
Tape still hears it differently.
A two room studio in the east end of Glasgow, built around a 1974 desk and a live room with a proper ceiling.
The live room was a bottling hall before it was anything else, which is why the ceiling is nine metres and why a snare sounds the way it does in here. We kept the brick, added a floated floor and left the rest alone. Most of what arrives gets tracked live, four or five of you in the same space, looking at each other. It is a slower way to make a record and it tends to sound like people rather than files.

The Hall.
Nine metre ceiling, floated oak floor, seats a nine piece. Best for drums, strings and anything that needs air.


The Booth.
Small, dead and comfortable. Vocals, overdubs, voice work and podcasts.


Microphones
Outboard
Instruments

Aoife Shand, Long Water.

The Quiet Orders, Second House.

Baltic Street Choir, Evensong.

Rab Ferrier, Notes on a Flood.
We came for two days and stayed for five. Nobody once looked at a screen while we played.
The Hall, ten hours with engineer
The Booth, ten hours with engineer
Mixing, per song
Attended mastering, per song