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King Square Studio Unit 1, 14 King Square, Bristol BS2 8JH

Russell Kearney
Engineer

Russell has been engineering for twenty years. His career started at The Coach House Studios in Bristol where he assisted Massive Attack’s ‘Blue Lines’.

For four years, Russell worked at Peter Gabriel’s realworld studios where he became head engineer.

Since then he has worked in various capacities in studios in the UK and internationally, namely Spain, Tokyo and New York, gaining extensive experience in production, mixing, sound design, programming, and mastering.

Artists and organisations he has engineered for include Bjork, Jamiroquai, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Alexander McQueen, James, Brian Eno, Marc Almond, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia, Tricky, Neneh Cherry, Africa


Studio

The studio consists of three rooms - a control room and two live rooms.

The live rooms are isolated from each other, and have a window separating them - enabling musicans to see each other whilst performing.

The smaller live room has been acoustically treated to give very little reverberance, useful for recording any type of instrument without room character. This makes an excellent vocal recording studio.

The larger live room features variable acoustics, which enables the reverberant character of the studio to be drastically changed, depending on the type of recording required. For example, if a very live drum sound is required, the studio can be quickly re-configured to acomplish this. If a whole band is being recorded, the room can be set up to give very little reflections, which vastly improves seperation of instruments on the recording. The room can be subtly tuned to a particular song or instrument. Experimenting to find the correct acoustic character is quick and easy.

Below is an mp3 of drums recorded in the main live room using no EQ or compression. Each bar is a different recording with the room in a different configuration. This was edited together to give a demonstration of how much the reverberation in the room can be changed.
Bambaata, Krust, Hector Zazou, BBC, Bristol Old Vic.

Booking

If you would like to book a session please call or email




Russell

russell@kingsquarestudio.co.uk

07768 041286

or

Gus

gus@kingsquarestudio.co.uk

07970 116532

Booking Rates

£250 per day £25 per hour