Studio Nyne

Mixing, recording and production service based in Wirksworth, Derbyshire. Years of experience, good equipment and a friendly approach.

Studio Nyne is Gareth Metcalf, a musician, producer and recording engineer who specialises in mixing. I work out of the studio in my house in Wirksworth, Derbyshire and am quite happy to travel to you to record. I generally offer mixing of songs or albums, but often get involved with production, additional musicianship and recording for my clients, who come needing a range of services, from full recording and production, through to arriving with an almost finished track that just needs the final polish. I have worked with a wide range of clients and styles of music, from downtempo electronica mixes, live location recordings, acoustic /jazz albums, and on to heavy rock.

In terms of process, I can work with bands and musicians in studios /rehearsal rooms to capture the original tracks, or you can bring me tracks you’ve already recorded. We can do overdubs in my mix studio (vocals, guitar, keys etc) or if you want I can do the mix by remote from files you send me.

My studio equipment and approach has changed over the years and I now primarily use Logic Pro (sometimes Pro Tools) and have moved away from the 30U of outboard equipment to a streamlined but high quality setup, choosing to concentrate money on converters and preamps, good microphones and good monitoring, and high quality DSP effects:

Apple MacBook Pro running Logic Studio and Pro Tools
Universal Audio Apollo DUO
Universal Audio Satellite QUAD with many many emulations of classic plugins (EMT, Neve, SSL, Teletronix, Lexicon)
Mackie HR 824 active monitors, Adam A3X active monitors
Focusrite Platinum Octopre LE 8 channel preamp
Hughes & Kettner amplifiers
Brauner, AKG, Rode, Audix, Shure, SE Electronic microphones