South Street Studio

21/08/2026

Here's Weka Records West Coast Compilation Number Four recorded, mixed, mastered and manufactured here at South Street Studio.

Available now on digital download and CD from Bandcamp. 🙂

11 track album

21/08/2026

Here's Aussie blues-a-roo Ash Grunwald on the stage at Hokitika's Regent Theatre on Thursday night playing a great gig to a great crowd. And sticking into the back of his cajón is our silver blue JTS NX2 kick drum mike - another of our el-cheapo mikes we brought in Sydney decades ago for not a lot of money. Oft compared to a Beta 52A or e602 it's done sterling work live and in the studio over the years. A keeper for sure.

And somewhere on the stage is one of our Klark Teknik active di's doing something useful.

Always happy to lend a hand. 🙂

17/08/2026

https://sandrabell.bandcamp.com/track/the-court-of-love-single

Great to see our dear friend Sandra get the first of two of her tunes that we recorded here last year out. The other will come on the EP release of the same name on the 28th August. Woohoo. 🙂

track by Sandra Bell

17/05/2026

"Can you help by doing the live sound for Superbrain's 'Next to Normal' musical at our local Regent Theatre with 6 singer/actors and a 6 piece live band?"

Sure. Last rehearsals today with opening night next Wednesday. Challenging but fun. 🙂

River the studio doggo got banned from rehearsals for inappropriate barking. 😏

18/04/2026

Our annual trip to our "Art on the Park" exhibition has netted this cool painting from our local art group 'Art4Me'. It's Colin James Willis's groovy "Spotty Stingrays'. A steal at 30 bucks.

Tomorrow we'll get it up and hanging in the main mix room along with our other Art4Me treasures.

No doubt it will end up as album artwork along with all the others we've bought these last few years.

Aces. 😁

10/04/2026

Hurrah, the first release for 2026 on Weka Records is the Runanga Blues Band's inaugural album 'Home Again' recorded, mixed, mastered and manufactured right here at South Street Studio.

12 months in the making we are really proud of it.

As they oft say over in Aus.... "Go you good things."

10 track album

10/04/2026

And second up today is The Runanga Blues Band's 'Live at the Barrytown Settlers Hall.' Ably recorded by our resident wizard audio engineer Anton Harris and proudly mixed and mastered here at South Street Studio. Wacko. 😋

15 track album

07/04/2026

A big thanks to our neighbour Rob for the donation of this uber cool G H & S banjolele made in Birmingham UK, probably in the late 40's / early 50's. It plays & sounds great. The George Formby album we already had. 🙂

26/03/2026

'Barkley' the studio doggo - who's real name is River. Until he hears something he doesn't like that is. So far the Runanga Blues Band's masters seem to have passed. 🙂