John Lunn - My Studio

John Lunn (composer of Downton Abbey, Grantchester, The Last Kingdom and many more) chats about his career, composition processes and his home recording studio. He discusses his unique use of analogue synths in The Last Kingdom and their importance to his output more generally. He also discusses the evolution of his studio, including the thinking behind the significant rebuild in 2021.
John's studio was designed, built, installed and is maintained by Yellow Technology: www.yellowtechnology.co.uk

[@TonyAndersonMusic]

Dear god. The Oberheim 4 voice!

[@jammystraub488]

That is a well done bit of promotional material. Very nice.

[@annablomma79]

Absolutely amazing music, impressive. My compliments. Love from sweden 🇸🇪🙏

[@SSLvideos]

Beautiful. 🖤

[@benjaminramsey4695]

The Last Kingdom synth soundtrack was PERFECT, added to the atmosphere so much!

[@jorgefpramos]

What a gentle man to meet and superb studio!

[@johnglenn30csardas]

Love the ATCs bolted into the building foundation. Welcome to my South London home-and speaker stand.

[@JayfkProductions876]

TV Composers are a special breed of ppl, they add a unforgettable element

[@edgodsall3740]

Things DO sound better with equipment over plugins, I concur.. just way it goes. Love that

[@RoyChartier]

What a studio. Wow!

[@novachord1]

One of my favorite composers; didn’t realize he had the extensive synth collection. Don’t have Netflix; must check out The Last Kingdom score now. Great video, Yellow Technology!!

[@echoesandnoise]

Love the studio!!!

[@trevchumby]

Beautiful work space…This man is living his best life! I really don’t watch tv, but I must check out this man’s work now.

[@sigurdthemusicdude]

Ah yes. The perfect amount of nerding out

[@DanieleGiannattasio]

Lovely studio and film!

[@outlaender]

Wow what a studio!

[@russ254]

what a wonderful experience!

Beautiful studio!! One of my favorite composers!

[@AsteroidKiller]

Wonderful little film ❤️

[@Audhentik]

stunning!

[@fiddlestickzmuzik]

I love the juxtaposition of playing the modular from what looks like a piano keybed.

[@jeffevansmusic]

Great job in 'Shetland' as well. I have got a beautiful sound system and sub connected to my TV and I heard it all. Really captures the mood firstly with the theme but the underscores are really great too.

[@jeremythornton433]

Magnificent!

[@marc942]

For a brief second I felt the spirit of I quit. 😂😂😂😂

[@waynefarrellvoiceovers]

Beautiful. The way it should be done.

[@PAULPINBALL]

Very cool, nice design!

[@zaamedia3667]

love the main keyboard controller and housing, excellent

[@nighttimebassline8537]

Very interesting and entertaining video.

[@magnustorque5528]

What an amazing design of the physical configuration of the workspace. The engineer is where he can benefit, and the composer is in an amazing spot in close proximity to all of the gear that he needs to access. Hard to believe that such a small room had that solution ready to be exploited all along. It's often really hard to go back to the drawing board on something that you know needs improvement when you are already working around the limitations and still being productive. It's in some ways the same phenomenon that happens when you have a piece of music that you like but also want to evolve further. What can happen is that you become afraid of doing anything to it for fear of ruining what you already have. Then when you plow forward and it takes a quantum leap, it's only then that you realize that what you ended up with is so much better than what you were willing to accept as "good enough".

[@vocalpro]

Lovely video. :)

[@splitradix]

John you should have scored this video with all the synths!

[@FassinTaak]

This studio is the stuff of dreams, I love it.

[@BrockBarr]

Good to see you have a nice coffee machine John

[@DasDoktorchen]

Very nice studio, even nicer modular system.

[@ottsch]

That background music though 😵

[@jjjohny_a5965]

could be the biggest eurorack i think i ever seen so cool

[@ArkaHtun]

Check Martin wares collection . 3 times this maybe

[@JB-xv4bw]

wow

[@ilkhanbuyukturkoglu2534]

wow all those euroracks !!!

[@thaexception3406]

Niice

[@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester]

I wonder what his electrical bill is

[@The_Invisible_Man]

One can dream

[@foljs5858]

I wonder if he's into modular synths

[@josdurkstraful]

Not a single sound from that studio in this video? 😢

[@ragnaur]

Check the videos THE LAST KINGDOM | Eivør & John Lunn - Lívstræðrir (live from home) THE LAST KINGDOM - Eivør & John Lunn (live from home)

[@mrheartbeat]

"My sound engineer"... I guess he may wish to be an anonymous cipher...

[@reinsphoenix]

ok, well I'll do movie score stuff than

[@chrisb6296]

Jelly - but my mind couldn't work with lots of patching. I will be based in teh box for the foreseeable...

[@FairuzOsman]

Lmao I see complete Verbos system at the back. He probably does techno as well

[@lk0707]

This chap has more gear than deadmau5 😂

[@LibertyWarrior68]

Not pandemic, scamdemic.

[@ianbrown3304]

Fud

[@returnofthenative]

I gave it a thumbs down for the complete absence of diversity.

[@rozzgrey801]

Is he the inventor of the famous Lunn Drim?