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Monday, March 30, 2009 
Activity
Plenty of exciting projects have been through the studio in the last
few months with Model Horror in with Matty moon recording 3 tracks for
there new single.  Daniel Flay is putting the finishing touches to his
album which features Micky for the broken family band on drums.   Arkan
horror and beautiful sleazy have just finished recording with us and
Wild hope, model village, and esqueleto are all finishing off some
really great sounding projects over the next few weeks.  Thanks to all
the acts who have used us recently!



Winter Kings single launch
The winter kings are releasing there 1st single proper 'black
caravan' which was recorded and mixed at half-ton studios last year. 
There having a launch party at the Soul Tree in Cambridge on Saturday
the 4th of April.  They have a video out as well which can be seen
here: www.myspace.com/thewinterkings



New Gear!
The success of the studio recently has enabled us invest in some new
equipment, the 1st of which is a four channel API 3124 pre-amp.   Plenty more
juicy outboard and mics on the way soon to keep our engineers happy and
make your recordings shine!

Friday, February 13, 2009 

Current mood:  enthralled


Im putting on a concert to celebrate the 1stBirthday of Half-tonstudios. The event is a token £3 to get in and will be more party than gig I hope. Ive started saving up because I need to buy lots of drinks for the people who have helped me out loads over the past year! Be great to see some of you people down there especially those of you who have used the studio in the past year....thankyou!

The
Portland Arms 28
th Feb

£3
on the door


Truly
Beautiful Disaster

www.myspace.com/trulybeautifuldisastermusic

The Winter Kings
www.myspace.com/thewinterkings

Um
www.myspace.com/peteum

DJ
Nochexxx

www.myspace.com/nochexxx







Friday, January 09, 2009 

Happy New Year!

The studio closed for a few weeks over xmas, i managed to get in a holiday to Morocco which was great, Matt is off visiting family in Australia for a few more weeks and Rob is running around doing seven different things at once as usual!   Was good to reflect on what was a very busy last few months of 2008.  Bands in and hopefully leaving happy included:  Lonely the Brave, The Incredible Flight of Birdman, Toy Radio, Palatino Hills, Screwd, Mono Effect Ed, Beverley Kills and Ripping Yarns.

Evening Sessions

We started doing evening recording sessions in December and they went really well.  For bands looking for a quick, fairly live recording they are a great option at £100 for a 6pm-12pm session.

January

Is a lot more relaxed with gives me a chance to put some time in on some of my longer term projects I’m doing with Fuzzy Lights, Daniel Flay and Rob Gregory, looking forward to this and hopefully i might even get round to doing some of my own stuff!

Saturday, November 15, 2008 

We're currently enjoying the use of our new control room, which we completed work on in October. The room has been built and treated to provide the most accurate mixing space we could achieve, and the whole studio is a much better place to work, with space for bands to chill out in during the recording process without getting in each other's way! Have a peek at the new photos on the website or better still come down and have a look!

http://www.halftonstudios.co.uk/about/

The other major bits of news are that we now have a completely refurbished Brennel 1 inch 8 track tape machine that we're using both for the complete analogue experience or to just whack the drums through etc. Big thanks to Ian for helping us out with this.

We've also been joined by another engineer/producer in the form of Matty Moon. Matt has recently produced recordings for Toy Radio and Lonely the Brave at the studio and seems to be coping well with our sense of humor…it's great to have him on board.

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* Special Xmas Recording offer for December *

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For December only were re-opening our 3 days for the price of 2 deal, which was rather popular earlier in the year. The only catch is that the free day must be a week day, for more details go to:

http://www.halftonstudios.co.uk/rates

*****Only one free weekend left this year so get in there quick!!*****

Standard recording rates are £150 per day (weekend) and £120 per day (weekday).

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* Evening Recording slots available *

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For the month of December were offering weekday evening recording slots from 6pm-12pm for £100. Think of it as late night opening for Christmas or something!

Three of these slots are available for £250.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 
quick news update:

The winter kings album is finished, mastered (about time too!) and sounds ace

Lots of good projects done and in the making including: sing a long a stranger, joe fox (younghearts), elecrtic armadillo, sensible fun

Due in the next few weeks are: truly beautiful disaster, toy radio and the sand dollars

Im hoping to have a weekend off and blag a ticket for latitude...fingers crossed!

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Half-ton will soon have a good quality analogue tape machine to play with as we've got our hands on a fully refurbished brenell 8 track 1 inch tape machine cant wait to try putting some drums etc through it..

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 

My ears are recovering afer a few weeks of rock action and my stomach from a boozy weekend in france!

trailing cable and federal black 40 both left the studio happy last week after we finished mixing their respective projects. Both bands were a pleasure to work with and you should check them out if you get a chance…clips from these sessions should be on the myspace and website player in the next day or two..

http://www.myspace.com/federalblack40rock

http://www.myspace.com/trailingcable

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Robots with Hearts were in last week which is an exciting new colaberation between Animals on Wheels (Andy Coleman) + iCON the Mic King (Michael King)

robohearsts.jpg

http://www.myspace.com/robohearts

Very excited to hear what the mixes from these sessions turn out like!

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rehearsal news

Sorry to all the bands who have got in touch regarding reherasal slots when we haven't been able to accomodate you.  Im trying to make a greater effort to keep the rehearsal calender up to date and am making plans to build another room!