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BLUE PRO MASTERING, LONDON
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"Blue Pro is my first choice for mastering. Their results and attention to detail rival even the most established US facilities at very competitive rates." Paul Borg (Urban Species, Girls Aloud, Mory Kante, Sugababes, Gang Starr).
Blue Pro is an independent mastering house in North London. Heralded by many artists and labels worldwide for offering some of the best rates and results for true high end analogue mastering, it is fast becoming a mainstay of the industry.
Resident engineer John Webber told us, "Blue Pro deliver no-compromise mastering solutions that fit the budgets of independent artists and labels, as well as the majors. Mastering is key to how your music comes across on the radio, online, on an iPod and across all the usual physical formats. It can be the difference between a hit and a miss. Although we can't guarantee you a hit we will ensure your recordings reach their sonic potential."
The Blue Pro facility leaves nothing to chance, using the epitome of audio tools in a carefully balanced acoustic listening environment built around the acclaimed MTC-2 Mastering Console by Maselec which was designed by producer Leif Mases (Led Zeppelin, Abba), a perfect centre-piece for a world class mastering house. The line up of gear at Blue Pro also extends to further hardware options from Maselec as well as TC Electronic (System 6000), Prism Sound, Manley, EMI Chandler and Tube-Tech." Check out the full equipment list here.
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Recent artists and projects to be given the Blue Pro treatment include platinum-selling classical Sony album reissues for Zbigniew Preisner, The Milk, Nerina Pallot, Redzz & Sway, BJ Cole, Polar Bear, The The, Frankmusik and Grammy-winning acappella group The Swingle Singers. You can listen to some recent Blue Pro masters here.
Both attended sessions and online mastering are available at Blue Pro. Click through to their website to find out more. For a limited time, the studio is also offering new clients a FREE no obligation sample master of a segment of one of their tracks. For more information or to book a mastering session please contact the studio here.
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Livingston Studios To Reopen
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This December Miloco Studios will be reopening North London's Livingston Studios to usher in a brand new era for the renowned recording facility. If you want to keep up with the latest developments check out the latest photos or read all about the rebuild through their blog you can find them all here at livingstonstudios.tumblr.com.
Urchin Studios Relocating
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After five busy years in Limehouse, Urchin Studios is relocating to The Laundry in London Fields, Hackney. The Laundry is the brainchild of Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and is a converted industrial warehouse which has been specifically developed to be a hub for the modern music industry. Not only a base for labels, bands, photographers and studios it will also house a cafe and a music venue.
The new Urchin Studios, still to be run by producer/mixers Matt Ingram and Dan Cox (Lianne La Havas, Fyfe Dangerfield, Neil Finn) will feature a 36sqm live room with 4m high ceilings; three acoustically treated booths with sightlines to the live room; a Trident 65 recording console; a spacious fully air conditioned main control room and a separate, fully isolated programming room perfect for overdubs, edits and vocal sessions. You can follow the build progression here. The new studio will be taking bookings from November 2012. Enquiries can be sent to charlie@urchinstudios.co.uk.
Freefall Studios Competition
Freefall Studios is a new recording project set up by producer / engineer Antonio Hanna who recently moved to the UK from Australia where he ran Freefall Studios AU and The Freefall Sessions. To raise the profile of his new UK studio enterprise, Antonio is giving bands and artists the chance to have one of their songs recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by him, for free, at one of the London studios he currently uses (OneLouder, Artspace or 123 Studios). Simply 'Like' the Freefall Studios Facebook page and post a song on the wall. The rest, as they say, could be history.
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LIVE IN THE STUDIO
This month you can watch behind-the-scenes footage of Urusen's album recording session with producer Steve Osborne in The Wood Room at Real World Studios.
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Also check out Freefall Sessions for live recordings filmed in Jungle Studios, Sydney, Australia courtesy of Freefall Studios AU. All audio was tracked through an SSL 4056 G Series console and mixed using an SSL X-Desk.
If you have video footage of your band playing live in any of our listed studios, whether recording or rehearsing, send us a link to the video and we will do our best to include it in next month's newsletter.
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OTHER NEWS
AllStudios Adds Video Gallery
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We are pleased and excited to announce the launch of a brand new Video Gallery to our site which has been divided up into sections for Studio Videos, Producer Interviews and Artist performances, all shot in studios currently listed in our directory.
Footage is welcomed from any commercial music studio premises though; so, if you are a band, artist, engineer or producer who would like to share a video of themselves performing, rehearsing or being interviewed in a studio, just email us the details including an embed url, an image and a short description and we will do our best to upload them within 24 hours.
For studios already registered to our site simply log in to your AllStudios' account, upload details for a maximum of six videos via your admin page and these will then automatically appear in the main Video gallery page under your preferred category heading. Those studios with an AllStudios' Gold account will be able to promote their videos on their studio's listings page as well. Check out Rimshot and Far Heath for examples and let us know your thoughts on this new development.
Job Opportunities
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Don't forget to check out our Classifieds page regularly for studio-related job opportunities. You can also follow us on Twitter or Facebook if you wish to be notified of vacancies as they arise.
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WHO'S WHERE
Find out which studios your favourite artists have been using over the past month. To be included in this list, email us with client and session details.
BRITANNIA ROW STUDIOS
Don Mescall and Key West writing in Studio 2; Loveable Rogues in Studio 1
CIRCLE STUDIOS
Steve Baughman and The Game
MILOCO
Arthur Beatrice; Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Katy B; Leftfield; The 1975; Ludacris; 2 Bears; Karl Hyde; Klaxons; Bring Me The Horizon; Hurts; Azealia Banks; Tom Odell; Kele Okereke
SHOCK & AWE
The Din finishing an upcoming EP and single; The Ramshackle Union Band finishing recordings of their second album; Bert Page recording album; Wolf People recording overdubs for second album
SNAP
Craig David; Hugh Worskett; Peter James Trio; Dollface; John Bull; Twin Atlantic
STATE OF THE ARK
Alan Parson with Guy Pratt and Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) working on a project with Dave Kerzner; Steve McLaughlin tracking for his latest film project; Andy Wright / Gavin Goldberg mixing forthcoming album by Katman; London Grammar (Ministry of Sound) produced by Tim Bran and engineered by Manon Grandjean; Glenn Aitken tracking new album; Neil Cowley Trio
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