Come and spread some seasonal cheer with us at the Strongroom Bar, just off Curtain Road, Shoreditch on Thursday 12th December, with prizes for all.
>One lucky person will be going home with the grand prize. Last year Paul Frost took home a synth courtesy of Rob Papen and Time+Space, while everyone else went home with t-shirts, magazines, USB keys, and everybody's favourite; the API keyring. This year we'll be going bigger and better, with gifts from Audio Damage, Focusrite/Novation, Shure and Time+Space, with over £1,000 of giveaways.
So come, be merry, drink Strongroom dry, and enjoy Christmas with us. Remember to follow the twitter @sonicmeet for event updates.
16 Bromell’s Road, London SW4 0BG (above the London School of Sound).
Ahoy!
#sonicmeet is back with a bang, and testing a new kind of venue: a brand new pro audio showroom in London called Red Dog Music. Seeing equipment at studio sonicmeets has proven so popular that we want to stir chatter and geekery to a new level with a full showroom of kit.
As usual, there will be beer - just mind where you rest it, yeah?
It's a two minute walk from Clapham Common tube on the Northern Line.
Follow our Twitter feed @sonicmeet for event updates. See you there!
We've got a #sonicmeet event coming up tonight, but our usual domain name has been down since last week which means people visiting sonicmeet.co.uk weren't being directed to this blog.
It's no problem; everyone on our mailing list has been sent the details, but it's probably worth posting linking Twitter folk directly to this blog so they can share it with audio-loving friends.
Where: Resonance FM, 144 Borough High Street, SE1 1NF. THe nearest tube is Borough. Look for the red postbox outside Costa Coffee and go to the gate just off the street.
When: Wednesday July 10, 7:30 − 9pm (with more beer at the nearest pub straight after, probably).
Enjoy: Iranian beer at £2 a bottle, according to Resonance' Fari Bradley.
Venue: Parr Street Studios, 33-45 Parr St, Liverpool, L1 4JN
Date: Saturday March 9
Time: 7pm - late
Sonicmeet is breaking out of London again, and this time we're heading north to one of the most exciting music hubs in the country: Liverpool.
Parr Street Studios will play host at this event, which is a huge honour. Some of the best-known artists in history have recorded there (Coldplay, Stone Roses and the Verve to name a few) and it's full of great equipment, some of which engineer Tony Draper will demo for the curious.
Besides a tour of these legendary studios, we'll be drinking upstairs in the beautiful Attic Bar until around 9:30, when we'll head into the wild and continue our adventure in town.
Remember to follow @sonicmeet for live updates on the night (perfect for venue changes or if you get lost).
Here's a map to the studio. If you have a sat nav, it's easy to remember that Parr Street Studios is literally on Parr Street. Fortunate, no?
A big Christmas party? With prizes? That's right, we're having our first ever Christmas party at a venue with loads of great beer.
The party will take place from 7pm on Wednesday 12th December at BrewDog in Camden, right around the corner from Camden Town tube station (see map below). We've got tables for 20 booked, but there's plenty of standing room too.
Since good beer is integral to any #sonicmeet, we're very pleased with this venue because BrewDog stock their own award-winning range of beers. You might have heard of their record-breaking 55% beer:
On top of that, our friends at Source Distribution, Sonic Distribution, Time+Space and Music Tech magazine have given us some swag from API, Rode, Presonus, sE and others as prizes. How can you win them? We have no idea. Let's come up with something on the night.
Remember to follow @sonicmeet on twitter for updates on the night.
You can find BrewDog Camden at 113 Bayham Street, Camden Town, London, NW1 0AG.
Engineer and friend Ian Palmer has taken the initiative to put on a meet in the West of England, and we're very pleased about it.
The meet starts at Christchurch Studios in Clifton on Friday October 19 from 7pm, then moves on to the Coronation Tap pub next door.
It's great to finally branch out of London for the first time, and we would love to see more audio meets elsewhere. Contact @TomDavenport or @MikeHillier on twitter if you're interested in running an event in your area. You don't need access to a studio either - some of the best meets have simply been in a pub with a group of like-minded people.
Here's a map to find Christchurch Studios in Bristol:
We're very pleased to confirm that the next #sonicmeet will take place on September 28 at Metropolis Studios in Chiswick, London from 7pm.
Get there early, because a limited number of people will be given a tour of their facilities which include four studios, two live rooms and some of the best mastering suites available. It recently featured on the Radio 4 series Making Tracks, which should still be available on BBC iPlayer.
The main event will be in Studio B, where senior tech engineer Simon Saywood will be giving a demo of his impressive Fairchild 670 recreation, the AT-101, with chief engineer Sam Wheat running the SSL 4000G and Whiskey and the Wilsons as the live band. Not bad!
As usual, you can receive updates and any last-minute changes on our @sonicmeet twitter feed.
Here's a map of the area - it's a three minute walk from either Stamford Brook or Turnham Green stations:
#sonicmeet 6: Screened Music Pro Mixing Masterclass
In something of a departure from our normal boozing sessions, we're very pleased that Screened Music has offered #sonicmeet followers a big fat discount on its very impressive music masterclass at the BFI on Tuesday 3 July.
This event will focus on pro mixing, with several talks from some of the best in the business. One of them is fellow sonicmeeter Jake Jackson from Air Studios. As you know from our meets, he's a lovely chap and will do a live mix of a track from the James Bond game 'Bloodstone' and share lots of tips on using plugins and building an efficient workflow.
Other speakers include another #sonicmeet friend Richard Aitken from Nimrod Productions who has produced some of the best video game scores ever. Remember grooving to Driver? Exactly. He'll be showing you how to win with MIDI production.
Full details of the day-long event are on the Screened Music site, but you can save 33% from the ticket price with this top secret code:
SONICMEET12
Remember to follow the @sonicmeet twitter on the day for any changes of plan for the evening.
