ABOUT US - Stewart Peters' Bio & Soundshed Music's Recording Facility

 

Soundshed Music is run by husband and wife team Stewart Peters and Snez

Stewart Peters - Production and Songwriting Bio Stewart Peters has been writing, producing music for over 25 years. He plays guitar (acoustic, electric, nylon & bass), mandolin, keyboards, drums and is also a highly respected session singer. Stewart has also been involved as a songwriter/producer with various Australian performers and has performed on various national TV shows and has been signed with Warner-Chappell publishing (now with Alberts Publishing). Stewart has produced and written with Simone Hardy, Allan Caswell, Anita Spring, Glenn Cunningham, Penny Pavlakis,  Louie Shelton, Sarah Gardner, Snez, Jay Collie-Sommerville (Jonah’s Road), Felicity Urquhart, Belinda Adams among many other songwriters over the past 15 years. Awards include: winner of various sections of the of the ASAI awards on several occasions. Stewart has also represented Australia as a finalist with the prestigious Vina Del Mar Song Contest in Chile, finalist in the Yamaha International Song competition on several occasions, the Australian Song Competition in the early ‘90’s, finalist for the Gibraltar Song Competition and winner of the Blue Mountains Acoustic & Roots competition. As a producer, Stewart has a reputation for warm, relaxed honesty and openness with his co-writers and he specializes in mainly acoustic sounding productions, favouring acoustic guitars, natural drum sounds and pre-80’s keyboard sounds (acoustic piano, Wurlitzer, Rhodes, Hammond B3 sounds). Stewart can provide world class backing vocals, ranging from gospel choirs to operatic to Bon Jovi to Eagles style! And his expertise with guitars, bass guitar and drums (and more) all comes included with Soundshed Music’s hourly rate and package deal More detail: Cutting his production teeth alongside Vanda & Young (The Easybeats) while employed by Alberts Productions during the '80's, Stewart's skills as a producer are of note (the finest example existing in the chords and grooves of his own released music). In the late 80's he established his own facility "Soundshed Recording Studio". Like many others in the industry, he makes his living as a writer & producer for other songwriters and also for commercial jingles and soundtracks. As the singer songwriter and integral member of the 'MSP Band' in the 80's, the group released an album titled "Pieces" and toured extensively… and, of course, didn’t make a cent from it, but had a lot of fun :) Stewart has released 6 solo albums since 1998. Go to his website www.stewartpeters.com to hear samples of his albums

Snez - Songwriting & Performing Bio Snez is a highly experienced and respected, multi-award winning performer and singer-songwriter. She has released several albums, the latest of which is 'Gypsy Soul', released through Regal Records and MGM. She has also won and been a finalist in various songwriting competitions. As a performer, Snez has toured her music extensively throughout Australia. Snez is also a Music Performance Coach, helping singer-songwriters, bands and solo artists get the best out of their live performances and enhance their Stage Presence. You can check out her music and find out more information about Snez at www.snez.com.au   Artwork and Graphic Design Snez is also a highly regarded graphic designer. We offer a complete artwork service for CD's, posters, flyers and even email newsletters. Contact Snez on snez@soundshed.com.au

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The Soundshed Music Recording Facilty "... Soundshed Music Studio is a very relaxed, friendly and highly professional atmosphere ... " Soundshed is based in the beautiful upper Blue Mountains about 1 ½ hour’s drive west of Sydney. Our rooms consist of an integrated large brick-walled recording and control room, and a similar sized recording room approx. 70 sq metres in total. There are several other semi-sound proofed smaller rooms available. Because of the brick walls and soft furnishings, this room sounds great with vocal and acoustic guitar sounds. We are not set up for loud full-band recordings, preferring to record drums and bass first (with guide vocals/guitars) and overdub guitars, vocals and other instruments separately. We specialize in producing broadcast quality tracks for solo singer songwriters, utilising Stewart’s ability as a singer and musician to add almost any instruments you may need to your song. Stewart’s experience as a successful songwriter is also handy when it comes to song structure and production   Soundshed Music's Equipment List Soundshed runs Nuendo 3 recording software with a MOTU soundcard. Nuendo is the same software used by Mark Knopfler and many high-end producers and movie studios. Many world class audio professionals consider it as the best sounding Digital Audio System and one of the world's most powerful digital audio production workstations Instruments Guitars and Stringed: Martin acoustic guitar, Yamaha classical acoustics, Fender Precision Lite Bass guitar, Fender Stratocaster, Gretsch semi acoustic, Dobro, Mandolin, Ukulele, lap slide guitar Other Instruments: YAMAHA C3 GRAND Piano, Gretsch Drum kit, Acoustic Victor upright piano, Roland TD3 electronic drum kit, melodica, Congas, Bongos and various percussion instruments Plug in/ VST Instruments Native Instruments Akoustik Piano and B4 (Hammond organ), Lounge Lizard (Wurlitzer and Rhodes electric pianos), Pro 53 (Prophet 5) synthesiser, BFD 2 acoustic drums (stunning sound), Amplitube guitar amp simulator, Trilogy Acoustic/ electric & double Bass, Atmosphere synthesizer, Stylus RMX groove module, EW Symphonic Orchestra (arguably the best sampled orchestral sounds in the world), harmonium   Microphones Nuemann U87, U89, Rhode NTK1, AKG 451, AKG D112, various Rhode, Shure and Electrovoice Plug ins: include Waves, UAD1 (including UAD 1176, Fairchild, EMT Plate, Pultec etc), PSP vintage warmer and many others. For vocalists we are highly experienced with Auto tune and Melodyne … these vocal utilities are absolutely essential these days. There are virtually no professional singers who don’t use some kind of vocal tuning/ tweaking software – even the ones who don’t admit it :)

 

Contact

For more information and if you have any songwriting, recording or production questions at all, please contact us:

(02) 4787 7653
or just call us from any landline, anywhere in Australia and
we'll call you straight back at our expense