very high quality. Jon, who runs the studio, is a very talented musician and is a great listener both in terms of understanding what the client wants and a musical ear. He has recorded a lot of commercially acclaimed UK artists including Chris T-T, The Speed Of Sound and Scarlett's Well (ex-Monochrome Set). He is also responsible for the recording of the new Manic Cough single that is currently doing the rounds on Radio 1.http://www.onecat.co.uk/http://www.myspace.com/onecatstudio BUMPMy sporadically active band just did a three-day session at One Cat with Jon, and I can confirm it as an excellent (and great value) place to record. He was a thoroughly nice, bullshit-free chap, knew exactly what he was doing technically, and somehow took our teetering pile of overdubs and square-peg-round-hole ideas and mixed them into coherent, cogent, great sounding tracks. We're going back there next month to do some more.

we used 0s and 1s. I'm sure the dudes there could point you in the right direction though.

we recorded at dropout studios in camberwell recently. 100 per day without engineer (we did this ourselves). good friendly and helpful people there too. decent room, nice mics, cabs, etc. to use as well. I can't find the contact now but I think I've seen a myspace for them.go here to hear the room www.myspace.com/sculhazzardsno reverb, all room sound, and all done live.