BLACK LEAF

Sound recording and manipulation involves learning a lot of skills, and those skills are often very versatile. Learning the physics and the characteristics of your gear to learn how to cleanly record a guitar in a studio can be used to then record dialogue in an echoey church the next day, for example. So why, as a lover of creating music and Film sound, should you limit yourself to just one?

This is why I started Black Leaf, as a one stop studio for people who want to write and record their creative ideas, get their music produced, receive custom foley sound or get a great mix for their film. 

As a kid from Winchester, I spent the majority of my time at school in music rooms jamming and listening to music with my friends. After a year or so of learning how to play guitar and bass I realised how fun it was to record everyone together, live with my phone microphone pointed straight up in different parts of the room to mix everyone in evenly. After learning that that's (more or less) how people used to professionally record big bands back when they could only get one mic signal recorded at a time, I was hooked on music production.

 I saved up all my money from working in a supermarket and bought myself a macbook with logic pro x. Once I'd done that I couldnt stop making music, soundscapes and sound effects with synthesizer plugins and from tampering with recordings of bits and pieces i could find around the house. And before i knew it I was in college, studying for a Music Technology A level and then I was off to Uni in London for sound engineering.

After Uni, a few films and musical projects, working as a resource assistant in one of the largest university media departments in the south, moving back up to London, I started doing freelance work to try to folow my dream of making noises.