//BCNSOUND_MUSIC STUDIO ABOUT THE STUDIO_ Bcnsound is owned and operated by Simon Smith. I have worked as a profesional musician and independent producer since 1996, in London and now in Barcelona since 2002. The Bcnsound studio can be hired out with engineer for many types of audio projects where creative engineering or music production are called for. We specialise in digital techniques and original music production. - soundtrack production - recording artist production and development - sound design - mixing and premastering - audio editing and processing TRAINING_ - I also provide classes and expert training - consultation or one to one advice on production matters, with over ten years experience in education. CLIENTS AND COLLABORATORS TV/film TV3 Canal 33 BBC Diagonal TV Agustin Villaronga UKTV CafeBar Producciones Mcasso Music Boris Undorf Bryan Robbins Polar Star Films Denis Rovira Artists Les Fura Des Baus OddToot Shortcut Therapy Hydrogen Dukebox James Hardway Big Box Studios Patrick Palucki Toni Marti Amanda Ghost The High Llamas End Clients Volkswagen La Caixa Generalitat de Catalunya Beat Dis Arts Soundart Andbanc El Bulli Schneider Electric Ficosa Giraudier y Guzmann Cannibal The World Games Cosmic Media Markt Design/media Tribal DDB VASAVA Artworks McGuffinTV Summa Design TECFA Stylofoam Acquamedia FIRMA Discovery Net Jorg Richter Oliver Neumann BIOGRAPHY_ EQUIPMENT_ Of course, the most important reason people come to Bcnsound is for chocolate biscuits and a big sofa, but as far as equipment goes, the studio is completely computer based: - Mac G5 dual 2 Ghz with Logic Pro, Ableton Live and more - RME Fireface 800 Audio interface - Citriq ProDAW with Live, Nuendo, and more - 2 x Soundart Chameleon reprogrammable hardware - (Virtual Analog, Vocoder, Filterbank, Amp- modeller, Multi-FX, Reverb, Dance Module, Phase Distortion...) - Lexicon MPX 1 reverb/FX - Access Virus Rack synth - Yamaha NS10 Monitors - Shure and AKG mics - Wurlitzer EP200 electric piano (my baby) There are of course a variety of acoustic instruments kicking around for making noises...Drom Workshop drums, acoustic and electric guitars, violin, ukelele, an old trumpet... I started out studying music at Goldsmiths, London. I studied piano with John Tilbury. While completing my degree, my first (and rather odd) forays into studio production were signed to Hydrogen Dukebox Records. While completing a masters (which more than anything else was an excuse to get my hands on a nice big studio with grand piano and modular synths for two years) I worked my next album, and worked as a session musician, most notably as drummer with the James Hardway Quartet. It was with Hardway that I first came to Barcelona, to play as part of the BAM festival. I really loved the city, and didn't realise then that I would have my future studio about 100 yards from where we played. We were on the stage at the port, in front of the Imax, and I thought it was one of the nicest locations for a gig I had ever played... In 2002 I moved to Barcelona went on to set up Bcnsound, and have since worked on music production for other recording artists, for film, TV, advertising and several other personal projects under different guises... I was lucky enough to play Glastonbury and many other festivals around the world with Hardway, which was a great experience and a lot of fun. The Hardway team included at various times Theo Gordon (Roots Manuva), London jazz veteran bassist Miles Danso and singer/songwriter Amanda Ghost, who went on to cowrite the James Blunt hit "Your Beautiful". To hear some of my work, please visit the production section of this site.