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We’ve just wrapped up initial recording sessions with artist Leigh Coleman.

Producer/drummer Jonathan Joseph was after some of our Neve flavour for the recordings and brought together a solid crew of great musicians to play on the tracks alongside Leigh.

We were also pleased to welcome back Joss Stone who co-produced Leigh’s vocal recordings for the sessions.

Great musicians and great company! We can’t wait to get busy with more in the coming months.

#dbs Music #Jonathan Joseph #Leigh Coleman #dbs studio #Recording Studio Plymouth #Joss Stone

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Last year we had the pleasure of working on the ‘What Happens’ movement by John Matthias, Adrian Corker & Andrew Prior.

We’re due to begin work on John's new album later this month with Simon Honywill.

Can't wait to get started!

#John Matthias #Adrian Corker #Andrew Prior #What Happens #dBs Studio

Dephicit - Clef Residue (dBs recordings #2)

Last Summer we teamed artist ‘Dephicit’ with Saxophonist ‘Summer Bright’ and had dBs Music students run a recording session which gave birth to track ‘ Clef Residue’.

Mixed in-house at our commercial studio, students got hands on with each step of the creative process, soaking up vital real world experiences. The results were outstanding!

Students involved then got to visit Star Delta mastering to put the finishing touches on the track. It’s now streaming on Dephicits soundcloud and is dropping for release soon on his forthcoming EP.

Enjoy!

Site improvements at dBs Music Plymouth

Studio 1 (Neve Room) gets Avid HDX and expanded i/o for Logic users.

We’re happy to share news about our newly upgraded audio i/o in HD Studio 1. The studio boasts an impressive selection of high end audio equipment such as a Neve 51 console, Studer A800 and Quested S7R monitors. And now with the introduction of an Avid HDX system both Protools and Logic users can benefit from 24 inputs and outputs!

Studio Session for In-Spired Music Production

We’ve just wrapped up a recording session with Paul Honey and In-Spired Production Music featuring the Four Seasons String Quartet.

The new library works are re-workings of classical Piano pieces arranged for String Quartet. We’re hoping to see these recordings featured on various upcoming media via In-spired’s impressive client listing:

www.inspiredproductionmusic.com/clients

www.fourseasonsstringquartet.co.uk

Plymouth Sound - An Evolving Soundscape of Plymouth

dBs Music degree students Ben Osborn and Dan Couch recently installed a quadraphonic speaker installation into Plymouth City Museum to playback their immersive soundscape work.

Inspired by R. Murray Shafer’s concepts on acoustic ecology, the piece of installation audio aimed to draw attention to the ever increasing noise pollution that has crept up on Plymouth and indeed the majority of our towns and cities, and plays upon growing concerns that Plymouth is losing its identity.

Using a quadraphonic speaker configuration, soundscapes from multiple familiar landmarks across the center of Plymouth; the seafront from the Barbican to Devils Point, Central Park, Royal Parade, and Drake’s Circus were re-created and placed across the horizontal plane between the speakers as they would appear if they were images on a map.

The 20 minute piece played on the hour every hour and allowed the listener to experience Plymouth’s soundscape evolve year by year from how it is likely to have sounded in 1900 and predicts how it might sound come the year 2100. The journey took the listener back to the era of horse-drawn taxis on cobbled streets, trams and frequent freight shipping to and from the various docks dotted along Plymouth’s coastline, through the thunderous air raids of WW2 and on to the monotonous hum of traffic and ubiquitous beeps of the mobile phones of present day. As the piece progressed past the year 2050 and into an age where we simply cannot be sure what Plymouth life will sound like it gradually, and with more than a hint of sarcasm, turns into a mass of digital drones, concluding by raising questions about the future of Plymouth’s soundscape and the impact that technology is having on it.

Grasso Studio Acoustics

Newly improved acoustic treatment has started making its way up onto the walls of the Grasso studios! The Grasso studios are cram packed full of cutting edge DJ production equipment and over the coming weeks we’ll be rolling out more upgrades to these spaces!

Moby Dick Big Read

The final chapter of the Moby Dick Big Read project has now been uploaded to the digital infinite! dBs Music provided recording and mixing services for the ambitious reading of Herman Melville’s classic novel.

Featuring readings from David Cameron, Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry and Simon Callow, the Moby Dick Big Read aimed to make the story assessable to a 21st Century audience. It’s been a huge success, charting iTunes charts and gaining praise from all who listened.

Much of the recording took place in-house at dBs where teams of our top students gained first hand experience of the process. Having to work to such tight deadlines (one chapter a day for over 4 months!) students were under real world pressures, responsible for delivering content with high user demand. They performed brilliantly and our thanks goes out to them.

You can now listen and download the audio version of the book in it’s entity via 135 chapters at:

www.mobydickbigread.com

www.wdcs.org/bigread.php

#Moby Dick Big Read

'Clickety Books' have just won two big awards for their beautiful children's books!

Clickety are long standing dBs studio clients and good friends of ours, we provide the cross-media books with a narrated CD and custom theme music.

The narrated stories so far feature the voices of Rik Mayall, Catherine Tate and Ronni Ancona.

Take a peak at their site for more info:

http://www.clicketybooks.co.uk/

#Clickety Books #Neve 51 #Recording Studio Plymouth #Recording Studio South West #dbs music #Rik Mayall #Catherine Tate #Ronni Ancona

Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Recorded by dBs Studio, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music

'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville's magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.

Starting 16 September 2012!

For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

A few more pictures from the recent Steinway Grand recording session with Kate and Mike Westbrook. We'll upload some audio from the session once the CDs out.

#dbs music #Recording Studio South West #Neve 51

We recently had the pleasure of recording this beautiful Steinway Grand located in Plymouth's Sherwell Centre.. it sounded huge!!!

Mike and Kate Westbrook performed their piece 'Five Voyages' for the soon to drop '150 with Plymouth University CD' via the Peninsula arts program.

If you fancy coming along to the release show check here for details:

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=39139

#dbs music #Neve 51 #Recording Studio South West #Peninsula Arts #Steinway

We're currenlty putting together an album celebrating 150 years of Plymouth University - The CD will feature our recent recordings at St Andrews Church plus much more:

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=39139

In the pic producer Simon Honeywell with composer Eduardo Reck Miranda at dBs Music Studio.

#dbs music #Recording Studio Plymouth #Peninsula arts