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Wayne Wilkins

Songwriter/producer Wayne Wilkins certainly has an impeccable lineage for working on hit records. From studying classical piano at the Royal College of Music to programming for Spike Stent at Olympic Studios in London, he's amassed a credit list highlighted by the likes of Oasis, Pink, Beyonce's Beautiful Nightmare, Leona Lewis' Take A Bow, Michelle Williams' We Break The Dawn and T-Shirt... More

Bob Power

Grammy Award winning multi-platinum producer, mixer and engineer Bob Power is a certified gear junkie. With a vast and varied discography that sweeps from Erykah Badu and D’Angelo through Pat Metheny and Miles Davis, he’s used just about everything. More

Pete Moshay

Grammy award-winning engineer/producer/mixer Pete Moshay is picky about using only the best gear. Having worked almost 20 years for Hall & Oates - in addition to mixing projects for the likes of Barbra Streisand, Average White Band and Ian Hunter.... More

Simon Climie

With a wall full of platinum albums and a pile of hit songs under his belt, artist/songwriter/producer Simon Climie can use literally any piece of equipment he chooses. From his work with Eric Clapton to his own Climie Fisher Group, the common thread of quality prevails. We caught up with him recently to discuss his use of Sonnox Oxford plug-ins, and how they help him shape his hit-making sound.... More

Jason Goldstein

As of January this year, mix engineer Jason Goldstein joined the leagues of mixers working fully in-the-box, a transition made possible in large part by the Sonnox range of Oxford plug-ins. "Sonnox plug-ins make up at least half the plug-ins on every mix... More

Chris Athens

When you're a senior mastering engineer/mixer with a discography like Chris Athens, you get to use almost any gear you want. Working out of his comfortable room at Sterling Sound in downtown New York, he's helped the likes of Coldplay, Ben Folds and Beastie Boys make their records sound better...More

Mark Le Corre

Front of House mixer Mark LeCorre is certainly a busy man. Whether out touring the world with artists such as Avril Lavigne, Dido and The Tragically Hip, or working in home studio, Renaissance Digital with a continual run of popular Canadian acts, he always maintains one constant; the Sonnox Oxford EQ. More

Bob Daspit

Bob Daspit epitomizes today's flexible working engineer. A guitar player since his early teens, he went on to work with film composer extraordinaire Hans Zimmer for a dozen years. A music writer himself, Daspit also recorded and mixed a handful of records and DVD projects with ex Van-Halen frontman Sammy Hagar. We caught up with Bob recently as he was about to settle back into new digs at Zimmer's LA based studio complex. More

Richard Chappell Part 2

Dickie Chappell has worked closely with Peter Gabriel as producer/engineer and executive at his UK-based Real World Studios and record label for more than 15 years. A long-time proponent of Oxford Plug-ins, he recently used them with Sinead O’Conner in studio and on the road with Peter Gabriel. We caught up with him amidst a flurry of activity while out on Gabriel’s recent European tour. More

Nimrod Productions

Nimrod and Sony - Strong as an Oxford Rich Aitken and Marc Canham are the managing directors behind the highly successful Nimrod Productions. Whereas most producer/engineers work alone, Nimrod is a powerhouse of productivity with six team members helping to churn out polished orchestrations for some of the best-selling computer games around today. More

Jon Ostrin

Jon Ostrin has been Toto's live mix engineer for around 15 years, working almost exclusively with analogue gear. But more recently he's been swept into the digital world, and on Toto's current world tour he uses Sony Oxford plug-ins on Digidesign's Venue Live Console, a formidable combination by any standards. More

Robbie Bronnimann

Robbie Bronnimann likes his music hard and fast. A child of the trance generation, his mixes and collaborations embrace artists from Chicane, Ferry Corsten and Paul Van Dyk to Howard Jones. More

Andy Gray

Andy Gray is known for his collaborations with bands such as Korn and superstar DJ, Paul Oakenfold. He’s also got a finger firmly ensconced in the film industry pie... More

Charles Dye

A few years ago engineer, mixer and producer Charles Dye (Lauryn Hill, Jon Bon Jovi, Sammy Hagar, and Julio Iglesias) earned the accolade of being the first mixer to put a number one hit together without leaving the box, which doesn’t mean ... More

David Bascombe

David Bascombe is a mix engineer who would find it easy to name drop if that’s what he wanted to do. From the biggest and most well-established pop outfits including Depeche Mode, The Manic Street Preachers and Bon Jovi to rising stars Goldfrapp, ... More

Focus Recording Studios, Copenhagen

Saqib Hassan speaks to Sony Oxford from Focus Recording Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Spike Drake

Over the last 20 years, Spike Drake has worked his way up from night time receptionist at Sarm studios to producer, mixer and engineer of worldwide renown. ... More

Jay-J

Synonymous with first-rate house music, Jay-J is a DJ whose prodigious talents quickly led him into the world of dance music production. Since the late 90’s he’s worked with the likes of Kathy Brown, Arnold Jarvis, Jon Cutler and Miguel Migs, and continues to push the boundaries of house music in a never-ending pursuit of quality sound. ... More

Ron Harris

Ron Harris has come a long way since the early eighties, when his studio consisted of little more than a Tascam four track, a Juno 106, an MC 500 sequencer. ... More

John Feldman

Producer John Feldman wrote in to us: "Hi, my name is John Feldman. Recently I've worked with Good Charlotte, Ashlee Simpson, Story of the Year, Mandy Moore, the Used, and I'm currently finishing an album for a new band named City Sleeps. ... More

Fab

Fab has been producing and engineering for over 12 years, working in studios all over the world in cities like Paris, Boston, Brussels and Stockholm, London and New York to name but a few. ... More

Alan Meyerson

Alan Meyerson has mixed the film scores of dozens of Hollywood blockbusters, from Pirates of the Caribbean to Pearl Harbour. At the outset of The Last Samurai, another of his string of successful collaborations with award-winning mixer Hans Zimmer, Meyerson found himself puzzled ... More

Charles Maynes

”Being a sound designer, I record all sorts of sounds to make scenes work, but more often than not, in fairly uncontrolled environments. As a result, I end up with recordings with somewhat undesirable noise in the background, such as air conditioning or even traffic. The Oxford DeNoise plug-in ... More

Ray Hedges

Ray Hedges has worked extensively with some of the world’s top boy-bands, and most illustrious music industry icons. From Westlife to Boyzone, Ronan Keating to Bryan Adams, B*Witched to ex-Spice Girls’ Emma Bunton, he’s produced some mighty players and scooped myriad awards for his efforts. Ray’s productions are crisp and self-assured, and his taste for the right kind of gear is essential when it comes to attaining his hallmark sound. And that’s why the most recent addition to his music-making arsenal is a bundle of the world’s best plug-ins.... More

Richard Chappell

Richard Chappell has to be one of the hardest working engineers around. He is Peter Gabriel's recording and mix engineer as well as live monitor engineer and general live music co-ordinator. He began his work at Peter's Real World Studios back in 1988 and it's far from over yet! After finishing the album ‘UP', he went out on tour for 2 years, recorded and mixed a live DVD, and worked on another DVD of Peter's videos all mixed in surround , on the Sony Oxford console. They are currently mixing another live DVD, and Peter is in the process of writing a new record. We caught up with Richard to ask him a few questions. ... More

Ruff & Jam

Ruff and Jam are a duo of remixers/producers from Belgium . Jean Marie ‘Ruff' Moens and Luke ‘Jam' Mourinet met in the mid-90s, Luke coming from a DJ background and Jean Marie from a song writingbackground. They decided to join forc es to start a production team, and have not looked back since. ... More

Steelworks Studios

The addition of the Sony Oxford plug-in range with TC Powercore has been an invaluable tool for Mike Percy and Tim Lever at Steelworks Studios in Sheffield. Previously working with pop artists such as Blue, S Club7, Spice Girls, Five, Emma Bunton and last year doing an album for The American Idol TV series, this year they have been writing for 19 artists Rachel Stevens and Gareth Gates and are currently producing an album for new guitar band Milburn. ... More

Steve MacMillan

With mixing credits on records by Toto, Shania Twain, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Celine Dion and Kelly Clarkson (the list goes on..) it's no wonder that Steve MacMillan is one of LA's busiest mix engineers. He mixes entirely in ProTools, and uses Sony Oxford plug ins at the heart of his giant ProTools HD rig. “I've just finished mixing the new Corrs album,” says Steve, “ there's Oxford plug-ins all over that thing!” So Steve, tell us why and how you use the individual Oxford plug-ins?" ... More

Rob Kelly - Strongroom

Strongroom Studios, specialising in music and DVD production, has built it's reputation by being at the forefront of new recording technologies and finding innovative ways to incorporate them into a creative studio. This, coupled with the amazing Jamie Reid interiors, the relaxed, creative atmosphere around the place and an 18 year  track record of hits across a broad spectrum of musical styles makes Strongroom 'Europe>’s leading independent music studio'. ... More

Tony Maserati

Quite recently, Maserati has integrated certain of Sony's Oxford plug-ins into his frontline toolset. "I've primarily always used plug-in EQs for cutting, not boosting," the Grammy-nominated mix engineer explains. ... More

 

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