The White Room - Dolby Atmos Production Studio

17/07/2025

21/04/2025

We're heading home from a monster weekend of 6 shows with DS:UK -THE Dire Straits Tribute Experience and Luther Live at Poly Falmouth Launceston Town Hall The Landmark Colchester Charter Hall and G Live, Guildford , with terrific work from Zé Ramalho and Barwix .

For high quality FOH, monitoring, RF equipment and Engineers for your show or event, enquiries to [email protected]

For more information about working with us on ad hoc shows, or working with us as a dedicated provider, see www.prestigesound.co.uk

26/03/2025

27/02/2025

And here’s us, waiting to support grassroots artists with affordable studio time, stereo and Atmos productions so there’s multiple products to sell, and advice and help on building a customer base and tours. Creative, instrumentalist songwriters wanted…!

Modern music has become an assembly line of predictable noise, meticulously crafted not for artistic expression but for maximum profit.

Gone are the days when bands like The Beatles or Queen spent years perfecting albums that pushed creative boundaries. Instead, today's chart-topping hits are often written by the same handful of industry songwriters, reusing the same four chords, generic beats, and overly polished production.

Studies confirm what many have suspected - music is literally getting worse. Lyrics have become simpler, melodies more repetitive, and dynamics nearly nonexistent. Songs are engineered to hook listeners instantly, ensuring they get stuck in your head long enough to rack up streams but not long enough to be truly memorable. Autotune has stripped away individuality, making every artist sound eerily similar, while record labels chase virality over talent, prioritising social media presence over musicianship.

The result? A soulless, homogenised soundtrack to a culture that’s lost its creative spark. While there are still great artists out there, they’re often buried beneath a tidal wave of algorithm-approved mediocrity. So, is modern music awful? Objectively speaking… yes.

10/02/2025

Big update morning, updating Gig Performer and prepping the 2nd Mac for a weekend of shows where both GP rigs are out. And some track updates - it’s never a quiet morning!

10/02/2025

Last year we did a re-mix of the audio for a Queen Tribute show showreel produced by a 'professional' show reel producer to give a really lacklustre mix much more excitement, and to give a much closer feel to who Queen are.

To do it properly, we really needed access to the original footage and the original multi-tracks, but we were denied, so we had to work with what we had: the finished video cut and we were able to get hold of multi-tracks from one of their shows

The original is on this website, and our version is in this post.

Today, I find myself in a same position - trying to get the multitracks out of another 'professional' show reel production 'company' to simply treat some vocal tuning errors that were ignored (or possibly not noticed, or possibly doesn't have the skills....) and sent out to the client as a finished product, so that I can effectively present and promote a show in the way that I feel best. Sadly, I can't do that - as I'm denied the tapes.

To be clear - the mix is fine, but the vocal editing is negligent.

Bands and Artists - WATCH OUT for negligent editing!!

Frustrated today.

08/02/2025

22/01/2025

I've been posting recently about a new deal option for me to produce an album for grassroots original artists, but also to provide some help and guidance on how to tour for the purposes of making money and possibly being able to make a sustainable income.

This article really articulates well how financially difficult trying to be a bonefide music artist can be, and especially around touring.

It's never been easy, but from my work touring venues with bands, and keeping an loose eye on crewing industry, It's fairly easy to see why it's probably more difficult than it's ever been - every part of the chain just wants/needs too much money. And it makes it harder the more people that are part of that chain.

We have to remember that the money to pay for the venues, artists, marketing, travel, accommodation, crew, management - it all comes from the ticket buying customer. And if we price them out, they'll disappear... and you only have to look around the towns at 12am to see that fewer people are opting to go out.

I see the entire financial journey in my work tour managing and performing with DS:UK -THE Dire Straits Tribute Show, 50 Years of Fender Show - Celebrating the Fender Stratocaster and Seriously Collins - Phil Collins Tribute & Genesis Tribute, and I'm about to start working with a couple of new shows through Prestige Sound to help build their touring profile too. So I know how tight it is for everyone - it's why I'm very careful to manage costs.

But I've also seen how possible it is to tour weekly across the country and I'm sure that how we tour can be transferred over to original artists as well, without the need for loads of crew, catering, management, etc - just tour with the basics. After all, the audience are there to see and hear music/bands that they love and choose to support. I'm sure it's nice when it's big and grand, but that's expensive and it's not like it's getting any easier.

Hence why I'm offering help while we work together to produce your album(s) - creating products to sell and giving you the knowledge/tools to manage yourself and create a regular performance schedule that has the potential to create a sustainable income.

Of course - there's significant work to be done before you have a following you can monetise, but that's the nature of our business. We have to build our customer base, and it'll take time, but there's plenty to practical techniques and activities that will make that happen.

Check out www.whiteroomproductionstudio.co.uk and contact me if you'd like to begin. Remember, I only have time to work with 1 artist at a time.

Music sales may be booming, but even acts like Everything Everything, Sports Team and Kate Nash aren't getting rich on it

21/01/2025

https://apple.news/AMCAOAwMISNCc50pLtQNxmQ

Music sales may be booming, but even acts like Everything Everything, Sports Team and Kate Nash aren't getting rich on it

12/12/2024

You can now chat to me about your recording projects in WhatsApp from www.whiteroomproductionstudio.co.uk

06/12/2024

www.whiteroomproductionstudio.co.uk/whiteroomblog_files/whatcanwelearn.html

There's a common misconception that the tribute scene is killing original music, but original artists can take a lot lessons from the popularity of tribute shows to make themselves more successful.