FEATURE STUDIO PROFILE Dean St. for Corey Fox-Fardell
Corey Fox-Fardell is a 19-year-old singer songwriter who started writing when he was 14. Austen Jux-Chandler runs us through To Be With You, a song that builds on the success of Fox-Fardell’s plays on Radio 1 and 6 Music.
How did the project come about?
Corey was interning for us. He was doing general odds and sods that any intern would get involved with; cleaning, making teas, getting sandwiches, all the usual kind of things. Towards the end of his three-week stint he played me his EP and I was pretty blown away by the standard of songwriting. He let me know he had been to BRIT School, but he’s also just been sent on a songwriter’s bootcamp in Nashville that is sponsored by PRS. As payment for the internship we gave him a day in the studio.
You’re helping him develop a more refined sound?
After his initial ideas, we tracked the acoustic guitars, lead vocals, and backing vocals. Ten I took that all away for a bit and worked on a few production ideas, cutting up loops and samples etc. Ten we came back into the studio again to add live drums and electric guitar and replace the synth bass with a real one.
How did you find an interesting sound for the acoustic guitar? What special challenges did it present?
I suppose the timing of things; Corey likes to incorporate a lot of samples and loops so trying to get a natural performance against that sort of rigidity was hard. I had to find the right tempo that worked for the song naturally, with just him and a guitar, then make sure that all the samples were set to that before he recorded. It ended up quite a lot faster than he had it originally but to be fair, he nailed it!
I kept a Neumann U 87 Ai as a control, so that was an AMS Neve 1073 and a Universal Audio LA-2A. Aside from that I also had this weird Sony flat mic, which is actually something that you would plug into a phone. Tere was also an old Sanyo mini tape recorder to try and get a bit of character into it. Tat’s a little tip that Tom Upex the studio assistant picked up from working with Jim Abiss when Peace were in. Tey’re new toys that are floating around the studio so I chucked them in to see if it was worth having them.
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