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Editing and Mixing Hip-Hop

Performance Correction: Vocal timing and pitch, arguably the most important part of any vocally prominent track - like Jimmys' tracks...

Andy Leeder

Aug 18, 20197 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Aug 8, 20197 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Jul 19, 20193 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Jul 19, 20194 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Jul 2, 20198 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Jun 18, 20196 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Jun 6, 20194 min read

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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!...

Andy Leeder

Dec 4, 20184 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Nov 28, 20184 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Nov 25, 20184 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Nov 7, 20185 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Oct 31, 20184 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Oct 30, 20184 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Oct 28, 20183 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Oct 24, 20185 min read

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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,...

Andy Leeder

Oct 16, 20183 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Oct 14, 20183 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Oct 2, 20184 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Oct 1, 20183 min read

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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...

Andy Leeder

Aug 22, 20185 min read

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