Video interviews & studio tours

George Shilling has been recording features for this site for 17 years. George is super busy as a record producer, musician, arranger, studio owner and journalist writing for Resolution magazine. Possibly the busiest person we know but still makes time to record features :-)

Claris Sayadian-Dodge, pictured here with the great Al Schmitt, has been an outstanding contributor covering mostly the West Coast US from way back in the early days of RP. Away from managing producers she's busy running StudioExpresso.

Long standing visitors to recordproduction.com will probably have enjoyed watching some of the many features that Johnny Jaskot recorded. It is with huge sadness that we had to report that he passed away at the start of 2018. Our deepest sympathies to his family and friends.

Mike Exeter has been a fantastic driving force helping propel RP from long format interviews - which are still great - to shorter more focused features. This has been a big success and Mike can be seen on many of the newer features. We aren't sure how he finds time, being a bit 'in-demand'!

Russell Cottier started life on RP as an interviewee but has gone on to record many excellent features over what seems like ten years. He is a very busy recording engineer / producer and is as at home with a folk band as with a metal band. Russ also writes for Resolution magazine.

Nigel Jopson, pictured with legendary producer Ken Scott, has been an engaging interviewer. Nigel is an engineer, producer and is now editor of Resolution magazine.

Clint Murphy, like Russ Cottier, started out as an interviewee but has proved to be a brilliant contributor. As an engineer and producer he is very current with all aspects of production and with awards stacking up we hope that he doesn't become 'too busy' to do more features!

Jack Hale, pictured here in the studio has been a HUGE help in making Nashville and Memphis get on to the site, sadly we've not done many in the recent years. Jack has been an amazingly warm and helpful guy - we can't thank him enough for all of his kind and selfless work in making so many excellent features possible. Thanks Jack!

Nick Poortman spent a few years working in the UK alongside engineers including Clint Murphy before returning home to New Zealand. He has since moved to L.A. and has been been busy recording stacks of great new features there so hopefully, if you're out there, you can have him visit you!

Scott Mathews has been a big help in making our videos that much better by providing excellent intro music and we can't thank him enough for his work in making the LA scene coverage that much better by his kind access to his contacts. Scott's feature is here - we hope to get back over and feature more of his contacts soon.

Phil English has helped with several interviews and produced the occasional and now 'resting' RP Full English Podcast. In addition to his work here, Phil is a producer and recording engineer who has escaped the UK to more Stateside - we've not heard from him since...!

Russ Russell has worked with bands such as Napalm Death, The Wildhearts, The Exploited, Evil... He has been producing, recording and playing for over 20 years working as Russ says with "every kind of metal, rock, classical, blues, jazz, pop, acoustic, dub, bhangra, country, hip hop, trip hop, sea shanty and heads down no nonsense glam thrash boogie.”  Russ is based at Parlour Studios in Northamptonshire, UK.

Mike Banks, this site's creator & webmaster is the person that throws this site together in the wee small hours and he films and edits virtually every video feature too.

Mike's studio photography site is here