Blank Studios

13/09/2024

23/07/2024

📣 Calling aspiring music producers and songwriters aged 16 - 30, plug into your potential!

Making Tracks offers introductory, intermediate & advanced music production courses to take your first steps or develop your skills to work towards becoming a professional producer.

Access Music Production CIC

📅 Applications close Sunday 1 September: https://bit.ly/MakingTracksTheGlasshouse

14/06/2024

🎉🎉🎉 We’re very excited to announce that we’re now a fully fledged Dolby Atmos ready studio. Control Room A now has a .berlin 7.1.4 system installed, tuned and calibrated, and it’s sounding pretty spectacular.

We’ll be getting to grips with this new system over the coming months and we’re really looking forward to introducing all of our artists to this burgeoning format.

We’ll also been running our series of Immersive Audio Workshops over the next 8 weeks. They’re all filled up now, and we’re looking forward to learning together on those.

Lastly a massive thank you to the good people at for their support in the project. This wouldn’t be a reality without their help.

Onwards…!

17/05/2024

🎉🎉🎉 We’re very excited to announce that, with the support of , blank studios will be installing a 7.1.4 Immersive Audio system. Alongside that we will be running a series of free to attend workshops through June to August at Blank Studios.

The sessions will be open to anyone who would like to attend, and will take place on Monday evenings from 6pm. We really hope you can join us!

You can find more information about the sessions and how to book on our website, or via the link in our bio.

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Immersive audio (a.k.a Dolby Atmos, Spatial Audio etc) is a fast growing formats for commercial music, thanks in large part to Spatial Audio on the Apple Music streaming platform. In January this year Apple announced increased royalty revenue for artists delivering spatial mixes - as much as 10%.

At Blank we’re very passionate about our regions music and the thriving independent scene. So we hope this system and this series of workshops will help to open doors to a new avenue of creativity and industry, for as many music makers as possible!

#7.1.4

08/05/2024

GREAT POST DAY! Shout out to for their excellent service and quick delivery. We’ve been after some EQS for a while now and buzzing to take them for a spin 😍

06/04/2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY US! 🎂

Today blank turned sweet 16!

Here’s a random “on this day” photo from 2017 - four or five months into building the new studio. The second photo is more recent (obviously) at about the same angle.

31/03/2024

In a dramatic conclusion to our “what’s in the box?” game, we can reveal it’s only an API 1608 console!!

We started Blank back in 2008 - fresh out of education using what budget equipment we could afford and an unreal dose of enthusiasm. At every step we’ve committed to the idea of putting back into Blank, to make it grow and be the best it can be. We’ve worked our way through probably every tier/level of equipment, squeezing every last ounce of music out of it, and we’ve often discussed that, for the way we work, and the way recording is, an API would be the dream console.

It’s always felt out of reach, for years, but the fates have been kind and today we’ve arrived at a pretty special moment in the Blank journey. We don’t have big investors, sugar daddies or off shore accounts. This has come about through the years of work with the artists that come here, so this desk and this step is as much yours as it is ours! So a big thank you to everyone who has helped us get here, and we hope you join us for the next 16 odd years!

Thanks also to for their work and help.

If you want to come by and hear the desk, or book a session, just get in touch!

28/03/2024

Anyone for a game of “what’s in the box”?

Exciting delivery day here at blank… just look at John’s smile.

07/03/2024

07/03/2024

29/02/2024

27/02/2024

Apply for Making Tracks - Access Music Production CIC and The Glasshouse International Centre for Music songwriting and music production programme, delivered by our team at Blank Studios

https://theglasshouseicm.org/make-music/young-people/making-tracks/

14/02/2024

02/02/2024

💥We love to collab & have been working on a track for Frankie Joblings up and coming ep

We got creative in the studio last weekend and can’t wait to hear the final mix!!!

29/01/2024

29/01/2024

30/10/2023

16/10/2023

Thank u so much for all the love on 'Rest of My Life' 🙏🥳

If you haven’t already listened and want to, you can stream it here: https://kycker.ffm.to/restofmylife?fbclid=IwAR1MthGqCXRiR4Nn-lSyTZ4dFMgQTvTkpVUf5P4ClHFxajJheKyNB6sLxXE

Huge thanks to everyone who made the track:
Synth + production - Sam Grant at Blank Studios
Drums - Chris McManus
BV's + lead gtr - Melanie Baker

And to everyone else who made 'Rest of My Life possible:
💜 Youth Music
💛 Help Musicians
🧡 Arts Council England

Shakk and Jordan at BBC Music Introducing for continued support 🥲💕

Chelsea Wood for being their at every step💛
📸 - Charlotte Chappel - Filmmaker

06/10/2023

18/09/2023

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18/09/2023

Shadow Work, from the album 'Citrinitas', recorded live in performance at Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, 18th April 2023.John Pope Quintet - 'Cit...