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other that they're used to on stage and in
rehearsals. We built a room that sounds great,
as opposed to several small acoustically 'dead'
spaces where artificial reverbs are necessary to
replace some kind of sonic environment for the
music. Judging from full live recordings with
Darkside
, The Midland's premier Pink Floyd
Tribute, our room works a treat. The recordings
sound every bit as good as the band do live.
The other bonus is that when we record
instruments individually, as is quite common with
recording in recent times, our room preserves
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Gazz tell us why Crown Works Studio is different.
"After working in several of the local studios as
well as some of the UK's most revered
recording institutions, I decided Wolverhampton
needed a different approach to recording.
Instead of building a studio with several small
foam filled rooms, my studio partner Ross
(Wareing) and I decided to build a studio with a
single large live room.
All the best music we grew up listening to was
recorded in one big room, a place where a band
could play live and have the contact with each
Since its conception in 2014,
Crown Works Studio
has delivered consistent, high quality
results. They’ve recorded demo's for
God Damn's
new (soon to be released) album,
produced voice-overs for BBC's
The One Show
and have welcomed a spectrum of
fantastically talented local Midlands bands including
Luke Wylde and The Japes,
whose
song '23 Minutes' has received great support and airplays from BBC Radio across the
UK and reached number 17 in the iTunes Charts.
More recently
CWS
have worked with
Sugarthief
, another Midlands band, whose songs
'Crowing Youth' and 'New Ends' have received interest from Flying Vinyl, leading to a
double A Side release on 7" Vinyl through their new but rapidly growing label.
Their in-house Studio Producer/Engineer,
Gazz Rogers
, enjoys a varied musical taste,
from solo acoustic songwriters to folk, indie and right through to the heaviest of heavy
metal bands for which the Midlands is famous for.
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