Ten21 Working with Cyclone

Record producer Sean Kenny talks about his art and links with Cyclones mastering facility

logo_ten21.gifTo most gigging musicians a recording studio is a completely alien environment?

For the uninitiated, the studio session is a hand holding exercise with reassurance and assistance the main priority. From help with instrument tuning and intonation set up, to the unthinkable… “pointing out playing inaccuracies” and helping them adjust their style for the sake of the recording. Dangerous ground this may be, but when handled in an easy going matter of fact way, most players will readily take on board this kind of information when it makes sense and it’s coming from a player. more…

Vic Hyland

vic_hyland.jpgVic Hyland is nationally known for his educational work with the guitar, and his research work into creativity in music. Vic’s guitar playing has also been likened to a mixture of Hendrix, Santana and Jeff Beck and his voice to that of Sting.

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Waterhorse Choose Cyclone

waterhorse1.jpgKent based 6 piece Rock combo ‘Waterhorse’ choose Cyclone to master first EP release.

Based in Canterbury, Waterhorse has been steadily building a following for their distinctive fusion of rock, roots, folk, blues, and Celtic influences. Eschewing the prevailing fashion for style over substance, the 6-peice band is championing the welcome resurgence of a flourishing live music scene.

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Preparing your audio for mastering!

closeroom.jpgMastering engineer Graham Semark on some of the questions often asked when recording and preparing audio for mastering.

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What people say

What a fantastic job you did on our CD. Not only did you significantly enhance the recorded material but also your expertise and guidance on the artwork has been a huge factor in our sales. From the outset it was obvious that you take enormous pride in what you are doing and it was such a pleasure to deal with a company committed to helping us achieve such an exceptional end result.

David Green - Musical Director Ashford Guitar Ensemble

I have used Cyclone for my last two mastering and manufacture jobs, and as it is a 350-mile round trip for me there must be a good reason why. After numerous mastering, printing and duplication nightmares from several other similar production houses who shall remain nameless, [clippie mastering, bubbles on the CD labels, off centre printing!], I eventually found a company to trust with my recordings and artwork. The service at Cyclone is always professional and helpful, with the final product being excellently mastered, printed and packaged.

Trevor Brown

PCM8 Series 5 Sadie System now installed at Cyclone

imageThe PCM8 represents a powerful addition to the state of the art mastering facility at Cyclone featuring 8 channel in/out processing with a greatly enhanced feature set offering a significant increase in processing power for high end audio CD mastering applications.

The PCM8 utilizes the new SADiE Series 5 hardware platform to meet the demand for more powerful high-speed processing of today's high-resolution audio formats. Full CD Pre-Mastering to DDP/CDR including CD text with sample accurate waveform editing up to 192kHz/24bit.