After joining the informal Tuesday Night Conversation Club (which mainly involved imbibing copious quantities of ale) with Steve and a few mates including Gordon Jackson, Mike Kellie and Bill Hunt of the Ancient Order Of Froth Blowers, Steve asked me to man the recordings for this album. It was a return to form for Steve, with him playing organ, singing and simultaneously doing the bass parts with the organ pedals – amazing skills! I engineered all the recording in his newly built Wincraft Studio, an enormous barn with the control room down some stairs and with no sight lines, but a good selection of microphones. There was no conventional desk, this was an early experience of using outboard preamps and Pro Tools for me, instead of an old fashioned analogue desk and tape machine. We had catering and often after dinner there would be a bit of a jam session – Steve would play mandolin, bass, guitar, anything to hand – such an amazing musician!
Steve Winwood
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John Leckie and George Shilling – the cartoon! How I got animated at Abbey Road with RecordProduction.com…
Credits / CV, Video Interview
John Leckie and I have known each for many years. We have worked together a few times. I engineered...
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Lisa Stansfield
Credits / CV, Mixing, Recording
Coldcut continued their run of launching other artists’ careers with hit singles with Lisa Stansfield’s collaboration, People Hold On...
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Dirty Slippers and Lobó-Szalóky Lázár – Collaborating with Hungarian Rock Royalty
Cello / Strings, Credits / CV, Latest Work, Mastering, Mixing
On Top Of The World The first release from our (second) Abbey Road sessions is the properly anthemic On...
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Paul Van Dyk
Credits / CV, Recording
After I had produced a number of tracks with Vega 4 they set about a collaboration with dance music...
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My Life Story
Credits / CV, Mixing, Recording
With my cello playing credentials, I was considered for producing MLS who’d previously worked with Giles Martin. With multitudinous...
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KB Bayley
Credits / CV, Latest Work, Mastering
KB Bayley The second album I have mastered for the wonderful KB Bayley is out now! Flatlands can be...
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Ocean Colour Scene
Cello / Strings, Credits / CV, Mixing, Recording
Steve Cradock and Simon Fowler came to my Bank Cottage Studio around 2009 to record and polish up demos...
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Mastering Matt Edible And The Obtuse Angels’ latest stormer!
Credits / CV, Latest Work, Mastering
New Single – “Idiot”! Idiot by Matt Edible & The Obtuse Angels https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/mattedibleandtheobtuseangels/idiot I mastered this stomping great tune...