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April 4, 2025
<p>In this chat, Steve Dub shares insights into his workflow as a producer, discussing his ongoing work with The Chemical Brothers, his love of experimentation and how he adapts his methods to mixing in the box.</p><p><strong>Chapters</strong><br>00:00 - Introduction<br>00:42 - Konk And Stone Roses<br>04:27 - Working With George Holt <br>09:16 - Developing A Personal Style<br>12:50 - Adapting Old Workflows For DAWs<br>16:02 - The Chemical Brothers<br>19:35 - Studio Collaborations / Genres<br>22:52 - Mixing For Moby And The Orbital<br>28:20 - Listening To Music<br>30:07 - Approaching A New Mix<br>33:05 - Sidechaining / Mixing In The Box<br>39:25 - Favourite Piece Of Equipment<br>43:16 - Things To Avoid In The Studio<br>45:34 - Experimenting With A Mix</p><p><strong>Steve Dub Biog</strong><br>Steve Dub is a five-time GRAMMY Award-winning producer, mixer, programmer and songwriter. Emerging from the underground dance music scene of the early 1990s, he has worked with major artists over the past two decades, including UNKLE, Roots Manuva, The Chemical Brothers, New Order, The Prodigy, Leftfield, Primal Scream, Orbital, Beth Orton, Moby and Underworld.</p><p><strong>Kevin Paul Biog</strong><br>Kevin Paul started his career as a DJ but quickly found his passion was sound engineering. His first audio job was at Soho Studios in 1991, moving to Konk Studios six months later, where he worked alongside successful producers and engineers such as Bob Clearmountain, Adam Mosley, Pascal Gabriel and Gil Norton, as well as bands such as The Kinks, Galliano, Terrorvision, UFO and Elastica.<br> <br>After working on archiving the Depeche Mode back catalogue in 1994, he was offered an engineering role at Mute Records’ in-house studio, which eventually lead to a position as Head Engineer, which gave him access to the entire Mute Records roster. Highlights include mixing Goldfrapp’s “Felt Mountain”, David Bowie’s “Hours” and Nick Cave’s “No More Shall We Part”. He also worked in 5:1, mixing Moby’s “Hotel”, Goldfrapp’s “Black Cherry“ and more for DVD.<br><br></p><p>In 2004 Kevin went freelance and re-mixed the entire Depeche Mode and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds back catalogues for SACD/DVD. Since 2008, Kevin Paul has been in charge of mixing and remixing performances at the iTunes Festivals in the UK and Germany. He has mixed over 100 artists to date, including Adele, Ed Sheeran, Alicia Keys, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The XX, Calvin Harris, Foo Fighters, Jack White, Linkin Park, Florence & The Machine, Deadmau5, David Guetta, Jessie J., Norah Jones, Oasis, Mumford & Sons, N.E.R.D., Lykke Li, James Blunt, KT Tunstall, Hot Chip, Paul Weller and many more.<br><br></p><p>He continues to record, engineer, produce and mix many projects in music and film, runs the mixing and surround mixing modules for the Masters Degree course at UK’s Westminster University and divides his time between London and Berlin. Recent works include the International selling new album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and mixing the latest album of Denmark’s “Dúné” with the first single premiering at the Danish Music Awards, plus the latest iTunes Music Festival.<br><br><a href="http://www.kevin-paul.com/">http://www.kevin-paul.com/</a></p><p><br><strong>Catch more shows on our other podcast channels:</strong> <a href="https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts">https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts</a></p>
March 4, 2025
<p>Malcolm Toft gives a fascinating insight into his career, from building his first mixing desk at age 17, being part of the team at the launch of the iconic Trident Studios, where he recorded Elton John, Queen and David Bowie, to setting up his own recording studio in Devon where he continues to design and manufacture music equipment.</p><p><strong>Chapters</strong><br>00:00 - Introduction<br>00:25 - First Encounters With Recording Equipment<br>04:12 - Getting A Recording Studio Job<br>07:46 - The Launch Of Trident Studios<br>17:48 - Designing And Building Trident Consoles <br>25:41 - Setting Up Malcolm Toft Associates<br>30:29 - A New Studio And Working With Jo Meek <br>33:28 - Designing The Toft Audio Console for PMI<br>36:52 - Ocean Audio And The Punishr<br>40:57 - Current Projects<br> <br>#punishr #micmix</p><p><strong>Malcolm Toft Biog</strong><br>Professor Malcolm Toft is a legendary recording engineer and console designer with over 50 years experience in the recording industry. Malcolm joined Trident Studios in 1967, first as an Engineer, becoming the Studio Manager in 1971. He recorded David Bowie’s Space Oddity album and mixed The Beatles’ single Hey Jude. He also recorded James Taylors' first album, plus three albums with T-Rex.</p><p>In 1973 he founded renowned console manufacturer Trident Audio Developments, which became a leading company in the recording industry supplying top recording studios across the world. His consoles are still widely used and are highly regarded for their depth of sound and warmth.</p><p>In recent years Malcolm has designed and built a range of replacement energy-efficient power supplies for SSL and Neve consoles under his Mpower systems brand.</p><p><a href="https://www.malcolmtoft.com/">https://www.malcolmtoft.com/</a></p><p><strong>Paul White Biog<br></strong>Paul White initially trained in electronics at The Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern then went on to work with Malvern Instruments, a company specialising in laser analysis equipment, before moving into technical writing. </p><p><br></p><p>He joined the Sound On Sound team in 1991 where he became Editor In Chief, a position he held for many years before recently becoming Executive Editor. Paul has written more than 20 recording and music technology textbooks, the latest being The Producer’s Manual.</p><p><br></p><p>Having established his own multitrack home studio in the 1980s he’s worked with many notable names including Bert Jansch and Gordon Giltrap. He’s played in various bands over the years and currently collaborates with Malvern musician Mark Soden, under the name of Cydonia Collective. Paul still performs live claiming that as he has suffered for his music he doesn’t see why everyone else shouldn’t too!</p><p><a href="http://www.cydoniacollective.co.uk/">http://www.cydoniacollective.co.uk/</a></p><p><br><strong>Catch more shows on our other podcast channels:</strong> <a href="https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts">https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts</a></p>
February 11, 2025
<p>Dave McCracken talks to Kevin Paul about his impressive career as a songwriter and Producer, from his early years at Sarm Studios with Trevor Horn, where he worked with Ian Brown and Depeche Mode, before being signed to Roc Nation, where he recorded with various Hip Hop artists and co-wrote two tracks that were recorded by Beyoncé.</p><p><strong>Chapters</strong><br>00:00 - Introduction<br>00:26 - Helping New Bands<br>04:53 - Working With Goldie<br>08:47 - Sarm Studios And Ian Brown<br>09:52 - The Role Of The Producer<br>12:11 - Achieving Realism With MIDI<br>14:45 - Learning Through Experience<br>17:57 - Working With Beyoncé<br>20:14 - Getting Bands To Relax In The Studio<br>22:01 - Contributing To Lyrics<br>23:16 - Favourite Plug-ins<br>26:29 - Having An End Destination For A Track In Mind</p><p><strong>Dave McCracken Biog</strong><br>Dave McCracken is a songwriter and producer who launched his career at Sarm West studios. He's worked on four Ian Brown solo albums - Golden Greats, Music Of The Spheres, Solarized and My Way.</p><p>Later he was signed to Roc Nation as a producer, where he worked with various Hip Hop artists. His songwriting collaboration with Amanda Ghost resulted in two songs being placed on the Beyoncé album "I Am... Sasha Fierce". He has also worked with Kanye West, Mr Hudson, Depeche Mode, Seal, Chrissie Hynde, Hugo, Ohland, Swimdeep, Sports Team, Pip Blom and Sebastian Schub.</p><p>More recently Dave has started to assist in the development of new, upcoming bands.</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/mccracken23/">https://www.instagram.com/mccracken23/</a></p><p><br><strong>Kevin Paul Biog</strong><br>Kevin Paul started his career as a DJ but quickly found his passion was sound engineering. His first audio job was at Soho Studios in 1991, moving to Konk Studios six months later, where he worked alongside successful producers and engineers such as Bob Clearmountain, Adam Mosley, Pascal Gabriel and Gil Norton, as well as bands such as The Kinks, Galliano, Terrorvision, UFO and Elastica.<br> <br>After working on archiving the Depeche Mode back catalogue in 1994, he was offered an engineering role at Mute Records’ in-house studio, which eventually lead to a position as Head Engineer, which gave him access to the entire Mute Records roster. Highlights include mixing Goldfrapp’s “Felt Mountain”, David Bowie’s “Hours” and Nick Cave’s “No More Shall We Part”. He also worked in 5:1, mixing Moby’s “Hotel”, Goldfrapp’s “Black Cherry“ and more for DVD.<br><br></p><p>In 2004 Kevin went freelance and re-mixed the entire Depeche Mode and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds back catalogues for SACD/DVD. Since 2008, Kevin Paul has been in charge of mixing and remixing performances at the iTunes Festivals in the UK and Germany. He has mixed over 100 artists to date, including Adele, Ed Sheeran, Alicia Keys, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The XX, Calvin Harris, Foo Fighters, Jack White, Linkin Park, Florence & The Machine, Deadmau5, David Guetta, Jessie J., Norah Jones, Oasis, Mumford & Sons, N.E.R.D., Lykke Li, James Blunt, KT Tunstall, Hot Chip, Paul Weller and many more.<br><br></p><p>He continues to record, engineer, produce and mix many projects in music and film, runs the mixing and surround mixing modules for the Masters Degree course at UK’s Westminster University and divides his time between London and Berlin. Recent works include the International selling new album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and mixing the latest album of Denmark’s “Dúné” with the first single premiering at the Danish Music Awards, plus the latest iTunes Music Festival.<br><br><a href="http://www.kevin-paul.com/">http://www.kevin-paul.com/</a></p><p><br><strong>Catch more shows on our other podcast channels:</strong> <a href="https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts">https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts</a></p>
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