and on you tube      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrcSrBaa2Ts

She must be one of the most amazing singers we have worked with in over 30 years of producing vocals – pretty much every thing was brilliant first take – soulful, in tune, gorgeous tone. And to top it all off she is really nice and looks like a pop star. We’ve also now hugged someone who has hugged Jessie J, and so are all properly starstruck. Here she is with Lizzie, resident vocal producer, and no slouch herself when it comes to blistering vocals and harmonies.

Michael, who came in to record some continuity jingles for a new show on CBeebies, kindly posed for a picture with studio manager and poetry enthusiast Izzy:

And on the other side of the glass, our equally-photogenic director Richard

From voiceover production, to radio commercials, to ELT songs and audio books, the audio projects here in Oxford have all been a joy to work on. In the few months I’ve been here we have welcomed through the doors a whole host of talented composers, singers, voiceover artists and actors. Having so many experienced professionals to work with makes casting and booking a nice easy job!

I’ll be sure to keep in touch with everyone here at TDD, and wish them the best of luck in all future projects…

The post-production facilities will be worked hard over the next few weeks, as we edit 4 more audio books in this project over the next few weeks. However, with such a dedicated team, there won’t be any problems seeing this exciting audio project come into fruition!

Today it is the turn of the spoken word… Charles Armstrong is currently in our studio recording a series of audio books and accompanying comprehensions, designed to teach children English. He is such an experienced talented actor, especially in the field of voice recording, that we have no doubt that the session will be a great success.

One of the highlights of July came with the band session day,  set up to record live backing for a set of ELT songs aimed at 9-10 year old Spanish children. We were delighted to welcome back the extremely talented drummer Frosty, guitarist Denny Ilett and bassist Raph Mizraki, as well as our very own musician cum songwriter Richard Lewis. We all had a lot of laughs and the band produced some absolutely fantastic music. Later that week, singers Natalie Taylor and Bobby Callaghan kicked off the vocal recording for this batch of ELT audio, swiftly followed by Jem Cooke, Richard Oliver and J0 Servi early the next week. As to be expected these sessions were a great success too.

July also witnessed a recording session for the first in a list of audio book titles that Tom Dick and Debbie are producing for a well-renowned publishing house. We love working with Charles Armstrong, and so were delighted that he was providing the voice for this book, and the voice recording went without a hiccup!

Last week, our recording studios played host to renowned MP Nadine Dorries, who came in to offer up her spoken word for a voiceover that will appear on an episode of BBC’s The One Show about the over-sexualisation of modern society.

As you can tell we have been kept on our toes throughout July, and had a lot of laughs along the way… bring on August!