Video interviews & studio tours

Tape Baking with Mike Thorne - Mike Banks

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

Abbey Road's Mic Collection - Ian Shepherd

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

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

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 - Clint Murphy

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

Mic Set-up for Live Streaming Studio Session - Mike Banks

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. This page covers piano recording and some

Drum recording techniques videos

- Alan Parsons recording drums with Pink Floyd's Nick Mason - Two pairs of mics compared for simple but effective drum recording - Recording Drums with classic mics and then

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.com is here

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

Newsletter August 2013

Newsletter Recordproduction.com updates Simon Gogerly interview... Simon talks with George Shilling about his Grammy award winning work with U2 and talks about mixing with Underworld and other leading artists in

Newsletter June 2013

Drum Recording with George Shilling   George Shilling takes us through his mic choices and shows how he records drums. Some of his techniques are very interesting and we think

Newsletter July 2013

Mike Pela interview at Real World Studios...   George Shilling interviews legendary engineer and producer Mike Pela at Real World Studios. Mike has worked with Sade, Corinne Bailey Rae,

Guest articles, insight and comment

Due to several hacking events we have sadly had to close our main Wordpress Blog. It seems that some people think it's more fun destroying than creating. Anyway, please follow

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