Cottage Road Studio is built into a nineteenth century coach house, the studio is situated 4 miles outside of Leeds City Centre. Surrounded by trees and wildlife, the house, large garden and courtyard area all have a European feel and it is only a few minutes away from the centre of one of the most vibrant cities in the UK. The studio is perfectly situated for local amenities, whilst still being private and secluded, tucked away on this picturesque street of listed buildings and Cinema: Cottage Road.
Cottage Road Studios is well suited for both tracking and mixing - the extensive backline and quality guitar and speaker cabling between control and live room make it very usable for guitar bands. The live room provides a pleasing and controlled environment for everything for rock drum kits to string sections.
The control room monitoring has been calibrated and tested by Genelec European installation team, giving an accurate and even frequency response. Favoured for its transportable accurate mixes.
Recently, we've been mastering some new releases for Leeds-based label Dance To The Radio, including their new compilation "Still Occupied Though You forget", which contains tracks from I Like Trains, Club Smith, Bear Hands, The Sunshine Underground and Paul Thomas Saunders amongst others. Also on the compilation is "Hold Your Breath" by ...
The Candle Thieves debut album "Sunshine and Other Misfortunes" is released on 29th of April. The album was recorded during the second half of 2009 and was completed in January of this year. The album is being released internationally so good luck to Scott and Anthony for 2010.
This month we've had the pleasure of having one of the best new bands around at cottage road. Go check out the Crookes at myspace.com/thecrookesmusic. Look out for them in 2010
Throughout 2009 we've had Leeds' finest The Pigeon Detectives in the studio demoing their new album due for release later in 2010. The lads are now almost at the end of the demoing process and they've got a great 3rd album in store for 2010. Good luck to the PD's this year and keep your ears open for it.
This January has been a busy one for us. The first two weeks was spent installing our beautiful new Amek Rembrandt mixing console. Its a massive desk and look us about half a day and 4 extra pairs of hands to get it in the place. The desk is in great condition and is now fully operational. We got the desk from Holland where it was formally owned by...