Music Production, Mixing and Mastering

Production/mixing credits include:

I mainly work from my home studio in Hackney, London.

Here’s an incomplete list of some of the stuff I have and use currently

  • Monitoring: 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos-compatible monitoring including Genelec The Ones and sub as main speakers, plus Avantone Mixcubes, Sonos and Google speaker systems for mix checks, Onde wooden speaker;

  • Mics: Coles, Townsend Labs, Avantone, DPA, Shure, Oktava, SE, contact and underwater (!) mics;

  • Interfaces: Focusrite RED16/REDNET and UAD Twin;

  • Outboard: Eventide H9000, Thermionic Culture Rooster, Neve Portico II, SSL SiX console, Tegeler Creme, Tegeler Schwerkraftmaschine;

  • Software: Pro Tools Studio, Logic Pro, Ableton Live 11 Suite, RX 10 Advanced, Melodyne, Dorico, Sibelius, Premiere Pro, Photoshop etc.

  • Plugins: Many UAD plugins (and an Octo processor), Eventide Anthology, Moog, AutoAlign 2, Ozone 10 Advanced, Sonnox, Native Instruments, Valhalla, iZotope complete bundle;

  • Virtual instruments: Arturia V Collection, Moog, Native Instruments KOMPLETE 14 Collector’s Edition, various Spitfire libraries, Toontrack Superior Drummer, EZBass, EZKeys (all with many extension packs), AudioModelling SWAM instruments, SoundParticles and many others;

  • Controllers: NI Komplete Kontrol 88 with piano action, Roland V drums, Expressive E Touché, Softube Console 1 & Fader, SSL UF8, Polyend Seq, many small controllers and keyboards;

  • Acoustic/electro-acoustic instruments: Fender Rhodes 54 electric piano, upright piano, many professional trumpets, flugel horn, cornet, tenor horn, baritone horn, trombone, assorted drums, cymbals, assorted global hand percussion, Fender Strat electric guitar, Stellah bass, 4-string spade guitar, ukelele, cajon, whistles, pipes, Shruti Company chromatic shruti box, an enormous army of small musical robots (!), a LOT of conch shells (!) etc;

  • Electronic instruments: Moog Matriarch, Arturia Polybrute, Teenage Engineering OP1, Critter & Guitari Organelle, Folktek Resonant Garden, SOMA Pipe, Arturia DrumBrute Impact, various other boutique and unusual small synths and the like

  • FX and other bits: Soma Cosmos, Replicator tape delay, Vermona Retroverb Lancet spring reverb/filter, Eventide H9s, Landscape Stereo Field, Boss SY300, Line 6 Helix Floor and FX, many assorted guitar pedals and boutique bits and bobs.

Mastering credits include:

I mixed this film in 2023, made by the amazing Cosmic Shambles Network.

More info/listen:

I have produced four Hackney Colliery Band albums (Common Decency in 2013, Sharpener in 2016, LIVE! in 2017 and the forthcoming Collaborations: Volume One in 2019), and mixed and produced Carnatic Connections in 2016 (nominated for a Songlines World Music Award for Best Group Album in 2016, and declared one of the best world music albums of the past 10 years) and A Day in Bangalore in 2018 for the Bollywood Brass Band, as well as many other projects over the years.

My speciality area is, inevitably, brass/woodwind-led jazz and world music projects, but I have also recorded a huge diversity of stuff, from punk bands to acoustic guitars, ethnic percussion to comedy.

Much of the solo work on Sharpener was recorded here, and all of the violin and percussion (and some solo trumpet) on BBB's Carnatic Connections and follow up EP A Day In Bangalore, as well as all of the music for my kid's theatre show Annabelle's Skirtingboard Adventure and various radio and podcast bits and pieces for shows like Answer Me This. Much of my solo session work is done from this home studio, which keeps time and costs down for all involved.

Depending on my tour schedule, I can often turn around projects very quickly, and for a reasonable fee, so do get in touch if you'd like to record here, or if you'd like me to mix a project for you. As an extremely experienced musician myself, I am fast and efficient at tracking, and can obviously follow scores or work without depending on the situation and performers. I make a mean coffee, and for longer projects also provide lunch/dinner as appropriate.

If you'd like solo or section horns on your project, do get in touch as I can provide the full package of arrangement, recording and mixing from right here, with a section as large or small as you like.

Below are some examples of the work I've produced in my studio.

Carnatic Connections was recorded at Pretty Good and Snorkel Studios, and mixed at Pretty Good:

In 2018, this album was followed up with an even more virtuosic EP of original music from the band, Jyotsna and Prakash, again produced and mixed by me (and featuring my soloing again).

Here it is:

For examples of my electronic work with Hackney Colliery Band, check out Jump Then Run, Reawake and Bread and Circuses, and for examples of trumpet tracked here, listen to solos on Heart-Shaped Box, Reawake and Timelapse. The electronics/drum machine and production for Sharpener was all done at Pretty Good, as was some of the horn tracking:

In 2018 I had the pleasure of recording the ridiculously virtuosic Oompah Brass. We managed to record a LOT over the course of one day thanks to their amazing playing and work ethic, and I recorded, mixed and mastered all of the material in my studio. So far, only the Christmas material has been released, but I know there are plans afoot to get the rest out in 2019. Check it out; the whole thing was recorded as live, and was mixed and mastered with a more conventional classical approach than I often use, which was a really nice contrast. Really happy with how it sounds.