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

    2. A: I treat everyone's songs as unique projects. A lot of engineers follow templates and have strict workflows I like to make the client feel comfortable to go with their flow and with mixing I was raised very old school with desks and tape machines so my template is set up to kind of match that and it's routing and then I start from a blank slate with each artists mix.

    3. Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?

    4. A: The producers and engineers who have massively inspire me who I haven't worked for are Andy Wallace, Eric Valentine, Butch Vig, Sylvia Massey and Max Martin.

    5. Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?

    6. A: I have been doing this for over 10 years, assisting in a number of studios as a teenager and then studying on the prestigious Tonmeister course at Surrey for 4 years I then went on to Intern and engineer for some of the top producers in Pop - Mark Hill (Artful Dodger, Craig David), Gareth Henderson (Birdy), Chris Neil (Celine Dion, Cher, Rod Stewart) I then decided to set up my own studio in my home town of Southampton.

    7. Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

    8. A: I own and run a studio in the centre of Southampton, I prefer to mix in the box as it's the way the industry has moved and the flexibility and instant recall make it more cost-effective and efficient for clients. The room is acoustically treated providing a flat mixing environment and I mainly monitor on my ATC SCM25a's which are incredible. I also check on my Equator D5 Mk1s that I have been using for a very long time. I also reference and check on a consumer boombox wired up to the system like many pros do and check everything on headphones- a set of AKG K701 mixing headphones and apple earbuds. The studio is full of vintage synths, tape machines, vintage guitars, rare pedals and amps and the like to record and send things out to. The studio's software collection includes the Softube Console 1 mix controller for tactile hands-on control which I mainly use like an SSL E console, Sound Toys Bundle, Fab Filter plugins, most waves plugins, Melodyne Studio 4, Slate Digital, Plugin Alliance, NI Komplete Ultimate, Serum, Spectrasonics, Arturia V collection... the list goes on.

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

    10. A: I have a wide-ranging portfolio but over the last 10 years I have specialised in producing, mixing and programming pop music, acoustic singer-songwriters and also indie/pop/rock bands and offering the independent acts I work with Artist Development guidance. In the last few years, I have become incredibly in demand for remote mixing work. I also work a lot with professional songwriters to quickly create pitchable demos in a wide range of genres.

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