A round-up of August's audio work at Offbeat, Edinburgh, from Canongate's Three Brothers in a Boat audiobook to ADR for Depop's Zara Larsson campaign.
A round-up of August's audio work at Offbeat, Edinburgh, from Canongate's Three Brothers in a Boat audiobook to ADR for Depop's Zara Larsson campaign.
A round-up of August's audio work at Offbeat, Edinburgh, from Canongate's Three Brothers in a Boat audiobook to ADR for Depop's Zara Larsson campaign.
A round-up of August's audio work at Offbeat, Edinburgh, from Canongate's Three Brothers in a Boat audiobook to ADR for Depop's Zara Larsson campaign.
A showcase of recent audiobook productions from Offbeat Audio, featuring titles by Olivia Laing, Alan Parks, Alexander McCall Smith, Sharon Blackie, Gabriella Bennett and more. From major publisher releases and bestselling crime fiction to memoir, history, business and fantasy, these projects highlight the range of audiobook recording, direction and production undertaken at Offbeat Audio’s Edinburgh studio.
Another amazingly diverse month at the studio with audiobooks, including Scotland's Makar Peter Mackay & The Optimised Human & Forever K Pop on tour
Another amazingly diverse month at the studio with audiobooks, including Scotland's Makar Peter Mackay & The Optimised Human & Forever K Pop on tour
Another incredible month with an audio guide of the renovated Teviot University & recordings for Valorant's Riot Games & Audiobook productions including The Paradoxical Life by Gordon Collins
The 10th Anniversary Publication of The Lonely City by Olivia Laing. Audiobook narrated by Tilda Swinton and produced by Iain McKinna
A US KPop Concert tour backing track project, Dr Sharon Blackie's Audiobook Ripening, and, a restoration of Alasdair Grey's narration of Lanark at Offbeat.
Ending 2025 with Audiobooks & BBC Radio 3 recordings of 20th Century Radicals
November Projects at Offbeat - Podcasts - Audiobooks & Radio Programmes and Radio Ads
Crazy range of ADR, Audiobook, TV and Music at Offbeat. We never know what's coming next which does make for an exciting month.
Virgin River, The One Show & Pickleford Christmas were just three shows we recorded ADR for in September 2025 at the Studio.
Where There Is Evil is Sandra Brown OBE’s astonishing true story in which she reveals her own father’s involvement in the disappearance of 7 year old Moira in late 1950s in Coatbridge, has being recorded and produced at Offbeat by Iain McKinna and Olivia Caw
When Nicola Sturgeon recorded her new memoir Frankly for Macmillan Audio, she chose Offbeat Studios in the heart of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Produced and directed by Iain McKinna and co-directed by Olivia Caw, the sessions captured her voice with clarity, warmth, and authenticity.
When Nicola Sturgeon recorded her new memoir Frankly for Macmillan Audio, she chose Offbeat Studios in the heart of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Produced and directed by Iain McKinna and co-directed by Olivia Caw, the sessions captured her voice with clarity, warmth, and authenticity.
Recording an Audiobook remotely over 11,000 miles. From Edinburgh to Wanaka NZ was a challenge but thanks to good teamwork it all worked out.
the condensed story of Offbeat from 1994 to 2024 with some pre-history thrown in.
It's been a crazy busy Edinburgh Fringe here at the Offbeat Studio, broadcasting LBC and working with Channel4, Sky TV & Loftus Media
We have recently been in the process of producing five amazing Audiobooks commissioned by Publishing Scotland, including The 2022 Booker Prize shortlisted novel Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro, and Ewan Morrison's How to Survive Everything.
Offbeat have recently been in the process of producing five amazing Audiobooks commissioned by Publishing Scotland in conjunction with Creative Scotland.
Preparing Your Narrator For Their First Audiobook Narration Recording. Some crucial tips on how to prepare for your first professional audiobook narration recording sessions
2023 sees the expansion of Offbeat Audio which now handles all non music audio projects including Audiobooks and Voice Overs working for major publishers and broadcasters and self published authors .
I was introduced to Hamed by Thom McCarthy back in 1998, and in the Offbeat studio he created the first ever album of Bayefall Music entitled Akassa - on the Offbeat Scotland label with World Music distribution through Sterns Music.
Offbeat Audio Ltd now handles all non music audio projects here at the studio
I had the great pleasure of producing this poignant and thought provoking song When The Bees Go for Campion Crew which has just been released on iTunes, Spotify, Youtube and other digital platforms.
Offbeat Audio Ltd now handles all non music audio projects here at the studio
Interview with Iain McKinna by The Church Of Rock in USA
A playlist of artists who have recorded at Offbeat Studios. Richard Davidson Jnr, Imaginary Creatures, Chiara Lordi, Lesley Young and Harmonic Overdrive
Rory Bayliss Chalmers got in touch with me after writing and recording some Alternative Rock tracks on his GarageBand set up on his laptop at home.
Voice Over work has become one of our main activities here at Offbeat over the past 10 years and as 2021 gets underway we are building on that success to do more and more work for major broadcasters as well projects for independent self funded projects. From the feedback we have received from Voice Over […]
It's November 20/2020 and the Offbeat Studio is busier than ever with projects for Major Broadcasters and Indie Musicians and Producers.
In August Offbeat's Iain McKinna was asked to mix and master the new single See Me Now by the virtual band Out Of View. The band have contributed their musical parts from different locations around Scotland. Producer and Drummer Dougie Bonnar pulled all the performances together on Logic Pro X from his home in France […]
"Pandemic Special" What Doesn't Kill You! Using a screen capture app and some iphone footage edited on Final Cut Pro, Iain McKinna has created a demonstration video on how he created a custom backing track for Peel Entertainment for a Dance & Vocal Theatre Group. The video showcases the original Glee version of the track […]
A Film by Anirban Mitra & Tirtho Dasgupta Nemai Ghosh: A Ray of Light' is an immensely moving story of how an ordinary man came to be associated with Satyajit Ray, a giant of cinema--and how he became the photo-chronicler of Ray's creative and personal world. It pays tribute to the elegance of black and […]
Recording Audio Books by Iain McKinna Since I recorded an audio book with ex Dr Who girl Sophie Aldrid for BBC’s Audio Go a few years ago, I’ve recorded quite a few more since. I now produce and direct Audio books for Canongate Books, Audible and Bolinda Audio, Harper Collins as well as for self […]
40 years ago, way back in 1980, before mobile phones, fake recording equipment, the internet and social media, four young (ish) men stepped out of their old (ish) hippy garb to liberate themselves from the tyranny of cool to form a band. The Phonies Phil Phoney - Jamie Campbell - on Lead Vocals, Ron Real […]
Studio Improvements Well it’s been over 10 weeks since the lock-down and we have taken advantage of the situation at Offbeat to completely renovate the studio, update to a new Mac Pro with loads more processing power and invest in a 49inch curved monitor. The monitor allows me to the luxury of loads more real […]
Offbeat enters the new decade in its 27th year in pretty good shape, both with our Music and Audio projects and plans to diversify into Radio Production this year.
Grandpa Jock and the Incredible Iron Bru Incident is an extremely entertaining yarn with illuminating references to Climate Change
Music For Global Change Last year Offbeat producer Iain McKinna also recorded Skyler's vocals for the forthcoming single One World by Amsterdam based Friction and Skyler Jett. This world class reggae project The Global Messengers is sounding amazing and has been produced in Frictions home studio. Harmonic Overdrive During a visit to Offbeat last month […]
Imaginary Creatures The 4th album from Imaginary Creatures is now on release on record shops, and iTunes and all online music distributors. Produced at Offbeat, this album features Cellos, Strings and a Rock based backing of Guitars, Bass & Drums. It's the brainchild of lyricist David Scott who has teamed up with musician and producer […]
Edinburgh University Acapella Cooperative Nothing quite tests the functionality of a recording studio more than large group recordings which require multi-microphone setups. Cloud 9 MD - A male group of 18 singers, Cloud 9 started the session singing a few tracks together as a group. We set up 9 microphones, some of which were shared. A […]
Recording an audio book project like this requires serious concentration from the narrator, and in this case Fay did an amazing job of keeping the continuity of the reading both interesting and engaging. We decided to record it in the 'old school' way, so that any mistakes that were made were dropped in over, so […]
Back in those halcyon days, when I still had a semblance of hair on my head, our studio was a Midi/Analogue set up and the Guilty Party songs were recorded using this mix of technology. Fast forward to 2019 and Dougie put this recording together, firstly using Garageband and then progressing on to Logic Pro […]
In 2018 she came back into the studio to begin recording an album of classics, starting in July, and completed in early December, and again she knocked us out with the versatility of her vocal range on these tracks. I was impressed from the start with her vocal range. The songs which range from Etta James […]
Ted McKenna... by Iain McKinna We are all gutted here at Offbeat as Ted played on quite a few of our productions to fantastic effect. Two Imaginary Creatures albums - Danse Macabre & Sometimes They Get Into The Machinery and "Maybe Someday" by Chris Summers and on some of Sir Chris Evans Evamore recordings. https://youtu.be/9sS6CqKXgKc Sometimes […]