Owen Pratt on SoundBetter

Mixing and mastering for electronic pioneers. Over 20 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 mastering room in the heart of the forest. The studio is acoustically treated, based around a Crane Song Spider mixer, Metric Halo interfaces and a selection of the most cutting edge digital and analog processors.

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, Post Malone, Alice Cooper, Arcade Fire). I also ran a live recording company called Output audio and have mixed and recorded artists such as Ryuchi Sakamoto, Lana Del Rey, Robbie Williams, Cyprus Hill, Rita Ora, Jessie Ware & Nadine Shah.

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.

Send me a note through the contact button above.

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
Canadian Rifles
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
Ekaterina Bazhenova-Yamasaki
Emma Acs
COEVAL (2)
Mirror Organs
Aires (3), Canadian Rifles
V/A*
Grady Steele
Various
Canadian Rifles
Is Tropical
Various

3 Reviews

Endorse Owen Pratt

by Jesse R.
Verified
I've worked with Owen for over 10 years now. He's an extremely talented, responsive and generous musician, technician and engineer.

He always takes the time to really understand the projects he's working on and what you as an artist are trying to achieve, coming up with interesting and often ingenious ways of reaching those goals.

Forever a pleasure to work with, I've recommended him to every other musician I know when they're looking for production, recording, mixing or mastering assistance.
by Samuel S.
Verified
Owen does great work for a fair price. Would definitely work with him again.
by Luke S.
Responsive, easy to communicate with, efficient and reliable dude. I got Owen's contact through some friends of friends, listened to their stuff and decided I should contact him and ask him to master my stuff. I somehow had a feeling I'd made the right choice and I confirmed once I received the tracks. Will definitely be working with him in the future again!

Interview with Owen Pratt

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
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.
Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?
A: Zlaya Loud is a fantastic mastering engineer.
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: These days I usually work on ambient, EBM and harder electronic productions.
Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
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.
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
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.
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: Both! Analog for texture and interaction, digital for precision.
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: To make bold decisions and not to sound like everyone else.
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: Octatrack, Sony D-100, two hydrophones and some headphones.
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
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.
Q: What's your typical work process?
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.