The Old Smithy Recording Studios - West Midlands Largest Recording Studios

Muff Murfin

Muff (John) Murfin is a music writer who wrote the theme music to the TV series 'The Gladiators,' and has been responsible for numerous radio jingle packages over the years. He is also a music producer and publisher. In 1977 he built The Old Smithy Recording Studio in the grounds of his property. It has been a phenomenal success having been used by many famous bands. Muff is also involved in the radio business. He was a founder member of Radio Wyvern, and also a founding shareholder of The Bear in Stratford. He purchased KiX 96.2fm in Coventry before selling it to the CN Radio group, Radio Maldwyn in mid-Wales, Sunshine 855 in Ludlow, Classic Gold Radio (now Classic Hits) serving Herefordshire and Worcestershire and Mansfield 103.2. The Old Smithy Recording Studios create radio adverts for some of these stations.

Richard Wood

Richard's interest in recording began at a young age playing with an Amstrad Studio100 4 track tape machine. As a teenager he played guitar in the band 'Guppy' and taught himself how to use software like soundforge and cool edit pro for recording and composition. Upon completing his A-Levels he came to Worcester to study Music Technology, eventually achieving a HND and subsequently finding employment at The Old Smithy Recording Studios. Since then Richard has worked on numerous projects ranging from 30 piece brass bands, 10 piece jazz outfits, heavy rock bands and artists such as Chris Slade and Tony Christie.