morning
As promised we have some new music for you in the form of Duncan Vaughan’s funk inspired instrumentals and The Retrospective’s power pop riffs. Duncan joined us for a while with his merry band of excellent musicians and recorded 9 instrumental tracks which was a lot of fun.
As mentioned previously The Retrospective are essentially old friends of the studio and they popped their way through a long weekend coming out with 5 tracks. There are some clips up on the Restrike player now and some alternate clips residing on the Restrike Myspace player as well.
More to come shortly
cheers
Restrike
New music in abundance
July 17th, 2009The Retrospective
July 13th, 2009Hi
Just finished a session recording with The Retrospective (who have yet to have an online presence though I am assured it is on the way). Front man Scott has been in to the studio with 2 other bands but his allegiance to the might of power pop remains strong. All went well until vocal time when the pop shield was nowhere to be found (in a fit of madness I had taken it home). I resorted to taping a pen across the mic which worked a treat (read about the technique in TapeOp a short while ago, great mag). Result. Some music from the guys shortly.
Cheers
Cormac
Brauner mic with pen
7 Classic Sci Fi Sounds
June 26th, 2009Hi all
just a quick one, thanks to Tim Prebble for the link (his blog is well worth checking out)
For all those about to geek - 7 classic sci-fi sounds – and how they were created
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Building some lo-fi mics
June 11th, 2009
This place looks amazing….
June 6th, 2009Restrike Engineer teaching at Futureworks
June 3rd, 2009Hi all
For the last few months I’ve been lecturing on audio engineering at Futureworks Media School in Manchester, working with new students at the start of their 2 year course. Just now we’re looking at compression, particularly parallel compression, and I happened across these nifty little vids (by Mike Caffrey at Monster Island Studios) that do a great job of explaining it. Check them out.
More tips to come.
cheers
Cormac
MTR90 Auto locator up and running
June 2nd, 2009Hi all
finally got some spare time to hook the auto locator up to the tape machine. No more craning over the desk to see the tape counter…. Now I just need to figure out how it works.
cheers
Cormac
MTR90 Remote and auto locator
Fond farewell to the old site, big hello to the new one
May 29th, 2009Hi all
hope you’re enjoying the new Restrike web experience. While you’re here spare a small thought for the old website which has now been retired to HTML heaven, it served us well.
Don’t forget to download your free Recover EP on the music page
cheers
Cormac
Recover is here, get your free download now
May 28th, 2009Hi all,
Back in the mists of time you may remember hearing about a grand scheme known as Recover. No? Well it’s here now, complete and ready for you to download and enjoy.
Featuring 5 cover versions (some faithful, some going out on a limb) recorded over 5 days at Restrike by 5 great bands from in and around Manchester; FIGMO, The Satellite Towns, Lethaen Sound, The Price of Silence and Dead Cat Bounce, thanks to them all for taking part.
Get over to the download page to get your copy and while you’re there check out the new design for the Restrike website courtesy of the lovely people at FEED (who by the way also designed the EP cover for us).
Enjoy and let us know your favourite track
cheers
Cormac
Welcome to the new Restrike news page
May 28th, 2009Hello all
hope you’re enjoying the new website. This will be the place to check for all news, music, pictures and special offers going on at the studio.
Speak soon
Cormac