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Making Music in Birmingham, West Midlands*

Birmingham, West Midlands Guitars and Instruments, Recording Studios, Rehearsal Rooms, PA Hire

Musical Instrument Shops and DJ Gear

• SOUND CONTROL!!!!!!!
• Bullet Sound - New and used PA equipment sales - www.bulletsound.com - 07973325343.
• Looking for a USA Sustainiac Stealth Plus Sustainer stockist in the UK, who also offers a professional guitar fitting service? Look no further than Guitar Spares & Repairs (next to Sound Control 89 Old Snow Hill Birmingham tel: 0121 2485867). They now stock and fit Sustainiac Stealth Plus.
• Musical Instrument Spares & Repairs 89 Old Snow Hill (next to Sound Control) Birmingham Tel: 0121 248 5867 have changed their name to Guitar Repairs & Spares. Still providing a a Great Fully Professional Guitar Repair & Replacement Parts service to all Musicians.
• PMT Can't go wrong there always a deal and have a wide variety of stock (sometimes the stuff you want too)!
• PMT and the Digital Village are both good shops.
• PMT, in Aston, theres also musci shops by the BullRing, and under the arches at Snow Hill(near subway city), thats a good guitar shop.
• fair deal... for guitars anyway, PMT is awful, however trying to find a decent mic anywhere is nigh on impossible...
• PMT, Stirchly Exchange.
• Looking for Guitar Repairs or Parts try Musical Instrument Spares & Repairs 89 Old Snow Hill Birmingham next to Sound Control shop Tel 0121 2485867 or visit www.guitarsparesandrepairs.com for fuller info. Discount pickups & parts always in stock , A very Busy workshop, quality workmanship means the guitar tech is always in demand. If you are tied to time, advance guitar repair appointment booking system for guitar players with gigs etc. Open 10am to 5pm Mon to Sat.
• PMT is your best bet for guitars, period. Just look at the guitar wall and cry. It's down the very bottom of the road that millenium point is on.
• Penderford Cellos, my mate ellis has a grade 6 level in cello.
• Fair Deal music on Queensway is pretty good. Friendly staff and decent prices.
• Sound controll near the Kerrang Studios
• Wide range of quality Guitar & Bass Parts & Strings, Guitar Pickups at discounted prices always in stock. Knowledgeable staff. Full Professional Guitar Repair and customisation service. Musical Instrument Spares & Repairs (next to Sound Control) 89 Old Snow Hill Birmingham Tel: 0121 248 5867 Open 6 Days a week.
• for classical instruments then try hobgoblin music in the custard factory.other stuff try the shops by new street on the way down to the arcadian.
• True spirit music's new web www.truespiritmusic.co.uk in selly oak
• PMT man! It's at the very end of the road that millenium point is on, they have the biggest collection of guitars in Brum, and the staff are all safe, not knobends like in most music shops. I don't care if they can play Steve Vai tapping stuff, I want to play the thing for God's sake.
• the nearest is Simply Gifted at 5 priory walk, priory square Birmingham or visit www.simplygifted.co.uk
• sound control. all round good stuff.
• Musical Exchanges (Sound Control - really!!)
• mx obviously
• New Guitar Spares Counter & great Guitar Repair Service at Musical Instrument Spares & Repairs 89 Old Snow Hill Birmingham Tele: 0121 248 5867
• PMT Superstar now opened with 'the wall' with over 600 of the best guitars! www.pmtonline.co.uk
• ...Sound Control KICKS ASS.
• just to let you know about a great new musical instrument shop in selly oak http://tsm.mysite.freeserve.com/index.jhtml
• Sound Control (originally Music Exchange)snow hill
• PMT!PMT!PMT! (Professional Music Technology, for any of you weirdos who dont know)
• Fair deal
• PROBLEY MUSIC STOP
• PMT music, See Gaz or Glen for excellent deals. Sound Control.
• willied
• Music Exchange... pretty cool, quite eccentric guy in the technology department (but he's cool) and very eccentric guy in the guitar section (who is also pretty cool)!
• Fair deal music has a large selection and friendly staff, for Hi-fi stuff check out richer sounds next to the nostalgia and comic shop.
• The Midland Drum Centre Rocks! I got a kit from there. Ask for oli. He's gr8! Or try percy priors on queensway.
• The Percy Priors Music shop has now closed as from the 24 march 2001 regards russell
• Musical Exchanges, MXQ
• Percy Priors Music, Queensway, Near New Street Station. Amazing, the most serious guitar shop in town. Biggest Ibanez dealer in the UK - apparently.
• place next to Nosatlgia and Comics rocks

Recording Studios, Rehearsal Rooms, PA Hire

• Rich Bitch and Robannas
• Don't waste yr time with Robannas. The man who runs it doesn't give a hoot about the bands - he just tries to get as much cash out of them as possible. My mate's band had a downstairs lock-up and it was always rancid with leaking pipes.
• Bullet Sound - Professional PA hire - these guys are great! - 07973325343 www.bulletsound.com
• I’m in a band called Outside Reign. We have used most places around the area. In Birmingham there is Madhouse and Robannas, places we used to use a lot. Great staff and good service, except the rooms are not soundproofed. One time in Madhouse the room next door was actually louder than us. We go in Walsall now and use JJM Studios because we get the best sound – Oh and no unwanted noise from other rooms.
• MadHouse Rehearsals is definetly the best place in Birmingham helpful friendly and best of all they've got a bar upstairs!
• we recently recorded at Univibe recording studios in JJM rehearsal studios and it was absoloutely brilliant. we did a live recording and got 10 songs done in 3 hours and they sound awesome!!, next time we're gonna do a full recording with overdubs. the engineer there is a really nice bloke, and the equipment and desk are phenomenal. oh.. and they're CHEAP!!!!
• Farmyard studios (www.farmyardstudios.co.uk) is a fantastic studio about 1 hours drive from Birmingham but well worth it (they provide accommodation so it's not really a problem anyway). The sound quality is spot on and the rates are very competitive. Check out the website.
• PMT,Aston
• Robannas studios is a great practice room studio, good selection of guitar and bass amplifiers, drum kits (have to pay extra £1 per hour for cymbals..but you should probably bring own anyway) They do recording too, £200 for ten hours, sounds cool...recorded there once, engineer was a top guy..
• Roabnnas Studios, Oh, and for PA hire, check out www.birminghamsoundhire.co.uk 0121 359 3071 Pro guys, and cheap as hell!
• JJM Studios is by far the best place in the whole midlands. All the stuff is brand new and my band have had an A & R showcase their already. Fantastic staff and great place - check these guys out www.jjmstudios.co.uk
• Rich Bitch, Selly oak, has hosted such luminaries as Black Sabbath, the Charlatans, and some lesser knowns. Good quality rooms for good prices.
• Puv Kales house 07810477325
• there are some good ones as you leave town to the north side on the way to newtown. not quite sure of addresses tho- sorry!all the good ones seem to have huge waiting lists for rehearsal rooms unfortunately so you need to try and get 'in' with the management!
• Rich Bitch, Bristol Road, Selly Oak. It's down an alley by the sue ryder shop near the tescos, and has good facilities and equipment.
• Rich Bitch is the best
• 'Rich Bitch' recording studios and practice rooms on the Bristol Road in Selly Oak (0121 471 1339). 25 years in the business, the place has a good old fashioned Rock 'n' Roll atmosphere with a bar and pool table as well as loads of rooms, up to date equipment and engineers who know exactly what they're doing.
• rich bitch studios
• Komotion Ltd. - Audio & Visual hire services http://www.komotion.ltd.uk

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