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A unique recording space in Kentish Town with a great selection of new and vintage gear and a warm, creativity-inspiring atmosphere.

A mix of classic, vintage analogue and modern digital equipment, two different recording spaces and a separate writing room

23/03/2026

with .armstrong in for a tracking session for some of Jack’s songs. Thanks for stopping by guys! ✨🎸

19/02/2026

Just got hands on this beautiful object - Rain & Cymbals by Material Things and Pike feat. on drums and percussion. Drum recording done here at MAP, engineering. Out now on .isle 🙌☔️🥁

16/10/2025

Just got my copy of this!
Opening Time by with and
~ recording and mix by me () Tracking was done at Fish Factory - assisting. Mixing here at MAP. Mastering by ~

07/09/2025

The studio control room providing the back drop for some very very important regarding and her engagement 🤔
We’re always up for being a backdrop / location for your film / music video / news story… get in touch! 🤙

05/09/2025

Some pics from a fun session a few weeks ago… nice to welcome back former studio regular in collaboration with another regular .perlin
Otis is a master of Congolese soukous guitar playing and can construct intricate tapestries of blissful melodies on his beautiful Gibson Les Paul custom 🎸💆🏻‍♂️
This will be part of Flo’s new collaborative EP. Looking forward to more fun sessions like this one!

03/09/2025

Some moody shots from three days tracking and videoing for a beautiful and very complex arrangement of a Welsh folk tune by .music
feat. Wales and Birminghams finest and

14/07/2025

tracking vocals and synth for some new material. Louis and Asher are new editions to the MAP family, having taken on one of the writing rooms long term. It was great to do some work with them and jam on some fun toys - namely the Korg Micro X and Kaossilator!

10/07/2025

GEAR FOCUS: Weird mics!!
Sometimes you just need a bit of ‘weird’ to spice things up…
1. The Telephone
A classic home brew conversion knocked up in house from a cheap old phone and an XLR. Sounds exactly as you’d expect but… has more uses than you’d perhaps imagine. For instance it makes for a cool VERY trashy drum room mic
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2. The Dictaphone
We have a couple of these Sony dictaphones knocking around, this one has the best mic with the least internal noise… it’s still pretty noisy tbf! Capable of very cool compression and saturation effects. Has a pitch control and half speed mode for extreme lo fi madness.
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3. The Talkback Mic
A 60’s RFT 622. A very well made German omnidirectional dynamic mic. Can tolerate massive amounts of SPL / getting trodden on. Generally gets put in mad places ie on a tiled floor, taped to a toilet wall etc but also sounds great on guitar cabs

09/07/2025

Great to have in for a batch of sessions recording bits for a soundtrack to a forthcoming feature film - viola, cello plus a dizzying array of recorders of various shapes and sizes courtesy of inc. a Great Bass and Pietzold Bass (AKA the Ikea recorder) 🤯
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Also present were Rich (viola)
Maddie (cello) and at the controls

20/06/2025

GEAR FOCUS: Delay ay ay ay ays… We have a respectable, well curated selection here at MAP taking various forms - tape echo, rack classics and ‘boutique’ guitar pedals.
Some of our favourites…
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Roland RE 301 - the 70’s green flavour of the classic tape delay. The 301 has the added chorus feature - sounds amazing on guitars and vocals
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Lexicon PCM 41 - an early digital delay with a really extreme modulation. This unit can do tasteful, sure but where it gets really fun is using it to create weird warped and chewed textures
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Boss DD3 - a really basic utilitarian pedal that always sounds great. Has that magic ‘sounding right’ effect on guitars.
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Honourable mentions to the Lexicon PCM 70 and Eventide H3000 and their v useful precisely controlled tempo sync’d delays. They get a lot of use!

18/06/2025

Great couple of days with and her cohort, on bass .music on resonator plus special guest vocalist and on Celtic flute
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The majority of the tracking was done live in our upstairs space with a couple of screens and careful mic placement. It’s always a slight gamble - musicians have to manage their individual levels in the room but it worked great with these guys and when it works it really captures something hard to define. An ‘energy in the room’ is usually what I call it! ✨

Address

Map Studio Cafe, 46 Grafton Road
London
NW53DU

Website

http://mapstudiocafe.com/

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