Tiberius Audio

07/03/2025

Nice bit of multi-tracking with Firegarden last night, a fun secret (for now) project. Keep an eye out on the Firegarden band page for the reveal.

22/02/2025

Something a little different today, a small rig setup in HMV Leeds for Adele De'Ath to launch sales of the debut CD in store.

27/12/2024

Powerlines festival early bird ticket deal is nearly up, have you got yours yet?

Four days left to grab discounted tickets to Powerlines festival, grab ‘em while ya can 🤘🏻

https://Powerlines2025.eventbrite.co.uk

29/09/2024

It’s not always faders and amps at Tiberius Audio, today I’m attempting to prepare a score for Adele De'Ath’s live project.

30/08/2024

Do you like power metal? Do you shred the axe? Adele’s project might be just what you’ve been looking for!

10/08/2024

Tonight I’m the other side of the desk.

📢TONIGHT!!📢

We are playing The Church House in Sheffield. Free entry show, kicks off at 9.30pm. Don't be late!

24/05/2024

Live engineering today, cracking line up coming up at Shakespeare this afternoon.

13/05/2024

Off to the lakes for a week for a break then back to it with a live engineering gig and a bit of studio work.
Have a great week everyone!

22/04/2024

If you’ve not got plans this weekend, or even if you have, change em and get yourself along to the Hallumshire House on Saturday night and catch these awesome doods.

Yass flowers, tis this week (Saturday) that we have this barnstorming rowdy rock and roll fest up at the The Hallamshire House with T.C & The Hoodoo Shakers for Honey Bee Blues Club 😎😎

FREE entry so you can fill your bellies with moonshine (or other legally provided liquids from behind the bar)

18/04/2024

Off up the North-east this weekend, I’ll be in front of the amps for this though 👍

Sat 20th April High Howdon Social Club! Entertainment time - Concert room doors open at 6:30 and the entertainment commences 8:30. Arguably, the entertainment starts as soon as Rob starts to set up his keyboard stand 🤣. See ya there!

16/04/2024

Oooh lawd, it’s coming!

Stream and Pre-save She's So Lonely - Distributed by DistroKid

17/01/2024

Had the privilege of recording the awesome dudes in Yesterday's Gone at the weekend. Now begins the mixing process….

09/01/2024

When I'm recording electric guitars I prefer to mike the amplifier (well, the cab in the case of a stack). A dynamic mike just off axis , away from the cone centre and placed close to the cab front gives a great starting point.
Too directly pointed in to the cone centre gives a very bright and harsh tone and coming away (sideways) from the centre reduces the mid-range. Distance (in front) from the speaker rolls off the bass response, so I like to keep it pretty close. These three variables allow me to capture a rich, balanced tone.

Sometimes it's not possible to record the amp at volume (a bedroom studio, a noisy studio atmosphere, a tube pops on the session), but a few options are still open: Cab simulation in fancy, modern FX pedals like the Helix, Quad Cortex and Kemper can substitute for at-volume production using DI to capture only the guitar sound source but another alternative is re-amping.

If you can capture the guitar tracks, through the pedal chain and into a DI, you'll have no spill from external sound source. You can then, at a later time, feed this signal back through your amp and record it as if it miked up in the first place. This is process is called Re-amping.

How do you prefer to capture guitars? What's your favourite mike to use when recording electric guitar?

03/01/2024

Another Firegarden track from the archives today. March 2023 saw the release of Hot Mama recorded live in the rehearsal room with overlaid vocals and solos. This track saw Danny Vernon's recording debut and Jake Mann on Key's added to the mix.

Check it out on Firegarden's Bandcamp!

01/01/2024

Last year saw a milestone for me as a musician and a studio engineer, our first vinyl!

Firegarden were invited to contribute to a Budgie commemorative anniversary album celebrating 50 years of the release of Never Turn Your Back On a Friend.

I recorded Firegarden's performance of Baby Please Don't Go and it was sent off to Pale Wizard Records for mastering and inclusion on the record.

This album is available in both digital and physical media on Pale Wizard's Bandcamp

30/12/2023

Something a bit different today, a promo photo/video shoot session for the function band The Patriots UK
This was from a static Canon 750D. I stripped the audio out to EQ and master separately then put it back over the video.
I'm quite pleased with the result (and the band were too!)

29/12/2023

Up next, I engineered Adele De'Ath's vocals on her track Skin Hunger.

Adele came to me with a great track produced by the awesome Renzo Calma that she wanted to add her vox to.

Check out Adele De'Ath on Spotify

28/12/2023

First up, with a bit of a plug for my own band, Firegarden with the 2022 single and video release 80s Sci-fi Movie Space Battle.

This was tracked live in the rehearsal studio with guitar solo and vocals overlaid afterwards.