The HQ Glasgow

Just finished a fab recording session with the lovely Gregor who is an absolute doll!
Backstory: my Dad entered a Fanta competition to win an «experience» which could have been something like feeding a lion, driving a sports car and other such things. Instead, my poor wee da won a «Popstar for a Day» experience — funnily enough he wasn’t up for that so I got to do it! After getting the thing rescheduled at various studios throughout Glasgow (Songmaker were the organisers so that was nothing to do with HQ) I finally got a session with HQ today to record a couple of songs and I’m actually really glad it turned out this way.
I used to sing a bit in school and I’ve always liked singing, but I’d never done any sort of recording like this before, so I was really pretty nervous but Gregor absolutely put me at ease right away! After a few practice goes at my first chosen song (Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac for those wondering, he even got the backing track with backing vocals for me cause he’d been sent the one without them, sounded weird without the harmonies!) we had a proper run through and after a couple of takes he was already pretty happy with it so let me have a wee listen.
I sounded much better than I expected to (no autotune I should add!) which was great and he quickly got it mixed together — taking the best bits from my takes, nobody’s perfect right? — so I could have a wee break before moving on to my second song (White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane.) This was a bit more challenging but he let me have a few goes at bits I was struggling with til I was happy with how they sounded. I am now in possession of two brilliant-​sounding tracks and the whole thing only took a couple of hours!
I was also offered tea, coffee, water and stuff while I was there and it was dead easy to chat to Gregor, I was expecting the experience to be really scary but it was great. Highly recommended if you’re looking to get any recordings done, the dude knows his stuff!