Alex Marshall

Review of Soup Studios

Dave Holmes engineered and mixed my funk pop/rock ...

Dave Holmes engineered and mixed my funk pop/rock album at Soup Studios. It was reassuring that Dave and Giles were responsive and helpful in our email exchanges before the session. On the day, Dave was keen to get us comfortable in the space from the offset and was sensitive to the sound we were going for. We recorded live with a singer in the adjoining booth over two days and were really productive thanks to Dave working fast. He chipped in with some choice ideas for overdubs and tweaks to song arrangements. He was also just lovely to hang out with in the studio.

In the mixing stage, Dave turned our relatively rough and ready performances into a professional, punchy and sleek recording. He invited me to a couple of attended mixing sessions at his studio, but he did a lot of work on his own too. I felt from the beginning that Dave knew where we were coming from. I ll definitely work with Dave and Soup Studios again and wouldn t hesitate to recommend them to anyone.