producer michael johnson

Michael Johnson whose many credits include Blue Monday’s best-selling UK 12” record ever has experience not just of creating hit records, but also recording orchestral, jazz and folk music, as well as film soundtracks and TV commercials at many top studios.

Russell Cottier visited Michael with his camera to record a very interesting interview that contains many very interesting recording techniques and tips with some interesting history. Michael tells Russ about his experiments with mixing in a car and much more!

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Feb 122012
 

Reflecting on our photos we’ve taken in studios of musicians and record producers over the last year we thought we’d share some of our favourites.  You can browse our huge photo galleries here if you would like to see more.  Most are in colour but these somehow are all B&W.

Tom Rowland of the Chemical Brothers in his recording studio

Tom Rowland of the Chemical Brothers

Rock and metal music producer Simon Efemey at the Chapel Studios

Rock and metal music producer Simon Efemey at the Chapel Studios

Music Producer Danton Supple photographed in Alan Moulder's Studio

Music Producer Danton Supple photographed in Alan Moulder’s Studio

Record producer Stuart Bruce

Record producer Stuart Bruce

 

Browse our huge photo galleries here if you would like to see more!

 

Ken Scott at Abbey Road Studios talking with Russ Cottier about microphones and placement

WATCH PART THREE OF THE INTERVIEW RECORDED AT ABBEY ROAD

In this third part of the interview series we found out from Ken about how using less impressive microphones when recording drums needn’t be a problem, talks about dynamic range, the importance of good monitoring (again) and making a decision to keep a session moving. Come back soon for the fourth part of our interview!

All of the Ken Scott Features

 

record producer stuart bruce at his recording studio

Stuart Bruce began his recording career at London’s SARM studios under the tuition of legendary engineers Gary Langan and Julian Mendelsohn. He worked as an assistant with artists such as Dollar, ABC, Malcolm McLaren, The Undertones, Monsoon, Echo and the Bunnymen, Simple Minds, Tears for Fears, The The, Nik Kershaw, the Belle Stars, Spandau Ballet and Trevor Horn’s own band The Buggles.

Since then, Stuart has had an amazing recording career, highlights include recording the Band Aid single. We met up with Stuart at his private recording studio near Bath, England, and as there was so much ‘interesting stuff’ we have kept the feature quite long – we think it’s well worth watching all the way as it’s the only way to find out who Status Quo locked in the toilet by watching all the way through…..

Watch the Stuart Bruce video interview in HD by clicking here

Many thanks to Stuart for his time and to George Shilling for asking the questions

We really loved his studio and you can look at and buy our full quality photos in this gallery here.

 

George Shilling visited Danton Supple with the camera crew on a sunny day in August 2011 to find out how he has got on since our last feature with him over five years ago. In that time Danton has gone on to produce some mega massive smash hit albums for artists such as Cold Play and we think that this is proof that being featured here on RecordProduction.com is good for business :-)

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dimitri tikovoi record producer in his recording studio london uk

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 Danton continues to build upon the success of his production and mix work with COLDPLAY and has recently set up his own mix room in the Battery Building where he has been mixing albums for SOULSAVERS, album tracks for IAN BROWN’s finest album to date ‘My Way’ and NATALIE IMBRUGLIAs latest long player. Danton also mixed AMY MACDONALD’s second album ‘A Curious Thing’ (A-listed at BBC Radio 2) as well as producing a solo album for Fightstar frontman, CHARLIE SIMPSON and an album by new artist THE GADSENS.

Special thanks to Danton and everyone at 140dB for their help in making this feature possible and to George Shilling for asking all of the questions!

Browse our Gallery of Danton Supple Photos that we took

 

George Shilling visited Yoad Nevo with the camera crew in to find out about his carrer in programming, record production and his work with Waves creating new ‘plug-in’s’ at Nevo Sound Studios.

Watch Yoad in our exclusive video that runs 35 minutes – Click here to view.

record producer yoad nevo pictured at nevo sound recording studios london
Nevo Sound owner Yoad Nevo is an in-demand Producer, Mixer and Mastering Engineer with 25 years of impressive credits and credentials to his name, including work on albums from Pet Shop Boys to Duran Duran, Girls Aloud, Sugababes, Bryan Adams and many more.

For the past fifteen years Yoad has also been working for pro-audio leaders Waves Audio as a Senior Consultant and Plugin Designer, where he developed several registered patents in the field of digital signal processing, including Real Time Convolution and Stereo to Surround Algorithms, and has written the popular book ‘Hit Record’ (distributed by Hal Leonard worldwide).

Find out more by watching the video:  Click here to view.