2020 Stanleystrings did the strings for ‘Fallow’ Fanny Lumsden which just won an Aria for best Country album, also Ryan Hewitt (Grammy award winner whose credits include Chili Peppers, The lumineers, Blink 182, Vance Joy) Little Quirks ABC music. Other 2019 projects have included ‘Aussie As’ (hit number 1, Australian country music charts) Matt Scullion. Multiple jobs for Aria award winner Shane Nicholson, acclaimed producer Matt Fell, and Australian household name Normie Rowe produced by Michael Carpenter.

You need real strings! Stanley Strings is a brother/sister team. We arrange and record world class and affordable string quartets, orchestras or solo strings for your track and dropbox them to you anywhere in the world. All the tracking is done here in Australia in our insanely decked out recording studio. nerds can click here to check it out. If you wouldn’t use midi acoustic guitar on a release, you should know that the difference between even the best midi string libraries and the real thing is every bit as stark.  Once you experience the character, beauty and emotion of  world class orchestral players on your track and you will never go back. 

David and jane as  typically write the string arrangements with your to and fro feedback but we’re super flexible. We’re just as happy working with existing arrangements, rough midi/audio guide tracks. Send us what you have. Once everyone is happy with the final mocked up arrangement, we track the real string tracks and send them to you. Click FAQ for more info about the process. Contact us and be shocked at the reasonableness of the quote, even for a full string orchestra style recording. We can make it sound like anything from a string quartet to an entire string section, from Beatles psychedelic to lush orchestral to dirty sampled sounding. Whatever suits the song and the vision of the artist/producer. As string producers, we consult with you at every step to provide what you are looking for stylistically and aesthetically. This is not some assembly line. We pour our soul into every string recording production. Whoever you are, having access to real strings changes things!

The quality is INSANE. Much of it comes from the playing. Jane Stanley on first violin and co owner of Stanley Sound has a jaw dropping CV. She has  recorded/performed with Bruce Springsteen, Flume, Wu tang Clan, Michael Buble, One Republic, John Farnham, The Veronicas, Andrea Bocelli, Harry Connick Jr, Germain Jackson, Hanson, The Preachers, Thirsty Mercand Delta Goodrem. Jane has also played with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Australia Opera and Ballet orchestra. The extra musicians required on our custom string sessions for cello or viola etc all play in Jane’s quartet and share much of the above CV and are of a similar calibre.

The studio is also owned by David Stanley, Jane’s producer and instrumentalist brother. Did we mention the recording studio is also off the graph quality in terms of quality. Click to take a look. The superb quality microphones, preamps, eq and conversion capture the delicate nuance of strings beautifully. Jane also plays on a priceless 200 yr old violin which raises the hairs on the back of your neck. Click here to have your questions answered or for bookings.

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Matt Scullion’s new number 1 single ‘Aussie As’ produced by  acclaimed Shane Nicholson and featuring Stanley Strings.