Morning Starr
Sonny Starr, punk drummer extraordinaire, has just paid the studio an early morning visit. Once again, he came to ask me for some advice. ‘I’ve given up playing the drums, I’ve given up punk,’ he...
View ArticleBirthday Zombies
To everyone who wished me a happy birthday recently: thank you, I didn’t know you cared. In case you were wondering, I spent the day with Audrey, trying not to do any work, eating pizza and drinking...
View ArticleEvery Cloud
Boy, it’s grim weather here today: heavy cloud and constant drizzle. Looking out of the window I can see a massive, black, anvil-shaped monster of a thundercloud to the north just idly waiting until...
View ArticleTempo Hell
Here is some advice for all you budding audio engineers and DAW recordists out there: if you are working on a track with tempo changes make sure they are all correct before doing any overdubs. I have...
View ArticleDistant Drums
Sonny Starr, drummer with the Modern Men rang me last night begging for studio time again. ‘Can you hear me OK? I’m in Dubai!’ ‘Good for you, Sonny,’ I shouted over a bad line, ‘but I know what you’re...
View ArticleAgony Uncle
‘Why the long face, Davy?’ ‘Oh, good morning, Reg.’ ‘Don’t tell me, you went out in the village with young Nelson over the weekend, got drunk, got some bird pregnant; got a heart full of regrets and a...
View ArticleWhat Woman Really Want
I was accosted by not one but two annoying men this morning. First, punk drummer Sonny Starr who is so thick that light actually bends around him rang about eight o’clock this morning pleading for some...
View ArticleA Flock Of Beetles
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Beetles have left the studio. Last night, the two biggest ones – I named them John and Yoko – gathered their little brood of beetle-children about …
View ArticleHendrix In Nottingham
I was in Nottingham yesterday buying some Doc Martens when I noticed a heavily tattooed man cleaning the big front windows of Debenhams department store in Slab Square. It was …
View ArticleStarmaker
I recorded Reg and his drums yesterday. It was an easy job: I simply used a spaced pair of AKG414’s on the whole kit and close-miked the bass drum with …
View ArticleJazz Band Mastering Marathon
I have an attended mastering session booked in tomorrow. A jazz band contacted me a few weeks ago wanting to come in to the studio and master an album of …
View ArticleJazz Job Completed
As I thought I would, I finished the jazz album mastering session last night in less than three hours. I’m a fool to myself, I really am. I could have …
View ArticleJazz Improv
When the one-eyed jazz saxophonist who had booked the attended mastering session arrived wearing the stripiest satin waistcoat I had ever seen and sat down behind me at the mixing …
View ArticleNew Year’s Revolution
Try not to faint: you are reading a blog post by someone who stayed in on on New Years Eve. That’s right, you aren’t dreaming – Nelson Galaxy and I …
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