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Mwnci Studios is a residential recording studio in rural Wales, specialising in recording, mixing and high quality music production.

 

Jethro and Owen in front of amp and cab wall at Mwnci

Welcome to Mwnci

Mwnci Studios is a purpose-built residential recording studio run by Jethro Chaplin and Owen Gurry. Nestled on the Rambling Dolwilym woodland estate, Mwnci Studios is the perfect blend of state of the art recording facility and artistic retreat.

We have a series of live rooms and booths that can be used for tracking any and all sources from voice, drums, guitars, and acoustic instruments. Special attention has been paid to facilitate live band recording.

We offer a relaxed and creative environment with an experienced team to realise your musical vision. The Carmarthenshire countryside makes a serene and distraction-free location for anyone wishing to get the most from their studio time.

Mwnci has hosted artist such as:

Sports Team, Cate Le Bon, Himalayas, Florence Black, Demob Happy, The Naked and Famous, Ginger Wildheart, Paul Cook (of the Sex Pistols), Michael Chapman, Daniel Blumberg, Oscar Lang, Sweet Baboo, Wolf People, Rhian Teasdale (Wet Leg), and The Wicked Rivers, just to name a few… 

Analogue warmth and flavour

The studio is based around a hybrid Neve-style recording setup. We have an extensive collection of preamps from AML, Hairball, AEA with a fully analogue, digitally controlled switching system. This is the perfect marriage of a state-of-the-art workflow and that warm analogue sound.

All the gear and equipment shown is available to bands and artists who want to record with our in-house producer(s). There is an extensive hire list available for visiting producers.

 

Mwnci Studios - Professional Recording and Sound Mixing

Three Live Rooms

We have three acoustically unique rooms with great isolation, whilst maintaining line of sight between band members.

Recording at Mwnci Studios

The Hub

The Hub is a medium-sized stone room with a French oak floor and large curtains for further acoustic control, featuring a huge collection of guitar cabinets.

The Live Rooms at Mwnci Studios

The Crocodile Room

The Crocodile Room is the largest room in the studio, with exposed bedrock and a wooden floor. It features a beautiful sounding Steinweg Gotrian 192 Grand Piano.

Recording Live Drums in the Drum and Vocal Booths at Mwnci Studios

Drum And Vocal Booths

The Booth is small tight and controlled, this room is ideal for vocals, drums, and percussion. It also opens out into a larger area for further acoustic control.

What We Do

Owen Gurry recording live drums at Mwnci Studios

Recording/Engineering

Mwnci Studios provides a professional, creative space with expert engineers, live rooms, a stocked mic locker, and all the amps you’ll ever need to perfect your sound.

The mixing desk at Mwnci Studios

Mixing

Our experienced engineers can mix your Mwnci recordings or pre-recorded projects, using top-tier monitoring to bring your vision to life.

Music production at Mwnci studios

Music Production

We offer a range of Production services including, arrangement, orchestration, additional instrumentation and composition.  

Guitar amps and cabs at Mwnci Studios

Guitar Amps and Cabinets

We have a huge collection of guitar amps and cabinets. From small vintage combos to large modern stacks all available with our in-house producers, or for hire for visiting producers.

Professional videography at Mwnci Studios

Videography and Social Media Content

We offer professional video recording to document your session, helping you create high-quality content for social media and marketing.

Accommodation at Mwnci Studios - Residential Recording Studio

Accommodation

Set in the Welsh countryside, Mwnci offers a tranquil, historic retreat perfect for focused work and creative inspiration in the studio and through on-site premium accommodation.

Mwnci should be added to the list of great British residential recording studios.  If you can’t make a good record here it won’t be the studio that’s at fault.  Excellent sounding live rooms, great monitoring and great mic preamps.  Location and accommodation are the cherries on the cake.  Highly recommended.

JIMMY ROBERTSON — ARCTIC MONKEYS / FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE

Great place to record. The recording room sounds well balanced and has a great air to it. Not too live – not too dead!

Lovin the ATCs in the control room and nice analogue mic pre amps to get everything sounding sweet… All in all a very rewarding experience.

Great countryside to charge up the inspiration batteries.

PETER WALSH — STEVIE WONDER/SCOTT WALKER

Our time at the studio was one of our absolute favorite tour memories.

THE NAKED AND FAMOUS

Absolutely loved working here, beautiful remote location, fantastic studio and engineer would 100% come back.

ROSALEE O’CONNELL — CHICANE/YOUNG GUNS

Beautiful, secluded location. The control room has a host of excellent pre-amps, all linked through Pro Tools. Great equipment available; amps, guitars, pedals, great mic collection. Cannot recommend it enough

BEN DAVIES — BLACK BOXES

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