Sound Ideas is a 32 Track Protools studio based in Newcastle Australia. The studio is owned & run by multi-instrumentalist & sound engineer Robbie Long. The studio has been in operation since 2002, and during this time has built a strong reputation and loyal clientele by providing local talent with a professional & reliable service. The studio boasts high quality equipment, a friendly & efficient service, and a 'musical' approach to recording which is sympathetic to a wide variety of musical styles - from hard rock to country, from acoustic roots to world, from jazz to classical.
Services include:
-General recording services on-site - from solo artists up to live bands
-Off-site ‘mobile’ recording – live performances, theatre, bands etc.
-Recording workshops – tutoring – demonstrations
-In-house session musicians – guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, percussion, mandolin, dobro etc. A complete musical backing track can be created for singer-songwriters or soloists.
-Assistance with musical arrangements.
-Assistance with production/mixing/mastering
Guitarist Robbie Long is a multi-instrumentalist who has covered miles of styles in his weird & wonderful career. He has been a ‘working man’s musician’ since leaving school, walking the boards with countless acts on stages and in studios over the past twenty years in Australia, New Zealand and Europe and Ireland. Although Rob has jazz/rock foundations, he has gathered tools from a spectrum of musical genres through his musical journeys, adding spice and depth to his playing.
As well as playing solo, Rob tours regularly with his bluegrass/newgrass band ‘The Lawnmowers’, and with singer-songwriter Kate Fagan. He has also worked with festival acts such as Totally Gourdgeous, Gilly Darby, Waiting for Guinness and Glenys Rae Virus. Locally in Newcastle he occasionally works with Dave Andrews (Ultra Swing Lounge), Anthony Snape, Maureen O’Brien, and Limerick.
Rob has performed at many of Australia’s major festivals, including Woodford, The National Folk Festival, Port Fairy, Illawarra Folk Fest, and Tamworth. His band The Lawnmowers was featured on The Daily Planet on Radio National 2007. A respected Australian guitarist, he has also performed onstage with a host of legendary Aussie guitar pickers, including Rod MCormack, Phil Emmanuel, Micheal Fix, Bruce Mathiske and Lloyd Spiegel.
THE GENERAL MANAGERS WIN THEIR WAY INTO SURFEST FESTIVAL The General Managers came eqaul first in "THE LOFT BAND COMP" last friday night in Newcastle, and now are opening for the Surfest festival at Newcastle Panthers......... hope you can make it!!!!
I will have you know Roberto i actually like eggplants - its just the bad rap they get from the majority of the aubergine = berenjena = brinjal = garden egg = egg apple = patlican = melongene = melanzane = Guinea squash - Haters........
heya..fancy seeing you here....being new to this form of communication and all it's amazing who you find and who finds you...have been seeing novocastrians more online than off..anyway....see from your comments there is a new bub .,..congrats...lots of late nights in many ways hey..gigs and babys...hey do you know anywhere local or good if not local to get cds pressed and cases done...thought you might be the man to know...looks like the studio is going great and you're real busy! i'd like to come back and do a bit more recording in the near future..anyway..bound to see you at a gig sooner or later..i'm going to start playing a lot in a couple of months..hopefully anyway..have a cd to launch..anyway..hope you and your family are well and happy....k
Hey how's it going Rob? Still can't thank you enough for your brilliant work on our album.Everyone comments on how good the production is.We are now selling well overseas and we have been getting heaps of work out of it Australia Wide. Oh did i mention we sold out within 4 MONTHS!! Song writing is well underway for second album.See you soon,Mark
It was our pleasure to come to the show and support your talent. After nearly 20 years of playing I still can't believe how just one guitar can be such a powerful instrument of expression... in the right hands that is! And you blew us away. I reckon would've quietened a few Sydney-siders too.
Also loved your slide work.
And as for a pick, yeah (I say shaking). I'll impress all of my four licks onto the gathering, should be quite underwhelming in the company present. Seriously though, that would be a great thing to do. Wear fire retardant clothes though and hope that there is no naked flame around when the two banjo's strike up... volatile!
hey robbie, it aint the prettiest studio I've worked in but MAN you get a fabulous sound!!! so i can't wait for my next project at Sound Ideas. see you in august. moz
Wow! Congratulations on the new bub! How exciting... Yeah, excuse my ignorance - I hardly ever watch telly and never read the paper so didn't realise Newcastle had been hit by those storms until a coupla days ago. And that ship is huge! May it be moved soon! Enjoy the new baby land :) xo
Hey Robbie! Great to see your studio online :) Hope to catch up again soon, dunno where, but whenever and wherever it is, I know it'll be good times :) Cheers! Bec xo :)
hey robbie, good to see the studio in myspace...i'll have to do the same for dog and bear when i get around to it. hopefully catch you at maldon if we're in vic then.
Yeah- Rob, Basement will be awesome, Cant Wait!! What a lineup, eh! Been doing much lawnmowing lately? Sorry- had to throw that one in! Looking forward to rehersals on the 9th!
Cheers,
Joe
hey there rob! Thanks for findig us here i cyber world. My buffffffffering is buffed up and i can't hear ur tracks, but i will be back:) apart from that, good luck with basement gig...such an awesome venue. C u at the lass, yeah? love from duke
Hi Robbie!
Yes, we're actually heading into the studio in a month so hopefully we make an album that we're happy with and makes our suporters pleased. Thanks for the support. Don't worry we'll get the word out when it comes, and would love to do a gig in Newcastle sometime...
Keep in touch and take care..
Groove it up...
respect
TD
Fantastic to see you up and running on Myspace Robbie. Can't recommend your studio too highly to anyone looking for a quality recording at a sane price!! The 4 new tracks I recorded with the band in January came up astoundingly well. My producer said it was one of the EASIEST files he'd ever received with minimal editing required. HOWZAT for a recommendation!!!
thanks a heap
maureen o'
