Production | Mixing | Mastering
Let's Talk About You.
Being in a band is the most creatively rewarding and fulfilling thing you can do, it's also one of the most stressful and inconsistent lifestyles you can live. You want to spread your message and connect with people, to make a record that turns the most important thing in your life into a career that allows you to tour the world and live off your band.
But it’s hard.
Maybe you’ve released a few records but the recordings you made didn’t connect in the way you’d hoped. The Spotify numbers didn’t come back the way you’d expected. You got a few shows out of it, even with that really awesome mid-tier band who are living the life you’re really aiming for, but you’re not touring the world yet and the labels you emailed the songs to just didn’t get back to you.
It’s like you’re stuck in a life you don’t belong in, working yourself to the bone so you can head out on that weekender and take a Friday off without your boss threatening to fire you or cut your hours. It’s just plain wrong to put so much work into your art and it not make the impact it deserves to.
Committing to a big studio project can seem scary. What if it’s super expensive? What if you have to take a ton of time off work? How do you know your music’s good enough? Is there a way you can make your dream record, the music that allows you to push your career to the next level, without a big label advance?
Yes there is. I want to help you create this record.
I care so much about your musical output that I will relentlessly push you to produce the most creative, attention grabbing, unique music you possibly can. The bands i've worked with have a combined tens of millions of Spotify plays, signed to record labels like Hopeless, Deathwish Inc, Big Scary Monsters, No Sleep, Topshelf, Sony, they regularly tour the UK, USA, Canada, Europe and play on huge Festival line-ups like Leeds & Reading, Slam Dunk and Download Festival.
So how can you get started? We can have a chat over email to find out what your goals are, what kind of record you want to make and where you hope it will take you, then we'll get into the studio and make that record.
Let’s work together to make a production that emotionally resonates with people, that allows you to spread your message by touring the world, signing to a label that can push your music and appearing on the most impactful Spotify playlists. Because your music could be incredible, but if it’s not packaged in a way that captures people’s hearts and minds then there’s no momentum to your career, no moving forward, the same life you lead now. I want to help take you from being a great local band with unfulfilled potential to the best band in your genre, a unique artist that rises up and out of your scene.
Bands & Artists
WSTR, Citizen, Sky Ferreira, Self Defense Family, Ginger Wildheart, Allusinlove, The Orielles, Nai Harvest, Nervus, Luke Rainsford, What We Lost, The Deadnotes, Muskets, Ducking Punches, Catch Fire, Cultdreams, Cold Years, itoldyouiwouldeatyou, Cassels, Insist, Don't Worry, Hot Mass, Pnau
Record Labels
Sony
Hopeless Records
Run For Cover Records
Topshelf Records
Deathwish Inc
Rude Records
Big Scary Monsters
Xtra Mile
Specialist Subject
Tiny Engines
Clue Records
Art Is Hard Records
React Records
The Studio
I work out of the Chairworks Studio just outside of Leeds, UK.
It's a beautiful recording studio with a huge double height drum room, six isolated recording spaces to facilitate live recording, a grand piano, a SSL G+ mixing console and one of the largest collections of high end gear in the UK.
I’ve aimed to curate a space where a band could come with nothing and still make an amazing record, so i’ve built my equipment collection to reflect the kind of music I love to work with. At any time the studio has a huge collection of instruments, drums, amps, and pedals to help realise a band’s creative vision. I’m incredibly proud that I’ve been lucky enough to work with bands from around the world who’ve come to the studio with nothing and were able to do just that.
Equipment List
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Instruments
1997 American Fender Stratocaster
2006 American Fender Telecaster Highway 1 60th Anniversary
1994 Japanese Fender Jaguar Special (HH)
2004 Gibson Les Paul Special Faded
2016 Gibson SG Standard
ESP Lemondrop Evertune
ESP Ben Weinman Evertune
1975 Hagstrom Viking
1965 Hagstrom One
Gordon Smith GS1
1978 Music Man Stingray (pre-EB)
1994 Japanese Fender ‘Geddy Lee’ Jazz Bass
Fender Telecaster Bass
Amps
Marshall JCM800 (1983)
Marshall JCM900 (1990s)
Marshall JCM2000
Vox AC50 (1965)
Orange Rockerverb 50 Head
Orange AD30
Orange Tiny Terror Head
Fender Twin (1976) x 2
Fender Bassman
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe
Fender Blues Jr
Hi Watt Custom Studio/Stage mk2 amp
Cornford Harlequin Mk1
Blackstar Artisan
Sound City Mark 4 (1970’s)
Selmer PA100 SV (Treble N Bass – 1970s)
Peavey 6505+ Head
Traynor Mark 3 (1970s)
Carlsbro 50 Top (1973)
AMT Stonehead
Laney AOR (1980’s)
Laney GH100L
Watkins Dominator 35
Ampeg SVT
Cabs
Mesa Boogie 4×12 Cab w/ Celestion Vintage 30s
Mesa Roadking Spec’d 2×12 w/ Celestion Vintage 30 & Fane F70
Orange Closed Back 2×12 Cab w/ Celestion Vintage 30s
Orange Closed Back 4×12 Cab w/ Celestion Vintage 30s
Matamp 4x12 Cab w/ Celestion Hot 100s
Zilla Fatboy 2×12 Cab w/ Celestion Greenbacks
Ampeg 8x10
Drum Kits
North Custom Kit - Mahogany – 13″ 16″ 24″
Shine Custom Kellered Maple Kit – 12″ 14″ 20″
Ludwig Classic Maple Kick Drum 24x18"
Gretsch Round Badge Kick Drum 22x16"
Yamaha Oak Custom Floor Tom 16"
Snare Drums
Ludwig Black Beauty 14×6.5
Ludwig LM400 14×5 (1978)
Ludwig Pioneer (1976)
Dialtune Maple 14x6.5 (the only one in the UK!)
Dialtune Brass 14x6.5 (the only one in the UK!)
Sonor Benny Greb Beech Snare 13×5.75
Pork Pie Zebrawood / Rosewood over Maple 13×7
Pearl Free Floating Steel 14×6.5
Pearl Free Floating Brass 14x6.5
Cymbals
1970’s 14″ Zildjian New Beat Hi-Hats
1970’s 22″ Zildjian Ride
1970's 18" Zildjian Crash
18″ Zildjian K Custom Crash
Pedals
Fuzzrocious Superheaven Fuzz Pedal
Fuzzrocious Demon
Fuzzrocious Cat Tail
Strymon Big Sky
Strymon DIG
Mesa Boogie Throttle Box
Empress Distortion
OBNE Fault
Union Tsar Bomba Fuzz
Rockett Archer Klon
Noisemaker Effects Loveless Fuzz / Reverb Pedal
Tech 21 Sansamp Bass Driver
Fulltone OCD
Fulltone Plimsoul
Custom OCD Clone
Seymour Duncan Palladium
Horizon Devices Precision Drive
Zvex Box Of Rock
Zvex Mastotron
DOD Gunslinger
Walrus Audio Iron Horse
ThorpyFX Warthog
Life Is Unfair Audio ‘The Dream Left Behind’ Fuzz
Life Is Unfair Audio ‘Awkward Breed’ Fuzz
Ibanez Tubescreamer
Electro Harmonix Russian black Big Muff
Electro Harmonix Holy Grail +
Electro Harmonix Memory Man W/ Hazerai
Electro Harmonix Big Muff
Electro Harmonix Bass Big Muff
Electro Harmonix Small Clone
Danelectro Fab Tone
Boss Super Chorus
Boss Blues Driver
(This list might be constantly out of date as I'm always buying more pedals, at my last count I have 55!)
Pianos & Synths
- Yamaha C7 conservatory grand piano 7"6
- Rogers of London 1920's upright piano
- Minimoog (Model E)
- Fender Rhodes suitcase
- Hammond C3 & cabinet
- Mellotron MkV1
- Roland RS202 String Machine
- Roland Juno 6- Wurlitzer EP200A
- Critter And Guitari Organelle
Console
SSL 4048G+
Preamps
2x Neve 1073
2x Neve 1081
4x Neve 31155
2 x Great River MP-500NV
1 x Burl B1D
2 x TK Audio DP1
1 x Universal Audio 610
2 x API 512
2x Dacs Dual Pre
2 x Classic Audio Products of Illinois VP26
1 x Lindell 6x-500
1 x BLM Audio Pultec Tube Preamp
8 x Audient ASP008
4 x Prism Titan
48 x SSL G+
EQs
- SSL G+ and E Series EQ's
- GML 8200 Series 11
- Manley Massive Passive
- Neve 1081 (x2)
- Neve 33115b (x4)
- Pultec EQH-2
- Pultec MEQ-5
- Summit Audio EQF-100 (matched pair)
- Urei 545 (x2)
Compressors
- Analogue Tubes AT-101
- API 2500
- Audio Design F760 X-RS Complex
- Chandler EMI TG1 Abbey Rd Special edition
- DBX 160XT
- DBX 160A X2
- EAR 660 Tube Limiter
- Empirical Labs Distressor EL8X w/Brit Mod (x2)
- Empirical Labs Fatso Jr EL7
- Neve 33609/C
- Teletronix LA2A Original (grey face)
- Urei 1178 Stereo
- Urei 1176LN (original black face)
Microphones
Blue Kiwi
Coles 4038 x2
Royer R121
Violet Design Amethyst Vintage x 2
JZ 67
AEA N22
AEA N8
AKG D20
Cascade Fathead x 2
Beyer MC930 x2
Beyer M201
Little Blondie x 2
Heil PR30
Heil PR20
Audix D6 x 2
Audix i5
Shure SM57 x 9
Shure SM7B
Shure Beta 52
Shure Beta 91
PZM Boundary Microphone
Interfaces & Conversion
16 Channels of i/o
Prism Titan
Ferrofish Pulse 16
Monitoring
Unity Audio ‘The Rock’
ATC SCM45A Pro
Yamaha NS10
Focal CMS50