High Barn- venue, studio, graphic design & vid

The High Barn is praised by experts as one of the oldest & finest timber framed barns in the world. It is a stunning contrast of the old and the new, with an incredible atmosphere and state of the art facilities. The High Barn is an inspirational venue for live music, music recording, filming and business events. We often film live bands, please get in touch with any enquiries: [email protected]
Graphic Design: We turn our passion for design into commercial success for clients in business, government & the public sector. Working with a wide variety of media, we ensure that the highest standards are achieved on any given project. Our breadth of experience has extended to designing for global organisations such as Ikea, however we also cherish smaller, local-based commissions. We believe strongly that effective communication & collaboration with the client is the key to a successful end product.
Studio: The clean, well maintained and air conditioned studio is an impressive setup including 5.1 surround mixing and mastering – courtesy of Blue Sky System One 5.1 monitoring. It has two good sized isolated live recording rooms situated either side of a control room running an Apple Mac Pro-hosted 48-track I/O Digidesign Pro Tools|HD 2 Accel system alongside a Yamaha DM2000 96-channel digital mixing console. But the jewel in the crown has to be the 3 storey high vaulted oak barn, both a live room and fully equipped venue complete with it’s own Yamaha concert grand piano. We can cater for soloists, bands, full orchestras and choirs both for live and studio recordings. All this helps to create recordings with a real sense of theatre and in an environment like this you can’t help feeling inspired. www.high-barn.com
Video: From scripting and production, to the filming and editing we can provide video both for music and for corporate business. We have experience in music video, live gigs, web casts and promotional DVDs ideal to give to festivals and promoters. We also work on the corporate side with professional video for training documentaries, website and entertainment, working with large international companies and smaller local businesses. We can also provide the soundtrack for your corporate video. We have worked with clients ranging from BP, McLaren HQ and Mobile 1 to Stansted Castle, Skills for Care and Price Bailey Accountants.
Venue: Available for hire for weddings, album launches, small intimate gigs (we can also film, record and edit these) and other events. Please contact Jill Mcgrath [email protected]
Here's what other people have been saying about us...
“High Barn was a great venue for the Essex FM Live At The Local, we had an absolute blast doing the show there”
- Roy Stride, ‘Scouting For Girls’
“Loved rocking & rolling around in the High Barn!”
- Matthew Murphey, ‘The Wombats’
“I had been looking forward to playing at High Barn for a long time and it is a pleasure for any artist, it looks beautiful and intimate inside and has a great atmosphere, not to mention the amazing studio they have there, we need more venues like this in the UK”
- Lucie Silvas
“High Barn is awesome. It’s one of my favourite venues and I don’t think there’s anywhere that comes close with regard to being looked after both on stage and off. The sound is always incredible and it makes the drive out of London worthwhile!”
- David Sneddon
“High Barn is a great recording space - I've been tracking drums in there recently and the room has a great combination of clarity and warmth. It must be those eight hundred year old beams! The live shows have an amazing intimacy even when there's a full house and all the staff are extremely helpful.”
- Simon Gogerly, grammy award winning mixing engineer
“Wow, what a place - I want one!”
- Midge Ure