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Music recording studio A secluded homely bunker full of musical treasures lovingly cared for by drLee Prebble. Located in Wellington, New Zealand.

03/07/2024

23/05/2024

Paddy Burgin & the Wooden Box Band have just finished recording a new album, and like we’ve done before Paddy makes me a guitar as payment. This time it’s a beautiful nylon string classical (sandwiched between Big Birchy & Little Birchy). Euro spruce on the top, rosewood back and sides. It’s a real beaut. And so is the album.

12/05/2024

The Trident Trimix has been retired and a Trident 88 has moved in. Bit of rewiring and rejigging but the dust has settled and a week of tracking completed without a hitch. Love it when all the cables work. Thanks to Bonnie for quality control.

01/03/2024

It’s been a buzzy week, working on a song that I can’t really talk about, but I can say I got to record a Hurdy Gurdy for the first time. What a beautiful instrument, made by Trevor Cole. I’d read they can be quite harsh so I miced it with a royer stereo ribbon, but this particular instrument was very smooth, for a hurdy gurdy. I just wanna say that one more time; Hurdy Gurdy. Hurdy. Gurdy. Ok once more. Hurdy Gurdy

28/02/2024

New preamp. Runs off 9v. Sounds good when the red light is on.

22/02/2024

LAB VI is out today, here's a little making of video put together by Mīharo........

19/02/2024

On the weekend we had in the studio and this week we have , both working on new material. What a treat to still be working with these bands after 20 plus years

25/10/2023

Ooosh, the HVS fair is always a sweet time. Great food, clothes, toys, books and games plus I’ll be running a Phat (yes i purposely used a capital P) sound system with heaps of great performers performing. This Saturday, Wellingtonians.

24/10/2023

21/09/2023

Quite a strange output on this midi keyboard from the 70’s…..

30/08/2023

11/08/2023

Delicately designed dampening system

30/06/2023

Beautiful send off today for Paul Huggins. Lots of beautiful words for a beautiful man. I Listened to Trinity Roots ‘True’ when I got back to the studio, as Paul was a huge help getting it over the line, and getting it out on vinyl. ‘All the years of music and friendship’, and I have no doubt he will continue to inspire many musical endeavors. RIP Paul.

20/05/2023

Big ol’ live sesh with Jamie and the Numbers

08/05/2023

Thanks for another inspirational weekend.

27/04/2023

Remarkable book, (albeit pretty niche). Amazing journeys and stories about some pretty isolated and challenging places to live, let alone transport a grand piano there!

19/02/2023

This morning I was listening to side 1 for over 40 minutes before realizing it was skipping

11/02/2023

Weird and wonderful happenings with

17/01/2023

Ngā mihi o te tau hou Pākehā. Santa got me a new plant for xmas ?

06/10/2022

Another LAB album, another Te Kaipukaha Toa | Best Engineer nomination. Can we take it home this year.....?

01/09/2022

Big AlterBoy

21/08/2022

Guitars to the power of 4 with .nudge.nz

18/08/2022

Fun and games with sfx and a space echo

15/08/2022

Great vid for a great tuna

Recorded in Newtown, Wellington at Surgery Studios.Recorded and Mixed by Lee Prebble (Surgery Studios) Mastered by Josh Llewellyn (Downbeat Mastering) Video ...

27/07/2022

laying tracks with the tākuta lee prebble Surgery Studios

dropping 7pm this Sat 30 July

08/07/2022

Hide the drummer

28/06/2022

In the NZ album charts this week, 6 out of the top 10 went through the doors of the Surg: T-bone, recorded; Black Seeds, mixed and some recording; LAB, recorded and mixed.

16/06/2022

I like a good pencil. I’ve posted some of my previous favorite pencils before. This is my current fav, cos it’s also very clever merch from . A pencil for merch? Crazy idea.

09/06/2022

Pianos are full of sweet overtones which is generally great, but not so great for a tight sk**ky skank. But a transient designer can tighten that piano right up. Tight tight alright. Too funky? I don’t think so.

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New console getting a good workout last week with #theireyeswereflowers

It’s been a while since I’ve done a post, bit too preoccupied with recording, mixing, swimming, repairing, mixing, yarning, swimming, tweaking, swimming and watching the world go by. Oh and also my side hustle peg repair business. Give those pegs another life ya’ll

A lot of fun to be had with an AM radio, phaser and tape delay…..

Had someone referencing the vocal effect from this Trinity Toots tune. Seeing as it’s almost 20 years old my memory can’t rememory the information of what we did, but opening up the session reveals it was the trusty TC D2 (knew there was a reason I hadn’t gotten rid of this unit) and the hugely underrated D-verb. Just wish I had the D-verb hardware unit….

Sometimes you stumble across a loop that just keeps you reel so you add it to your reel so that it keeps looping. Then the tape runs out and it’s time to go back to the reel world.

Very weird sounds emanating from this fine array of speakers. It’s not supposed to sound like this (protools is struggling to get up to speed this morning) but I’m very much enjoying what it’s doing. Spatial sounds at Massey School of music.

The Phantom Spider