Musician & Music Producer

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I have a Mac-based studio, with a few select outboard preamps and compressors. An Audient interface, with expansion available via a Cranborne Audio 500ADAT unit, allows tracking and/or mixing through a selection of 500 series units. Monitoring is via Adam monitors and Sennheiser & Beyer Dynamic headphones. A varied mic locker covers the classics (AKG D12 & C414, Electrovoice RE20 & RE11, Shure SM58) to the more esoteric (Calrec CB20, Beyer Dynamic M81, AKG D58 & Oktava MK219). I have 4 drumkits to call on for recording; 1950's Ajax and early 70's Olympic 4-piece kits in jazz sizes, with 5-piece Ludwig and 7-piece Premier kits from the 1980s in more traditional rock configurations. An upright piano, Hammond C3, Fender Rhodes MkII Stage 73, Hohner Pianet T and Roland SH101 cover the keys side of things, with a broad selection of guitars including 6 & 12 string acoustics, several Telecaster and Stratocaster models alongside basses from Fender & Tokai.

Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.

A: I've worked on a great deal of remix projects over the years, and this has grown into an increasing amount of more straightforward mixing work. Often, both will entail an element of creative production input too. With a background in radio promotion, I've always done plenty of radio edits for a variety of record label clients, big and small, and enjoy the challenge of finishing a tight edit that everyone is happy with!

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Working on music for two Dr Rubberfunk albums, two production / library-music style projects and a soundtrack album. Plus, regular sample replays (drums / bass / guitars) and mixing work.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Always both - I'd love to run an all analog studio, but the costs and logistics are prohibitive for me, so I try to incorporate some of each for both recording and mixing duties!

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: A unique studio sound and a rounded approach to arrangement and mixing.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: It very much depends on the project - mixing tracks with vocals will have a different workflow to undertaking a dance remix for instance, but I work hard to best serve the song.

Q: What type of music do you usually work on?

A: Largely soul, funk and blues, but hip hop and dance music production regularly features in my workload.