The Sound Kitchen

02/04/2025

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The Sound Kitchen is the home of Mixing and Mastering electronic music. Helping producers to take their music to new heights.

02/01/2025

Is it possible to get great sound for under a hundred? It sure is. Here’s how.

These days, most people tend to get studio monitor speakers for their dj setup. This is due to ease. They’re usually ‘active’, so each speaker contains an amp inside. Downside of this, they cost a lot and are heavy.

What many don’t realise is that studio monitors are designed to be clinically accurate, which actually means they are meant to expose the flaws in sound. Hifi on the other hand is often designed to flatter the sound and make for a smooth listening experience. Studio speakers are designed to have a very specific sweet spot as well, very close, where as Hifi generally fills a room better if you’re having party’s.

There’s loads of cheap bits to be had at the moment on the vintage market. You’ve just got to know what to look for.

When going for a ‘passive’ Hifi setup, you need the speakers to match the amp. Firstly in impedance. It’s simple, if the speakers are 8ohm the amp needs to be 8ohm.

Secondly, you need roughly the right amount of watts. You’re looking for an amp that is around 1.5-2 X the watts of the speakers eg. 100 watts speakers need a 150-200 watt amp for best results.

Three-ways are better than two! sorry what? 😵 This just means that each speaker cabinet is made up of three separate speakers (see vid), one for bass, one for mid and one for the top end. This allows each component to be better at its required job, rather than just 2 doing all the work.

70’s and 80’s HIFI is often considered the best on the forums as components used got cheaper as we entered the 90’s. Modern speakers tend to have better bass response though.

There is good quality bits from all eras however, do some googling/chatgpt’ing. Don’t forget this step of checking reviews before committing to anything.

06/12/2024

13/09/2024

🎂 The Sound Kitchen turns 8 today 🎂

Helping people to finish their music brings me great joy.

It’s a real blessing to be able to do what you love every day. For this, I have endless gratitude to everyone who trusts me with their projects.

Thank you to all who have been a part of the last 8 years. Here’s to the next 🥳 🥂

Mitch

20/04/2024

Announcement to make… 🎙️

It’s not just that I’ve had my first proper haircut since lockdown. Full details are in pic 2.

If the changes are a real issue for anyone please just reach out and I’ll do what I can to help 🤝🏽

Big love to all who trust in The Sound Kitchen 🍴

06/02/2024

Always guilty of forgetting to ask or take any content when I have people in the studio, so here’s 4 shots of Geth from this weeks session to make up for it.

Sounding really strong again. Great to have him back on the mic 🎙️

13/12/2023

Huge congratulations to Geth and Steph for getting their great music out there.

These Staffordshire based artists are well worth catching live if you get the chance.

Recorded, mixed and mastered at The Sound Kitchen 🎙️

30/10/2023

Ableton Live is 22 years old today. Which version did you start with?

25/09/2023

Taking putting your heart into what you do literally when adding that personal touch ❣️ 👑

13/09/2023

7 years ago today, The Sound Kitchen was born. Having been helping people with music for quite some time already, 2016 was when I took it official.

I’ve been able to work on pretty much every genre under the sun since then, which has richly inspired my own creativity for which I’m forever indebted to all who I’ve worked with.

What started at helping people in person on a local level, has developed into helping clients all around Europe and sometimes even further afield.

Singers, rappers, voiceovers, bands and more, but mainly specialising in helping people with electronic music production. In the last 7 years I’ve proudly taught, engineered, mixed and/or mastered for some of the best labels there is in the underground of dance music.

Thank you to all who’ve trusted in me to elevate their work to the highest level I can at that point in time. Still learning every day myself too and constantly striving to be better.

It’s been a pleasure. Thank you for allowing me to do what I love 🙏🏽

06/06/2023

Mindset tips from Mitch

To celebrate the release of 'Space Tours: The Legacy of Phoenix', Mitch Wellings invites EG into the studio for 5 mental tips.