The Process of Production

Alex Cores Hayes is a writer, producer, mixer and executive producer from East London. Originally making his name as part of the Haunted House collective, who came up on the pirate radio shows in and around the E5 postcode in the mid 00s, he became known to the wider world after produccing his long time collaborator and childhood friend Professor Green’s Upper Clapton Dance. He w

Burke Reid is a Canadian-Australian producer, who began his career as part of the seminal Australian alt-rock trio Gerling. After ten years in the band, and 4 critically and commercially successful albums, he left to pursue a career solely in production. His very first full length role, The Mess Hall’s Devil’s Elbow won the Australia Music Prize and set him off on a fascinating

Our guest this week is Luke Smith, a British record producer and musician who emerged in the early mid 00s with his innovative and critically acclaimed band Clor. Having split up after their first album he immediately embarked on a production career and found early success with his work on Foals sophomore album Total Life Forever. As well as cracking the top ten it received a mercu

This time our guest is Andy Hall Hall - a Music Producer / Songwriter / Engineer, working out of his studio in Battersea, South London. He started his career as a guitarist & vocalist in bands, but soon turned his interest to production after co-writing The Other Tribe's summer hit song 'Skirts' in 2012. He’s worked with some massive artists including James Gillespie, Bastill

We've wanted to interview Catherine Marks since we started the pod and so we were delighted to finally get a chance to sit down and talk to her at the beginning of the year. An Australian by birth, producer and mixer Catherine is now based in London England. She begun her career after a chance meeting with super producer flood at a Nick Cave concert in the early 2000s. Abandoning a

It’s been a long time, we shouldn’t have left you, without a podcast to step to… We’re back with a surprise drop in time for Black Friday, to talk about all our favourite new plugins of 2022, the best free plugins out there, along with a news update and an apology for dropping out of the game mid-season! We also have a chat about how to make a sustainable career as a produc

Something of a 'mini-pod' this week, no guests, just Lawrence and Bob pondering this question: What do we know now, that we wish we'd known when we started? Predictably, the answers range from very wholesome thoughts on your musical identity and songwriting, all the way to techy stuff like saturation and gain-staging.  We hope you enjoy this one!  Please let us know your

A year on from our first Mastering Engineer episode, we’re delighted to bring your our second. And this time around we’re speaking to the brilliant Katie Tavini. Katie is a mastering engineer based in Brighton, England. Originally combining her nascent mastering career with a full time role as an audio archivist, a nomination for the MPG (Music Producers Guild) Mastering Engine

This week, we speak to a specialist vocal producer first time. Cameron Gower Poole graduated from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), and made his way up the production ladder at Trevor Horn’s Sarm studios. After excelling as an engineer in vocal recording sessions, Cameron built a reputation as someone who could get the best out of an artist's singing performance

This week, we speak to Leo Abrahams. Leo is a musician, composer and producer. Although classically trained, he left behind a degree in composition at the royal academy to play guitar for Imogen Heap, and later, Ed Harcourt as part of their touring bands. A chance encounter with production legend Brian Eno led to him assisting on a variety of projects, often helping to ‘finish’