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recording engineer + producer

As a producer and recording engineer I work across a range of styles, and mostly with contemporary and classical artists, from solo to chamber and orchestral settings, live on location or in studio. I also enjoy working with jazz and electronic musicians, as well as vocal and choral groups.

I provide a complete audio production service from recording to mixing and mastering, in stereo and surround formats (ambisonics and Dolby Atmos).

Examples of recent recording projects include recordings with Explore Ensemble, Exaudi Vocal Ensemble, Her Ensemble, Mark Fell and Limpe Fuchs, the London Contemporary Music Festival Orchestra, Nonclassical and the Southbank Sinfonia. See below for more information and samples.

Please get in touch on the contact page with your enquiry.

projects

“Croon Harvest” - Jack Sheen / The Trilogy Tapes

Location recording of Kantos in Stockport
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu

“parallaxis forma” - Another Timbre

Engineer, mixer, producer, and cover artist for album on Another Timbre: music for voice and ensemble by Berlin-based American composer, Catherine Lamb, featuring Explore Ensemble, Exaudi Vocal Ensemble, and Lotte Betts-Dean.

“Perfect Offering” - Explore Ensemble

Engineer, mixer, masterer, and producer for an Explore Ensemble portrait album with Huddersfield Contemporary Records (HCR), including music by Cassandra Miller, Lisa Illean, Rebecca Saunders, and Lawrence Dunn.

Mixed in stereo, binuaral, and Dolby Atmos, and incorporating a new workflow based in ambisonics: using Blue Ripple plugins to mix first in third order ambisonics and then convert the 3D soundfield into Atmos masters. Ambisonics offers a more flexible, reliable, and accurate long-term spatial master.

For more info on the spatial mixing, read my article on NMC: ‘Spherical Sound: from Ambisonics to Atmos.‘

“Bright Star” - Her Ensemble

Engineer and producer of new single, also released as a music video.

Exaudi Vocal Ensemble - hcmf// 2022

Live recording at hcmf// 2022, works by Mikel Urquiza, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Naomi Pinnock, and Lorenzo Pagliei.

London Contemporary Music Festival Orchestra

Recording the London Contemporary Music Festival Orchestra and Roscoe Mitchell at Woolwhich Works, June 2022.

 

Mark Fell & Limpe Fuchs

Recording Mark Fell and Limpe Fuchs at Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, April 2022.

Explore Ensemble

Lisa Illean’s “A through-grown earth” for soprano, ensemble, and electronics, with soprano Juliet Fraser, at Kings Place, November 2022.

Cassandra Miller’s “Perfect Offering” for septet at Wigmore Hall, July 2022.

Joanna Bailie’s “Dissolve“, recorded with Explore Ensemble at Snape Maltings, April 2022.

Mauro Lanza & Andrea Valle’s “Systema naturæ”, recorded with Explore Ensemble at hcmf//, November 2021.

live sound engineer

As a live sound engineer and technician I specialise in contemporary music, working with live electronics and multimedia for concert halls, theatres, and installations. I provide all the technical production for Explore Ensemble, and have worked with other artists and groups such as Zubin Kanga and GBSR Duo.

equipment 

Microphones

  • AKG c414 XLII multipolar

  • DPA 2011 cardioid

  • DPA 4006 omni

  • DPA 4066 cardioid

  • DPA 4099c cardioid

  • Line Audio CM4

  • Neumann km184 cardioid

Hardware

  • Focusrite Clarett 8pre x2

  • Antelope Audio Discrete Synergy

  • Genelec 8040b

Software

  • DAWs: Ableton, Logic, Reaper, Pro Tools

  • Performance: Max, QLab

  • Post-production: iZotope RX and Ozone, WaveLab, AudioSculpt

  • Notation: Dorico, Sibelius

  • Video: Adobe Premier Pro