She Flew From Australia to Record Adele's "All I Ask" on Her Seoul Trip

If you've ever caught yourself singing an Adele song in the shower and thought "I wish I could record this properly, just once" — this post is the closest thing to a walkthrough you'll find. On her Seoul Trip, Claudia from Australia did exactly that: she booked KING STUDIO's DIAMOND experience and recorded Adele's "All I Ask" in a professional Seoul recording studio, with a vocal director guiding every take. Here's how the session actually went.

• Why Claudia Chose Adele's "All I Ask"
• Inside the Booth: How the DIAMOND Session Went
• Behind the scenes of Claudia's KING STUDIO Experience
• FAQ: KING STUDIO Services
• Plan your own Seoul Trip recording session

Why Claudia Chose Adele's "All I Ask"

Some people walk into a K-pop studio in Seoul wanting the loudest, highest, hardest title track they can find. Claudia went the opposite direction — she chose a slow, exposed piano ballad. In her own words: "I used to sing along to Adele's songs a lot, and I really wanted to leave it on my trip to Seoul with my voice."

That choice tells you something. "All I Ask," from Adele's 2015 album 25, is a torch ballad co-written with Bruno Mars — just voice and piano, almost nowhere to hide. There's no big production wall to lean on, no rhythm section to carry a shaky note. Every breath is audible. For a lot of singers that's the scariest kind of song to record, because the microphone catches everything. But that exposure is also the whole point: it's the song that sounds most like you.

The real challenge with a ballad like this isn't hitting impossibly high notes — it's control. Holding the long sustained lines steady, placing each breath so it doesn't break the phrase, and letting the quiet parts stay genuinely quiet instead of pushing them. That's a different skill from belting, and it's exactly what Claudia wanted to capture: not a perfect performance, but her voice on a song that had followed her around for years, finally pinned down properly on her Seoul Trip. For an Adele fan, recording "All I Ask" in a real studio isn't a stunt — it's a small, private bucket-list item finally checked off.

Inside the Booth: How the DIAMOND Session Went

The DIAMOND experience runs about two hours, and it's structured so a first-timer never feels lost. Here's what Claudia's session looked like, step by step.

STEP 1 Meeting the team and settling in.

Walking into a real recording studio for the first time is its own moment — the treated walls, the booth glass, the console covered in faders. Claudia was met by her vocal director, Lucia, who would stay with her through the whole session. One thing worth saying plainly: there can be a language barrier when an international visitor records in Seoul, and the staff worked around it carefully, checking in constantly so Claudia always knew what was happening next rather than nodding along to instructions she didn't catch.

STEP 2 Finding her key.

Before any real recording happened, Lucia ran Claudia through a proper rehearsal to find the key that actually fit her voice. This is the part most people don't expect — you don't just sing the song in Adele's original key and hope. Lucia adjusted the backing track until "All I Ask" sat in a range where Claudia could control the quiet passages instead of straining for them. For a ballad, getting this right is most of the battle.

STEP 3 Breathing room and pitch guidance.

Once the key was set, Lucia coached the specific things that make or break a slow song: where to breathe so the long lines don't fracture, and how to stay on pitch through the sustained notes. She gave Claudia clear breath placement and a pitch guide to lean on — the kind of direction you simply can't give yourself when you're singing alone.

STEP 4 Recording it the way idols do.

Then came the real takes. Claudia recorded the song in sections, the same comped, take-by-take method actual K-pop artists use — sing a passage, listen back, adjust, go again. It took dozens of repetitions. That sounds tedious written down, but in the room it's the opposite: each pass gets a little closer, and you can hear yourself improving in real time.

STEP 5 The take that landed.

The turning point came after one piece of direction clicked. Lucia pointed out exactly where Claudia's breath should land going into a phrase — and on the next take, Claudia closed her eyes and sang it straight through, all the way to the final note, without stopping. That was the one. Afterward she summed up the whole session in a single line: "The breath thing changed everything." It's a small technical adjustment, but it's the difference between a take you tolerate and a take you keep.

STEP 6 Final monitoring.

The session closed with Claudia listening back to the finished work on the studio monitors. This is where DIAMOND separates itself from a basic vocal session: the recording is mixed and mastered into a finished, take-home track — not a rough phone memo, but a properly produced file she carried home to Australia. That polished master is the thing that turns "I once sang Adele in Seoul" into something she can actually play for people.

💎 "The breath thing changed everything."
— Claudia, on the moment her take finally clicked

Behind the scenes of Claudia's KING STUDIO Experience

"The breath thing changed everything."
— Claudia, on the moment her take finally clicked

KING STUDIO Recommends: A Few Seoul Spots for a Quiet-Ballad Kind of Day

Adele isn't a Korean artist, so there's no "where her fans gather in Seoul" map to hand you — and we won't invent one. Instead, here's an honest, first-person KING STUDIO pick: if your trip has the same mood as Claudia's song choice — unhurried, a little reflective — a few neighborhoods near the studio reward slow wandering. We'd point you toward a quiet café afternoon in Seochon or Ikseon-dong, both walkable hanok-lined areas good for the kind of day where you're not rushing between landmarks. These are our suggestions for tone, not a claim about where any artist goes. Build the rest of your route around what you actually want to see.

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Which Hearts2Hearts song would YOU split with your group? S2U fans from Japan and everywhere else — tell us in the comments which track you'd record on your Seoul Trip. 💎🎤

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