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AN ANALOGUE MIND IN A DIGITAL WORLD

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Want to make a great record?

want to bottle that magic?


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Great Live Room

Classic Mics

Creative Environment

Experienced Engineers

We are here to capture the moment...

New Cut is a Bristol recording studio with a wealth of vintage gear and a breadth of modern tone. Our mission at New Cut Studios is to help you make the best record you can. We have over 20 years experience recording and mixing music - you won't find a better place to cut great sounding tracks.

True Strays - "We are super stoked with the quality and old school feel! Band never sounded better! Thank you to Scot for his professionalism and vast array of awesome mics and gear." - James

Leo Morshead - "I had a very positive recording experience at New Cut Studios. Scot immediately put me at ease and helped me to find the sound that I was looking for.  I would definitely recommend New Cut Studios to other musicians." - Leo

Buck Curran - "If you are interested in making an album like Nick Drake's 'Pink Moon'...Scot is the engineer and New Cut is the place to do it. I can't recommend Scot and New Cut Studios highly enough!!!" - Buck Curran

Our ethos is:

To work closely with you the artist, to capture your best performance: this is the basis for all great recordings. Once we have a solid foundation for the song - be that emotional or rhythmic - we can then build on your ideas to create what you want to hear.

Head engineer at New Cut Studios - Scot McKenzie

Are you ready? 

The most important element is your performance, and we’ve written a handy e-book to help you approach your recording project. You can read it here: Return to the Source.

Perfecting the sound:

We concentrate on getting the sound right at source. With our acoustically treated live room and our extensive collection of mics & preamps we are perfectly set up to achieve the sound you want.

The Control Room at New Cut Studios

The right choice:

Choosing a recording studio is an important decision - give us a call or drop us an email to discuss your project further. Better still, why not book a rehearsal, have a chat and check the place out. 

We are ideally set up… 

For tracking, overdubbing, live band takes and vocals. So whether you want to record the entire band live or individually, or if you just want to add that extra texture that you can't quite get right, then we can help. 

Digital and analogue: 

We record to Pro Tools Ultimate and analogue tape - the best machines of their era: an Otari 8-track ½” and a Studer 2-track ¼” recorder. This gives us the versatility to capture your performance in a variety of ways. 

Route 66...

All audio can be routed through our Neotek Essence recording console which has 8 full mic channels and 24 line inputs giving a total of 32 inputs for tracking and 32 channels of analogue summing. Our desk came from producer John Wood and is featured in this Sound On Sound article.

Channelling your muse 

In addition we have 24 channels of outboard mic-pres: including Shadow Hills GAMA 8, Focusrite ISA & Toft Audio. We can feed these channels with a variety of quality microphones - Coles, Neuman & Sennheiser amongst others - and various Radial, Palmer & Orchid boxes. For a detailed list of our high quality preamps, our large selection of great mics - as well as our amps, guitars and collection of vintage effects pedals, see our equipment list

In the right mix 

If you have a project that you want us to mix, then check out our online mixing page to find out more about the process or send us a message. We have a great collection of analogue gear and digital plugins to get the sound you're after for your mixes. DSP on mix-down is handled by a UAD-2 OCTO and QUAD cards and some very nice additional plug-ins.

Already working on your own project but need studio support? 

Want to have the best sounding music up online? New Cut is the place to come and record live drums for your bedroom studio project. Already got your bedroom guitar take in the bag? That's great, but does it sound like it was recorded in a bedroom? At New Cut Studios we’ll re-amp it through a top-quality amp, cabinet and microphone, and back into your DAW or sequencer. 

Monster dragnet 

And why stop at guitar sounds? You can re-amp that soft-synth as well, introducing all the fat, warm dynamics it needs to become more fluid and organic. Make it sound as though you built it laboriously on a huge wall of modular banks. Put it through some of our original vintage effect pedals and get a sound like nothing else on earth.

Put that mic in my hand… 

If you've spent months building your jams, carefully constructing impeccable beats and sampling the choicest long-lost breaks then you want your flow to crest over the top of your tracks like rolling thunder. You need to use the absolute best-sounding kit. 

… and let me kick out the jams 

A great man once said, you need to be "showin' much flex when it's time to wreck a mic" and for that you need space to move and you need a damn good mic to wreck. - if you're going to get it on the money up front, we've got your back at New Cut. 

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