Mastering
Cottage Road Studios offers a full mastering service, which operates from our control room taking full advantage of it's excellent acoustic properties and monitoring.
In recent times there has been an upsurge in cheap software mastering, mainly due to the high costs involved in mastering recordings in London-based mastering suites. However due to our location in Leeds and the opportunity to use our control room for the process we are able to offer a great sounding analogue mastering service that competes with that of a high end London mastering room but at a much more affordable price.
Our mastering equipment is comparable to that of a London mastering suite and includes:
Pro Tools HD With UAD-2 Mastering Bundle
Brainworx bx_digital Mastering Bundle
TC Electronics MD3 Mastering Bundle
IK Multimedia T-Racks Mastering Bundle
Alan Smart C2 Compressor
Avalon SP747 Valve Compresser/EQ
Thermonic Culture Vulture Mastering Version
Apogee AD/DA Converters
Latest News
Ellen and the escapades at CRS
Alt folk quintet ellen and the escapades have been recording some new material at cottage road this month with Matt Peel producing. A breathtaking song "when the tide creeps in" was the song in question in this session. Matt and the band are planning more recordings this summer gearing up for there debut album later in the year. The band are using ...
Silent Film Project Debut Album
Sheffield indie five piece silent film project have been in during April recording there debut album "Snakes and escalators". The band have done a good amount of work at the studio with producer Matt Peel but this is by far their best. The band have become great friends of the studio staff here and we wish them the very best for 2012. A couple of t...
Just Handshakes Mix EP
Leeds indie popsters Just handshakes we're british have been using the studio and Matt Peel to mix their new ep falling over our fear for elephant records "new adventures in pop series". The Band have produced a real gem here released on beautiful bright blue 7" vinyl. We know the band are writing material for an album as we speak so look out for t...
The Crookes debut album
After recording extensive demos with us earlier this summer, Sheffield-based kitchen sink pop dramatists The Crookes have been hard at work for the past few months recording their debut album at Cottage Road Studios, produced by Mr Matt Peel. The album's nearly finished now and is shaping up to be a right classic - the band has told us th...
Yonderboy Single
Hotly-tipped Leeds melodicists Yonderboy have been at Cottage Road Studios recently to record their next single, the double A-side "All Bob Minor" / "Too Easy" with Andy Hawkins behind the desk. Look out for it later this year...