Bakehouse Studio is Accrington's newest project studio and home to indie label "Wobbly Music"
The Live Room
The studio features a separate, acoustically treated, soundproofed live room (14'x11') that is large enough for rock bands and acoustic ensembles. There is also a radio Midi Link to the Live Room and video recording facilities. Industry-standard Beyer Headphones are supplied for monitoring.
The Control Room
The facility uses a MacG5/LogicPro digital recording system at 24bit/96Khz with a Tascam control surface for easy automation. Up to 8 tracks can be recorded simultaneously, and unlimited overdubs can be made without any degradation of the sound quality. Guide vocals, keyboards, or acoustic rhythm tracks can be recorded from the Control Room to enable separation from drums on the initial backing track.
In addition, the control room houses a Casio velocity-sensitive keyboard for midi input, a wide selection of software instruments, samples and effects, a Roland SRV2000 Reverb, a Drawmer Dual Gate, Twin Cassette Decks, and a Genelec/Samson/Behringer monitoring system.
Mics
A range of quality microphones from Shure, SE Electronics, AKG & Beyer allow us to capture your sound without unnecessary colouration and with as much warmth and detail as possible. DI boxes with speaker emulation and a Boss Multi-effects Guitar Pedal complete the range of input devices.
Instruments
A range of basic instruments including a Casio velocity-sensitive Keyboard, electronic and acoustic percussion from Roland & Premier, a collection of latin percussion, Westfield bass guitar, Aria 6-string & 12-string Acoustics, electric guitars from Fender and Epiphone, Mandolin, Ovation Ukelele, and many other miscellaneous instruments, are available for those who like to experiment, or are having problems with their own instruments on the day.
Production & arrangement advice.
The studio is owned and run by Lynn Monk who has over 35 years experience in sound engineering and production. Having successfully mixed the live sound at concerts for many internationally famous artists, Lynn turned to record production in the mid 80's and worked in several recording studios before forming Wobbly Music in 2000. After a few years of producing mainly commercial projects, Lynn started the Wobbly Music record label in 2004 and worked remotely online with her own signed artists based in all corners of the Globe. Being a percussionist herself, Lynn saw the need early on for a soundproofed live room. After 3 years of construction, Lynn has now opened her newly refurbished recording studio to visiting local artists and independent projects.
The studio boasts a comfortable & friendly atmosphere with light refreshments of Tea, Coffee & Biscuits included. But as an experienced record producer, Lynn offers so much more than the average project studio. Included in the price are her skills as sound engineer and producer. This enables you to concentrate on your performance without wasting valuable studio time listening back to every take. Coupled with Lynn's talent for arrangements and commercial hooks, you can be sure that any ideas that might be needed in order to bring your music to a wider audience, will be forthcoming during the session.
If you are a solo artist or songwriter, Lynn can supply the musicians you need in order to make your songs come alive. Anything from drum tracks to lead guitar solos, synths or backing vocals. Lynn can call upon her database of session musicians who work from their own studios remotely online to provide the tracks that your songs need for the lowest possible cost.
Mastering
Unlike other project studios, every recording is Mastered to Bluebook and Redbook standards to ensure that even a demo will be "Radio Ready" and able to compete alongside music from the major labels on your local or national stations. We favour a form of mastering that doesn't over-compress the music. This keeps a fair amount of the natural dynamics and emotion in the music whilst still being loud enough to play alongside current releases without having to adjust your volume control.
Completed projects average around 1Gb per song and are supplied as digital files that can be downloaded from our servers upon completion and settlement of any outstanding fees. Each song is mixed and mastered to the following formats:-
A Multitrack Master
A Master mix at 24/96 (DVD Audio)
A Master mix at 16/44.1 (CD Audio)
A 128Kbps stereo MP3. (Download Store quality)
A 40Kbps mono MP3. (Streaming Quality)
Prices
1-3 hours @ £20 per hour
4-7 hours @ £17.50p per hour
8 or more hours @ £15 per hour
"Part-time Sessions" - A Whole week of evenings and the whole weekend (40 hrs) only £350. (Can be spread out over several weeks)
Unique Gifts!
"Studio Time Gift Vouchers" -
Available in permutations of 2, 4, 8, 16, or 24 hours.
Any musician would love a gift of some studio time that they can use at
any time in the future. Face Value £20 per hour. Normal price breaks
apply (See "Prices").
Personalised Songs ("My Record Release") - A unique song written and recorded for and about someone close to you, with the option to have it made into a record and released on the Wobbly Music Label. - £299
"X-Factor (Audio X-perience)" - £99. If you know someone with a desire to sing, they can spend 4 hours in our studio singing up to 3 of their favourite songs. We have over 16,000 backing tracks available from our Backing Track Store. They can download their selected songs in advance and practice at home before bringing them to the studio. We will then record their performances and mix them in with the backing tracks with all the necessary effects processing for a professional result. Extra CD copies may be purchased for £2 each.
"X-Factor (Video X-perience)" - £149. As above, but you will record just one song and have an extra 2 hours that will be used for filming the performance and then editing into a music video. The video will be burnt to DVD with a printed label and insert. The video will also be published on our website and on YouTube (Unless you ask us not to!). Extra DVD copies may be purchased for £3 each.
Can't afford a session?
Enquire about our non-exclusive RECORD DEALS!
Please enquire about our other services...
Post-production | Re-mixing | Mastering | Re-mastering and transfer from cassette to CD | Backing tracks | Demos | Song production Collaboration | Songwriting, Composition and Lyrics | Video, Film & Theatre soundtracks | Advertising and Jingles | Royalty-free music | Drum Tuition | Guitar Tuition | Photography
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Services
- Studio time available from only £8.75p per hour!
- Recording, mixing, & mastering services.
- Experienced record producer included.
- Cosy, relaxed atmosphere.
- Tea, Coffee & biscuits included.
- Use of instruments included.
- Projects supplied in 5 file formats.
- Mastering to Bluebook and Redbook standards.
- Full multi-track archive included.
- Session musicians available.
- Remote production available.
- Pre-production rehearsal time for only £5 per hour.
- Unique gifts and gift vouchers available.
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Testimonials
"High time we found a decent
recording studio !! Who'da thought Accrington was at the end of the
rainbow...
With an infinite supply of tea and an equal supply of patience Lynn
helped us work our craft, discretely pasting over our faux pas !!
Gav "Cool place..nice lights..great atmosphere"
Andy "..............." (as usual Andy says not a lot)
Jo " Was amazing to see the boys actually listening to a woman
about music !! Here here Lynn ! "
Leon " Can we take it from the top ? " thanks Lynn
Bri " Wednesday night 12.45am...still mixing...Lynn you're a LEGEND
"
Neil (Band gopher) "What a find…. Cant fault Lyn's professionalism
and her patience. Would never have know that such a cracking little
studio existed. Thanks again Lynn for your support and communications'."
To summarise: Yorkshire tea... freedom of expression. Endless laughter.
Plenty of bog roll!
Thanks for all of the above and your enthusiasm with our ever ongoing
project
Peace.."
"On behalf of all the band I would like to thank you enormously for what you did for us. We entered your studio just looking for a rough demo to give out to get us some gigs and came away with something way beyond our expectations. Beautifully produced and well balanced mixes of all of the songs we laid down (in a hurry I might add). Your knowledge of logix and computer software was amazing and it was a pleasure to watch you. You let us work at our own pace but were still helpful enough to suggest some new ideas which we took on board and worked really well. Once again a really big thank you from Dave, Amy Jim and Damien"
"I had an offer to provide the music for a video for immediate broadcast on an Asian TV channel in the UK. I needed to find a local studio and I needed it fast.
Within half an hour of phoning Lynn at Bakehouse Studio, I was there laying down my tracks. As I was in a hurry to seal the deal with the TV station, we rushed through the process of recording, editing, mixing, mastering, and burning and printing the Bluebook CDs in just Two and a half hours!
I came away with what I thought was a perfect recording, but upon closer inspection, I noticed a digital glitch on one of the tracks. In hindsight I realise I shouldn't have rushed the process so much. I phoned Lynn, explaining that I needed it fixed by the end of the day.
Despite being in the middle of another project, Lynn very kindly fixed the glitch and then spent another 4 hours re-mastering all 3 tracks to an even better standard than before. She even made 4 file versions of each track and put them on a DVD for me, alongside the unmastered mixes! She didn't even charge me full price for all this extra work even though I made the mistake of not booking enough time in the first place.
As a small gesture of thanks for this amazing service, I am writing this well deserved testimonial. If you're local and need some recording done fast (or otherwise), I thoroughly recommend that you use Bakehouse Studio."
"The Bakehouse studios were my first time recording properly in a studio and I'm so glad i choose there. I had a basic idea of what i wanted but Lynn helped me through everything with ease. The studio itself was very tidy and smart with great equipment to boot. Clean tidy and a nice environment to work in.
I'd like to thank Lynn for the help, advice and kindness towards me. I've already booked back in!"
Jimmy Stansfield
"We've managed to upload the four tracks we got down at Bakehouse Studios in Accrington last week to our embryonic myspace page. (completed like two minutes ago!) We're happy with the results, as the maximum amount of takes we had at anything was two. Lynn is a very accomplished producer and the atmosphere in the studio was perfect. Business like so we could get some good work done, but relaxed enough to have a giggle while we were doing it. I'm going to book in at the earliest possible opportunity to get some original tracks down, and maybe a couple more covers."
"We approached Lynn at Wobbly Music to record two original tracks in February 2010 - one of which we've been playing live for about two years and thought it was as good as it could be. A few hours in the studio with Lynn and she had come up with some excellent suggestions to give it a new dynamic (she even had us doing some Band Aid style vocals!). We were so impressed with Lynn’s expertise and professionalism that we are going to arrange to go back to record some more later this year.
From start to finish, the process was made easy - the recording set up is top class, and Lynn had plenty of ideas about how our finished songs should sound. The atmosphere in the studio is friendly, but the serious business of producing music is always there. We have absolutely no hesitation in recommending Wobbly Music to record / produce anybody’s music. Thanks a lot Lynn and we’ll see you later on this year!"
"We had been looking for somewhere to record some of our songs and when we saw an offer from Lynn at Wobbly Music we decided to give it a go. From the outside the Bakehouse Studio doesn’t look much, in fact you’d never know it was there, but inside the recording facilities are excellent. There is also a very relaxed friendly atmosphere but Lynn remains very professional throughout.
As none of the band have recording skills to speak of we were guided by Lynn who gave very good advice while listening to what sound we were after. All in all a great experience and we would certainly recommend other bands to take advantage of this local facility, we know we hope to again.*
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