Tribarac

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Sweet Soul

I was trying to do Billie Holiday because she was the voice to be heard at that time. I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

Ruth Brown, Port Folio Weekly, 2002/09/17

Home

A Mackie console and Tannoy Reveal 5A loudspeakers in the control room at Tribarac Recording Studio. Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
Photograph by John Pettey

Capturing sound since 1995

Situated in the very heart of Cork, but still only 25 minutes from Cork City, Tribarac Recording Studio is a comfortable and relaxed professional studio suite designed, built and staffed by musicians with the sole aim to stimulate and encourage your creativity.

A drummer plays and sings in the studio sound booth

Bring your talent and let us add the polish to your recording.
Photograph by Rana Mullan

We have produced recordings for the BBC and national television as well as many local, national and international artists.

We have also recorded and produced film and commercial sound­tracks.

Skilled musicians in their own right, and with decades of recording experience between them, our inhouse engineers ensure that you will get the most out of the recording process.

A Mackie console and Tannoy Reveal 5A loudspeakers in the control room at Tribarac Recording Studio.

A microphone for every occasion.
Photograph by John Pettey

Banned!

Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Relax sold close to two million copies in the UK on its initial release in 1984 despite a playlist ban by the BBC which had inadvertently boosted the raunchy romp into double platinum sales, making it the seventh best–selling single in UK chart history.