In The Studio (Alan Dawson) - Sophie Costello & Matthew Allen

Last week I had two very talented young people in the studio recording some demo tracks.  Sophie was recording 2 original songs playing the guitar and singing the vocal.  

Later we also recorded Sophie singing to some backing tracks both 

solo and as a duet with Matthew.

Matthew also sang a couple of songs solo to backing tracks

The session went very well with a great performance producing a very good demo.

In The Studio (Alan Dawson) - Mike Cardy

Mike Cardy started an album project this weekend.  Altogether there are 11 songs for the album and we started by recording acoustic guitar tracks to a click and then some guide vocal. The idea being to get a good guitar track recorded so that the other musicians can record later.  All went well and a fair few of the songs have been started.

In The Studio (Alan Dawson) - Hiatus

Hiatus recorded a demo of 3 songs last night for a promotional CD / web page tracks. Hiatus are a duo featuring, Jake Minear: vocal & acoustic guitar and Kevin Siggins: acoustic guitar.

The demo was done in a combination of totally live through to guitars live vocals later depending on the song.  There was also a nice mix up of acoustic guitar miked up through to an acoustic electric sound. The 3 songs were completely recorded and mixed in the one night.

In The Studio (Alan Dawson) - Laurie Mansell

Yesterday Laurie was back in the studio working on songs for the Album.  We tracked some acoustic guitar, electric guitar and extra vocal parts. In the future we will have some guest musicians adding drums and piano.

In The Studio (Alan Dawson) - The Suntones

After a marathon 3 nights of mixing, "The Suntones" 5 song CD is now finished and ready to go into production.  To quote the wife of a band member "You sound better than normal," so we are all taking that as a compliment.

The CD will be available at gigs and the guys are off to Tamworth for the festival in January so lets hope plenty get sold there.

In the Studio (Alan Dawson) - Escape Artist

Escape Artist started a project on Saturday recording a new song "Hunting Season".

The band describe themselves as : Escape Artist (EA) …… First formed in December 2008, converting computer generated beats and samples into a 5 piece live hip hop set consisting of two MC’s, DJ, bass and guitar. 

As the band has an electric drum kit we recording the audio and midi at the same time so that sound substitution and triggers could be added later. When we had a drum track down, Bass, Guitar, Decks, Vocal and MC were added.  In a few weeks we will finish off the recording and have a look at the mix.

In The Studio (Alan Dawson) - The Suntones

The Suntones have now finished the recording stage and mixing will be carried out this week.  Fingers crossed all should be finished by the end of the week.

In The Studio (Alan Dawson) - Mike Pratt

Mike's album has now been finished and mastered, Mike is reviewing the finished work at home before the final tick off.  The CD is only available at gigs for now, but if any retailers get stock in the future I will let you know where.

Here is some further information on Mike if you want to Google him:-
Full Name: Michael Pratt-guyan, Gyspsy and Andaluz styles, Studied with Diego del Gastor and Emilio de Diego among others.