Best Irish Recording Studio

Generic Dreadhead

Hi All,

My band will be looking to record our launch EP early next year and want to find some quality studio at a reasonable rate.
We're looking at 5 songs, in a rock/metal genre, 4 members.
Budget would be €2,000 or under ideally.
We are based in Cork
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Cormac

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Cormac... wrote: »

Hi All,

My band will be looking to record our launch EP early next year and want to find some quality studio at a reasonable rate.
We're looking at 5 songs, in a rock/metal genre, 4 members.
Budget would be €2,000 or under ideally.
We are based in Cork
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Cormac

For rock/metal, you should get in touch with Mick from Trackmix Studios. He posts on here and would be a specialised go-to guy for the genre.

old gregg

+1 for Mick from Trackmix Studios. Any of the folks I know who play metal swear by him.
Honorable mention also to Declan from Bluebird Studios who also posts here and runs a great pro studio.

unclebill98

With the budget you have you would be far better off finding a local studio. Unless travel and hotels are not inc in that 2000euro!

Maybe ask other bands who are local that have recorded material and ask them where they did it and get feedback from them. At least you can hear what they did and see if its the quality you are after. A studio that offers an all in one tracking, mixing and mastering may be better.

As for recording it yourself. For 2000euro you may not get the quality you are after. You would get something but home recording is a trail and error method and between basic equipment and basic room for the 2k budget the results may not ever be what you want. Recording it yourself and sending it off to me mixed and mastered may be a good idea but there is only so much the end user can do if the original recordings are just not up to the quality needed for the outcome you expect.

iMADEtheBBC

Find a producer, tell them the budget. Let the producer worry about the details including the studio.
Demo the songs, get the producer to provide feedback on the demos. Then re-demo them.

Generic Dreadhead

Thanks for the above guys.
I should clarify a few things.

€2000 is the max we'd be looking at, absolute max that is.
If we can get everything done for €1,000 - €1,500 all the better.

We have already done the home recording thing on a few occassions and want to take things to the next level. I appreciate that home recording is a good start, but now we want to get that extra 20% of brilliance one can achieve with a good studio set-up (i.e. Drum 'Room' Mics, high level vocal booths/mics etc etc)
Here are some of our previous demos for example (no vocals on these btw).
https://soundcloud.com/cormac-genericdreadhead/sets/1-000-clich-s-later

Ideally we would like mixing and mastering included in the overall cost, even if it is sent off and not necessarily done by the in-house engineer.

Ideally a producer/mixer with an understanding of distribution would be a plus as once we have the demo done, we'd like to print-it to CD.

We're hoping to get the whole lot done within one week, we'll be going in there with the songs perfectly practiced and playing to click tracks

Niall - Dahlia

I'd recommend finding an engineer/producer to work with, based on their prior work, preferred genre, and their opinion on your demos, rather than blindly relying on the in-house engineer of a studio. At the very least find out who he is and get in touch before making a decision.

I can tell you there is nothing worse than spending a few days with an engineer who has absolutely no interest in your music, regardless of how great the rooms and mics are.

The Master

Studio owners, please stop shilling in this thread
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