PowerBook Studio Philosophy

This studio is designed, not to simply provide a mixing or a recording service, but to integrate perfectly with your project. After having painstakingly created a unique mixing technique that can be applied to any system, large or small, old or new and fine-tuning it for over half a decade I am now able to offer a service that I believe is truly unique.

There is a lot to be said for getting a great mix from a great engineer who knows his stuff, but no matter how good the mix engineer, it is still pot-luck whether your mix actually sounds the way you want it to.

It can leave even a great mix engineer with an unsatisfied customer. I know how fussy recording musicians can be. I am one! However, this service is not here to provide you with simply a finished product that you have to live with or scrap!

Using the techniques and concepts that I share with you in my books and training resources. You are able to do all of the work yourself, but of course you may hit a stumbling block or simply not have enough time to complete your project quickly enough.

As detailed in the PBS Brochure, you will see that the services of this studio are designed to slip into your project the way you want it to be, leaving you with the flexibility and the ability to make all the changes you want, even after my work has been done.

You could call a mix from PBS a kind of hands-on coaching session for your mix. This is the 21st century folks. Anyone who handles their customers - you - in a way that suggests that you have to just accept what they give you is living in a bygone era that just doesn't cut it anymore.

Here at PBS I go the extra mile and document every step too, so you can actually feel confident that I have taken your project seriously and with the full extent of my passion for the beautiful art of creating music.

My working practice has become an instinct and this is why I work very quickly, along with the fact that my system is uncluttered and intuitive, making it very easy to put all focus on what is important. The heart and soul of your recorded material! But I don't want to stop there. I want to help anyone who is interested in developing an intuitive style and process of their own that takes their music to a whole new level.

Studio Services

PowerBook Studio services are intended to be integral with your own workflow, so you experience the results that You want. Focusing on specialized areas of the production process, the services provided are designed to be totally non-intrusive to your project vision, which means that after the work is done, you still have a great deal of flexibility in deciding the outcome of your production the way you want it to sound.

Once service specifics have been developed, you will be able to take advantage of their benefits, so fill in the form below to make sure you stay informed and up to date. Alternatively, contact the studio directly with any enquiry you may have.

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Your Tracks Need to Sound Excellent

...and they can! The bar has been raised for how good your home recordings need to sound to have the right impact. It is possible to make money from your own recordings through various ways, like licensing for TV, Movies & Games, selling your songs online and selling your songwriting skills to publishers. My experience with these avenues of monetizing my own music has taught me that the quality benchmark for recordings you submit, even on a home system has risen considerably in the last few years. A good recording is no longer good enough. Your product needs to be excellent. Nearly all companies looking for music, no matter what the genre or application are looking for something that is finished and ready to use without any further treatment or re-working. The term broadly used by companies looking for music is "Broadcast quality"

Even those that submit demos to publishers in order to just get their songs used by their artists are expected to submit a recording that is broadcast quality or close to it, even if it is a simple vocal & piano or acoustic guitar, so it is essential that your lovingly crafted music be presented in all it's glory and shining as great as it possibly can.

You have recorded your masterpiece, but there is still something missing. You have tried everything you know with your recording setup, but it just doesn't sound the way you know it can and should, so you start to doubt whether it is good enough at all. What a tragedy, when you are so close to having a killer track out there, working for you. What is wrong?

You need a quality mix. You're happy with your recorded material and a quality mix will provide the finishing touch it needs to shine. You don't have the budget to pay for a pro-studio mix and after having already tried mixing it on your own DAW system you are searching for a solution.

Does this sound familiar to you?

Examples of my work

Make a cup of tea, sit back and enjoy some inspiring music tracked & mixed using the "Magic 8" mixing method.

Boy@Heart Album: All in a Life's Work ©2008

Boy@Heart: Mind Over Matter Heart Over Mind ©2009

Boy@Heart: Musical Pick-Me-Ups Project ©2009

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