ABOUT

As a young teenager experimenting with 4 track tape recorders in the nineties, I quickly discovered the stark difference between my creations and commercially released tracks.  The quest to understand the elusive 'perfect sound' has inadvertently turned into a lifelong passion and career.  Today, with nearly 30 years spent in music studios, I take great pride in guiding new artists toward musical excellence.

I’ve been entrenched in recording studios since I was 12 and had released over 20 breakbeat and house records by the time I was 22 but nothing could prepare me for the world of audio mastering.

My journey into mastering was a wild ride I never planned on. In fewer than 18 months, I went from being a product manager at a small breakbeat vinyl distributor to co-owning one of the world's top mastering studios.  It’s a crazy origin story, but probably one for another day.

For the past 15 years I’ve been a professional mastering engineer, although the term 'professional' sometimes feels like an overstatement.  Mastering can be a bit of a dark art and ’professional’ isn’t always the best option, sometimes you have to get your hands dirty.  In any case, since 2008 and for the sins of my grandfather, I’ve been a professional mastering engineer.

In this time, projects I've worked on have collectively amassed an obscene number of streams across all platforms—around 85 billion at time of writing.  My mastering credits span a wide array of songs and albums, from popular hits to underground classics.

Mastering audio is a mind-bendingly complex yet surprisingly simple task.  Bruce Lee's philosophy of being like water is the only way to survive and thrive.  You have to adapt daily to the ever-shifting demands of different artists.  Because of this, my mastering techniques vary wildly depending on what's needed.  It's not about my sound; it's about your sound shining in its most glorious light.  Like Bruce Lee’s water, I’m here to fill your musical vessel - She said(!)