Offbeat Studios & Music Production

26/09/2025

This is a terrific review. How ****ing awesome for Offbeat to be involved too! Thanks Paul Sng & Olivia Caw

Engaging documentary follows the writer as he visits a psychedelic therapy centre and trains in a Miami boxing gym

24/09/2025

37 MILLION HITS!!!

On YouTube, for ‘Last Of The Mohicans’ since the release of Spirit of the Glen by The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards featuring Pipe Major Ross Munro.

After being approached by Universal Records following a recommendation by Mani Shoniwa, I took them to Heartbeat Studios where the trilogy of albums was recorded by me and the Heartbeat team.

The first album spent 14 weeks at no1 in the Classical Charts. The second album Journey won a Classical Brit Award for best album. It was produced by multi-award winning chart topping producer Jon Cohen.

The Last of the Mohicans is my favourite track on the album. The awesome Czech Film Orchestra recorded the string parts for the first album in Prague.

Ross and I went on to produce his solo album Twisted Traditions for Greentrax Records.

Dougie MacLean's most famous pieces include "The Gael", from his 1990 album The Search, which was adapted by Trevor Jones as the main theme to The Last of th...

20/09/2025

VIRGIN RIVER with Zibby Allen / Netflix

Just finished intense ADR recordings for 4 Episodes of Virgin River for Netflix with actor Zibby Allen (Grays Anatomy / The Twilight Zone.

We also recorded ADR pickups for Pacific Films from BC in Canada for a movie called ‘Pickleford Christmas’.

Zibby was fun to work with in person and so was award winning producer Gord Hillier directing down the line from Vancouver who taught me some valuable ADR tricks. Everyday IS a schoolday!!

Our new booth in Studio 2 worked a treat. It was only the 3rd pro session we’ve done since opening. Great for artists to record in a soundproofed room with natural light and incredible rooftop views over the city.

21/08/2025

Brilliant night at the Premiere of Reality Is Not Enough which closed the Edinburgh Film Festival last night.

Recording Irvine Welsh, Olivia Caw and Mark Hannah’s commentary for the film under the direction of Paul Sng was an awesome experience.

17/08/2025

At this special boy’s christening today. Wee Alexander (no relation) was completely unphased all the way through ❤️

07/08/2025

Recording another episode of Uncanny for BBC Sounds with Producer Danny Robins.

In this episode, sceptic Alasdair Beckett-King goes head to head with paranormalist Evelyn Hollow in a programme about a haunted house in the North East of England.

Alasdair, who runs a highly popular podcast called Mysteries and has a standup show in the Fringe, makes his debut in this fascinating episode about Goth Ghosts in Newcastle.

02/08/2025

Lovely to have Kristen McGuire in our Edinburgh ADR studio recording for Bel Air, the NBC / Peacock series inspired by The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Kristen’s ADR credits include S*x and the City and Pixar’s Ice Age. She’s here from Manhattan for her Edinburgh Festival Fringe show and ran her own ADR session at Offbeat using her own gear.

12/07/2025

Great to be a cog in the wheel of this movie

Movies of Scotland: Reality Is Not Enough (2025). A revealing exploration of Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, culminating in his exploration of consciousness through a hallucinogenic DMT experience in Toronto.

11/06/2025

Gunner is the gripping new crime audiobook by Alan Parks, best known for his award-winning Harry McCoy detective series. We’re proud to once again direct and produce his work — this time for Baskerville Books, part of Hachette UK and narrated by Alex J Stewart

Offbeat previously recorded the full Harry McCoy series for Canongate Books, and this latest production continues Alan’s legacy of gritty, atmospheric Scottish noir.

“Great stuff… a vivid sense of place and time and what a main character!” – Ian Rankin, #1 bestselling author of the Rebus series.

06/06/2025

Just announced! Reality Is Not Enough will premiere as the Closing Night film at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.

We recorded Irvine Welsh’s dialogue for the film here at Offbeat with director Paul Sng, and our very own Olivia Caw narrates segments in the film.

Big congrats to the team – looking forward to seeing it on the big screen!

14/05/2025

The BBC Sounds drama of Local Hero is now live!
We were thrilled to record Clive Russell’s performance here at Offbeat, broadcasting it in real time via Source Connect to a London studio—perfectly synced with the rest of the cast recording remotely. Remote collaboration at its best.

A radio reimagining of Bill Forsyth's beloved 1983 film.

07/05/2025

Another brilliant voice session at Offbeat with the legendary Tilda Swinton, recording voice commentary for the upcoming arthouse film The Heart of Light, produced by Heartbeatt Pictures in Berlin.

A masterclass in voice performance, Tilda’s delivery was beautifully understated, rich with emotion, and deeply compelling. A true artist and an inspiring human being.

Voice commentary recorded at Offbeat Studios in Edinburgh by Iain McKinna and Olivia Caw.

Specialists in ADR recording, voice overs, and audio post-production for film and TV.