About Cut Snake Studio
Cut Snake is a small, one-room home/project recording studio under the flight path at St Peters.
The operating principles are love of music, DIY experimentation, spend time before money, and have fun.
Cut Snake has a special interest in African music, especially African guitar music.
Current projects
Okapi Guitars studio album, untitled.
Video projects with John Bennett: sound recording and editing.
Documentary video with Jo Morgan: Nabokov’s Lolita Riddle.
Past projects
Okapi Guitars Live@CutSnake. Recorded live in the studio.
Karifi (Ghanaian drumming group), supplementary recording for “Gome” CD.
Okapi Guitars Haram homebrew, released 2007.
Found poems in the shape of a piano John Bennett & John Laidler
Devices
Cut Snake uses SONAR for digital recording.
Some microphones we have:
Shure SM57
Sennheiser 441-U
AKG D112
Oktava MK219 and MK319
Kel HM-1 and HM-2D
Heil PR-400
Rode NT3
Karma K6 ribbon
t-bone RM700 ribbons, with mods
CAD M179
CAD Trion 7000 ribbon
etc.