What Are The Benefits of Using a Professional Studio?
From Pre-Production to Post-Production, Your Project is Covered!
Beckview Studios in Scalby, near Scarborough on the North Yorkshire Coast, includes state-of-the-art equipment helping musicians, actors, authors, and creatives produce superb quality recordings.
See our inhouse production services here https://www.beckviewstudios.co.uk/production
Meet Chris, Your Sound Engineer
If you book our bespoke studio space Chris, our Chief Engineer, will be on hand to help.
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Chris Jones is a highly skilled, experienced sound engineer, audio mixer, and music producer.
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Sound Engineer and Producer … What Are the Differences?
There is a definite overlap between these two important roles.
In short, a sound engineer will look after the many technical aspects of sound recording. The engineer is the backbone of the technical domain. With a strong emphasis on technical expertise and proficiency in equipment operation.
Engineers skills are perfect for the essential tracking and recording elements of music and audio production.
Producers oversee the musical composition and creative aspects of recording music and audio. They may undertake numerous roles within the recording process, including composition and arranging, engineering roles, or session playing. Alternatively, they could work alongside an engineer and muscians/vocalists etc. and completely immerse themselves in the creative disciplines of producing.
Having a sound engineer and producer in one person leading your session allows for all important elements of music and audio recording to take place under one roof, so that you have continuity and a seemless creative process.
Recording artists and actors alike from all genres can relax as Chris and his team have the expertise and skills to take you through your project from start to finish.
Chris also works extensively in the studio as the main mix engineer in post-production. As well as mixing the audio tracks for his clients at Beckview Studios, he is happy to take your pre-recorded stems and mix them in-house. If you have recorded elsewhere but want a professional mix on your projects, contact us today.
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Working the MIC
One of the key elements to successful audio recording is ensuring that a performer has the best mic options and set up possible. Chris has gathered valuable knowledge and experience in mic placement and selection during his extensive audio career. There is a wide-ranging collection of microphones available at Beckview Studios to choose from.
From dynamic, to condenser, to ribbon microphones both vintage and new, Chris will capture the sound that is perfect for your art and is of industry standard.
Whether you are a singer, musician, songwriter, lyricist, podcaster or a combination of these talents, Chris will help create, develop, and guide ensuring all the fine tuning is taken care of.
And with our Behringer artist monitoring system, we offer some of the finest hearback technology in the business.
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Why Use a Professional Studio – Can’t I Do This At Home?
The simple answer to this is yes! Sucessful home recording is now well and truly possible with advances in audio technology.
However, recording in a professional recording studio still has its place and can be of immense benefit at multiple stages of the recording process. As stated above, here at Beckview Studios we are a one stop shop for all your music, audio production and recording needs. We can aid you at every step of the process from composition and songwriting, to recording/tracking, and post production elements such as mixing and mastering.
Our studio offers an acoustically treated and sound proofed space, so that your recordings take place in a optimal environment, without any external sounds creeping on to the recordings.
Our technicians take care of all technical elements so that you can focus on the art of perfoming. Ultimately making the recording process quicker and giving you the freedom to focus on being creative in the process.
Technicians skilled in mic placement and selection will also help to make your tracks and instruments sound the best they possibly can be. And this can be invaluable when recording instruments like drums due to the complexity of recording this instrument well.
Having another person (the engineer or producer) contributing to the process and/or an independent set of ears to help review perfomances can also be very helpful when making decisions about your work.
If you are the type of person who is prone to procrastinating, or never seems to capture their projects/songs as you would like, then working with a studio can be an excellent way to achieve your goals.
Additional benefits of recording in a professional studio include having access to a variety of mics, kit, and gear, which you may not have access to at home.
Our studio houses a superb vintage tape machine, instruments including a Hammond organ, and of course access to the Live Room, Isolation Booths and our impressive Control Room.
So, while you can do it yourself, there are huge benefits to working with a professional sound engineer/producer and studio.
Why not visit our comfortable, acoustically treated environment where we will take care of all the technical aspects, and provide you with the best equipment to achieve your goals. Leaving you to be as creative as you like, and saving you precious hours of time.
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How Using a Recording Studio Can Help Performers
Using a professional studio allows you to be creative, to perform and to explore the different elements of your audio creations with the help of an experienced guiding hand from start to finish.
Help is given with all technical elements such as tracking, mixing, mastering, over-dubs and more.
There are no distractions, and all elements are put in place to allow for a smooth-running experience.
And once the recording has taken place, we can also help you with the post-production journey.
We have access to a wide range of equipment, software and instruments to perfect the editing, mixing, and mastering processes.
The work we produce for our customers helps raise their creative profiles, giving them credibility, and ultimately benefiting their musical career.
The end result is superb sound quality which is second-to-none.
Simply let Chris get to work! He has been recording, mixing, and teaching for over 20 years.
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What Are The Main Music Production Services You Offer?
Whether you are new to audio recording or perhaps you’ve used a professional studio before, Beckview Studios offers an enviable range of services.
We offer the full range of pre-production and post-production servoces resulting in an excellent finished piece of work.
Vocal artists needing singing or voice reels, or vocal or song demos are an essential part of a singer’s portfolio, and this service is available here at Beckview.
If you are seeking to further your career in the music industry, then demos/song reels are an excellent investment as you can send them to potential employers, venues, and /or record labels.
If you require additional instrumentation or vocals on your song, then we can source session musicians for you. We work with local, regional and national talented muscians.
We work with a variety of musical genres and can help with instrumentation, song writing, arranging and more.
Find out more here: https://www.beckviewstudios.co.uk/production
Not Just Music
For podcasters, voiceovers, and voice talent artists, take a look at our audio recording services.
Podcasting is now huge business, our great recording environment, and equipment to enables us to record, capture and edit your high quality podcasts.
Recording in the studio also provides a safe and neutral space to capture live interviews, so you don’t need to invite people into your home.
We offer voiceover services to actors and performance artists, including recording, voice reels, and ADR (automated dialogue replacement) for commercials and games.
Audiobooks (think of the success of Audible) can be hugely successful and a great way to get your book or memoir out to the public. This is another service we offer.
And if you’ve visited a castle, ancient monument or a stately home and enjoyed the informative, immersive audio tour, then Beckview can help.
We can add sound effects and audio branding to make your project unique and instantly identifyable.
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Video Production
We create studio videos, inhouse, as wel as collaborating with a range of videographers to provide you with great content for website, social media, online streaming platforms, auditions and portfolios.
With the ability to record live studio performances (with or without an audience), live streams and filmed showreels, your visual and audio digital content will look and sound impeccable.
What Is Our Aim?
The aim is for our clients to have an enjoyable, relaxed and hopefully an inspiring recording experience.
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Of course, it goes without saying that we want you, the client, to have the audio recording or video that you’ve always dreamed about … and more.
Our venue has been created with the art of sound and music recording in mind, perfected by experience, insights, knowledge and expertise on a number of levels.
We will help you work to your best ability and more efficiently.
How Much Does It Cost?
Our studio can be hired for a little as half a day.
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About Beckview Studios
Our large space offers great natural light, making it the perfect environment for your audio and visual recordings.
Designed by Howard Turner (Studio Wizard) and constructed by local contractors Hewitt's Home Improvements, Beckview Studios serves Scarborough's creative community and attracts artists and musicians from across the country and beyond.
Run by Chris and Kristina Jones, we are based on the Yorkshire Coast.