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Joss Worthington’s Distant City Studios reopened in 2017 after a year of refurbishment. Despite its locale and appropriate titling, however, Distant City – which has been in its current setting for nearly 25 years – is still within close proximity to big cities like Leeds and Manchester. For a number of years, local bands have brought the area’s strong folk music scene to Worthington’s doorstep, choosing to record their material at his facility.

Distant City Studios Video of Distant City Studios - A Drum Room With A Difference If you want a better drum sound, you can change the drummer, or the mics, or the drum kit... but what about the room? When Joss Worthington set about rebuilding his studio, he decided to create a space that would inspire musicians and allow engineers to shape the sound at will. In this SOS video, Joss and Chris Smout of Studio People show us how they turned the idea into reality, with the help of drummer Lee Hu...