Ringing out 2014

Hey everybody.

Time to squeeze in a little Wesonator news update and then get back behind the faders and finish up a couple more projects before the year is out.

I've been holed up in the studio with Elliott Randall, working on a few mixes for The Distortion Mirrors. In between these sessions I've decamped to RAK Studio 1 to record my Newbay buddy, Gino Robair and John Butcher making some amazing sounds.

The Sonic Cuisine has been rocking out with more mix work on Delta Unit and the very exciting Belgian group, THRIVE.

And to top it all off, I got to spend the weekend behind my favourite API console in RAK studio 2 with Mo Michael. There's 6 more songs coming your way and in the mean time you can get a taster on Mo's Soundcloud page.

A fabulous studio, one of the best sounding APIs, Advanced Audio CM67 & CM251, a Neumann KM84 and a vintage U47... combine that with a killer tunesmith and performer and you have magic!

And before I leave you to get on with your holiday prep, here are some insights from the Tannoy site.

Merry Christmas all and let's make it a wonderful and musical 2015.

See you on the other side of the glass.

Post AES L.A., gear, Bruce Swedien & vids

After a wonderful time in the Cali sun and the L.A. Convention centre strip lights, we're back in the Sonic Cuisine cooking up some killer music.

Monster Jaw's EP "Losing All My Friends" was released on Cobra Kitten Records and Debi Doss unleashed her wonderful voice on the Debi Does... EP.

Both cuts have been getting quite a bit of national radio play too.

I came back to find a stunning Hammond B3 performance to be mixed into Gloria Nuti's "Quando non sei con me". The man responsible for this fine growling is none other than Paul Brown. I'll keep you posted on that track's progress.

Just before heading out to AES, I had the amazing honour to mix another track for Elliott Randall's Couch Vid sessions. This one features the man himself, with a brand new guitar, John Tropea and Blue Lou Marini. Apart from using my DAW as a "tape machine", this is an entirely analogue mix. No plug ins, just hardware and real faders.

Obviously, you can't go to a gear show and not come back with some new toys.

A huge thanks to Mark Rubel from the Blackbird Academy for hooking me up with the EL8-X Distressor.

Jonathan Little is letting me test drive his brand new Little Labs Pepper and the guys at Advanced Audio have lent me their new CM251.

Quite a few cool projects on the boil in here at the moment: Mixing for Delta Unit, we've started work on Mo Michael's material and there's a few Elliott Randall irons in the fire too.

To top it all off, I found myself wedged between two of the industry greats, Bruce Swedien and Tony Maserati in the Tannoy newsletter. Honoured indeed. If you read to the end of the newsletter, there's some cool vids on the new Tannoy nearfields as well.

See you on the other side of the glass.