music production

When creating music in a studio, time constraints and clock watching tend to hinder the creative process. Therefore the atmosphere at SonicPond is as relaxed and informal as possible, with the emphasis on achieving the best possible work through an enjoyable and fulfilling process.

Being a musician, songwriter  and a singer myself, I understand the needs of the performer only too well, and as producer it is my job to guide people to the best possible performance they can give, and provide them with a killer demo that they, and I, will be proud of.

For singer/songwriters, you have the option of very simple arrangements or more 'produced' material, each tailored to your specific needs and strengths. The facilities are here to create a full band sound behind your song, and I am always happy to play on tracks as part of the process, whether it be guitars, bass, drums or sequencing keyboards. The end result is always whatever you choose it to be.

If backing tracks for live performance is what you need, I will faithfully reproduce any song you may require to a very high quality. This can include full backing vocal arrangements to accompany guitars, pianos, drums. In fact, anything you can think of.

The final product can be mastered to CD, DAT, minidisc, tape, or even MP3s for your website.

- Guitars

- Takamine 'Santa Fe' acoustic guitar

- Fender acoustic guitar

- Fender Strat electric guitar

- Burns 'Marvin' electric guitar

- Washburn semi acoustic guitar

- Hohner bass guitar

- Software

- Cubase SX 2.2

- Wavelab 6

- HALion 2

- The Grand 2 concert piano

- Outboard

- Yamaha DSP Factory digital

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- Swissonic DA24 & AD24 converters

- Aphex 207 & SPL Gold Mike mic
  pres

- Line 6 POD pro & Bass POD amp   simulators

- Lexicon MPX-1 reverb

- Alesis Midiverb III & IV reverbs

- many BOSS guitar pedals