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AN ANALOGUE MIND IN A DIGITAL WORLD

An exclusive band rehearsal room...

... with floor monitoring, air conditioning & dimmable lighting.

The perfect place for your band practice?

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Equipment hire

Chill out area

Free Parking

24 hr Storage

What Do I Get?

Our Bristol rehearsal room comes equipped with a 4 piece Mapex drum kit & Tama hardware, Orange & Sound City 4x12 guitar cabinets, and Ashdown 4x10 bass cab. You get floor wedges like a real gig and 4 Shure microphones as standard. And the best bit? You won't have to listen to another band at all. 

Equipment hire:

If you can't bring your own amplifier or drum "breakables" (snare, cymbals & kick pedal) you can hire them for a small fee: currently £10 per amp or drum accessories per session. Or bring your own drums if you need to.

Chill-out area:

We have a nice little chill out area for you to take breaks in with free tea and coffee, though we charge for fresh coffee. There's a toaster, a sandwich toaster, a microwave and a fridge-freezer.

Equipment storage:

We can provide equipment storage with 24 hour access from £25 per week (discounts available on monthly payment). Email info@newcutstudios.co.uk  to get your keys and codes. 

Secure parking:

We have plenty of free parking available right in front of our unit and after 6pm & at weekends the parking area is secured by a padlocked gate. 

Rehearsals at New Cut Studios

Our live room provides a relaxed, comfortable environment for band rehearsals, instrument tutorials and more. Recently we’ve been streaming live performances out of it; but anything that you want to do creatively, particularly in the audio & video realms - if you need a space, this must be the place.

Great sounding room

So many customers say it's the best sounding rehearsal room in Bristol. Because it’s acoustically treated you won't come out of band practice with tired ears. There’s also air conditioning and dimmable lighting: so you can control your working environment to get the ambience just right. 

Practice makes perfect

We want you to make the most of the time you're paying for and to enjoy being here. The more time you can spend working in a comfortable space the quicker you will improve your material and your skills, both individually and as a group.

Fully Equipped

Not many practice rooms in Bristol have wedge cabinet floor monitoring for your foldback. We do, so you can be gig ready in no time. The basic drum kit, bass cab and two guitar cabs are available free and we will supply quality amplifier heads/combos or snare/pedal/cymbals for a modest charge.

Great gear 

Here is a more detailed list of the studio’s equipment, including our backline and collection of vintage effects pedals. If you don't want to use the cabs (if only as stands for your own combos) we'll happily shift them; and you can bring your own drums if you prefer. 

Rehearsal Rehearsals

New Cut Studios is a small, friendly place with only one rehearsal room — and that means you will have the whole place to yourselves. You can make as much noise as you want and you won't be disturbed by any other bands - a level of privacy that you just don't get in most rehearsal studios.

Just Hit Record

There's another way in which you can take advantage of this exclusivity: you can record your session easily with the stereo pair of condenser mics mounted in the ceiling. Just plug your own hand-held recorder or laptop audio interface into the wall. If you don’t have your own device with phantom power you can hire our Zoom recorder for £20 and we’ll email you the files later. What better way to reference the material you're working on in order to develop your performance skills?

Just chill

We have a small but cosy kitchen & lounge area with a kettle, toaster, coffee filter, sandwich toaster, microwave and even a full size fridge-freezer: so you can bring your own food and refreshment. Tea & coffee are free, though we charge for fresh coffee since it now costs more than music.

We're far from being a fully catered residential studio but one of our sofas does pull out into a double bed if you need to catch some Zs during a particularly long vocal take. And of course there's a toilet & wash basin. We haven't got a shower yet but we can hose you down in the workshop. 

Storage and security

We have a large, secure car park with a gate that can be locked during evening & weekend sessions; for example, we provided Suede with secure tour bus parking and a landline/shore-power during the 2016 BBC 6 Music festival.

We also provide secure combination-locked equipment cage storage — with 24 hr access. It’s part of our move to be set up like the professional rehearsal studios we have used in London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Chicago. Now you can bike down and not have to give everyone a lift!

Our whole approach… 

in establishing New Cut was to introduce the kind of facility and working practice that we have found whilst working in the world's top production complexes as touring road crew. We want to take the best features from all the places we've used over the years and improve on them.

There's more to New Cut Studios than just a music room; we will give you all the technical nurturing you need for creative growth. We've been doing it all our working lives. If you're looking for a new base of operations for world domination, come to a place where we can stimulate your creativity, inspire your playing and make it fun to be in a band.

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