nickdawes

I do love using retro audio formats, in fact I have draw full of sealed audio cassettes, I don't really know why but they do look pretty cool. I have vinyl too and I love buying a record I've owned at

I picked up an old Roland TR-505 drum machine a few days ago for not much money and was eager to see what it could do. In short, it's no Tr-808 or even a TR-626 for that matter but it does do one thing

After over 10 years of mixing and mastering professionally, I've added a lot of skills to my arsenal that enable me to achieve the mix I set out to get from the outset. There are the obvious basics and

Working in a studio, I tend to spend a lot of time in a fairly dark room starring at wave forms on a computer screen so I chose a hobby that attempts to balance this out a little with lots of physical

I am not a luthier but with some wood glue, wood filler and a few gym weights, I was about to try and make a Martin 00016GTE playable again after what initially appeared to be a quite terminal amount of

Its nice to get to play with the toys in the studio myself sometimes, this is a very quick jam I had with my cousin Scott Richman. Going very analog here and using tape for the mastering. I didn't have

Sometimes recording in the studio can entail long periods of waiting around, setting up microphones, tedious editing of drum tracks etc...But sometimes it can be what you always hoped it would be which

For anybody setting up their own home studio for the first time, it can be quite a daunting task to plan what exactly you need to achieve the results you want. Companies and retailers are always keen to

Hi everybody, my name is Nick Dawes and I am a Studio Owner/Mixing , Mastering and Recording Engineer. I previously worked full time as a Musician and this helps me with my production work now I am studio