From Abbey Road recording studios in London to our homes or is it the other way around?

Welcome to the site. I will be talking about song writing, music technology (old and new), recordings and a whole lot more about what this fascinating world of recording involves before you get your sounds to the ears of the listener. I also hope to be able to entice interesting artists for interviews, review albums and hopefully bring on some interesting comments as we all have different ways of writing, recording and just simply doing things.

This blog is first and foremost about us, songwriters, producers, musician’s people who write, record and listen to music because they love the process, have a deep passion and a love for all aspects of the process.

If no one buys a single track you produce, or if you are an independent musician scraping  a living or even a multi Grammy award winning superstar (I wonder how many of you will visit) I hope you all find something of use here.

For many years now I have been recording purely digitally as many have but I still remember the days of analogue tape, I still have a lot of those old recordings and an analogue tape recorder, the Akai 4000DS  shown below..

Akai 4000DS MK-2

Over the years I’ve had many 4 tracks both reel to reel, cassette and remember them all fondly. Digital has meant we can record, edit, mix, add effects, master all on a laptop if need be, we can fit whole studios into the tiniest space.

Now no one is saying that I can make the same quality recordings as Abbey Road or The Record Plant but there is a style, a sound that you can create that can’t be done in a big studio, you can fit your work into your own time schedule, the creative process can rumble along at it’s own pace and it is relatively cheap to produce at home. There are no rules however and if you can afford Abbey Road then fantastic but for a lot of us the humble home studio, or maybe not so humble, is where it all begins and the creative process takes place.

One last thing, I am going to post readers studio pictures and will include one each week.

So if you wish to have your home studio in this blog, send me a picture, until then I’ll be putting up studios of interest I find on the net.

For my first studio of the week I’m going to show you John Lennon’s home attic studio, which also brings me to my first post which will be on Beatle John Lennon’s home studio, lets start off with analogue, plenty of digital to come.

Thanks for visiting.

All the best.

Calum.