Mixing / Production

In our new monthly feature, we track down the new producers who are making waves and find out what makes them tick.

Dean James Barratt is a sought-after Mix Engineer based out of The Dairy Studios in London. Dean talks to Sam Inglis about his personal road to becoming a freelance Mix Engineer, what defines that role, tips on making it, and what keeps clients coming back for more.

We speak to Disclosure’s tech guru Guy Lawrence about their journey from bedroom production to working with top‑flight stars in some of the biggest studios in the world.

Ross Orton talks to Nigel Humberstone about his transition from playing drums with Jarvis Cocker into the world of production, remixing and songwriting. His steel city stories include working with Arctic Monkeys & Working Men’s Club.

Frank Zappa was as fastidious about cataloguing his recordings as he was about making them. The task of mixing this enormous archive falls to one man...

How did a teenager from Kazakhstan, armed only with an ageing laptop and a copy of Fruity Loops, conquer the charts?

When a band have been producing their own hits for a decade, it takes a brave producer to jump into the hot seat...

The success of Jax Jones demonstrates that there's still a role for old-fashioned musicianship in electronic music!

Her ability to balance the human and the technical sides of recording has made Laura Sisk one of the US's most in-demand engineers.

New York-based producer/engineer, songwriter and music educator Illmind has wide-ranging credits extending all the way from 50...

Laptops, loops and layers are the tools that have taken Oliver Heldens to the forefront of the future house genre.