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 Mark (Mad Hat) Stuart's website

Mark V Stuart is a professional sound engineer, producer, composer,  who has been working in sound recording and music production ​in the West Midlands for over 40 years. Recently the proprietor of M2 Studios,
​Mark is now freelance and available as engineer/ producer for studio sessions. He is also available for mixing, editing, compiling audio material. Mark has recently embarked on his composing and writing skills and has released 5 albums of instrumentals recorded some 30 years ago. They are available to buy and if interested in using them as backing for TV, Film. Adverts etc they are available for use. Please see our blog. 

CONTROL ROOM



​Monitoring:
Adam T7V Active Monitors
​Yamaha HS5 Active Monitors

Computers and Hardware:  
Macbook Pro M3Max c/w Focusrite 18i20 3rd gen       
Mac Pro running Pro Tools HD3 with Digidesign 96

RECORDING 

Recording can be done at a studio of your preference, however, Mark has a great deal for dry hire use of Magnum Studios and the new M2 Studios facility. Certain overdubs, editing, mixing and mastering would be done at my premises.  

RATES

FROM £20 P/HOUR ( excludes any studio dry hire costs)
​More information about our prices here

MADE AT M2

A couple of examples of videos featuring audio made by Mark and Sheena whilst at M2 Studios

TESTIMONIALS

A BRIEF HISTORY OF MARK ​

Working originally at  Switch Music in the early 1980s as a 4-track music demo studio, in the late 1980s the name changed to Mad Hat Studios and recording equipment changed to multitrack analogue tape (16 track then 24), which brought the studio in to the professional end of the market.​
Mark Viner Stuart in recording studio staffs Wolverhampton coven
Control Room at old M2 2016
Over the years the studios continued to upgrade and expand and now recording and mixing is based around Avid Pro Tools. 
Mark has a great ‘track’ record for quality production recordings of all genres of music from metal and hard rock bands to brass bands, from bhangra acts to hip hop, from folk music artists to jazz combos and continues to do so.

CLIENT LIST

A non exhaustive selection of clients who have worked with Mark / Sheena / Mad Hat / M2 Studios  - we’ve got the whole alphabet!
The Adventure Babies  Angel House  Angels Or Kings  Apache Indian  Assert  Al Atkins  Avantasia Azaad  Balaam And The Angel  Big Wolf Band  Michael Billington  Morgan Birch 
Black Hawks  Sunjay Brain  Breed 77  Bushburys  Chaosaroma  Cherry Bomb  Circles  Cloven Hoof  The Core  Dante Fox  Tim Dawkes  Daylight Robbery  Mike De Jager  Devil’s Revolver  Diamond Head  Liam Doherty  Rebecca Downes   Drag  Drift Horse Driving South Electric Enemy  Electus  Façade  Faith Lords  
Liz Fields  Geet Gentle Giant  Paul Gooderham  Jane Gould  Mark Hancox Highway Dave & The Varmints  
Holy Rage  Iconic Eye  King Of Lies  Kornastone  Latina Heat  Jim Lea   Simon Lees  Light and Life   The Lovehounds  Lunar Portem  M3 Classic Whitesnake Magnum  Marshall Law  Rodney Matthews  Mechanical Hearts  Mighty Lemon Drops  Mike Davids Band Tony Mills  David Moore Band  Eddie Morton  Nikki Murray  Native Cain  N'betweens Neds Atomic Dustbin  Never Stay Down New Saints  Occuer  Mat Partridge  
Pause 2 Pos  Robert Plant  Pop Will Eat Itself  Quest Of Angels  Redbeards   Reggae Welchman  Redline  Resonance   Gerry Riley  
S-X  Serpentine  Shy  Shyyne   Sig & The Fire Pilots Slade  Anthony Small  Michael Smallwood Soley Mourning   Mike South  Speed Theory  Stampede  Stone Broken  Surge  Switch 7  Texmanians  Theia  Thunder   TNT  Transam Tokyo Storm Tone Tone  Trishula  TYL  Under A Banner  Alex Vann  Vonics   Voodoo Sioux  Voodoo Six  Waking The Angel  Watermark  White Crow  Daz Whitehouse  Steve Whitney Band  The Wholls  Karl Wilcox  
Wild Flowers  Wonderstuff  Xentrix  Zy records
​Mark V stuart
Availability to suit:

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