Experience Unique Music Production at Our Boutique Studio

A boutique recording studio built around great instruments, great sound and the freedom to experiment.

More Than a Recording Room

The name Frog Productions has a fairly simple origin. The house, viewed from above, vaguely resembles the shape of a frog. But there was a much more practical reason for choosing this particular building. The property had a large double garage, underground on three sides, which offered an unusually good starting point for conversion into a recording studio. Professionally designed and soundproofed, it provides the sonic containment needed for serious recording while remaining part of a private and relaxed environment.

And that is an important part of what makes this a boutique studio. The studio doesn't end at the control-room door. In many ways, the whole house is part of it.

Upstairs are some of the instruments that give Frog Productions much of its character: Yamaha mini gran piano, Hammond organ and Leslie, Clavinet, Moog and other keyboards. Rather than having everything permanently squeezed into one recording room, instruments can be played and recorded in different spaces, chosen for the sound and atmosphere they bring to a particular session.

It also means that a day at our studio doesn't have to feel like being shut inside a commercial recording facility. There is a proper kitchen upstairs, somewhere to sit, make tea, have something to eat or open a cold beer when the day's work is done. Sessions have room to breathe.

That combination is central to the idea behind Frog Productions: a professionally equipped and acoustically controlled recording environment, but on a human scale. Serious equipment and serious attention to sound, without the formality or anonymity of a large commercial studio.

The sense of space continues outside. The house has both front and back gardens, as well as a balcony with views towards the sea. Yuccas and other tropical plants grow alongside more unexpected alpine varieties, giving the different outdoor areas a character of their own.

There are tables, chairs and benches dotted around the gardens and balcony: places to take a break between takes, have a coffee, rethink an arrangement or sit with a set of lyrics that still isn't quite right. Sometimes getting away from the control room for twenty minutes is exactly what a song needs.

It is all part of what makes Frog a boutique studio. The recording spaces, instruments, house and gardens belong to the same environment, allowing a session to expand beyond the confines of a conventional studio. There is somewhere to work, somewhere to experiment and somewhere to switch off for a while before coming back to the music with fresh ears.

And yes, from the right angle, apparently it still looks a little like a frog.