Audio amplification and recording

Alex likes to balance his web work with live sound engineering and recording, and has been actively working with music professionally for over 30 years. He likes to work with creative music played by listening musicians.

Clients

Beatbox

Steve Arguelles
Dialogues Festival

The total list of people that Alex has worked with would be excessively long. Here is a taste of some of the musical projects that he has enjoyed working with...

Groups

Beats & Pieces Big Band, Bol, Dinosaur, Elephant 9, Emulsion, Food, Goldie, The Grit Orchestra, Hidden Orchestra, Herschel 36, Humcrush, Icarus, Leverton Fox, Let Spin, London Symphonietta, Ma, Melt Yourself Down, MNDMTH, Mr McFalls Chamber, NeWt, Puma, Rymden, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Shooglenifty, Sons of Kemet, Spunk, Strobes, Subjective, Suns of Arqa, Trianglehead, Trio HLK, Troyka, Troyk-estra, Vula Viel

Musicians

Frøy Aagre, Poppy Ackroyd, Yasmin Ahmed, Steve Arguelles, Iain Ballamy, Phil Bancroft, Dan Berglund, Alex Bonney, Ollie Bown, Sam Britton, Stu Brown, Matt Calvert, Tom Challenger, Trish Clowes, Amy Duncan, Mathias Eick, Audun Ellingsen, Sidsel Endresen, Peter Erskine, Tim Giles, Evelyn Glennie, Goldie, Paul Harrison, Jim Hart, Arve Henriksen, Shabaka Hutchins, Laura Jurd, Martin Kershaw, Oren Marshall, Øystein Moen, Dan Nicholls, Gard Nilssen, Paal Nilssen-Love, Magnus Öström, John Patittuci, Maja Ratkje, Stu Ritchie, John Scofield, Jason Singh, Talvin Singh, Dave Smith, Ståle Storløkken, Thomas Strønen, Simon Thacker, Andreas Ulvo, Bugge Wesseltoft, Stian Westerhus, Freddy Wike and many many more...

Mixing The GRIT Orchestra @ The Barrowlands

image © Năng Tuệ Phú

Venues

BimHuis Amsterdam

quite possibly my favourite mix position...

Alex has worked as house engineer for numerous venues in Edinburgh including La Belle Angele, Henry's Cellar Bar, The JamHouse, The MashHouse, Summerhall, The Venue, The Voodoo Rooms and Wilkie House, and as a result has been exposed to many styles of music thereby giving him a wide palette of past sounds and styles to draw upon.

He has travelled widely, and some of the venues that Make Him Happy are the Bimhuis in Amsterdam, Village Underground in London, L'Olympique in Nantes and Voor Uit in Gent.

"...A word too for the sound, which was a master-class in balance and perfection..."

Upcoming Concerts

  • 23/11/24 NYJO - London NYJO & Cleveland Watkiss Present: Sun Ra Reimagined @ Milton Court Concert Hall
  • 28/11/24 The Rugged Isle - Edinburgh Inge Thomson & Catriona Macdonald @ Soundhouse Winter Festival, Traverse 1
  • 03/12/24 The Easy Rollers - Manchester Dani Sicari, Alex Hill, Tom Sharp, Jamie Stockbridge, James Girling, Sam Jackson, Matt Brown @ The Bridgewater Hall
Humcrush - Rest At Worlds End

live album recorded by Alex on tour onto HD24 multitrack and some direct stereo FOH tracks.

"...The third album from these two excellent musicians was recorded live at various European venues, although the high level of musicianship, focus on detail and high recording quality could easily lead you to think it would be a meticulously assembled studio recording..."