Redbarn Rocks!

You need many strings to your bow to work in the recording business these days. Stuart Duncan may not play the fiddle, but here is a man with a passion for making music sound good…and playing with our publisher too!!

by The publisher in question

The Redbarn Recording Studio is located on a farm just outside Longforgan, at Monorgan Farm to be precise. Based above an old barn with big red doors, there is a lovely sense of calm on the outside at least.

Inside is a different matter. Rock, Punk, Blues, Folk, Classical, Opera and advertising jingles, it all goes on inside this great big barn amidst the surrounding gentleness that is Perthshire’s agricultural landscape.

The Redbarn Studio actually only started out 14 years ago as a music room for Stuart and Gillian Duncan, enabling them to work on their own material and projects. As friends and colleagues got to hear about it they started booking the studio out but as yet, has mainly survived on "word of mouth"…a well-kept secret till now!

As well as many top artistes and bands in the scottish and folk scenes, other clients have included BBC, Tern Television, Radio Tay to name but a few, and more recently, even our very own Original Windows Rockin for kids venture with Stuart on bass and piano, Gill with some lovely backing vocals.

Stuart has recorded many Radio jingles including the very successful "the sidey man can" which has been running for approx 10years in various disguises on Tay FM/AM.

CD manufacturing can now be offered to clients too. The studio has recently invested in High Definition video cameras and is starting to produce music DVD's for clients - for resale or advertising/publicity purposes.

At present the studio is running most days/nights and hopefully the trend will continue.

With the warm welcome and homely surroundings, it's a great place to make music.

For a studio starting with a humble 8 track up through 16 and 24 track to the Protools used now…the cutting edge of technology is no stranger here at Monorgan.