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“Steve helped us think through how to get the best result from an online worship band for our Sunday morning service. He then collated all the audio files from band members, mixed the sound and made the video of us playing split screen. He was so good at communication and made it a pleasure. Everyone has commented on how good the sound and visuals were and other Churches should definitely get this chap involved in making an online band happen!”

Olly Knight | Worship Team Coordinator at The City Church Canterbury

the city church in canterbury

The City Church approached me after seeing some other churches change up the way they present their online worship on YouTube and Facebook. That’s where the online virtual band was born, a way to bring together different members of a band from their own home during lockdown.

We worked together on a recording schedule, and spent 3 days sending audio and video files back and forth.

The leaders and production team at City were impressed with the quality and the feel of having a full band on screen in their own home. One of them even cried a little from the feeling of community it brought.

We believe that the music recorded across many house holds should still be authentic, so there’s no automation, and no auto-tune used at all! But still achieving a professional sound.

The church loved the results and we’re set to produce a different virtual band every other week for the foreseeable future.

Prayer for Oxford

Matthew Watt, a headteacher in Oxford approached us to edit, mix and produce a 3 minute spoken prayer to air on BBC Radio Oxford this Sunday.

As with most projects of this nature it was a quick turn around!

We were sent over the audio files of 13 different people reading out the whole piece of text, this was then divided up into a couple of sentences each and set to some backing music.

Matthew was impressed with the speed and quality of our work, and it was a pleasure working with him too!

emily watts | live @ the gulbenkian

We worked long side Emily, on her EP launch at Gulbenkian Theatre, in Canterbury.

We looked after the live sound and a multi-track recording of her whole EP which was then mixed and mastered, and is now online with an amazing live video captured by Andrew Francis.

thank you | by, Avi simmons

Since the COVID lockdown many people have supported the NHS, Avi Simmons has written and recorded a song of encouragement for the NHS and carers, which I’ve had the pleasure of mixing and mastering for them.

Caleb Simmons recorded the raw audio, and the video. Steve went through the new ‘no contact mixing process’, over the phone, with plenty of sharing of files over DropBox, it only took a couple of hours, and the sixth mix was the one we went for. Then mix 6 went though our mastering process and we sent that on to Caleb and Sarah.

It’s been great to have the opportunity to work on something that so close to many of our hearts through this time!