Thin Ice Music

Join Paul Kearns (the founder and head of Thin Ice Music) as he journeys into the "new frontiers" of music. 

If that sounds "meladramatic" - it's supposed to because, modern music has changed beyond all recogniton over the last 10 to 15 years.

People who loved music - but didn't have a clue how to get that "tune in their head" into something that their fans could hear.

Those are the people I want to work with. 

I have been actively involved in music since the 1970s - playing keyboards live (since they were called organs) and I've owned my own recording studio since the early noughties.

My "daytime" job was working at the sharp end of the I.T Industry since BEFORE Microsoft sold their first operating system. I'm 72 right now (2025).

I consider myself very lucky in that keyboards have become very coputerised and computers have become very musical.

And there's me - a musician with an intimate knowledge of both music and computers. Too good an opertunity to miss i think.

In 2004, I setup my first purely digital recording studio using Cuibase 3.1. Even back then, Cubase was the best D.A.W. (Digital Auidio Workstation - only we didn't call them that back then).

The main problem back then was the speed of available computers. Perfectly OK for recording and producing audio but, far too slow to run MIDI libraries.

Luckily, as computers got faster, the it became possible to use the very fastest systems to use digital libraries in real time.

We're now at Cubase 14 Pro (0.0.3).

Now, without going into reams of technical gubbins, we can mix live and digital trecordings, unmix old recordings into individual tracks, create extra vocal tracks and take your ideas from a hummed idea and turn it into a broadcast quality recording - fully mastered.

We produce our own recordings for TV, Advertising and Films (well anything that pays) but, that just helps pay the bills.

We're very keen on helping up and comping bands and artists via our internet collaboration service.

If you think you've got what it takes (not that many have), we might be able to help you secure your future - or, at least, get you something you can be pround of.  

Send us a message and tell us about your dreams - who knows, we might be able to help you along the way.