Eventful day! Open! Sloth Hammer improvising live in the studio on opening day, absolutely monstrous sound!Two drum kits with added kick mic on the floor tom for extra weight, shattering heavy bass guitar (mic’d with a vintage ribbon, sm57, Akg d12 and DI from the Orange amp running through my old school Marshall 4×10 with the deeper cabinet, routed via a klark teknik EQ and drawmer 1960 from the matrix of the allen and Heath), two vocalists (both of whom insisted on holding the mic’s, and i can tell why, demonising it for hours on end to their cores and beyond) and two noise makers with all sorts of spring and plate reverbs, circuit bent electronics and drills and saws and for a minute there I thought i was still building! Full studio pics on the way when I can get a camera better than my phone to do it all justice.
#studiobuild #studioopening #recordingstudio #masteringstudio #masteringengineer #mastering #music #musicstudio #musicproducer #musicproduction #slothhammer #leeds Grateful beyond belief to Lecky and Si @templeofboomleeds @anxiousdad Adam for all the hours of joinery and everyone else who’s lent a hand along the way, it’s been a long six months of learning curves and curveballs but it’s all sounding incredible, glad I spent so long not cutting corners, it really looks like I’ve spent a lot more money than I actually have, even if that is every penny I do have. #diyordie #declaredsound
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Get yourselves over to the @resident_advisor website to read this great article about the amazing people behind @nyegenyegefest whose latest release by #nihiloxica was mastered by myself here at Declared Sound. #uganda #kampala #nyegenyege #residentadvisor #dancemusic #masteringengineer #mastering #masteringstudio #leeds #declaredsound
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This week has been a lot! Built and dismantled my studio to master this incredible EP from #Kampala #Uganda by #Nihiloxica on the rad #nyegenyege tape label before finalising the permanent basstraps and other acoustic treatments once it was sounding tight! Casual 7am-4am of solid work yesterday, building and sound engineering, and up again at 8am for another day of the same today. All worth it with music this good coming out all over the world! #mastering #masteringengineer #masteringstudio #afrobeat #rave #dancemusic #drums #leeds #music #peace LISTEN HERE: https://soundcloud.com/nyege-nyege-tapes/exclusive-preview-nihiloxica-03-endongo-releases-30112017 #declaredsound
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A day of setting up the new powerhorse, full on megabeast of a home-built PC housed in Trooper casing! Ain’t no mac in this house! #trooper #pc #studiobuild #mastering #masteringengineer #masteringstudio #musicstudio #recordingstudio #music #sound #audio #musicproducer #musicproduction #liquidcooling #declaredsound
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Tubes are glowing, I’m almost open! #studiobuild #mastering #masteringengineer #masteringstudio #musicstudio #recordingstudio #music #audio #sound #musicproducer #musicproduction #musician #leeds #declaredsound
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Paint job done! #studiobuild #mastering #masteringstudio #masteringengineer #music #sound #audio #recordingstudio #musicstudio #musican #musicproducer #musicproduction #leeds #declaredsound
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I’ll be the first to admit this build has taken me a lot longer than anticipated, but I am so proud of this place already it’s unreal. Making the all important bass traps today, combination of high density foam, antivibration mats, fibreglass panels, saving myself a lot of money building them instead of buying them in! #acoustics #soundproofing #studiobuild #mastering #masteringstudio #masteringengineer #sound #music #audio #musician #musicproducer #musicproduction #leeds #declaredsound
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Following on from my homemade bass traps… The result of a lot of research, patience, design, sourcing materials, construction and testing. I am lucky enough to own a pair of Dunlavy speakers, some of the best speakers ever made, and I wanted to be sure I get the most out of them. I didn’t trust companies making their own acoustic panels – amazing how many charge crazy money yet refuse to make technical details of frequency absorption available, so I developed and built my own. Measuring the frequency response of the room and carefully matching the acoustic materials to precise room locations in order to create a flat and balanced room that allows the incredible performance of Dunlavy’s waveform accuracy to shine. Inordinately proud of myself listening to the room change as I mounted these yesterday, millimetre perfect focus away from the room and right to where it matters – the speakers. #studiobuild #mastering #masteringstudio #masteringengineer #musicstudio #recordingstudio #music #musician #musicproducer #musicproduction #sound #audio #acoustics #soundproofing #acoustictreatment #vinyl #cassette #tape #digital #CD #analogue #dunlavy #speakers #leeds #declaredsound
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Laying the acoustic carpet #studiobuild #mastering #masteringengineer #masteringstudio #acoustics #soundproofing #music #audio #sound #musician #musicproducer #musicproduction #musicstudio #livingthedream #diy #leeds #declaredsound
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