Gift Daze recording studio gifts for singers, karaoke singers, guitarists, bands and songwriters. Recording studio experience vouchers from Gift Daze make perfect christmas or birthday present for a singer, pianist, guitarist, singer songwriter and band.
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Bring your musical ideas to reality and let us create your own unique sound for you - under the direction of you! Sing us your song (and play guitar or piano if you do) - and we'll do the rest! We can add drums and percussion, bass and strings, even backing vocals if your song requires it. In the day that you spend with us we will produce, arrange, mix and master your tune on to a CD so that you can go away happy in the knowledge that your track is a unique production that's never been heard before. We offer live drums, percussion and bass playing. Programmed sampled drums or drum loops ready to go. Thousands of keyboard sounds from Cello's to Moog synthesizers. Hundreds of effects for instruments and vocals. Everything you need to create your song with the experience and knowledge of our in house engineer, musician and producer. Even if your musical ideas are little more than a few songs that have previously been written and performed by someone else - bring those song ideas with you. We will analyze the contents and draw from it new ideas and inspiration for you to have a truly new production that you can call your own. CD mastering to your finished product is included at no extra charge. See CD Mastering. Record commercial quality tracks in our studio on our total recall fully automated recording equipment. All produced, mixed and mastered to CD. Usage of our in-house instruments, such as the Yamaha Maple Custom kit, the T-MAX bass amplifier or or Classic 50 all-value 4x10 guitar amp are always available to you and included in the normal daily rate. How long does it take to record a song? Being a music production facility (as opposed to the usual bog-standard recording studio) here at Audio Sorcery, we aim to get the best results out of everyone at all times. It is fair to say that a day in the studio equates to one song completed including mixing and mastering. It is possible however over two days to complete three songs. How do you record a band? In essence, we record all instruments seperately one by one in the live room, with the help of guide tracks pre-performed by other band members. So if you where to record a song, this is the "who does what" list... The drummers up first. He gets to set up in the live room and gets to hit the kit while we get the sound up on the desk in the control room. There are about nine mics around the kit depending on the specifics of what needs to be recorded. All the other band members are in the control room. The bass player, guitarist and singer all hook up directly to the desk so that the drummer knows what he is doing through his headphones. These guide tracks performed by the other band members are also recorded. The drummer can do as many takes as he likes until he gets all the bits right, although they don't have to all be right in one take - we can edit sections of each take together seamlessly to get the ultimate drum take. When the drums are complete it's the bass players turn. He sets up in the live room and plays through his amp and records along with the drum take, and the other guide tracks through the headphones. We then repeat this scenario until the guitars, keyboards and vocals have all been captured, perfectly. During all this, the producer/engineer would have already started the mixing on the fully automated mixing desk and so after a few final treaks and play throughs, its time to bounce it down to the mastering machine where the track is completed on to CD. Why not just record everyone playing together? When everyone plays together you inevitably get spill on each microphone - the guitarist comes through the bass track, and the drums come through on the guitar amp etc... This makes mixing a track quite tricky and you'll never get the exact sound that each band member desires. Recording everyone seperately also allows for parts to be edited seamlessly together - so that second verse guitar could be copied to the first verse, or that bass playing through the middle 8 could be copied to the outro and have some effects put on it. None of our many clever production techniques can be performed if there is spill from other instruments on a recorded track. While the CD Mastering process is quite often overlooked in many recording studios throughout the world, Audio Sorcery offers it as an inclusive service when recording music with us. Studios that don't offer a mastering process often let their customers take home a lack lustre or inferior sounding production when compared with music from their favourite CD collection. It is true to say that every commercial music CD you buy has been mastered. So simply put, mastering is a "tidy up" process done to music after it has been recorded and mixed, and before it is produced onto CD. the stages of mastering to CD are;-
Our recording studio experience gift vouchers are now so popular that we have a dedicated web site for them. So if you want to capture a family member, friend or loved one on to a CD thus becoming a star for the day visit our new web site Gift Daze for further information. Record your vocals over backing tracks. We have over 3190 (Oct 05) backing tracks
in our library, or alternitavely bring your own. We simply set up your
chosen tracks on our recording system and you'll enter our sound recording
room to create your performance. One hour per song is about the norm so in half a day, you could get three to five tracks completed, mixed and mastered on to CD ready for you to take home. Send them to record companies, talent scouts, A&R, auditions, family and friends as presents.... Are you planning on performing with your instrument but require backing tracks? We can create a music track for you to play to. Either original ideas or just a straight forward interpretation of a well know song. We can normally get one or two songs complete in a day, mixed and mastered on to CD. Set up your decks and mixer in the studio. You can perform your one/two hour set while we undertake the recording of it. We can tidy up and edit any glitches you may have done half way through. Even splice in another track or take one away! Once satisfied with your performance the whole session would be mastered on to CD. This would lift the overall volume level of the mix and balance/tighten the sound up. We could put track indents at the specified points that you want them, so you can move to a specific point on the CD like you would normally. We can also convert the entire mix to an MP3.
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