The man behind it all.
Dave has had an obsession with music since a very young age and has played various instruments from before he can remember.
He developed an early interest in recording mediums, buying a 4-track Tascam Portastudio and a microphone to record bands with. From this interest, he went to university where he studied music, including production, performance, recording and writing.
Dave has played in a number of bands getting airplay on many stations including Radio 1, BBC 6 music and XFM and was featured on Radio 1 future music’s best Ep’s of 2021 as well as his production talents featured on BBC Introducing in Northamptonshire. Dave has also produced, mixed and mastered music for a large number of artists with work featuring on Radio 1, 6music, BBC 1xtra, 5 Live, XFM, BBC Local & Introducing stations, Radio X, Warp records, Bleep and many more across the UK and world, as well as adverts and TV programmes. Over the years, Dave has developed an in-depth knowledge of both hardware and software recording mediums including Logic Pro and Ableton Live which greatly aid his recording, production, mixing and mastering work.
Having always enjoyed listening and learning from artists who push boundaries, Dave likes to take influence from their work and use it on music he works on to create unique sounds that stand out.
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The Studio
Plastic Tree Studios was formed in 2018 and is now situated in Abington, Northampton. After moving back to Northampton in 2020, a new site was located and converted into a modern studio space with top level equipment and a specialised acoustic environment which was tailored to work toward achieving the best possible mixes, masters and productions.
The Gear
Recording & Hardware
Apple Macbook Pro
MOTU Midi XT Midi Patch Bay
Rupert Neve R10 500 rack chassis
Monitoring
Samson S-Phone 4 channel headphone mixer
Microphones
2 Shure sm57s
Shure sm58
Sennheiser MD421
Stereo pair Lewitt 140 air’s
SE VR1 Ribbon microphone
Shure Beta 52a
Instruments/
Backline/Controllers
Fender Starcaster
Fender Jazzmaster
Epiphone Hummingbird acoustic
Squier 70s p-bass
Behringer Model D
Vox AC10
Old organ
Kawai K15 upright piano
Various percussion instruments
Novation Launchpad X
NI Komplete Kontrol S49 Mk2 midi keyboard
Akai MPK249
Software/Plug-ins
Steinberg Wavelab Pro 12
NI Komplete 13 including Kontakt and Massive
Various plugins from Universal Audio, Fabfilter, Softube, Soundtoys, Waves, Izotope RX, Pulsar Audio, Tone Projects, Antares and more
Arturia 2600, Jun6 and Pigments softsynths
XLN Audio XO, Addictive Drums and Pianos
Preamps & Outboard
Focusrite Octopre 8 channel preamp
Effects
Roland RE20 Space Echo
Boss DS2
Boss SD1
Electro Harmonix Small Stone phaser
MXR Dynacomp
Boss CE2W Chorus
Digitech Whammy mk5
Boss RC500 Looper
Boss TR2 Tremolo
Peterson Stobostomp HD tuner
Misc
Ebow
Guitar slides