About Dave

Dave Maughan first came to prominence through his work on the 2000 Mercury Music Prize nominated Kathryn Williams album Little Black Numbers, and almost simultaneously, the critically acclaimed, ground-breaking (and eponymously titled) debut album by The Morris Quinlan Experience.

With more than twenty years recording industry experience, he cites his additional grounding in feature film and TV work as partly how he’s able to offer "something new, perhaps a more 'filmic' approach to recording and producing albums."

Dave is also amongst the top music editors in the UK, experienced not only in rock and pop fields, but also in classical music work.  Whilst familiar with most high end digital editing systems, he favours the European Soundscape system, which he has found to be faster and more reliable than many others. 

His Newcastle based Face Musical Productions Studio combines a formidable Soundscape SS32 32-track recording/editing system with the more traditional analogue 2" 24-track tape format, and boasts excellent microphones, superb Genelec tri-amped monitors and some cool vintage valve (tube) equipment. Oh, and a beautiful old Hammond C3 with Leslie 122R !

In the past he's worked with such famous names as Lindisfarne, The Animals, Billy Connolly, Robson Green, Dennis Waterman, Andrew Sachs, Craig Fairbrass.  The recent release of Follow On, the second Morris Quinlan Experience album, has brought Dave’s work to the attention of an even wider international audience.  And with production and engineering credits on current albums by the likes of Hilton, Beccy Owen, Kathryn Willliams etc (not to mention a mixing credit on a new live Maximo Park DVD), barely a day goes by when you won't hear some of Dave's work on national music radio.

"Keeps me off the street !", he remarks dryly. Dave has a jolly good sense of humour, drinks too much tea, loves bacon sarnies, and is probably one of the easiest people in the world to work with.

Find out more about Dave by reading the feature article on him in the November 2000 issue of Sound On Sound magazine, written shortly after Kathryn Williams’ Mercury Music Prize nomination. 
www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/nov00/articles/dave.htm

Find Dave on RecordProduction.com –

http://www.recordproduction.com/dave_maughan.htm

Dave’s MySpace –

http://www.myspace.com/davemaughanproducerengineer

davemaughan.co.uk

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