There are many reasons, but the two most important reasons are recording vocals/instruments AND mixing. Today lets focus on recording voice.

When you record at home, there are many things that can reduce the quality of your recording such as background noise, echo, breathing…

More than a great experience, recording in a studio provides a high quality and professional sound so go for it!

Now listen to the difference between an amateur and a professional recording: the “amateur” recording has been done in a normal room while the professional one has been done in an acoustically designed room, both with the same microphone…have no doubt that you will be convinced!

Call now on 020 8907 8634 or email info@2002studios.com to book time NOW.

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Home sound

Studio sound

We have recently been providing audio for video and flash game companies that have been looking for simple sound themes for mobile applications or a whole sound bank including sounds effects and music for a more complex projects.

We have also added to our experience in the corporate voiceover and translation world, now offering audio books, converting text formats into audio, introducing sounds effects and surround sounds for a greater immersion and thus, experience a new way to discover or rediscover the classics of literature as new authors.

Those new services are coupled with our new branch: 2002Studios Media Ltd that includes translation and subtitling, and app/interactive design. We can produce solutions in more than 30 languages.

Our tools and services are used for the development of video games, flash games, mobiles applications and all other media where this kind of service could be required.

For the agreed upon price we will properly balance all instruments, compress and add reverb and delay to taste. Not happy with the mix? Sends us back your comments and we will make a second mix at no extra charge. Do you want to work with us ‘till it’s just absolutely perfect? No problem, we charge £15 per mix after the initial 2 mixes.

The final mix will be delivered in CD quality. However the mix will not be mastered. We provide mastering as a separate service for £32 per track.

For all the fancy pants out there, we can also provide your mix with some analogue bus compression on the two-mix with professional studio-grade equipment for an extra £10 on top of the original price.

Price overview

Mix + 1 free revision = £55 (Up to 48 mono tracks or 24 stereo tracksand up to ten minutes)

More than 48 tracks = £1 per extra track

More than 10 minutes in length = £3.50 per extra minute

Overall analogue bus compression = £10 extra

3rd remix and on = £15 per delivered mix

Mastering = £32 per track.

The trailer shows both the original audio we received, which was cleaned up, mixed and mastered and the finished product.

So if you have any friends or family that are budding vocalist/musicians that have always wanted to get a demo CD together, our new Gift Vouchers make the perfect present!!! There time with us can be used for recording, mixing, music production and mastering!

Keep in touch for more information!

npl: the characteristic way in which sound carries or can be heard within a particular enclosed space, for example, an auditorium.

The acoustics to a recording studio are as important if not more important than the technical equipment involved. If the sound of a room isn’t right then no matter how high the quality of recording equipment is you will always capture that boxy, ringing, hard sound.

In between sound leaving its source and reaching your ears it experiences reflections. In the case of a very large room these result in an echo with the sound wave bouncing of a hard wall and returning to your ears, but in smaller rooms these reflections are shorter and more frequent resulting in reverberations.

When thinking musically you may believe that reverberation or reverb as its know is a good thing, commonly applied on instruments etc to create depth, ambience and to increase the harmonic effects of a source… In actual fact when monitoring or recording sound it’s quite the opposite! Once you have recorded these natural reverberations you are then stuck with them. What you actually want in a recording environment are walls that defuse the sound resulting in as little reverberation as possible. This will give the source a very clean, pure and dry sound, enabling the engineer (with the use of effects) to then apply as little or as much reverb as needed providing maximum control over the signal and its final mix.

So basically, hard walls such as the ones found in your home studio will constantly reflect sound creating all sorts of acoustic related problems, these will include ringing, fluttering echoes and stereo imaging issues.

At 2002 Studios every single wall in both the live and control rooms have a thick layer of Rock Wool. These Rock Wool panels have been made to the perfect density and literally absorb (defuse) the sound, resulting in a far softer/true recording and a clinical listening environment for mixing and mastering. In the control room, we have offset the dampening effect of the absorbing walls with strategically placed plaster walls, designed to keep the sound moving just enough that it still travels to the engineers and clients. However we have no ‘ping-pong’ which results in a clean and soft mixing environment.

Other issues found in room acoustics and particularly the control rooms are roaming bass frequencies. This is because the bass in a track is the most likely end of the frequency spectrum to reverberate, therefore giving you the impression your hearing more bass than is actually in the track, this creates some of the most common mistakes in mixing and mastering.

These bass frequencies resonate at there worst in rooms with right angles. Although you wouldn’t notice it at first, the 2002 Studio control room features no right angles, at a first glance it may appear to be a normal room but on closer inspection you will see every wall and even the floor and ceiling are slightly askew. This design allows us to escape the boxy ringing sounds often picked up in your average listening environment.

Bad acoustics to a room will severely affect your recordings and colour your judgement of the overall sound. As mentioned at the start of this post, it’s these reasons that the room itself is the most important aspect of any recording environment. At 2002 Studios we have gone the extra mile to resolve any the acoustic problems mentioned above (and then some). The entire facility is a room built inside a room leaving us with perfect isolation from the outside world, providing a professional working environment for any audio based task whether it be recording mixing or mastering…..