Captains Quarters sound design studio

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Welcome to Captains Quarters – a sound design, audio mixing and music studio based in East Lothian, Scotland.

The studio, housed in a 17th century school house in rural East Lothian, is owned and run by Michael Begg.

As well as sound design, composition and post production for TV, film and media, the facility offers production, mixing and mastering, as well as audio restoration and vocal improvement services.

This is a Logic based studio, supported by limited hardware/outboard, and a comprehensive collection of digital tools, plug-ins and sample libraries.

Michael Begg is a recording and performing artist as well as a sound designer with almost 20 years experience in digital recording. A full bio can be found here: Michael Begg Bio

Services

Sound Design
Sound design and composition for media and theatre, post production mixing

Original Music

Mixing
Straight comping, or something more creative. Your call.

Mastering
We may – or may not be – suitable as a mastering solution for your project. We are wholly digital, and we only master for CD/Digital. We’ll be happy to recommend and advise on other mastering houses if your project doesn’t easily fit

Audio restoration
We clean up audio – improve on location audio, reduce background noise, housework, nips’n’tucks

Vocal Improvement
We can correct – or radically alter – pitching, timing in your vocal track, whilst maintaining a natural delivery. Or we can make you sound like Cher.