I'm Ralph, a mixing and mastering engineer working from an acoustically treated studio in Newcastle, UK. I spend 3-4 days per song, working collaboratively with the artist to make sure the final mix feels like theirs, not mine.

What I care about most is serving the song. Every project starts with a conversation about your vision, your references, and what matters to you. From there it's thoroug...
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I'm Ralph, a mixing and mastering engineer working from an acoustically treated studio in Newcastle, UK. I spend 3-4 days per song, working collaboratively with the artist to make sure the final mix feels like theirs, not mine.

What I care about most is serving the song. Every project starts with a conversation about your vision, your references, and what matters to you. From there it's thorough prep, analogue-modelled processing through vintage channel strip and tape emulations, and detailed automation until everything sits right. I send you the first draft, then we work together on refinement so you end up with exactly what you want. Nothing is rushed or templated.

Being a musician myself changes the way I work. I play guitar and have spent years writing, arranging, and performing, so when a client describes what they want in non-technical terms I know exactly what they mean. Clients tell me that makes communication easier and means I can offer musical suggestions alongside sonic ones, not just technical fixes.

I work with independent artists and bands across rock, folk, pop, singer-songwriter, metal, funk, and pretty much anything that moves me. The variety keeps things interesting and stops me falling back on templates. That said, rock is probably where I'm most instinctive, having grown up on Nirvana, Foo Fighters and RHCP. I'm inspired by Andy Wallace and Chris Lord-Alge for how they handle rock mixes with power and clarity, Tchad Blake for doing things differently and making it work, and Serban Ghenea for the way he creates space and depth.

I started playing guitar at 15, got deep into hard rock and metal, then discovered electronic music in my early 20s and spent years playing in bands and producing my own tracks. I did a lot of experimenting and playing festivals with hybrid electronic acts. I studied music production at Newcastle College, but honestly learned more in the years that followed through hands-on experience. Over the last 9 years I've worked as a studio engineer across home studios, commercial facilities, and two years as the main engineer at Loft Music Studios. Mixing became the thing I'm most passionate about: taking all the elements of a song and making them work together while keeping the artist's vision intact.

My studio runs on Pro Tools through a UAD Apollo X16, with a huge plugin collection (UAD, FabFilter, Waves, iZotope and many more), Avid S1 controllers, Adam A7X monitors with a Sub 8 and Avantone Mixcube for reference, and an Axe FX II for guitar re-amping and creative processing. I'm also very at home in Logic Pro. I have an enormous plugin collection and I'm always hunting for special emulations of vintage gear.

Nearly all the power comes from solar panels during the day, and I'm fairly sure I'm the only mixing engineer in the world with a wood-burning stove in the control room.

If you want someone who'll treat your song like it matters, get in touch.
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