With a permanent staff of 6 and a combined experience of over 80 years in the recording business + a host of industry awards, Classic Sound can supply a wide range of services and facilities.

The company specializes in all aspects of music recording including film scoring and 5.1 mix to picture, music editing/dubbing and location recording. We regularly work with some of the major recording and film companies such as Universal, EMI, Warner and the BBC.

We are constantly maintaining and updating our equipment and skills base in order to be able to offer our clients the most up-to-date recording and post-production technology.

Dubbing/music editing to picture in 5.1 surround. 32 Track 24bit 96Khz editing/ dubbing, one of the largest edit systems in the country allowing 32 simultaneous inputs and outputs with sufficient storage to edit a full 3 act opera. All edit rooms equipped to work to 5.1 surround and picture.

Mastering, full DDP production and verification on CD exabite or 1630. Large range of external processing.

Film Scoring. Classic Sound have entered into a collaboration with Henry Wood Hall in EC1 to provide one of the largest and most versatile music recording spaces in London. By combining our resources we have created a package to compete with established scoring studios both in terms of sound quality, and price.

Classical location recording. With flight-cased carry in equipment. We have facilities to equip four simultaneous recordings: classical/ pop/ live events/ work to picture/ film scoring: ranging from solo instrument to the largest live opera or film score. Equipment includes custom built Neve desks, 24 bit recording as standard, extensive range of modern and vintage microphones including Neumann M50 and M49, full picture sync and play back facilities, Chord power amps and B&W monitors.

Recording Equipment Hire. Rates on application.

E-Studio suite. Conversion to WAV, MP3, streaming files, plus a wide range of other internet music services.

Our multi-award winning staff are arguably Classic Sound’s greatest asset. Comprising of Recording Engineers, Location Engineers and Edit/Dubbing Engineers we are proud of the broad base of talent combined with the extensive experience we can offer our clients. The comprehensive breadth of musical styles that our staff have experience of working with varying from Pavarotti to Al Jarreau, the London Symphony Orchestra to Elvis Costello. Trained to the highest standards on state of the art equipment, Classically trained enabling to sight-read music you will feel assured that your projects are in safe hands with our staff. To find out more about our individuals visit our Personnel page.

1999: Grammy: Best Solo Instrumental: Shostakovich, Preludes & Fugues

1999: Grammophone Award: Best Opera, Rusalka

1998: Grammophone Award: Best Opera Recording. Rossini, Turco in Italia

1997: Grammy: Engineer Best Opera Recording – Wagner, Die Meistersinger

1997: Grammy: Short-listed for Best Engineered Classical Recording. Wagner, Die

Meistersinger

1996: Grammy: Best Choral Recording, Walton, Belshazzars Feast

1995: Grammy: Best Solo Instrumental Recital, Schubert Sonatas

1995: Grammy: Best Choral Recording, Brahms German Requiem

1995: Grammy: Best Engineered Recording, Bartok Concerto for Orchestra

1995: Grammy: Engineer Best Instrumental Soloist Performance, Schubert B Flat Piano

Sonata

1995: Grammy: Engineer Best Opera Recording, Berlioz, Le Troyens

1994: Deutsche Schallplaten: Best Opera Recording, Mozart, Magic Flute

1993: Grammophone Award: Best Solo Instrumental Recital, Rameau Harpsichord

Works

1992: Grammy: Best Engineered Recording, Strauss, Die Frau Ohne Schatten