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Dan Worrall provides expert recording, mixing and mastering services, at competitive rates. Based in the Laundry Rooms studios in Sheffield, a purpose-built complex of 5 control rooms plus a shared live room, with floating floors, no parallel walls, and extensive acoustic treatment.

I also make video tutorials covering a range of recording, mixing, mastering and sound design techniques. Tutorials are currently available for Reaktor (and Lazerbass), Camel Audio and FabFilter plugins, Sonic Charge Microtonic, and Tone2 ElectraX.

I also design my own plugins, which I release under the name platinumears: these have proved rather popular over the years, especially the classic IQ4gui dynamic EQ plugin (originally released in january 2005) and the more recent 5ORCERY meta-multiband compressor (released in June 2011)

News:

October 2011: Another Reaktor tutorial released. Additive Synthesis with Lazerbass is 30 minutes long, and attempts to demystify the powerful additive synth ensemble included with NI Reaktor 5.5 and above.

August 2011: I have now started selling my tutorial videos directly to the public for the first time. My first product The Insider's Guide to REAKTOR is 42 minutes long, and contains everything you need to know to actually make music using Native Instruments powerful REAKTOR software. Instant download for just $10 USD.

April 2011: I'm proud to announce that Mike Senior has included my IQ4gui plugin in his top ten freeware list.

Mike Senior is the author of 'Mixing Secrets For The Small Studio' and Sound On Sound's 'Mix Rescue' & 'Mix Review' columns.

In his own words: "Dynamic EQ is a phenomenally powerful mix process, capable of saving your skin in some of the very toughest mixing situations. That Platinumears have made this kind of processing available at all in freeware form is a godsend for cash-strapped DAW users, but what's even better is that they haven't dumbed down their IQ4 implementation, so it's fabulously flexible. An essential VST download for budget-conscious mixing." -- Mike Senior,

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Recording Studio Open For Business

I have a studio within The Laundry Rooms: This is a complex of 5 control rooms, sharing a single live room, all properly designed to be isolated from each other and from the outside world. The control rooms all have left / right symmetry, and there are no parallel walls or ceilings anywhere.

My control room is now fully wired up, and the live room sounds great!

Rates:

     £25 per hour
     £200 per day (up to 10 hours)

(discounts available for block bookings of 3 days or more)

Special offer for new clients: first hour free!

Contact: dan ["at"] platinumears ["dot"] com


recording studio control room

Live Room with Neumann U87ai set up for vocal session