Video interviews & studio tours

Studio photos of OX4 Sound from the archive

A small sample of our photos from an excellent Oxfordshire Studio

Based just outside of Oxford in a peaceful but not isolated small collection of rustic buildings sits a lovely studio built by artist Mark Gardener.

Tape Baking with Mike Thorne

Recording and Mastering engineer Mike Thorne shows us how he bakes his tapes in this very short video on tape baking!   Over time, tapes can shed their oxide layer that contains the recording.

Abbey Road's Mic Collection

Lester Smith shows some of the great mics from the collection

In 2018 about 80 producers and engineers jammed in to Abbey Road's Studio Three to have keeper of the microphone collection, Lester Smith, show off some of their collection.  Ian Shepherd sat with Lester and asked the questions.

The thing to watch out for with a Sennheiser 421 mic clip

Russell Cottier takes a moment out of a recording session to point out the issues with the Sennheiser 421 microphone clip and it's love of flying off the mic stand.

The remote studio setup Clint Murphy is using to record a new album

A quick 2 minute tour of the remote band recording setup in a country cottage

Clint shows us on a quick 2 minute tour the remote band recording setup in a country cottage where he's working with Two Year Break on their album (now out and available to buy) - Check out the band's page linked below.

Mic Set-up for Live Streaming Studio Session

Top recording engineer Mike Thorne shows his recording studio microphone setup for an online studio live streaming broadcast with Louis Philippe and the Night Mail, there's a Video link below.

Producer home studio setups

The COVID-19 pandemic meant that most producers had to work from home. Having been on several Zoom calls with producers it was very interesting to see their home recording setups.

Piano Recording Technique Videos

Since Record Production started in 1999 we have been asking some of the best recording engineers to show us their proven recording techniques.

Drum recording techniques videos

- Two pairs of mics compared for simple but effective drum recording - Recording Drums with classic mics and then cheap mics, compare the sounds

A look at the Redshark Audio RA 90 DSLR Mic Pre

After years of pretty poor quality audio RecordProduction.com has found the perfect mic pre / interface for location sound recording with our DSLR's. We know, it's ironic. RecordProduction.

Exclusive Recording Masterclass Workshop - Sat 30th May 2015, Oxford, UK

To be at our next production masterclass with 3 leading producers click this link to contact Ian Wallman and confirm your place . Read on for full information and prices.

How to be a record producer

This is one question that we get asked time and time again: "Can you tell me how to be a record producer?" That's a much more complicated question than the questioner would have thought, in fact, about any music producer would have to stop and...

Newsletter August 2013

Engineer Joff Spittlehouse takes time out to show us around the Old Library Studios in Mansfield, UK. This studio has some large and unusual recording areas that we like... The Old Library Studios feature..

Newsletter June 2013

George Shilling takes us through his mic choices and shows how he records drums. Some of his techniques are very interesting and we think that everyone can learn something from this.

Newsletter July 2013

Coming soon we have Alan Parsons and Nick Mason interviews, Dave Chang on getting great metal sounds, Russ Russel and Jaime Gomez talk metal, Paul Savage at Chem 19, Simon Gogerly at Hub II, Goetz Botzenhardt at Tileyard, The Grand Studios, Joff Spittlehouse and more..

Guest articles, insight and comment

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