WELCOME TO 
 Mark (Mad Hat) Stuart's website

Mark V Stuart is a professional sound engineer, producer, composer, 
Mark has been working in sound recording and music production for over 40 years.
Previosly the proprietor of M2 Studios until April 2024,
​Mark is freelance and available as engineer/ producer for studio sessions of your choice.
He is also available for mixing, editing, compiling audio material and mastering.
Mark has recently embarked on his composing and writing skills
Some are available to buy on many sites as downloads and can be heard here on Spotify.
Mark is also promoting this material for use as backing for TV, film, adverts and synchronisation. 
​Rights are "one stop" 
Please contact Mark for playlists should you be interested

Mark's CONTROL ROOM


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

Computers and Hardware:  
Macbook Pro M3Max c/w Focusrite 18i20 3rd gen       

RECORDING 

Recording can be done at any studio of your preference, however, Mark can get deals for dry hire of studios local.
Certain overdubs, editing, mixing and mastering can be be done at my own premises. I also have a small mobile 8 track set up, which is ideal for acoustic acts or rough demoes and can also arrange location recording if required.  

RATES

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

TESTIMONIALS

Mark Stuart - A BRIEF HISTORY ​

Mark started working at  Switch Music in the early 1980s which was a 4-track music demo studio. In the late 1980s the name changed to Mad Hat Studios and recording equipment upgraded  to multitrack analogue tape, initially 16 track and then then 24 track which brought the studio in to the professional end of the market. That studio closed in the late 1980s and Mark continued as a freelance engineer working primarily as house engineer at Revolver studios in Wolverhampton and Stanway Studios in Wednesbury. When those studios closed Mark decided to set up his own studio and took over the premises of Stairway studios in Walsall and renamed it Mad Hat Studios. This studio was set up with the help of the band Magnum who had been 'kicked out' of their set up at Zella Studios in Birmingham. Magnum had some equipment and, combined with some extra gear that Mark had acquired, Mad Hat version 2 was set up in Walsall. After 6 years Mark wanted to move out of central Walsall and was lucky enough to come across some premises in the countryside just north west of Wolverhampton and Mad Hat v3 was set up. This studio was a busy little studio for 20 years. Then around 2019, the  landlord of that building wanted to develop the premises into a residence and asked Mark if he would move out if he relocated him into a more bespoke set up. This happened in the middle of the Covid epidemic in late 2020. Mark carried on for a few years there and finally sold up the studio business in spring 2024. Not wanting to retire fully Mark has set up a very initimate seting at home. Without the stress of running a full on busines Mark can find time to work on his own projects under the pseudonym Viner Em, which he dabbled in in down time over the 30 odd years of running a studio. He also works with a cherry picked selection of clients, but is still interested in finding new artistes. He is also interested in collaborations on  more original material.​
Mark Viner Stuart in recording studio staffs Wolverhampton coven
Control Room at old M2 c2016
 
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
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