COMMUNITY
Finlay Wells is a musician, tutor and sound engineer and producer.
‘I started Nutshell Records from my parents’ house in Kilmore. It is quite normal for sound engineers not to have a purpose-built studio be- cause of the technology we have now. I do drum produc- tion for other studios and we just e-mail the stuff around. ‘The guy who does strings for me plays each instru- ment, then layers them in one piece and e-mails the that from his bedroom in Ox- ford.’ power and convenience of digital recording that Finlay
and his strings expert have never met face to face. But with the technological advances in this sector still going at galloping pace – Finlay is forced to update his software every four years – he is exposed to last-minute requests.
‘I got a phone call out of the blue to say the actor Timothy Spall was on holiday in the area and was coming in to do a voice-over for a British Gas advert. The advert was going out that night during Coronation Street!’ - shell are with Gaelic artists,
some getting used to. vocal queues are different but I am getting better be- of the language by default. I played with the Campbells of Greepe at Celtic Connec- tions where I even sang in Gaelic!’
Other artists that have re- cently recorded at Nutshell include: Ivan Drever Band, - Coll, Ewan McCrimmond, Norman MacLean and actor Brian Cox OBE (voice-over).
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