Noise Machines

We’re a two studio, multi room recording complex in Newtown, Australia.

Level 1, 325 King Street, Newtown NSW Australia T: +61 0405 709 131

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Noise Machines is a two studio recording complex based in Newtown. We occupy the same building as Happy Mag and produce and record all their live sessions. Studio A is a multi room facility with a fully loaded API 2448 console. While Studio B is a producer style single room space.

Over the years Noise Machines has amassed a delightful collection of microphones, pre-amps, instruments, synths and pedals making our collections of toys the source of joy and envy for musician friends who visit. If you’d like to visit the space for a walk through please get in touch.

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Noise Machines News + Articles

  • Finding Character in Dry Vocals

    There is a lot of talk about how to treat a vocal once it reaches a session. Stacks, doubles, tuning, long reverbs, widening tools. All of it has a place. But more artists are choosing something simpler and more direct. A dry or mostly dry vocal that leaves the space around the performance clear. When…

  • Gear Spotlight: Sennheiser MD 441 U

    Some microphones earn their place in studios through legend. Others earn it through consistency. The Sennheiser MD 441 U sits firmly in the second camp, a dynamic microphone that behaves with the balance, detail and control people usually expect from a condenser and yet it remains tough and forgiving in ways only a dynamic can…

  • Recording Live vs Overdubbing

    There’s long been a quiet debate in recording: do you track everything live or build it part by part? Both methods have their strengths, and most sessions today live somewhere between the two. The best choice depends on what you’re chasing. The Energy of a Live Take Recording a band live captures the interaction between…

  • Inside the Signal Chain: The Mic Preamp

    Before plugins, automation, and even tape, every recording began with one simple stage: the preamp. It’s easy to overlook now — a single knob on a console or a quiet box in the rack — but that first gain stage is where everything starts. Whether you’re capturing a delicate vocal, a gritty guitar, or the…

  • Natural Space in a Digital World

    In modern production, it’s easy to rely on plugins to create space. Convolution and algorithmic reverbs can simulate rooms of every size, from tight booths to vast cathedrals. These tools sound impressive and they’re fast to work with but they can’t fully replace the sense of unity that comes from capturing sound in a shared…

  • Gear Spotlight: Rhodes Seventy-Three Mark I

    Few instruments carry the warmth and nostalgia of the Rhodes electric piano. The unmistakable chime of its tines has defined countless records across genres—from jazz and soul to rock and ambient electronica. At Noise Machines, our Rhodes Seventy-Three Mark I remains one of the most inspiring instruments in the studio—one that blurs the line between…

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Email: radi@noisemachines.studio or Call: 0405 709 131