Recording Services
The Studio
The new recording facilities are still in the construction stage but, when complete, will house a large main recording space that can hold up to a twenty piece orchestra, there is a smaller studio off the back of the control room that is big enough for a three to four piece band plus a vocal booth.
We can record an entire band in one room or separate instruments into the different spaces to give greater isolation when recording.
The construction changes daily so posting photos at this point won't give much indication of what the final space will look like. I'll put some pics up when things start to look more finished.
The Control Room
At the heart of the studio is our main control room. This musical space is where the real magic happens.
Our Pyramix Digital Recording System with 48 inputs and outputs through Solid State Logic converters, brings the very best of digital sound whilst our beautiful Allen & Heath ML4000, 52 channel mixing console brings the analogue warmth to create amazing sounds, monitored through classic Alessis Monitors.
In addition to the recording equipment, there’s the keyboard station where we can add synth sounds to lift your production to the next level and a variety of percussion instruments on hand ready to use to add that extra dimension to your music if required.
We have all the microphones, stands and leads to bring all of this together but, more than that, we have the vibe, the attitude and the experience in creating great music in partnership with our clients.
The Engineer
Sound engineer and producer Nikk Carmichael’s specialty is mixing but can also be available for pre-production, tracking, editing, producing, voice over, consultation, mastering and installation services.
Nikk has more than thirty years’ experience on both sides of the mixing console (and underneath as well) as a multi instrument musician, singer, and engineer/producer. The wealth of knowledge he’s gained from performing and recording most styles of music and instruments means he knows where sounds need to fit in to the mix.
Even more importantly though, he knows how to get “the best take” in as short a space of time as possible. This saves you time and energy and makes the recording process more enjoyable. He’ll put you in the right head space to get the best out of you on the day.
The Services
Mixing of your pre-recorded project
Since the invention of digital recording, more and more artists are recording at home. Though home recording has advanced over the past two decades, the gear in a home studio will rarely be comparable to what you’ll find in a professional environment. That all important mix down can fall short of its true potential as a result. Beyond that though, what is lacking even more is expertise, experience and, most importantly, objectivity.
If you’ve managed to get down those perfect tracks and would like a genuine, professional mix down of your music, one that is going to be about what is best for the presentation of the song and not about making whoever the “engineer” is, made the loudest, it is definitely worth considering putting your mix in Nikk’s hands.
If you haven’t managed to capture the magic as much as you might have thought you were going to, Nikk can usually help there too by bringing some life back to something that perhaps wasn’t recorded so well but had the right energy to be worth saving.
Contact us about mixing your project.
Tracking for your home project
This service is currently unavailable until building works are complete. Watch this space!
If you’ve set yourself up with a home recording system that is capable of multi-track recording and want to have a go at mixing your own music but don’t have the ability to record your loud instruments in your current environment, why not consider doing your tracking at a professional studio?
Many of our home recording enthusiast clients struggle to record drums, in particular, at home. Either they don’t have enough inputs, microphones, stands or even the isolation to listen to incoming signals, not to mention the strain it may put on relationships with neighbours.
Your drums, or any instrument, can be recorded with professional microphones in an acoustically treated environment and then supplied to you in standard multi-track formats for you to add to or mix at home.
Full recording tracking and mixdown services
This service is currently unavailable until building works are complete. Watch this space!
There’s nothing like the experience of recording in a professional studio and it’s incredibly difficult to get results that are close to a professional level at home. Apart from anything else, it’s very difficult to be both artist and engineer/producer at the same time. It can lead to all sorts of frustration and, more often than not, a lack-lustre end result. If you’re serious about getting the best out of your music you need someone with both expertise and objectivity.
Contact us to discuss recording your next project.
Voice Over and Foley Recording
Whether you need voice over for an advertisement, documentary or corporate videos, we can provide you with the high quality recording services you need.
We can source voice over talent or you can bring your own people in. We have a variety of contacts in the field and can usually find a voice to suit your specific project.
If you need sound effects and foley for a film or television project, we have an extensive library of existing sounds and can make original sounds as necessary. We can do all time-line work for your project to place every sound in the right spot.
Contact us to discuss your project.
Mastering
The final step in getting your music ready for listening or mass production is mastering. It is the process of matching levels between songs, final equalisation and dynamics control and ensuring adequate volume. It is a necessary function after your recording has been mixed.
There is a rule of thumb that mastering should be carried out by a different engineer, in a different studio, with a different set of ears and speakers to where (and by whom) it was recorded. We prefer not to master recordings we worked on and vice versa.
If you’ve recorded something elsewhere, be it at home or in another studio and you are looking for the final polish to be applied, contact us to discuss your project.
Some of my many rehearsal, recording and live sound clients over the years include....
1980
3:1
6 Figures
A.D.D.
A.Z.u.R.
A Bad Lot
Abys
A Clockwork Lemon
Acid Vision
Acoustic Stomp
Adaptors
Addicted Personality
Agents on Insight
Alazaar
All But Nothing
Allambie Heights Public School
Alleyway
All Ordinaries
Always Before
Amberline
Ambient Loop
Analogue
Andy Guy with Sex and Money
Angry Anderson
Anita Kelly
Aplonea
Arc Archer
Archaic Revival
Arkhen
Amistad
Ascend
Assembly
Atomic Sphinctas
Audio Blackmail
August
August Falling
Aussie Boy & Mates
Australian Beef Week
Australian Music Schools
Australian Smooth Jazz
Autopilot
Avalon Lions Club
Avionics
Awkward Silence
Backbeat
Backlash
Bad Brew Boogie Band
Bagster
Balgowlah Bowling Club
Barons
Bayview Golf Club
Beach House
Beagle Boys
Beautiful Chaos
Before The Storm
Bell Chopper
Bellweather Department
Belrose Apex Club
Belrose Country Music Club
Ben Isackson
Bird Automatic
Blackadder
Blackbird Hum
Black Pearl
Bladder Control
Blender
Blind Copy
Blind Paddy Melons
Blizzard
Blonde Sovereign
Blood Driven
Blue Amplifier
Blue Gin
Blue Moon Theatre
Blues Deluxe
Boardwalks
Bon Rock
Boston Shaker
Botanics
Boy Meets Ground
Brand New Hillaries
Breaking Orbit
Brenton Williams
Brethren
Brightener
Brookvale Public School
Brown Bear Black Bear
Brown Eski
Busy Hands
Cabin 18
Calling Mayday
Campbell The Swaggy
Captain Kickarse and the Awesomes
Captains of Chaos
Caravano
Carrick May
Cats Are Black
Centrefold
Chad Morgan
Chai
Chameleon Rose
Chasing Gravity
Chasing Ora
Chi
Chillah Daddies
Chontia
Choppers North
Chris Brien
Chuckwood
Circlework
Circus Chaplains
Civil War
CJ and the Mellows
Climax
Cloud Eater
Club Diana
Coffin
Colours
Coma Pony
Community Relations Commission
Complaints Department
Consume The Masses
Continental Blues Party
Cool Train
Cosine
Counterclass
Cove
Cover Drive
Cover the Dead Guys
Craig Calhoun & the Bros of OZ
Crankcase
Crash Kennedy
Cringe
Crocodylus
Cromer Primary School Choir
Crossfire Hurricanes
Crossroads
Crow
Crown Empathy
Crucified Venus
Cruise to Leroy
Culture Clash
Curious Cab
Cuss
Cut Off
Cut Wing
Dappled Cities Fly
Dark Horse
David Hall
Dead Birth
Dead Letter Circus
Deep Cut
Dekota Academy
Denero
Department Eleven
Department of Corrective Services
Desert Sea
Desert Stance
Devils and the Deep Blue
Dilemna
Dindas
Direwolf
Dirtbone
Dirty Burglars
Dirty Sanchez
Disturbing The Peace
Doc Holiday
Doctor Fungi
Doghouse
Dollshay
Don't Ask
DOT AU
Double Demerit
Double O's
Downfall
Down For Tomorrow
DPNP
D-ranged
Drawing Class
Driftwood Drones
Driftwood Theory
Drive She Said
Driving The Rhino
Dubbly
Dumbstruck
Duncan Wong Human Burger
Duppy
Dutchess & Duke
Earthly Pleasures
Easy Company
Eat Jesus
Eat The Sun
Edge Of Sins
Edium
Either Now
Ejaculation
Electric Bluegrass
Eleven
Elsewhere
Empires
Empty Head
Empty Threat
Encounterz
Etch Free
Eureka
Even People Know
E Victims
Excess Paid
Expressions
Eyeocide
Fear In Silence
Feeding Edgar
Feet First
Felicity
Fender Benders
Fherod
Filthy Dog
Finding Nino
Fine Scene
Finiscad
Fiona Davy
Firebirds
Fire For Effect
Firetribe
Fistmouth
Five Second Window
Flaming Cadillacs
Flashback
Flee The Capital
Flight
Flinch
Flow
Flying Pictures
Forever Ends Here
For Ever Opposed
Four Barrel Hemi
Four Bolt
Four ‘n Twenty
Four Kings
Fourbolt
Frank Bennett
Frank the band
Framed
Frayed
Free Line
Free Ride
Freeway Hotel
Fun For Dad
Funtomental
Gala Day
Game On
Geeza
Gemma Glenndening
Gene Maynard
Genetical Engineers
Gin Ice
Gladys The Groovy Mule
Glass Ocean
Goons of Doom
Goons of Hazzard
Gods of Rock
God's Garage
Good Bi-Polar
Gordon Larkin
Go Roll Your Bones
Greg Edwards
Greg Nunan Band
Grenwich Public School
Grisl
Groove Casino
Groove Kitchen
Grooville
Grover
Gustoclout
Gutter Tactic
Hades
Hailstone
Halo Pictures
Happy Hour
Hand Of Mercy
Handpicked
Hanging Fire
Happy Hour
Hard As Nails
Harsh Reality
Hatemail
Headlifter
Headspace
Hell City Glamours
Her Sea
Hesed
Hey Davinci
High Street Fluke
Hillsong Church
Hollow Heart
Hong Kong
Host
Hot Chicken
Howard's Goat
Human Wrongs
Hunters
Hurricane Eyes
Hybrid
I Alone
Ian Shanley
Ian Turpee
Icarus and Me
Ice Breaker
I'll Write Home
Imagine That
Industry Men
Inertia
Infamy
Inkabalm
In Denial
In Theory
Intonations Choir
Irksome Bliss
Itchy Lighthouse
Jack Vidgen
J Eleven
Jalo Proctitus
Jane Doe
Jarrodism
Jay Parino
Jeff Rice
Jeff Leopard
Jessie Deere
Jekyll Switch
Jester
Jfud
Johnny Utah
Jolanda Moyle
Jonah's Pride
Journey of the Space Cow
Juliana
Jumbalaya
Jumping Jacks
June
Just Enough Faith
Kaboobo
Kamikaze Flying Club
Karma Shift
Karma's Relent
Keith Armitage
Keith Scott
Kelly Gang
Kev Carmody
Kevin Bennett & The Flood
Key Collection
Killer Hertz
Killer Klowns
Kilocybin
Kim Pearce
Kingsley Looker
King Kazafarr
Knucklepuk
Kotahi Groove
Kyser
Labrat
La Mirra Flores
Larrissa and the Wild Grey
Larykan
Lazy Five
Lemonade
Level One
Lexicon
Like Jam
Little Horn
Littlelunch
Local Knowledge
Loki
Lonesome Train
Lords
Lost For Words
Lost In The Woods
Lost Trolleys
Lorka
Lounge
Louis Pearl & The Chepang
Louis Vuitton
Lovelorn
Low Expectations
Lowride
Lume Ettiquette
Lured
Lyn Settree
Lyrical Madmen
Machine Gun Ettiquette
Madhouse
Mahoney
Mancower
Mandrake
Mangrove Creek
Manly High School
Marcy's Dullard
Marea's Groove Tonic
Mark Spinks
Mark The Sky
Martini Sisters
Mask
Maze
McFly
Meat Raffle
Meat Swine
Melanie Horsnell
Merge
Merri Mae Gill
Mersea
Michelle Ruebenach
Micro
Mid Life Crisis
Migrant Shop Boys
Miles Brant
Milt
Mimosa Public School
Mind Magic
Mirror Drive
Misnoma
Mispent Youth
Miss November
Miss X
Modal Verb
Momentum
Monica Trapaga
Moneypenny
Monkey Hunt
Mooncalf
Mosman Public School
Moth
Motive
Moto Soul
Motorcade
Move It
Moving Pictures
My City Screams
Myriad
Mysterons
NAH74
Nardo
Narraweena Public School
Nativo Soul
Naughty Housewives
Neanderthol
Nearly Young
Nebuchadnezzar
Negative Saints
New Jersey
New Primary Groove
New Trick
Nightmare
Nikk Carmichael & The Perspective
Nilvision
Ninjas With Attitude
Noah "Rads" Radford
No Direction
No Dramas
No Hat No Play
Noise Polution
No Joel
No Tantrums
None The Wiser
Noogie
Norseleine
Northgate
Nostalgia
Nunnfu
Ode Cologne BBQ Band
OndaDog
Off Balance
Orange County
Orpheus
Outlier
Ovell
Overpass
Owl House
Oyama
Paint
Para
Paraphenalia
Parapluie
Pariah
Paris Inferno
Park Street Social Club
Party Girl
Patchwork Heart
Peepshow Nouveau
Peregrine
Perspectives
Peruvian Hangover
Petal
Phase Three
Phil and the Pheramoans
Phil's Idea
Pirate City Saga
Planet Caravan
Plastic Playdo
Play Act One
Playback
Plea For Peace
Point Lacey Major
Ponyjazz
Pool Cleaners
Post Remus
Pro Gen
Puppet
Pyper
Qi Natural Therapies
Racer Fifty Four
Radio Cairo
Ratko
Raw Conviction
Rawdo
Raw Funk
Reality Dreaming
Rebel Egg Farmers
Recover
Red Carpet Ride
Red Crayons
Red Dragon
Red Herring
Redsands
Redundant Outhouse Band
Reefers
Reg Poole
Regression
Regulators
Relative Madness
Remedy
Remnants Remembered
Remora
Renegade Republic
Reverie
Revilo Flats
Revolver
Ride My Lama
Rift
Riverwood
Roadhog
Robert Mayer
Rock Gear
Rock Goddesses
Rockafella
Rock Gear
Rockin Relics
Roll On Effect
Ron & Rae Bywater
Room 601
Rough Edge
Rovers & Drovers Outbak show
Ruffle Feather
Ruination
Rule Of Thumb
Rumanastone
R.U.S.T.
Ryan's Place
Said and Done
Same As Today
Samo's Clown
Sans Frontier
Sarah Connor
Sargent Saphire
Scattered
Scratch It Johnny
Screaming Sixties
Sea Drowns The Sun
Search For Morgo
Searching For Donuts
Second Truth
Seeder
Seven Inches of Fun
Shadow Of Aces
Shaft
Shape Shifter
Shayde
She's Prettier Dead
Short Notice
Shot Gun Romeos
Shuba
Shunky Zen
Shut The Front Door
Shut Up Gretchen
Siaki Luki
Sideshow Alley
Side Track Fiasco
Silencer Seven
Silverhair
Simon Blackburn
Singing Alive
Sitting Pretty
Six Pocket Theory
Size Is Important
Skylark
Skylounga
Skytomba
Sleeper
Sleepwalker
Slim Sumo
Sludge Buzzard
Smahf
Smiling Stiffs
Smoken Motors
Snagglepuss
Snaketide
Snap Crackle & Rock
Solarflare
Sole Luna
Solver
Sometime Sunday
Sons of The East
Sons of the Universe
So Pretty
So What
Sophia Marie
Soul'd
Soul Motel
Soul Scrypt
Sound It Out
Sour Dragon
Spilled Drinks
Spin
Spinach
Spiro
Spirogyra
Splinter Group
Spot the Join
Square One
Squidz Ink
Squid Munchies
Stage
Stan Dalone
Stand Clear
Standing Silence
Static Sillouhettes
Steak Lovers
Stellar Expression
Stephanie Says
Stephen Reed
Stereopath
Stone Dogs
Straight Snakes
Strange Attraction
Strict-Lee-Us
Strip Sunset
Strive For Normality
Subtle
Subversion
Sugar Hit
Sundaze
Sunny Side Up
Sunroom
Sunset Riders
Supersonics
Surf Dogs
Suspect Behaviour
Suspect Device
Sweat & Shame
Sweet Lick
Sweet M16 Switch
Sydney Rock Skool
Tales Of Mine
Tangent Theta
Tapered Edges
Tarnish
Tear Assunder
Ted Egan
Teenage Hookers for Christ
Ten Billion Years
The Allies
The Alpha Experiment
The Amateur Old Men
The Amber Light
The Arnion
The Beautiful Girls
The Benders
The Big Daddies
The Black List
The Black T-Shirts
The Blues Crew
The Bushdrovers
The Bushwackers
The Cadres
The Champagne Set
The Cheated Virgins
The Chronics
The Coda Academy
The Coracles
The Curse Of Silence
The Daft Optimists
The Dead Electric
The Degobah System
The Dirty Burglars
The Dirty Martinis
The Dissolutes
The Drawing Class
The DTs
The E Victims
The Eighth Day
The Endless
The Expressions
The Feros
The Flood
The Frets
The Fumes
The Goosebumps
The Graceful Wake
The Greenhorns
The Gun Sin Project
The Hard Drives
The Hard Loves
The Harlequins
The Intruders
The Iron Horses
The Juicy Ones
The Ivys
The Labourers
The Last To Follow
The Leaving Guests
The Lewis Project
The Life Aquatic
The Loose Tongues
The Lost Apollo
The Lost Pumpkins
The Lower Pluto
The Lucky Lukes
The Margaritas
The Mezcaltones
The Mystery Gift
The Nancy Boys
The Net Of Being
The Norman Conquest
The Pain Killers
The Patriarcs
The Peacock's Pelvis
The Placid Souls
The Puddles
The Punters
The Rhythm Method
The Richest Men In Town
The Road Less Travelled
The Rock Pile
The Ruminators
The Saffrons
The Shadez
The Smith Brothers
The Straight Snakes
The Strange Day
The Strutters
The Texas Playboys
The Third Cycle
The Tommy Flowers
The Treasure Tree
The Turning Tide
The Trubadours
The Tymekeeper
The Upshots
The Usual Suspects
The Valley
The Veiniacs
The Winslow Boys
The Winters
The Wise Guys
The Zygons
Thee Stout Brouges
Then
Thin Air
Thin Ice
Thirty Three
This Love We Share
Three Day Weekend
Three Days Dead
Three Point Tilt
Three Stripe Avenue
Tiana Trio
Time Will Tell
Timelords
Tinned Peaches
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Sparrow
Tojo's Ghost
Tokenview
Tommy Flowers
Tommygun
Tonchi
Tony Padina
Torch Le Monde
Travellaz
Tres Hombres
Tres Ordinaire
Trunk Monkey
Tshitaki
Tundra
Turbonun Entertainment
Turnstile
TV Babies
Two Shadows
Tyler's Riot
Typhoon
Tyrant
U4EA
Ufobia
Ugly Monday
Unleaded
Unsaid
Untermensch
Utterly Incomplete
Van Bogan
Van Damage
Vertigo
Veto
Victor and the Two Strokes
Vink
Vintage
Volts
Voodoo Monkeys
War Chief
Warren McCarthy
Wasabi
Western Temples
We're In Love
Wheelers & Dealers
When Tim Met Ted
When We Run
Who's Your Daddy
Wide Recall
Wildcatz
Wishing Tree
Witness The Hype
Wizard
Wookie Bait
World War Twenty Four
Worm Wood
Xerr
Yellow Monday
Yoshi's Quest
Young & Restless
Zero
Zero Stress
Zero Sum
Zool Fest