Simon Gogerly - Music producer with new recording studio - The Hub
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Simon Gogerly is one of the UK's leading mix engineers. His skills have been applied to music by a wide range of the world's top selling recording artists. In 2006, he was awarded with a Grammy for his work on the U2 album "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" which won the coveted "Album Of The Year" award.
Simon started his career in music as a singer/guitarist with various London based bands swiftly followed by a stint as a keyboard player on tour for the outrageous 80's electro pop band Dead Or Alive. On the recommendation of an engineer friend, he landed a job as studio assistant at London's prestigious Mayfair Studios where he trained with John Hudson, one of the top mix engineers of the 70's and 80's. During four years at Mayfair he worked with a huge number of artists as an assistant and progressed to engineering and mixing on several hits including "Altogether Now" by The Farm and "Missing You" by Soul II Soul (meeting Nellee Hooper in the process - a meeting that would lead to future collaboration).
In 1992 Simon went freelance and started working regularly with producer Stephen Hague. One of his first jobs was recording the New Order album "Republic" at Real World and RAK. This led to him touring with the band through 1993 as programmer.
In the mid 90's his work continued with Stephen and a variety of other producers, thanks to joining the roster of Z Management, such as Sly & Robbie (Maxi Priest, Suggs) and Boilerhouse (Texas, Stereophonics). Z introduced Simon to up and coming British hip-hop producer Syze-Up and the pair worked together on a large number of remixes for the top US hip-hop acts of the time (Missy Elliot, Busta Rhymes, Lil'Kim, Rakim & Mase included) under the name Desert Eagle Discs.
Towards the end of the 90's Simon re-teamed with Nellee Hooper in order to mix projects for Nellee's label Meanwhile (Headrillaz & Hexdragon). This led to him becoming Nellee's mix engineer of choice. Their on-going relationship has included work with Gwen Stefani, U2, No Doubt and an the current solo album by Andrea Corr.
Simon joined the ranks of Stephen Budd Management in 2005 enabling him to spread his wings and develop new areas of his mixing work. There have been collaborations with Steve Lironi (Luan Parle), Rick Nowels (Yusuf Islam) and Tracey Thorn along with additional production work for a whole variety of up and coming artists like King Creosote, Chungking and Huski. When time allows, Simon also works on selected development projects with new, unsigned acts in a production capacity .
Simon has just completed the buidling of his newly upgraded studio, the Hub. Hub is Simon's own studio which he uses primarily for pre-production work and mix preparation. If time allows, he likes to get hold of the files for a mix project in advance and spend some time familiarising himself with the track and doing any preparation work that may be necessary such as cleaning up edits and organising tracks. This approach means that the mixing process can progress smoothly once he takes a track to its final stage at a full mix studio.
When it comes to production work, Hub is armed with an impressive array of noise-making equipment (see the Technical page) that Simon uses to build tracks from scratch or to complement existing tracks. Hub isn't just a project studio. Simon's experience means that he is able to extract all of the potential and possibilities from the equipment to produce mixes that can match the quality of those made in some larger, more expensive studios.
Hub equipment:
SSL AWS900+
Apple Mac G5 with Dual Screens
Logic Audio with MOTU 828 interface with 8 ch.expansion
ProtoolsLE with MBox interface
Focusrite ISA430 mk2 recording channel
Focal, Yamaha and Auratone monitors
Mackie Desk, various samplers, keyboards, guitars and amps
Highlights from Simon's discography.
All credits are for mixing unless otherwise stated.
Operator Please – “Just A Song About Ping Pong”
Andrea Corr – “Ten Feet High” album
Yusuf Islam – “An Other Cup” album
Tracey Thorn – “Out Of The Woods” album
U2 - "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" (UK No.1) & "City Of Blinding Lights" (UK No.2)
Gwen Stefani - recording on "Love, Angel, Music, Baby" album
No Doubt - recording on "Rocksteady" album
N.E.R.D. - "Lapdance" remix
Massive Attack - "What Your Soul Sings"
Jay Sean - "Stolen" (UK No.4)
Nelly Furtado - "**** On The Radio" remix
Missy Elliot - "The Rain" remix
Holly Valance - "Down Boy" (UK No.2)
New Order - recording "Republic" album
Soul II Soul - "Missing You"
The Farm - "Altogether Now"(UK No.4)
www.simongogerly.com
Hub II recording studio site
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