John Barry, Joe Meek, Chinn & Chapman, Barry Gray, Gerry Anderson, Pet Shop Boys, Trevor Horn, Chuck Britz, Burt Bacharach, the Beach Boys, the Beatles, Robert Moog, Ian Fleming, Bowie, Neil Finn, 10cc, Gary Numan, Rutger Gunnarsson, Carole Kaye, Depeche Mode, Moody Blues, Madness, The Carpenters, Penguin Café Orchestra, Ennio Morricone, Jean-Michelle Jarre, Blondie ..... tbc
Sounds Like
Pop, hopefully. It's a big word. I can turn my ears to most things, but probably not hip-hop. Or bluegrass. Or bluehop. Or, indeed, hipgrass.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Ian Catt is a British record producer and multi-instrumentalist associated with several popular indie groups, notably Saint Etienne of whom he has been a touring member. Catt is also a long-standing collaborator of Bobby Wratten, working with his groups The Field Mice, Northern Picture Library and Trembling Blue Stars. He was also an official member of the latter group for a short time. His solo project, Katmandu, released a single and album on the Vinyl Japan label in 1994. For a full CV, go to www.cat-music.co.uk
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Ian Catt has worked with:
Saint Etienne, The Field Mice, Trembling Blue Stars, Stars, Shampoo, PJ Proby, Fosca, Etienne Daho, Niza, Nokko, Cola Boy, Aberdeen, Notsotrash, The Tweenies, Kylie Minogue, Languis, The Hit Parade, Robert Palmer, Tim Burgess, Pizzicato 5, Universal, Manic Street Preachers (Saint Etienne remix), Julie Felix, Mikey Graham, Harvey Williams, Brian, Brighter, Blueboy, Bananaskin, Danny Thompson, Kahimi Karie, John Paul Jones, The Boo Radleys and many others.
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Facilities/equipment:
1 control room - 15m², air con, natural light
Overdub room - 4m², natual light, variable acoustics
Acoustic analysis/treatment of both rooms by Karl Brown of Absolute Audio
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CONSOLE - Soundtracks Solo Logic 32 - VCA & mute automation. 80 inputs on remix.
MONITORS - Yamaha NS10M
MULTITRACK - Soundscape SS32 - Digital Audio Workstation. Hard Disk recording/non-destructive editing system, similar to ProTools™ but it doesn't crash. Really. 64 track/28 analog outputs. Mixpander 9 expansion card with numerous plug-in processors including TC and Waves reverbs.
LEGACY SYSTEMS - We've kept every format we've ever used, including; Alesis ADAT, Digital tape system, 16 tracks, Dolby S NR, Sync to Soundscape, Fostex 1/4" 8-track
MASTERING - Wavelab/PC system, 24bit A/D and D/A. High speed CDR/DVD authoring. Sony PCM 7030 timecode DAT, Fostex D5 DAT, Tascam 112 Cassette, Revox A77
MICROPHONES - Beyer MC740, Neumann U87, AKG SolidTube, AKG C451 (x2), Shure SM58 & SM57
OUTBOARD - (Digital) Yamaha REV5, Yamaha SPX90, Zoom 9120, Lexicon Alex, AudioLogic DDL (x2), Alesis Midiverb, Alesis Microverb
OUTBOARD - (Analogue) Drawmer 1960 valve mic amp/compressor, Drawmer DL231 comp/lim, Alesis 3060 compressor, Time Machine stereo com/lim, TL Audio EQ1 valve EQ, Orban 622 Parametric EQ, Orban 516 De-Esser
MIDI/KEYBOARDS - Atari STE (4mb)/Steinberg Cubase sequencer, PC system (P3 450/128mb/4gb + 13 gb/Steinberg Cubase SX sequencer, Roland A880 midi patchbay, Roland JV2080 synthesizer module, Akai S3000XL sampler with 32mb memory and FX board/ZIP/Syquest and CD-ROM drives-comprehensive library, Emu EMAX HD sampler-comprehensive library
Hi there Ian Catt. Just letting you know I have a new song on my page right now called "Reality Check", from my nearly completed debut CD. I would love you to have a listen and send me some feedback when you get 5 minutes (or 3:59 to be precise!). Take care
If you can make it into town at the weekend i'm bringing some brummie one man magic down for a double legger. As a consolation for anyone who couldn't get a Zeppelin ticket...
I can't thank you enough for the add. I have followed your own work as well as your work with St.Et. Much respect to you I give. do aliens help when working on the console? :)
Hi, just stopping by to wish you a happy Saturday, and to let you know that the new Rain book, Requiem for an Assassin, comes out on May 22. I'll be on the road for a month promoting it, in the San Francisco Bay Area (Menlo Park, San Mateo, Santa Rosa), Seattle, Ft. Lewis, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Boulder, Houston, Ft. Hood, Albuquerque, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Carmel (Indianapolis), Bethesda (DC), West Chester (Philadelphia), NYC. Details on my profile page. If you're around for one of these events, come on by -- it would be great to see you!
