How to build a professional recording studio - Part 1
I moved to Central Brittany in France in November 2020, getting my feet under the table just before the end of the Brexit transition period. From then until April 2021, my wife and I were in the process of buying a beautiful stone cottage that we had found while appearing on the TV show A Place in the Sun. Besides it being a beautiful cottage, it also had a huge, stone coach house - The Devil’s Coach House this newsletter is named after - that we planned to turn into a recording studio.
As John Lennon (allegedly) said, “Life is what happens while you’re planning something else”. Well, our plan of moving to France, quickly completing our property purchase and having a fully functional recording studio by May 2021 did not quite turn out how we expected.
Pork and Doom Soup
Back in September, I worked with Christophe Chavanon at Kerwax Studio in Brittany on the new Withchthroat Serpent album, Trove of Oddities at the Devil’s Driveway. Withchthroat Serpent are an excellent Doom Metal/Stoner Metal group from France, and they chose Kerwax for their latest project because they wanted to record live to 24-track tape, which is exactly in what Christophe and Kerwax specialise.
Steve Kilpatrick Featured in Broadcast
Composer and producer Steve Kilpatrick has opened a new studio in Manchester.
Kilpatrick has created music that has been played globally on the likes of the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, MTV, and VH-1, as well as compositions for the Resident Evil 6 and Raccoon City trailers. He was also involved with award-winning BBC Radio 4 dramas Amazing Grace and Cottonopolis, and composed pieces for the feature film A Coven of Evil.