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CASE STUDIES - ALBUM PROJECT

Solas

solas produced by iain mckinna

MUSIC PRODUCTION PROCESS

The studio tech and gear used to create 
the music of Solas

RECORDING GEAR

EMU KEYBOARD
ADAT RECORDERS
AMEK HENDRIX MIXER
NEUMANN U87 & AKG MICS

INSTRUMENTS

VOCALS
GUITARS
BASS
PERCUSSION
DRUMS
KEYS

MASTERING

AMEK HENDREIX MIXER
URIE COMPRESSORS
URIE LIMITERS

Solas by Talitha MacKenzie

When Talitha MacKenzie first approached Iain McKinna to produce tracks on the album, Iain told her she'd got the wrong guy, that he wasn't a folk/world music producer. Talitha said, "That's why I want you to do it."

Other tracks on the album were produced by Chris Birkett, whose production credits include Buffy St Marie & Steve Earle.
Initially Talitha came to the Offbeat studio and I programmed beats to the Gaelic chants and songs into a EMU EPS16+ keyboard. We then went into Palladium Studios to add the musical parts played by the session musicians we had sourced for the album.

We eventually fomed a band from these musicians to promote the album around the UK and Europe and Canada. Also touring Scotland as support act for Runrig.

Reviews

""their music jumps straight out of the speakers" 

BBC Introducing

"You Inspire Me by Edinburgh’s Harmonic Overdrive did exactly that to me"

Tom Robinson BBC Radio 6

  • ONE VOICE - WORLD MUSIC NETWORK
  • The Harmonics
    Ted McKenna with Harmonic Overdrive
    Harmonics Percussion
RECORDED AND PRODUCED FOR BBC TV BY IAIN McKINNA AT PALLADIUM STUDIOS EDINBURGH

BBC /STV 

by TALITHA MACKENZIE BAND
TALITHAMACKENZIE - LEAD VOCALS
IAIN McKINNA - GUITAR
NIALL MUIR - BASS
DAVE HASWELL - PERCUSSION
MIKE NOLAN - KEYBOARDS
NICK COOK - DRUMS

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