Owen Pratt

Remote mixing in the forest

Owen Pratt on SoundBetter

Mixing and mastering for electronic pioneers. Over 15 years experience recording, mixing and mastering.

After spending 10 years running Flesh and Bone Studios in London, I relocated to the Montagne Noire in the south of France and setup a mixing and electronic production room in the heart of the forest. The studio is acoustically treated, based around a Crane Song Spider mixer, Metric Halo interfaces and a wide selection of analog keyboards and effects.

I regularly record and mix bands for NTS radio. You can find some of the recordings at https://www.nts.live/shows/flesh-and-bone-studios.
Until I left London I also worked as a mix engineer at Melody VR, mixing multitracked concerts for a wide variety of artists (Blake Shelton, Alice Cooper, Arcade Fire).

I'm especially interested in working on forward thinking music on the fringes of noise, industrial, electroacoustic and ambient. I also enjoy mixing bands and have done for many years.

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Credits

Discogs verified credits for Owen Pratt
  • Severin Black (2) & Owen Pratt
  • Tristram
  • Electricity In Our Homes
  • Pavlov's Children
  • Női Kabát
  • Női Kabát
  • Uncanny Valley (2)
  • Uncanny Valley (2)
  • PC World
  • PC World
  • Női Kabát
  • Női Kabát
  • Uncanny Valley (2)
  • Soft Riot
  • BlackMoon1348 With The Tibetan Monks Of The Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
  • Wild Daughter
  • Uncanny Valley (2)
  • Christoph de Babalon & WIDT
  • PC World
  • Uncanny Valley (2)
  • PC World
  • Bishi
  • Electricity In Our Homes
  • Slow Club (3)
  • Theme Park (2)
  • Arthur Beatrice
  • Női Kabát
  • Various
  • Theme Park (2)
  • Női Kabát
  • Is Tropical
  • Uncanny Valley (2)
  • BlackMoon1348 With The Tibetan Monks Of The Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
  • The Shrike (3)
  • Uncanny Valley (2)
  • Othon*
  • Various
  • Joseph Johnson (11)
  • Various
  • Avel Mismo
  • Jerome (50)
  • Christoph de Babalon & WIDT
  • Nape (5)
  • Severin Black (2) & Vanessa Bedoret
  • Kagami Smile
  • Emma Acs
  • Mirror Organs
  • Aires (3), Canadian Rifles
  • V/A*
  • Is Tropical
  • Various

Interview with Owen Pratt

  1. Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

  2. A: After running a commercial studio in London for 10 years, I relocated to the Montagne Noire in the south of France where I setup a mixing and production room in the heart of the forest. The studio is a digital/analogue hybrid based around Metric Halo interfaces, a Crane Song Spider and a collection of analogue keyboards, effects, amps and eurorack modules. It gives me the ability to process analog for texture and colour but also retain the flexibility of digital.

  3. Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?

  4. A: Zlaya Loud is a fantastic mastering engineer.

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

  6. A: These days I usually work on ambient, EBM and harder electronic productions.

  7. Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?

  8. A: I mixed the live broadcast of a performance between Ryuchi Sakamoto and David Toop. It was technically quite involved and required a different approach and mentality to what what I normally do.

  9. Q: What are you working on at the moment?

  10. A: I'm working on the music for a feature film, a new EP for my project Uncanny Valley & an album for a band I'm producing.

  11. Q: Analog or digital and why?

  12. A: Both! Analog for texture and interaction, digital for precision.

  13. Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?

  14. A: To make bold decisions and not to sound like everyone else.

  15. Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?

  16. A: Octatrack, Sony D-100, two hydrophones and some headphones.

  17. Q: Can you share one music production tip?

  18. A: Patch all processing you think you're going to need before you begin to help separating the left brain processes from the right brain.

  19. Q: What's your typical work process?

  20. A: Typically I start the day by simply listening and working out where to take the project. From there it really depends on what I'm on but I strongly believe in separating the technical processes from the creative. Generally that means patching all the processing that I think I'm going to use before diving in.

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Gear Highlights
  • Crane Song Spider + STC-8
  • Metric Halo ULN-8 + LIO-8
  • OTO BAM + Biscuit
  • Musique Industrie PMI 2200
  • Roland RE501
  • ARP Odyssey
  • Korg MS20
  • Sequential Pro 1
  • Roland JX-3P
  • Elektron Octatrack + Machinedrum
  • Crumar Performer
  • DX7s
  • Boss KM60
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