Intro

The Playroom is a purpose built recording studio with live room, vocal booth and large
comfortable air-conditioned control room. A fabulous, friendly environment to record in.

Great gear – Great vibe – Great sound

All costs and requirements are discussed and quoted on an individual basis.
We have hourly, daily and weekly rates. Engineer included with all bookings.
Drop us an email, come and visit.

Great rates – Great results – Great fun

Also from The Playroom:- ‘remote mixing‘, send us individual
‘stems’ (i.e. guitar, vocal, backing vocal) recorded
elsewhere (even your bedroom!) when you’re ready for mixing and we’ll mix

theplayroom@mjsmusic.co.uk

About Us

The Playroom is set in a relaxed South Downs location, nr Arundel, West Sussex. The studio offers great spaces for recording including a spacious vocal booth and live room. The large comfortable, air-conditioned control room has plenty of space for relaxing between takes. Alongside a wide selection of high quality microphones from Neumann, SE Electrics… Continue reading About Us

Terry Pack’s Trees

The much anticipated new album ‘Into The Woods’ has been released. This is a great album of jazz, soundtrack, ambient crossover music. Brilliant musicianship. Definitely worth a listen. Further info here:- https://treesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-woods-2

Hammond fun.

We had a fun few hours last week recording ‘Hammond’ organ for a blues project. Not an original Hammond organ, a modern remake (www.keyborgan.com), but an original Lesley speaker. Recording a real Lesley speaker is a challenge… noisy and windy! Noisy, just because they always are (the ones we’ve been involved with so far anyway)… Continue reading Hammond fun.

Roz Firth – Moonflower

This lovely album was released on 30th August. At The Playroom, Arundel we had a great time working with Roz on recording her lead vocals and then had the pleasure of mastering the album. It’s been well worth all the time and effort for all involved – it sounds great. Thanks to the guys Crimson… Continue reading Roz Firth – Moonflower

Terry Pack’s Trees Ensemble – No Wind

Exciting stuff. The first of ‘Terry Pack’s Trees Ensemble’ new tracks has been release on Bandcamp. More tracks will be released over the next few months and the full album, ‘Into The Woods’, will be available later in the year. Recorded, mixed and mastered at the Playroom, Arundel. https://treesensemble.bandcamp.com/track/no-wind-2

Headline Party Band head to Monaco F1

These very talented chaps form the Headline Party Band and are heading to Monaco this week to play for @redbullracing during the Formula 1 Grand Prix weekend. Have a great time! New tunes in the mixer now… watch this space.

Orchestration

One of our main areas of specialty is orchestration for shows or soundtracks and for pop tunes and tv themes. Below are some examples of our orchestration work. Most often we work from a piano/vocal score or midi-file prepared by the client and develop the sound of the piece from discussions with the writer(s), including… Continue reading Orchestration