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Recording live Jazz for a game!

Myself, JP and Mitch Stan recently cracked out one of the most successful recordings I've been a part of, and one of the funnest. We'd...

Andy Leeder

Aug 15, 20186 min read

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The Sounds Behind - 80's Animation Theme

Recently I did a composition for a re-imagined intro theme for the 1968 film 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'. The animation is just under 40...

Andy Leeder

Aug 7, 20184 min read

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Clean up your ProTools session - The Basics

Reducing the file size of your PT session is basically a must-do if you're going to upload it to the cloud, give it to someone for...

Andy Leeder

Jul 25, 20184 min read

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Planning An 80's Theme song for an Animation!

I was asked create a theme song for a short 30 second animation by a small group of animators - Tom, Tim and Will (add last names). My...

Andy Leeder

Jul 25, 20183 min read

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Who owns your recording? the studio, or the artist?

As a recording and mixing engineer who is regularly involved in recording sound and music, I've been interested in knowing more about who...

Andy Leeder

Jul 25, 20183 min read

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Mixing Uke and Vocals - Bare Necessities Cover

In-between major projects, I offered some friends of mine some time in the studio so we can all have some fun together! We ended up...

Andy Leeder

Jul 22, 20186 min read

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Track Dissection (Heathens - Twenty One Pilots)

I only recently discovered a huge band, you've probably heard of them - Twenty One Pilots. having just checked them out, I'm really...

Andy Leeder

Jul 14, 20187 min read

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Track Dissection (All Time Low - Jon Bellion)

I'm going to be recording an acoustic cover track soon! So I thought in the interest of producing and recording an excellent cover I'll...

Andy Leeder

Jul 10, 20185 min read

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Mixing on the Neve - Slow the Pace

After wrapping up the editing of our final recording session, we decided to get into the beautiful Custom 75 Neve studio and do a mostly...

Andy Leeder

Jul 7, 20186 min read

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Mixing Acoustic Pop Production 'Void of Your Grace'

Here we go! Mixing in ProTools. Something I absolutely love to do, I'll take you through a few stems and show you how I processed them...

Andy Leeder

Jul 1, 20188 min read

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Recording - Acoustic Pop Production 'Void of Your Grace'

Recently I recorded an Acoustic Folk/Pop single (Void of Your Grace by Gling Hunt) with fellow audio engineer Bhavya Menon. At the end of...

Andy Leeder

Jun 28, 20184 min read

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Vocal Recording - Hip Hop Production 'Slow the Pace'

A week after finishing the scratch track for 'Slow the Pace', JP, Mitch and I recorded the awesome vocals of Katy Craine! - Read...

Andy Leeder

Jun 17, 20185 min read

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Producing Hip Hop Production 'Slow the Pace'

Making a Hip-Hop track - developing an idea and initial demo track to build off. If you're planning to produce a track, it's a super idea...

Andy Leeder

Jun 13, 20185 min read

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Track dissection (Erykah Badu - On & On)

I'm co-producing a Hip-Hop track! You'll know that If you've read my earlier blog on it =P Here I'm gonna analyse or dissect if you will,...

Andy Leeder

Jun 11, 20185 min read

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