Iain Hutchison takes us around GloWorm Studos based in the center of Glasgow
GloWormRecording is a serious studio complex in Glasgow City Centre that attracts artists from around Europe due to its high end facilities and approach to production. GloWorm has inviting and creative spaces equipped with everything needed to make an fabulous recording, from SSL console to classic U47 microphones this is a great space for making great records.
IAIN HUTCHISON prepares to take us on a tour of GloWorm Studios main studio spaces
Studio 1 is a large tracking and mixing studio with room to facilitate a whole band playing live. The control room is built around an SSL AWS 948 Delta Analogue Console, Barefoot MM27 Monitoring, Burl Mothership A/D conversion and a high quality selection of outboard.
The studio is flooded with natural light in the control room, and has large windows to the first of 3 isolation booths on the left, and a large live room on the right, allowing significant line of sight for live tracking.
IAIN HUTCHISON
"Iain is the founder of GloWormRecording, and has been working as a music producer and engineer for 15+ years. Captivated from an early age by ‘another world’ that recordings create and invite you to step into, he loves to use the studio as an instrument, to craft, create and paint with sound. Always approaching the studio as a musician as well as an engineer, Iain aims to make recordings that impact on an emotional level, and draw you in to the world of the artist. He’s worked with many artists both local and international as a producer, recording and mixing engineer, and multi instrumentalist."
ANDREA GOBBI
Iain's business partner Andrea Gobbi is "an award winning music producer and audio engineer based at GloWorm with a discography includes local and international artists from many different genres, ranging from electronic, through to traditional folk and pop." Andrea also runs Carrier Waves Mastering, a mastering company also based at GloWormRecording.
STUDIO ONE EQUIPMENT
MULTITRACK
Mac Pro 12×3.5Ghz with Pro Tools HD Native system
UAD x 12 cores
Burl Mothership – 24 ins & 48 outs
Avid HDIO – 16 ins & 16 outs
CONSOLE
SSL AWS 948 delta analogue console
MONITORING
2004 before becoming GloWorm, the studio was owned by Stuart McCredie (Mixing Rooms) & this is a snap we took of the control room
Barefoot MM27 monitors
Mono Avantone Mix-cube
Bose SoundLink Mini
Behringer P16M personal monitoring system
Heritage Audio BT500 streaming device
DYNAMICS
Retro Instruments 176 x 2
Vac Rac TSL-4
Tube-Tech CL1b x 2
RND Portico 5043
Mohog Mofet 76 (1176) x 3
Empirical Labs EL8x Distressors x 2
Audioscape D-Comp Limiter (2 Channels)
API 2500 Stereo Compressor (2 Channels)
API L200R with 8 x API 225 channel compressors
SSL X-rack with 4 x XR618 Compressor
EQUALIZATION
Chandler Ltd Curve Bender Stereo EQ
Bettermaker Mastering Equalizer (2 Channels)
Tube Tech EQ1AM x 2 (Modded)
SSL X-rack with 2 x XR625 EQ, 2x XR425 EQ
OUTBOARD PRE-AMPS
AML 1073 with EQ (2 Channels)
AML 1073 (2 Channels)
AEA RPQ (2 channels)
OUTBOARD FX
Bricasti M7
Lexicon PCM70
INSTRUMENTS/BACKLINE
Ritmuller upright acoustic piano
Bentley upright piano
Hammond L100 Organ with Leslie Speaker
STUDIO TWO EQUIPMENT
MULTITRACK
Mac Pro ‘Trashcan’ 3.6Ghz 6 Core with Pro-Tools HD Native System
Avid HDIO – 16 ins & 16 outs
Burl B2 Bomber ADC
CONSOLE
SSL Nucleus
MONITORING
Barefoot MM45 monitors
Heritage Audio BT500 streaming device
DYNAMICS
Mohog 76 x 2
Warm Audio WA-2A
Kush Audio Tweakers x 2
EQUALIZATION
Radial Sixpack 500 Series rack with 5 x Kush Audio Electra EQs
OUTBOARD PRE-AMPS
AML 1073 (4 Channels)
AEA RPQ 2 (2 Channels)
Audient ASP880 (8 Channels)
Watch Iain Hutchison recording the studio piano in this in-depth piano recording feature
