Recording and mixing, Leith
Three rooms tied to one analogue desk. Bands track live, singers get the booth, and every mix leaves through the same faders.
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Since 2009
We are a small studio in an old rope works by the docks. No assembly line, no hourly upsell. You get two engineers who listen before they touch a knob, and rooms that make a band sound like a band.
- CH 013Rooms, one desk
- CH 0248Analogue channels
- CH 03400+Records made here
Rooms
Three rooms, one signal path
Every room is wired to the same patchbay, so a drum kit in the live room and a vocal in the booth land on one desk at the same time.
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A
Control A
The desk room
Where every session ends up. A 48-channel analogue desk, soffit-mounted monitors and a sofa long enough for a whole band to argue about the snare.
Size 38 m²Ceiling 3.4 mFrom £640 per day
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B
Live Room
The big room
Sixty-four square metres of wood and stone with a five-metre ceiling. Room enough to track a full band live, with sight lines to everyone.
Size 64 m²Ceiling 5.2 mFrom £760 per day
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C
The Booth
Vocals and close work
A small, dry room for vocals, voice-over and acoustic instruments. The booth has its own window to the desk and its own warm lamp.
Size 9 m²Ceiling 2.8 mFrom £380 per day
Rates
Rates by the day
Engineer and assistant are always included. No hidden costs for the piano, the tape or the coffee.
RatesGear
What is on the patchbay
A short list of what people ask about. The full list, with every microphone and every box in the racks, is on the gear page.
GearDesk48-channel inline analogue console, 1987, fully recapped
Work
Out of this room
A shelf of tape boxes from the last few seasons. Hover a spine to pull it out.
Work- 2025Hollow SignalLow Tide LightsRecorded
- 2024Isla BrannockPaper SaintsProduced
- 2025The Quiet ArcadeOverpassMixed
- 2023Mara Lindqvist TrioHarbour HoursRecorded
- 2025Fen and FableSaltmarshMastered
- 2024Copper LungStatic BloomMixed
- 2026Odile MarrsSmall HoursProduced
- 2023Northern WiresDock RoadRecorded
Session
How a session runs
The same four steps whether you book one day or three weeks.
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00:00
Talk
A call about the songs, the references and the budget. We plan rooms, days and who sits on the desk.
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00:45
Track
Live together where we can, overdubs where it helps. Rough mixes go home with you every night.
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02:30
Mix
On the desk, with recall notes for every song. Two rounds of notes are part of the price.
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04:00
Master
Final masters for streaming, vinyl and CD, plus stems and instrumentals in one folder.
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Live Room
Marnie Elsworth
Founder, recording engineer
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Control A
Anselm Rask
Mix and mastering engineer
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The Booth
Ama Quaye
Producer, vocal sessions
They kept the mistakes that made it ours and fixed the ones that did not. We tracked eleven songs in four days and none of it feels rushed.
Marnie hears a song before you have finished playing it. The vocal sound she found in the booth is the sound of the whole record.
We came in with demos from a bedroom and left with a record that sounds like a room full of people. Because it was.
Booking
Press talkback
Tell us about the songs and the days you have in mind. We write back within a day with what is free.
Book a session