Andy Leeder
Editing and Mixing Hip-Hop
Performance Correction: Vocal timing and pitch, arguably the most important part of any vocally prominent track - like Jimmys' tracks...
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Andy Leeder
Aug 8, 20197 min read
Mixing Jazz In The Box
Mixing Jazz is a different beast to many other genres, editing is no longer all important and can even affect the traditional authentic...
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Andy Leeder
Jul 19, 20193 min read
Recording Jazz in the Neve!
Yesterday I helped out recording a very talented Jazz band! Headed up and organised by Carissa Macfarlane, I jumped on board for this...
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Andy Leeder
Jul 19, 20194 min read
Mixing Hip-Hop with Jimmy Yox
I’ve been asked to mix 6 tracks from local Hip-Hop / rap artist Jimmy Yox! After hearing his previous work and the stems of the beats I...
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Andy Leeder
Jul 2, 20198 min read
Kevin Gates Production Analysis
Mixing and mastering tracks for Jimmy Yox! When it comes to mixing any artist, first you've got to make sure you're in the same headspace...
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Andy Leeder
Jun 18, 20196 min read
Podcast Intro Production - Bez Sensu (Nonsense)
I was asked to create a podcast intro for a popular Polish YouTubers new podcast entitled 'Bez Sensu'. Thousands of people listen to this...
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Andy Leeder
Jun 6, 20194 min read
Film Trailer Analysis: The Mountain Between Us
I'm working on a project - I want to completely sound replace the movie trailer for 'The Arctic', and I want to end up with something...
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Andy Leeder
Dec 4, 20184 min read
Mixing Electronica Inspired by Muse!
I've had the pleasure of being part of creating this short epic, and now mixing and mastering it has been an adventure and a challenge!...
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Andy Leeder
Nov 28, 20184 min read
Mixing Punk Rock!
My good friend Jack Shannon wrote a hard hitting punk rock track recently, I helped him record drums and I also mixed and mastered the...
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Andy Leeder
Nov 25, 20184 min read
5 Piece Recording For a Doco!
Myself and 4 talented musicians went into the studio to record some music for a documentary on robot art! In this blog I'm going to talk...
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Andy Leeder
Nov 7, 20185 min read
Stereo Mic Techniques for the Handpan!
I'm really enjoying a few things in life at the moment, one of them is absolutely contributing to audio projects as a sound engineer and...
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Andy Leeder
Oct 31, 20184 min read
Big Band Recording and Production
The big band came to be in the early 1910's, with its peak in popularity from around the year 1930 to the early 1940's. A big band is...
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Andy Leeder
Oct 30, 20184 min read
What Is Classical Music?
Classical music is not actually easily defined, or perhaps it is not often thought of as broadly as it actually is. What is considered...
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Andy Leeder
Oct 28, 20183 min read
The History and Influences of Jazz
Following my recent interest, recordings and mixing of jazz. I've decided to take a deeper look into the genre to see what I can learn...
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Andy Leeder
Oct 24, 20185 min read
Mixing Patsy Lou - Singer Songwriter
Before beginning this mix, and before I begin any mix really, I did some research on different techniques that I may want to use...
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Andy Leeder
Oct 16, 20183 min read
Sound Replacement Fun with "The Wolf of Wall Street" - In the Studio
Into the C24 Studio for a day of recording ADR and Foley, with perhaps some room for some mixing at the end! Bringing along our plan,...
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Andy Leeder
Oct 14, 20183 min read
Sound replacement fun with 'The Wolf of Wallstreet' - Planning
Alrightyyy! I've been interested in foley and dialogue replacement for movies for some time now and this month I'm excited to have a...
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Andy Leeder
Oct 2, 20184 min read
Live Jazz Quartet - Recording
Well, the recording has come and gone! and here's what I learned: "No plan survives first contact" - Helmuth van Moltke Not to say that...
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Andy Leeder
Oct 1, 20183 min read
Live Jazz Quartet - Production Planning
I've been asked to record some more live jazz for some friends at JMI (Jazz music Institute) - Thanks JP ;P This time it's gonna be...
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Andy Leeder
Aug 22, 20185 min read
Creating Sound FX for a game!
For an upcoming game, along with producing both electronic music and live jazz music for it with Joao Pereira, I also created the sound...
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