A collaborative effort with Robert Cooper. A minimalist piece with evolving sections. Based upon the work of LaMonte Young, Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Original composition, arrangement, recording and mixdown by Charlotte Kirby and Robert Cooper.

© 2010 Charlotte Kirby and Robert Cooper. ℗ 2010 Charlotte Kirby and Robert Cooper
Use without written permission from both copyright owners is unauthorised.

Life in Db

Trip hop original production... written and arranged by me... 
Future plans - finish writing lyrics : ) rearrange and orchestrate strings... re-evaluate. A result of listening to excessive amounts of Massive Attack and Lovage.

© Charlotte Kirby 2012,  ℗ Charlotte Kirby 2012

Sample: Unfinished (work in progress)

Single from Darcy Kate Collier's debut EP, Chasing Butterflies. Arranged by Robert Cooper, recorded and mixed by me.

© Darcy Kate Collier 2010, ℗ Roadside Collective 2011.

Darcy Kate Collier - Close

I was given the raw audio files for this track at university and told to mix. Our brief was that the band had a small budget, had been recorded and had approached me to finish off this song. I decided that I would allocate no more than a day to the project to reflect the reality of budget. 

After an initial balance of the track I then focussed on sculpting complimentary EQ settings so that all of the musical elements, particularly the guitars and voice, weren't competing. I reduced the gain of a couple of tracks so that I could effectively use compression and then applied compression to the vocals so that they remained consistant and close. After that I experimented with parallel compression on the drums so that they would feel bigger in the mix while still retaining some dynamics. I re-amped the bass and applied distortion, I also made a vocal effects channel and applied gentle distortion to the lead vocal which is low in the mix but gives the lead vocal presence. The pads channel was run through a leslie cabinet plugin to lend it some air and movement. I spent a fair bit of time setting up flanging effects for the guitars which are obvious during the verses and mellower during the chorus. I also automated a delay channel to emphasise a few words of the lyrics... there is also a lot of automation data written controlling reverb and ambience sends and pan positions. Enjoy!

Already Gone (post mix)

Late night jam with Gravel Samwidge recorded at the Conservatorium in 2011. Recorded and mixed (and named) by me for Sound Engineering Projects.

© Gravel Samwidge 2011 ℗ Charlotte Kirby 2011

Cosmic Frog

Declan Longley, Darcy Adam, Tom Backhaus, Michael Till, Matt Godbold, Nick Young and Charlotte Kirby

Illuminati jam ending

NWO full run

This soundcloud page is mostly just a workspace for my university submissions. Some of this music is original and some of it is written my others with production by me.

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