I'm an Independent Audio producer, Music Producer and Recording Studio owner. I started Offbeat Music Productions in Edinburgh's Royal Mile back in early 1994.
Edinburgh
Joined December 2009
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Full on ADR sessions last night on two episodes of Interior Design Masters for BBC 1. First time with Alan Carr who was a gem to work with.
Getting ready to record ADR tonight for the next series of Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr for BBC1. Sessions are booked through November now as Alan drives up from his castle near Berwick.
Very proud to have recorded Tilda Swinton’s audio guide for Gabriel Chanel’s exhibition at the Power Station Shanghai a couple of years back. I came across this amazing video yesterday which blew me away.
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In music production mode at the studio for the next two weeks on projects with Ryan McKenna and David Sharkey and work on our own Harmonic Overdrive album.
Under Fire by Humza Yousaf, former First Minister of Scotland
Some audiobooks are particularly memorable to record. This was one of them. It was a privilege to have the opportunity to produce this amazing work.
The Madame Blanc Mysteries
for Channel 5 - ADR
More great ADR sessions at the studio dubbing Award winning Canadian born Alex Gaumond. Directed over Zoom by from London by producer Tushar Manek and contributors from Ireland.
Nicola Sturgeon was back at Offbeat recently recording a new preface for the paperback edition of Frankly.
She addresses her ex-husband Peter Murrell's fraud conviction directly, giving her own account & reflecting on her new direction since stepping back from Scottish politics.
Deception by Alan Parks
Our 6th audiobook production for Alan Parks, this time the second in his Joseph Gunner series — a wartime thriller following a former Glasgow soldier turned undercover British Intelligence operative in WWII.
Set in New York, December 1941
Good Girl Rebellion by Anna Campbell was recently produced at Offbeat. Anna narrates it herself — the book’s for women who’ve spent years supporting everyone else while putting their own ambitions on hold, built around her REBEL framework
The audiobook of Ripening by Dr Sharon Blackie heads the list of Audible's Editors' Best of 2026 and it deserves every bit of it.
Available on Audible now.
Directed by Olivia Caw
Produced by Iain McKinna
For Duckworth Books
We’re delighted to see The Lonely City by Olivia Laing, published by Canongate Books & narrated by Tilda Swinton, selected as The Guardian’s Audiobook of the Week.
The audiobook was directed, recorded and produced by Iain McKinna at Offbeat Audio in Edinburgh.
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing & narrated by Tilda Swinton is out today on Audible.
Jamie Byng who attended the final day of recording said “Watching you & Tilda working on The Lonely City was a masterclass in audiobook production, and the resulting recording is a masterpiece” – at Edinburgh, Scotland
Gaelic Poet Peter Mackay is the Scots Makar, or national poet.
We were extremely pleased to have the opportunity to produce two audiobooks in both Gaelic and English, Galore and Nadar De for release by Acair Books in Stornoway in the Isle of Lewis,
The Optimised Human a Beginners Guide to Biohacking
By Olli Sovijarvi, Teemu Arina and Jaako Halmetoja was the 120th Audiobook we’ve recorded at Offbeat. Brilliantly narrated by Steve Worsley, & produced and directed by Iain McKinna for Quercas Books - A division of Hachette
Following a £10 Million renovation
Teviot university re-opens with an Audio Guide produced at Of
Offbeat produced an audio guide of the building which is now open to visitors.
It involved music and narration which we put together for the audio tour.
Penguin Random House returned to Offbeat to record Stops Along The Way by US author Anna Sortino, narrated by Elizabeth Robbins.
Direction came in live from New York via Zoom from Karlyn Daigle
Last year I had the pleasure of restoring the audio of Alasdair Gray’s narration of his landmark novel Lanark from cassette to digital at our Edinburgh recording studio for Canongate Books. It’s now been included in an audiobook alongside narration by Alan Cumming and Angus King.
Amazing to see our Kirsty McKinna on the Swinton Style Instagram page. It turns out Kirsty used to babysit for Bella Freud and later went to the same Steiner school.
Breaking news on the audiobook I produced and directed with Tilda Swinton last week for Canongate Books.
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