Recording at Black Frog Studios in Thame
Last week we were approached by a producer from Hong Kong who wished to hire a string quartet for a recording. As a deadline was […]
Read More →Last week we were approached by a producer from Hong Kong who wished to hire a string quartet for a recording. As a deadline was […]
Read More →On Sunday I got together once again with composer Leigh Haggerwood to record some violin and viola parts for some of his new music. Last […]
Read More →A few months ago I blogged about composers/producers who are inexperienced with working with real stringed instruments and therefore aim and make them sound more like the sampled strings they […]
Read More →Last Monday we spent the entire day recording the music by Gareth Dicks, a composer of musicals who is producing an album of his own work. The recording session […]
Read More →About a year ago I wrote a blog entry called ‘Bring on the Viola‘ which discussed the merits of this sometimes overlooked and under-appreciated instrument […]
Read More →Much of the recording work we do involves the use of a ‘Click Track’. A click track is an audible metronome which is fed into […]
Read More →The Trill (also known as The Shake for some reason…) is a musical device which is common to most instruments as well as more accomplished […]
Read More →On Friday, five of us entered the studio to record real strings for the re-branding campaign of a large company. The music had been carefully […]
Read More →Congratulations to composer Ash Madni – his album Mystic Thoughts has just gone onto digital release with Chandos online store The Classical Shop. We helped […]
Read More →Grace Notes fall into the category of ‘ornamentation’ as they are embellishments which help to give life and energy to a phrase. They are not […]
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