Band & Music Recording

Christchurch's premium studio option, Tandem Voice Booth, has been recording since 1976 and is still providing lush immaculate recordings today, with a huge range of options for all sorts of music groups.

We have recorded such notable performers as; Bic Runga, Anika Moa, Salmonella Dub, Yulia, John Grenell, Jenny Blackadder, Hera, and many more.

We have a large, spacious main studio and 3 isolation rooms, a comfortable control and a mixing room with all facilities and amenities.

We can also record your live gig and mix and master it to a releasable quality and produce and album, as we did recently for local artist, Hera.

Tandem has great range of world class microphones, including Neumann, Telefunken, AKG, Shure, Beyer and Rode models. We can record Digitally or fully analogue 16 track with an Allen & Heath 1616, and Fostex B-16 RtR.

Digital options include Pro-Tools 7.1, Audition 3.0 or Vegas 6.0. Click here for a complete gear list.

We also provide New Media services such as band videos, podcasting, myspace page creation and web pimping of tunes. In addition, mastering and duplication are available on site.
Engineers:

Toby Ricketts (Bbc.),

Jonny Pipe (Dip. Aud Eng), 

Peter Rattray (Dip. Aud Eng) (+$40p/h)

Hourly Rate: By negotiation with groups and individuals ($80 base rate)

Booking Contact: Jonny@tandemvoicebooth.com or phone 03 3667281

All the samples below were recorded and mastered entirely at Tandem Voice Booth:

Acoustic & Singer Songwriters:

Rock Bands:

Sunswitch - Alone in This Room

 

Hip-Hop Recordings:

Orchestral / Score Recording:

Original score by Luke Di Somma for the play "Skin Tight"

Other Projects:

Girl Guides New Zealand celebrated "100 years of helping hands" with this song.

Stemin' Loco - Bluegrass band

Mastering

Mastering is an essential step in the music production process that is often misunderstood or even forgotten about.  So what exactly is mastering?  Mastering is the application of any processing (most commonly EQ and Compression) over the final stereo mix.  This is the final step in creating a professional sounding mix that will compete with other commercial recordings.  Mastering will increase your mix's RMS volume, that is basically the average volume, which increaeses the percieved LOUDNESS.  This is the reason some songs from certain albums on your MP3 player sound louder than other songs played at the same level - they have been mastered harder.  But mastering doesn't just increase the volume of your mix, it is also used to smooth out the frequency spectrum, reducing resonant areas or enhancing underfed zones. 

Take a listen to these samples.  They have both been normalised to 0dB, so have the same peak volume.

Sam Blakelock - Sing Along Song UNMASTERED

Sam Blakelock - Sing Along Song MASTERED

In mastering this recording by local singer songwriter Sam Blakelock, we have increased the RMS or percieved loudness of the mix, as well as enhancing some of the highs to give it more 'sparkle' and lows to give a bit more 'ooomph'.

We can master your existing recordings quickly and affordably or put the finishing touches on anything you may record with us at the studio.  

We charge $200 per song, or can do multiple tracks or albums for a negotiated rate.

If you have any queries, just give us a call or email Jonny@tandemvoicebooth.com

Live Recording

We can capture your live gig with our portable Hard Disk recording equipment that enables us to record up to 24 tracks individually.  No more weird sounding stereo desk mixes!  Each individual microphone and instrument can be recorded, then taken back to our studio for mixing and mastering.  Take a listen to some of the examples below, A Flight To Blackout and Bang!Bang!Eche! recorded at the 2007 RounDUp band competition, live at the Dux de Lux in Christchurch, NZ, and Hera recorded for her Album 'Hera Live at Al's'

New Media band services:

We can record your band recording and make it available to fans via our vidcast service, or supply a file for myspace, youtube, facebook plus others.

The following videos were made for Christchurch winners of the national 'Play It Strange' songwriting competition. Each video briefly touches on the music being recorded and some of the artist's thoughts and feelings about the recording process;

Sam Blakelock - Sing Along Song

Please go to the next page for more samples...