audio production

I use Pro Tools HD Ultimate most of the time but can work in Logic X too. With many Waves and Slate plug-ins, plus various others including Cranesong Phoenix and Serato Pitch 'n Time my choices are nearly endless. This means that there is a full range of effects and signal processing in the digital domain and over three decades of deep experience in how to use them. 

It's also easy to record great quality voiceovers or dialogue in the studio as it has a very neutral acoustic. The microphones of choice are often my Neumann U87s. Everything from meditation CDs to theatre dialogue has been done this way. I'm interested in voice - it's the one fundamental sound everyone knows before birth, we know it intimately more than any musical instrument. A well recorded voice can communicate so many things unsaid... In the studio I'm used to making ordinary voices stand up and sound great. Its not just about having a quiet room or using the tools, it can be dialogue with the performer to bring out their best - and setting up the situation to enable that.

If you're thinking of bringing in a mixing project, any raw audio file format is OK but preferably 24bit aiff or wav. I’m happy with receiving Pro Tools or Logic sessions too and will work with what you give me rather than turning it into something else.

Like with mastering I like to send drafts away for listening. An increasing number of of my mixing clients are remote these days, so I'm well used to collaborating over the internet. 

My favourite current example of my production work is the music and poetry release “The Wreck Event” for Nigel Featherstone.