Episodes
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Alex Cores Hayes is a writer, producer, mixer and executive producer from East London. Originally making his name as part of the Haunted House collective, who came up on the pirate radio shows in and around the E5 postcode in the mid 00s, he became known to the wider world after produccing his long time collaborator and childhood friend Professor Green’s Upper Clapton Dance. He would go on to Executive Produce the majority of Green’s records including "Alive Till I'm Dead", "At Your Inconvenience, and "Growing Up In Public.
He has since turned his unique skill set, which involves bringing together often disparate beats and ideas into one collective artistic whole, with artists as successful and diverse as Emili Sande, JP Cooper, The Streets and Murkage Dave
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
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Burke Reid is a Canadian-Australian producer, who began his career as part of the seminal Australian alt-rock trio Gerling. After ten years in the band, and 4 critically and commercially successful albums, he left to pursue a career solely in production. His very first full length role, The Mess Hall’s Devil’s Elbow won the Australia Music Prize and set him off on a fascinating and varied career as one of alternative music’s most interesting and in demand producers.
Work with Courtney Barnett - whose album “Sometimes I sit and think, sometimes I just sit” also nabbed an AMP Award, DZ Deathrays, Flyte, Julia Jacklin and Sports Team have followed.
He relocated to the UK just as the world went into lockdown back in 2020, but we were lucky to be able to speak with him in person at my studio, Hackney Road, and hear the story about how he went from cult rock star musician with Gerling, to cult rock music producer.
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
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Our guest this week is Luke Smith, a British record producer and musician who emerged in the early mid 00s with his innovative and critically acclaimed band Clor. Having split up after their first album he immediately embarked on a production career and found early success with his work on Foals sophomore album Total Life Forever. As well as cracking the top ten it received a mercury award nomination and elevated the band to a new stratosphere in the British alternative and rock scene. Work with Slow Club, Crystal Fighters and Keaton Henson followed for Luke, as well as a session or two with host Lawrence Diamond. He now works out of his space in East London, but it was in Bob’s space in East London, Hackney Studios, where we sat down to discuss his path into production, that Foals record, and his reverence for the gear and spaces that make recording and production music such a special and beautiful job
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Hackney, East London.
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This time our guest is Andy Hall Hall - a Music Producer / Songwriter / Engineer, working out of his studio in Battersea, South London.
He started his career as a guitarist & vocalist in bands, but soon turned his interest to production after co-writing The Other Tribe's summer hit song 'Skirts' in 2012. He’s worked with some massive artists including James Gillespie, Bastille, Griff, Kygo, & Fickle Friends. He produced the majority of James Gillespie’s debut album ‘Safe’, including singles ‘What You Do’, and ‘Beyond Today’. To compliment episode 25 (Cameron Gower-Poole), we get the perspective of another vocal producer; Andy has recorded vocals for Kygo, Griff, and Two Another, as well as the Marshmallo ft. Bastille smash hit ‘Happier’.
We talk compression, recording on tour, the 00s UK port-hardcore (read: emo) scene, and colour coding your regions.
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
If you have any feedback or questions, please email us: [email protected]
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We've wanted to interview Catherine Marks since we started the pod and so we were delighted to finally get a chance to sit down and talk to her at the beginning of the year. An Australian by birth, producer and mixer Catherine is now based in London England. She begun her career after a chance meeting with super producer flood at a Nick Cave concert in the early 2000s. Abandoning a career in architecture she moved to London full time to assist at his legendary Assault and Battery Studios in Willesden. Engineering work on albums by artists such as PJ Harvey, Foals, and Interpol followed. Despite initially following a career in mixing her work on Wolf Alice’s Creature Songs E.P led her to take the producer's chair on albums by some of the 21st century's most exciting rock and alternative acts including the amazons, The Big Moon, The Mysterines, Manchester Orchestra and The Wombats. She also recently worked on ALanis Morrisette’s 2020 come back album Such Pretty Forks in the Road. In 2018 she was voted the Music producers guild Producer of the year . She recently moved to her own new studio space in Kensal Town and this is where she dialed in to talk to us.
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
If you have any feedback or questions, please email us: [email protected]
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If you like the podcast, please consider giving us a review on your podcast provider of choice! Thank you
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It’s been a long time, we shouldn’t have left you, without a podcast to step to…
We’re back with a surprise drop in time for Black Friday, to talk about all our favourite new plugins of 2022, the best free plugins out there, along with a news update and an apology for dropping out of the game mid-season! We also have a chat about how to make a sustainable career as a producer and grow your network, thanks to a great email from one of our listeners, James.
Listen to last year’s Black Friday episode, which we reference in this conversation, here
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
If you have any feedback or questions, please email us: [email protected]
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Something of a 'mini-pod' this week, no guests, just Lawrence and Bob pondering this question: What do we know now, that we wish we'd known when we started?
Predictably, the answers range from very wholesome thoughts on your musical identity and songwriting, all the way to techy stuff like saturation and gain-staging.
We hope you enjoy this one! Please let us know your answers to this question, or perhaps you are just starting out, and you have something that you wish you knew right now!? Well, get in touch and perhaps we can help - contact details below.
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
If you have any feedback or questions, please email us: [email protected]
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If you like the podcast, please consider giving us a review on your podcast provider of choice! Thank you
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A year on from our first Mastering Engineer episode, we’re delighted to bring your our second. And this time around we’re speaking to the brilliant Katie Tavini. Katie is a mastering engineer based in Brighton, England. Originally combining her nascent mastering career with a full time role as an audio archivist, a nomination for the MPG (Music Producers Guild) Mastering Engineer of the Year award saw her, after a period of reflection she talks about in this interview, taking on her craft full time.
Credits with Mercury nominated Nadine Shah, Mercury winner Arlo Parks, Los Bitchos and Ash, amongst many others, followed as well as two further nominations for the MPG Mastering Engineer of the Year award.
She has also recently started a mastering collective, Weird Jungle, that brings together like minded mastering engineers under one umbrella to offer the best service to the diverse range of artists Katie works with.
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
If you have any feedback or questions, please email us: [email protected]
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This week, we speak to a specialist vocal producer first time. Cameron Gower Poole graduated from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), and made his way up the production ladder at Trevor Horn’s Sarm studios. After excelling as an engineer in vocal recording sessions, Cameron built a reputation as someone who could get the best out of an artist's singing performance. After being nominated for breakthrough producer of the year by the Music Producer’s Guild in 2021, and then vocal producer of the year in 2022, he’s worked with an array of pop stars, including Dua Lipa on her grammy nominated Future Nostalgia album, Rita Sawayama, Anne-Marie, and Mahalia, to name a few. We speak to Cameron at his London studio about his role, and how he found it.
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
If you have any feedback or questions, please email us: [email protected]
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If you like the podcast, please consider giving us a review on your podcast provider of choice! Thank you
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This week, we speak to Leo Abrahams. Leo is a musician, composer and producer. Although classically trained, he left behind a degree in composition at the royal academy to play guitar for Imogen Heap, and later, Ed Harcourt as part of their touring bands.
A chance encounter with production legend Brian Eno led to him assisting on a variety of projects, often helping to ‘finish’ the myriad of releases Brian would be working across. This led to him taking on more production roles and Leo has since built a fascinating C.V. that includes Frightened Rabbit, Wild Beasts, Katie Melua and Paolo Nutini.
From his newly completed studio in east London he now divides his time between film and TV composition, session guitar work, solo albums, and of course, his production work. And it’s here we joined him to hear the story of his new studio, his serendipitous meeting with Mr Eno and what it’s like touring Siberia with a coach full of free jazz musicians…
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
If you have any feedback or questions, please email us: [email protected]
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If you like the podcast, please consider giving us a review on your podcast provider of choice! Thank you
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Carey Willetts is the bass player in multi-platinum selling indie band Athlete. Along with his fellow band members, he wrote numerous hits including Wires which won an Ivor Novello award for 'Best Contemporary Single’ in 2006.
Since turning his attention to writing and producing for others, Carey has worked extensively with Dermot Kennedy both as co-writer and producer on several tracks including Better Days, A Closeness, and Lost. Other credits include Amber Run, Jack Curley, and production on Freya Ridings' debut album. He was shortlisted as Breakthrough Producer Of The Year at the MPG Awards in 2020.
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
If you have any feedback or questions, please email us: [email protected]
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Mikko Gordon is a London based mix engineer and producer.
He graduated from Goldsmiths with a degree in music and has worked with much of the exciting talent coming out of that university since then.
After building a relationship with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich through his act Ultraísta, Nigel recognised Mikko’s talents, and brought him on to his team.
Since then Mikko’s worked on some incredible projects, most recently The Smile, a supergroup which include Radiohead members Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood, alongside Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner, and the new Arcade Fire album 'WE'.
Here, we join Mikko in the Neve room at his Hackney Road Studios base.The Process of Production is a music production podcast presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
If you have any feedback or questions, please email us: [email protected]
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Welcome back to the Process of Production!
After a hiatus during which Lawrence’s second son was born, we’re back, and better than ever.
To start the new series, we interview the one-and-only Gordon Raphael.
Gordon is a producer from Seattle, Washington in the USA. After an early encounter with a synthesiser opened his eyes to the world of music production, Gordon got involved in the grunge scene in his hometown, forming bands and making weird noises on his synth.
After moving to New York and setting up his basement studio Transporter-Raum, an encounter with a then-unknown band at the Luna Lounge in the Lower East side would change Gordon’s life forever.
The Strokes would go on to define the indie sound that dominated for the next decade, thanks to the iconic debut album ‘Is This It?’, which Gordon produced, alongside the follow-up Room on Fire.
Gordon moved to London, which had been the epicentre of the hype surrounding the Strokes. After a spell in Berlin, he’s now relocated to Heben Bridge in Yorkshire, where he joins us from today.
Gordon's book, The World Is Going To Love This: Up From The Basement With The Strokes, is out July 2nd 2022.
The Process of Production is a music production podcast presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
If you have any feedback or questions, please email us: [email protected]
Follow The Process of Production on Instagram @processofproduction
If you like the podcast, please consider giving us a review on your podcast provider of choice! Thank you
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Jim Lowe is a Grammy award winning engineer, musician, producer and mixer most famous for his work as the long time right hand man to Welsh Rock Band Stereophonics.
Starting out as an Engineer at Nomis Studios in London, he made the step from the engineering chair to the production chair when Kelly Jones, the band's lead singer, reached out to him to engineer demo sessions for their fourth record.
The two immediately struck up a fruitful working relationship and by the time the band came to record what would become their 5th album, Language. Sex violence other Jim had transitioned to producing the album. It was a move that would prove fateful for both band and producer as the debut single from that album "Dakota", driven by Jim’s programmed synths and more electronic influences, rocketed to number one, giving the band their first chart topper, and a place on numerous end of year lists.
Jim has continued his relationship with the band through another 5 albums, as well as helming work by The Charlatans, and Ex Sex Pistol Glen Matlock. He’s also continued building up his stellar mixing CV that includes the Dandy Warhols, Taylor Swift and Amy McDonald.
In this interview we get the story of what it’s like producing a No.1 song like Dakota, the grammy Jim didn’t even know he’d won, and the beauty of Room 1 at Abbey Road when the sound is right and the band is cooking. But we start by hearing about the space Jim works in in his home outside London - a space he built just before lockdown and which he’s given thanks for many times since - and why when he’s mixing he doesn’t always crank the volume knob to 11.
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
If you have any feedback or questions, please email us: [email protected]
Follow The Process of Production on Instagram @processofproduction
If you like the podcast, please consider giving us a review on your podcast provider of choice! Thank you
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This time we chat to prolific pop production powerhouse Paul Whalley.
Working from his space in Tileyard (the north London studio hub that’s been home to the likes of Mark Ronson, Noel Gallagher and MNEK), Paul Whalley is one of the most prolific and exciting producers working in the industry today. Despite a masters from Guildhall School of music in Classical Composition, it’s in the more modern pop, dance and rock worlds that he’s been making a name for himself since moving to the Tileyard complex in 2015.
The last few months alone have seen releases from boy band legends The Wanted, Alt-Pop queen Amber Van Day, Reading Main Stage upstarts The Hara and alt folk singer songwriter Josie Proto. It’s also seen him rushed to hospital after a health scare that took him out of work for three weeks, the first extended break from the studio he’d had since moving to Tileyard.
We start be asking how that work ethic came about, how the experience of the last few weeks is impacting his approach to production, and how, at the end of the day, despite all the gear he’s steadily collecting, he’s still happiest with a guitar in his hand
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
If you have any feedback or questions, please email us: [email protected]
Follow The Process of Production on Instagram @processofproduction
If you like the podcast, please consider giving us a review on your podcast provider of choice! Thank you
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With Black Friday looming, Lawrence and Bob run down their top picks for discounted plugins and software during the annual sales, which seem to grow in volume every year.
We discuss the big hitters like Waves, Soundtoys, and Native Instruments, but also some lesser known plugins including Bob’s #1 pick for Black Friday this year, which is on the master bus for every track he works on.
We talk about when and why you might want to add some third-party software to your production arsenal, where to start, and discuss the ups and downs of using presets in your work.
Some links to the sales we discuss:
Waves - a swathe of plugins at $30 - This is our referral link which will save you an extra $10!
Soundtoys 5 55% off at $229
Native Instruments Komplete 13 - bundle is down to £500
Sonnox - Sale on everything
SoS Review of Oxford Inflator (scroll down) - review from 2004 but still relevant today!
iZotope Free Plugins - Including Vinyl
Spitfire BBC Symphony Orchestra (free if you fill out questionnaire)
Spitfire LABS - Free experimental sample packs
Softube Black November Sale
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
If you have any feedback or questions, please email us: [email protected]
Follow The Process of Production on Instagram @processofproduction
If you like the podcast, please consider giving us a review on your podcast provider of choice! Thank you
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This week we talk to the amazing Isobel Anderson. After a career as an artist which has amassed over 25 million Spotify streams, Isobel set up the online community the Female DIY Musician, which helps female-identifying aspiring musicians and producers to find their confidence in an arena that has always been male-domianted. Last year, she started the podcast Girls Twiddling Knobs, which she describes as brining a "feminist perspective to all things music tech", and in our opinion is a nourishing and refreshing listen for any creative, male or female.
Isobel also has an MA and PhD in Sonic Arts, and her sound-works have been performed internationally, while she has also been the recipient of backing from the PRS Foundation's Women Make Music Fund. She has also published in academic journals, such as Organised Sound and The Journal of Sonic Studies.
Isobel's music has been archived in The British Library and The British Music Collection, and previous live performances include Glastonbury's acoustic stage, The Secret Garden Party and London's Proud Galleries.
We spoke to Isobel about her journey to this point (which has been far from smooth), and what inspired her to educate other women and girls in music production. We ask what can be done to make the world of music production a more welcoming place for women, and get some great insight and surprising reactions from Isobel on this and a range of other topics.
Here's a link to Girls Twiddling Knobs - we highly recommend a listen to episode #1 if you want to get more background on Isobel and her career to date. It's a fascinating listen.
https://www.femalediymusician.com/gtkpodcast
https://www.isobelanderson.com/
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
If you have any feedback or questions, please email us: [email protected]
Follow The Process of Production on Instagram @processofproduction
If you like the podcast, please consider giving us a review on your podcast provider of choice! Thank you
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This time, we speak to Emily Underhill, an artist and producer who performs under the name Tusks.
After a self released Ep called ‘Ink’ in 2014, Tusks was signed by One Little Independent Records, and has gone on to release two albums with the label, Dissolve in 2017 and Avalanche in 2019.
Tusks supported Bob’s band Alpines on tour, when Lawrence was playing keys in the live band, so the conversation picks up on many that we had sharing a tour van around Europe.
Emily has been a self-producing artist from the beginning, but the majority of her tracks so far have been co-produced with longtime collaborator, producer and engineer Brett Cox.
But the new EP ‘Change’ is entirely self-produced.
At the start of the pandemic in 2020, Tusks had just finished a headline tour in support of the second album, so lockdown coincided with a period of creativity and experimentation for Emily as she looked towards the next release. Emily used the enforced isolation to explore and get better as a producer, learning her way around the synthesizers that had always been part of her work, but were now becoming the centrepiece. We start by discussing that time, and how it’s led to new EP ‘Change’,
Click here for a playlist of Tusks’ work
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
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Tim Palmer’s CV is beyond impressive - starting as an assisatant at Utopia studios in the 80s, he mixed worldwide smash I just died in your arms tonight by Cutting Crew - this led to further work with 80s new wave bands like Kajagogoo and The House Of Love - this brought him to the attention of Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin who wanted a more contemporary sound for his 80s solo work. His work on Robert’s records brought him to the attention of David Bowie who also wanted a fresh pair of ears on the production desk for what would become the Tin Machine project.
Moving into the 90s, Tim turned his attention from production to mixing, and his work on 'Ten', the debut album by an american rock band called Pearl Jam, catapulted him to the top of his profession. A fact that was confirmed when ten years later, as he was heavily involved in mixing the U2 album 'All That You Can’t Leave Behind'.
Production credits including Goo Goo Dolls, Tears For Fears, Texas and even the Lord Of Darkness himself Ozzy Osbourne confirm Tim’s place in the pantheon of modern production and mixing greats. When we started the interview the most beautiful array of classic guitars were lined out on the wall behind him, so we started by getting the stories on some of those, before turning to the work with Plant, Bowie, Page, Osbourne, Bono, and countless others.
For a link to Tim’s website click here
For a link to Tim’s work click here
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
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In this episode, we delve into the world of mastering for the first time. To guide us through what if often referred to as a ‘dark art’, we speak to mastering engineer Kelly Hibbert, who has a wonderful and varied CV across a range of genres, but especially alternative and hip-hop, working on records from Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Madlib, Jordan Rakei, Little Dragon, Duke Dumont, and MF Doom to name a few.
Kelly has had an amazing career, starting out as a drummer, then getting into studio installations, before what sounds like an astounding stint as the in-house engineer on the superyacht of Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen. Deciding to leave the once-in-a-lifetime job to follow his own path, Kelly was thrown in at the deep end of mastering by mentor Dave Cooley.
After coming of age in LA, Kelly has moved around the world a few times to find the right place for him, finally settling in the jungle of Costa Rica, where he has built an idyllic-sounding home with his family. We hear all about his lifestyle there, his career so far, and some fascinating thoughts on the craft of mastering music.
Kelly’s website
Link to the Pitchfork article Lawrence mentions
The Process of Production is presented by Lawrence Diamond and Bob Matthews.
Lawrence cut his teeth playing and writing in Indie bands before finding international success and touring the world with his band CITIZENS! During that time he worked with a host of revered producers including Liam Howe, Mark Ralph and Alex Kapranos. Since the band ended in 2016 he’s been using that experience to help other artists develop their careers as a writer and producer while continuing to release his own music under various different guises.
Bob learned his trade as the producer and multi-instrumentalist in Electronic Pop duo Alpines, whose career spans 3 albums, releases on major and indie record labels, shows with Florence + The Machine, The xx, Emeli Sandé, and a top 20 hit 'Tidal Wave' in collaboration with Sub Focus. In recent years he has turned his focus to producing other acts and has a studio in Chiswick in West London.
If you have any feedback or questions, please email us: [email protected]
Follow The Process of Production on Instagram @processofproduction
If you like the podcast, please consider giving us a review on your podcast provider of choice! Thank you
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