Offshore Sounds was a project founded by myself, and fellow producer Fred Bailey, during our final year at Falmouth University. We offered a full range of production and recording services to bands and artists in the Academy of Music & Theatre Arts, the surrounding Falmouth area and other parts of England. We worked with dozens of clients in a five month period, simulating the pressures of a modern studio, and we were involved in every aspect of making a project work. This Includes the booking of studio time and equipment, planning of microphone placement and desk layouts, engineering, arrangement aswell as the mixing & mastering. Through these sessions we tracked across several rooms and studios at the university, primarily through an SSL AWS 924 mixing desk, experimenting with different microphones (AKG 414's, Neumann U87, Sennheiser MD421's, AKG Ribbon) and placements (Glynn Johns, Mid-Side, Decatree, Stereo pair) to really develop our skills as producers. More information on the project can be found here.
Offshore Sounds was a great learning experience and we got the chance to work with many exciting up & coming artists including The Shipping Forecast, Rio Mar, Last Hyena, White Fright & Jack Fordham to name a few. The success of this project led to us being approached by lecturers at the university to give a presentation on the project to the rest of the music department, aswell as a local radio station interviewing us on the project.
Below is a showcase of some of our work, aswell as journals documenting the sessions, and providing production insight.
