e-mail: tracktherighttake@blueyonder.co.uk

 I attended various BBC engineering training courses from November '73 to February '79
at their training center in Wood Norton.

I have extensive experience in all aspects of live concert and studio recording
including planning, rigging, mic. placement, tape-op, stage-op and sound balancing.

Often my live sound balances are broadcast either live-to-air or edited for later tx on radio,
TV and the Internet. For example I am the sound balancer for the live element of
Radio 3's Jazz On 3 series, most of which are 'straight to stereo' with multitrack backup.

My experience also extends to track laying and overdubbing onto various multitrack formats,
 analogue and/or digital. Where necessary,
I have remixed music material for later domestic and international broadcast
and/or commercial release.
Click here to see a brief discography on Artistdirect

I started my career in post-production, editing, assembling and mastering
radio programmes for broadcast using 1/4" tape. Since then I have become proficient
in computer-based assembly and mastering using ProTools and SADiE DAWs.

From February 2003, Track The Right Take became a Limited Company.

Sound Mobiles Used

     All 4 Fleetwood Mobiles
     (formerly Sanctuary) 

Will Shapland Mobiles/Floating Earth

BBC SCVs 3,4,5,6, Sound 2, Sound 3, 'C+'

& the late but great ... BBC Live Music Mobile!

9th Wave

As The Crow Flies

Total Audio Solutions

God Digital 'Tardis'

 

TV and Recording Studios

Abbey Road Studio 2
('The Beatles Studio')

Gateway (Kingston University)

TV Jobshop Studio (Enteraction TV)

BBC Maida Vale Studios 3, 5 & 6

BBC TVC Studios 1, 3 & 6

Pebble Mill 2

TV and Radio Stations

TV stations include BBC1, 2, 3, 4, 
ITV 2 & Channel 4.

 BBC Radios 1, 2, 3, & 6 Music

Capital Radio

RTE

Via satellite relay to hundreds of radio stations
worldwide mainly from festivals like Glastonbury

TV & Radio Production Companies

BBC Radio & TV
MTV Europe
Channel 4
Fuji TV
Mission TV
Arena TV
Viasat Broadcasting (UK)
Vivid Post
Component
Enteraction TV
God TV
Somethin' Else Sound Directions
Somethin' Else TV
Smooth Operations
The Cliff Richard Organisation.
Richmond Studios

Commercial Releases

The Smiths' number 1 live album 'Rank' 

Duran Duran's B-side to 'Rio' - 'Hungry Like The Wolf'

Green On Red's Limited Edition 10" LP 'Poor Ole Dan'

Split Enz - 2 B-sides

The Dark Blues' 'Midsummer Dance'

Graham Parker - B-side to 'No More Excuses'

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions' - B-side
to 'Cut Me Down' - 'Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken'

Paz's 'The Message' album

BBC Sport's World Cup (1998) theme/sig. tune
adapted from Fauré's Pavane

Royksopp - Live track 'So Easy' 
used on 'Poor Leno' single - Nov. 2002

Concert For George DVD/CD (- nominated for
 best Remote Engineer in 20th TEC Awards)

 

TV and Radio Programmes

TOTP, Later ...With Jools Holland

Hootenanny 2002

Prince Charles' exclusive reading
of his book 'The Old Man Of Lochnagar'

The World's Scariest Places

The Saturday Show

Rock Goes To College

Tomorrow's World

BBC Sport's World Cup (1998)
theme/sig. tune adapted from
Fauré's Pavane

The Proms 2001 finale at the
Eden Project

Radio 3's Jazz On 3

MTV Europe Music Awards - 2002

UK Asian Music Awards 2003

Brits 2004 - Mix Duran Duran

Olympic Torch Concert - 2004

e-mail: tracktherighttake@blueyonder.co.uk

Skills & Experience