In-House Recording Studio Services

The Silk Mill Recording Studios, Staffordshire.

We have not one but two amazing in-house recording studios here at Alive Network, both of which are used by our artists to improve their video and audio promo. Studio 1 combines an oak floored live room and isolation booth with a control room featuring a beautiful Neve VR console. Studio 2 features SSL 4000 G+ mixing desk. Both studios benefit from ATC monitoring & Pro Tools, plus a massive collection of boutique outboard, microphones, amplifiers and instruments. We offer a truly world class recording experience for Alive Network members.

World Class Recording Studios

The Silk Mill Recording Studios is Alive Network's own in-house studio based in Staffordshire, West Midlands. We offer world class recording and video production services to our bands and musicians at a fraction of the cost of comparable big name studios. All Alive Network artists qualify for our 'unsigned' discounted rate, saving 35% off the rate card. Just check out the gear list below and you'll see why the bands that record with us sound better than all the competition, and why they go on to become our best-selling acts:

Studio 1

Neve VR-36 Console with Flying Faders

ProTools HD

Prism ADA-8XR converters

ATC SCM50 PRO monitors

Massive selection of outboard from Manley, Neve, Chandler, API, Universal Audio, Shadow Hills, Focusrite, SSL

Amazing mic collection (Neumann, Royer, Coles, AKG, DPA, Telefunken, Sennhieser ...)

Amazing guitar/ amp / pedal collection (Matchless, Two-Rock, Mesa-Boogie, Cornford, Fender, Klon, SVL, Lowden, Suhr, PRS, Gibson)

Vintage Ludwig drum kit

Huge live room with spacious isolation booth

16ch personal headphone monitoring

Experienced producer / engineer

Studio 2

SSL 4048G+ mixing console with TotalRecall & Ultimation

Pro Tools HDX2 (48 in 48 out)

Lynx Aurora converters

ATC SCM50 Pro monitors

Trinnov ST2-Pro Monitor Optimisation

Massive selection of outboard from Manley, Neve, API, Retro Instruments, Universal Audio, Cranesong, Shadow Hills, Focusrite, SSL, Lexicon, Bricasti

100s of premium plugins and audio software tools

Reamping / Smart DI system

Van Damme cabling throughout

Experienced producer / engineer

Our Investment In You

We built these studios so that the bands and musicians we work with could afford to produce promotional recordings that sound better than anything they could get elsewhere.

Over the past 25 years of booking bands for private events we've learnt that recording is one area where you really can't afford to cut corners. The general public are so used to hearing perfectly produced, top quality recordings of their favourite bands that unless you can produce something that sounds as good, then by comparison you're going to sound second rate.

As you'd expect, high end studios are pretty expensive and they're also quite picky about who they work with, and it's often not possible for a cover band to get time in a top studio even if they could afford the fees! We decided the only way we could guarantee we'd get the kind of recordings we needed for our top bands would be to build our own world class recording studio, and run it at a cost that our musicians could afford to pay.