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.

Wesonator Summer Recap & Autumn Preview

Hi my fellow audio nuts,

It's been a really busy summer. Most of my time has been spent at the beautiful and brand new Studio CMI in Switzerland finishing off the Leelo Pascal album "Couleur Nature". Pascal also asked me to record drums and bass for Amadou's new album and during my last trip over I was asked to record Yassin's killer rap vocals for the Isorane album Leelo is producing.

Between my time in the alps and the cheese fondues, we finished the new Monster Jaw EP "Losing All My Friends" and put the finishing touches on Debi Doss's debut EP "Debi Does ...".

In the mean time, there are a few projects on the stove at the Sonic Cuisine. The Sam Purdey mix is a few tweaks away from completion. Gloria Nuti's new track is making great progress and will soon feature some cool B3 playing. And finally, work is about to start on the new Delta Unit tracks. I'll keep you posted on all these as they come along.

On the media side of things, I had the great honour to interview two of Canada's greatest, GGGarth Richardson and Mike Fraser for Mix Magazine. And I did some cool vids for Tannoy.

That's it for now. Enjoy the reads, the photos and the videos.

As always, See you on the other side of the glass.

Click on Mix Magazine's front cover to go straight to the full interview.

Some Audio News From The Sonic Cuisine

Hi all,

A quick post to keep you up to date on what's cooking at the Sonic Cuisine.

I've been spending some quality time up in Bradford with the Monster Jaw lads. We've recorded 4 new songs which we're in the middle of mixing.

Also just completed a mini tour with Australian hard rock band Deth Enemy in Germany, The Netherlands and the UK. Mix work continues on the next Delta Unit instalment and I had the great pleasure of recording the amazing Elliott Randall for a Samuel Purdey song, which we'll start mixing in June.

I'll be in the Swiss mountains for 3 weeks, mixing Leelo Pascal's new album in his wonderful studio.

So, you can expect various social media updates on that. And talking about social media, I stumbled across one of Barry Rudolph's posts. Have a looksie, it's an all-star cast.

http://www.barryrudolph.com/newtoys/toys14/ultimateguide.html

Keep in touch, see you when I get back.

Action snap from the Monster Jaw sessions. The Advanced Audio CM67 working overtime on vocal and dulcimer duties.

Wesonator adds showreel to Youtube

Here are some examples of my work as a recording, mix and mastering engineer. Hope you enjoy.

Mixing it up at The Sonic Cuisine

It's been a couple of busy weeks at The Sonic Cuisine. Another 6 mixes on the way for Underground Ally, Monster Jaw's new track Summer Girl completed and a new one in the making. I made a brief and fun excursion to Soho Sound Kitchen to record more vocals for Chuggington and did a killer remix with Abstract Source of Ørjan Vatne's My Gipsy Dream. 

On the equipment list, we've added a bunch of fun  Ross, Electro-Harmonix, Black Cat and Rocktronics pedals, MC Audio Lab's amazing Luna and trusty old Drawmer DL 231.