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Mike Exeter

Mike Exeter

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'!

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All Mike Exeter features

Studio Tours

Middle Farm Studios - Session Walkthrough with Jack Trubshaw
Middle Farm Studios - Session Walkthrough with Jack Trubshaw
Renowned engineer/producer Mike Exeter visited Middle Farm Studios where producer Jack Trubshaw was producing Santù.
Echo Studios - Buckinghamshire studio
Echo Studios - Buckinghamshire studio
We recently discovered Echo Studios, a fantastic recording studio outside Buckingham in the UK.  Studio owner Jamie Masters met with Grammy winning producer Mike Exeter to show him around.
Distant City Studios - Video tour
Distant City Studios - Video tour
Mike Exeter visited Distant City Studios to take a look around - this is a very nice studio and well worth a trip to Yorkshire.
Otterhead Studios - Video tour with Oscar Ball
Otterhead Studios - Video tour with Oscar Ball
Mike Exeter visited the brand new Otterhead Studios where he given a guided tour by Oscar Ball. Otterhead Studios is a residential recording studio in beautiful rural Warwickshire.
The Park Studios - Video tour with Tobin Jones
The Park Studios - Video tour with Tobin Jones
Tobin Jones, owner of The Park Studios in North London took producer/engineer Mike Exeter on a grand tour of his studio. The thing that smacks you directly in the eye when walking through the door is the vibrant colour scheme.
Post Electric Studios - Video tour
Post Electric Studios - Video tour
Post Electric Studio is a lovely recording studio based in Edinburgh and operated by producers Rod Jones and Kris Pohl who both feature in the video above. Post Electric also acts as a creative home to the band Idlewild.
Wincraft Studios - Video tour with James Towler at Steve Winwood
Wincraft Studios - Video tour with James Towler at Steve Winwood's studio
James Towler takes Mike Exeter around Wincraft Studios in the English Cotswolds. Special thanks to Steve Winwood for the use of his studio, James for sparing his time and to Mike Exeter for hosting the video.
Orgone Studios - Jaime Gomez Arellano
Orgone Studios - Jaime Gomez Arellano's recording studio
Mike Exeter headed up the M1 to visit Jaime's new Orgone Studios in Bedfordshire. This video runs just under 10 minutes and hopefully you'll get a good flavour of what the new studio and Jaime are about.
Gospel Oak Studios
Gospel Oak Studios
Austen Killburn and Mike Exeter in a video recorded at Gospel Oak Studios. Excellent SSL countryside studio close to Birmingham in the Midlands
Stevensonics - Gary Stevenson
Stevensonics - Gary Stevenson's studio tour
Mike Exeter and the RecordProduction.com crew visited Gary Stevenson and recorded a video interview at his recording studio, Stevensonics, and whilst there Gary also gave a tour the facilities. We hope that you enjoy this short video tour around Gary's 'Stevensonics' Studio in Oxfordshire, UK.

Interviews

Kevan Gallagher - November 2021 Interview
Kevan Gallagher - November 2021 Interview
Mike Exeter talks with Kevan Gallagher, a self-taught guitarist who has worked in-house at many of London’s top studio. Kevan was fortunate in learning his craft working with many of the best engineers and producers assisting at Battery Studios.
Gareth Jones - Interview at Strongroom Studios
Gareth Jones - Interview at Strongroom Studios
Gareth Jones is one of those legendary producers that has such an amazing credits list you don't expect him to be as warm and welcoming to chat about his work as he is.
Adrian Bushby - Mix engineer interview
Adrian Bushby - Mix engineer interview
Adrian Bushby is a double Grammy award winning British producer, engineer and mixer. Mike Exeter visited Adrian at his private studio in London to talk about how his working methods have evolved.
Laurent Dupuy - Interview at Dean Street Studios
Laurent Dupuy - Interview at Dean Street Studios
Mike Exeter and the RP crew visited Dean Street Studios to talk with double Grammy winning French recording and live sound engineer Laurent Dupuy who has relocated from France to the UK and is now based in London.
Peter Hewitt-Dutton - Metropolis mastering engineer
Peter Hewitt-Dutton - Metropolis mastering engineer
Mike Exeter visited Metropolis Studios to meet with mastering engineer Peter Hewitt-Dutton and find out more about vinyl mastering and the ongoing series of live, direct-to-disk sessions that have been filmed at Metropolis.
Gary Stevenson - Producer interview with Mike Exeter
Gary Stevenson - Producer interview with Mike Exeter
Mike Exeter and the RecordProduction.com crew visited Gary Stevenson the other weekend to find out more about the latest ABC Lexicon of Love II record and many of his other great productions such as Go West..
Dave Eringa - Interview at Rockfield Studios
Dave Eringa - Interview at Rockfield Studios
Click here to watch the archive Dave Eringa video at Bryn Derwen.
Steven Slate - Two exclusive videos
Steven Slate - Two exclusive videos
Steven Slate has recorded two interviews with us. This most recent one shot in autumn / fall 2017 was recorded at Metropolis Studios - producer / engineer Mike Exeter was keen to talk with Steven about his plugins and the what motivates their development.
Mixing Ziggy Stardust in ATMOS - Ken Scott & Emre Ramazanoglu Mixing the Album
Mixing Ziggy Stardust in ATMOS - Ken Scott & Emre Ramazanoglu Mixing the Album
Mike Exeter visited RAK Studios while Ken Scott and Emre Ramazanoglu were in Studio 4 mixing David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust album in ATMOS.

Techniques

How to Record & Mix Drums (30 minute special feature)
How to Record & Mix Drums (30 minute special feature)
Grammy winning engineer Mike Exeter shows his great sounding Drum Recording methods with top session drummer Karl Brazil.
Drum recording with Clint Murphy & Mike Exeter
Drum recording with Clint Murphy & Mike Exeter
Woodworm Studios was the venue for our recording masterclass focused on rock and metal production - this was our drum recording section which we have edited to hopefully not run too long and we think that these methods would be of great interest to anyone...
Tape flange feature - One way to get a flanging effect
Tape flange feature - One way to get a flanging effect
A group of recording engineers met up at Rimshot Studios, a lovely recording studio in the UK's Kent countryside, to try out some ideas, share techniques and hang out.
Guitar cab recording with Clint Murphy & Mike Exeter
Guitar cab recording with Clint Murphy & Mike Exeter
Woodworm Studios was the venue for our Metal Recording Masterclass in 2015. This is a short extract of that feature where Mike Exeter and Clint Murphy discuss placement of mics. The two mics of choice are the affordable Sure Sm57 and ribbon Royer.
Production masterclass with Nigel Powell - Featuring Clint Murphy, Mike Exeter & George Shilling
Production masterclass with Nigel Powell - Featuring Clint Murphy, Mike Exeter & George Shilling
Three engineers on one session? How did we avoid a punch-up?. Actually, the three people working on the session all come from different backgrounds but surprisingly to us, they got on really well and we may have inadvertently created a production team by mistake.
Metal recording workshop feature with top recording engineers
Metal recording workshop feature with top recording engineers
Engineers Clint Murphy and Mike Exeter got together with Stuart Jones at Woodworm studios to record a feature for us following the recording of a complete track with a band to compare various recording approaches and methods.
Austen Kilburn talks with Mike Exeter about Drum Recording
Austen Kilburn talks with Mike Exeter about Drum Recording
Austen Kilburn met with Mike Exeter to talk about getting the best possible drum sound on a tight budget and in a room not designed for recording.
Drum microphone placement with James Towler - Techniques for the studio and for live
Drum microphone placement with James Towler - Techniques for the studio and for live
Steve Winwood's recording engineer James Towler shows his drum recording microphone setups at Steve's Wincraft Studios. James Towler took time out to run us through his mic placement on stage during the set up of a Steve Winwood gig.