Recorded at Dean St., JoJo performs ‘Thinking Out Loud’ live on That Grape Juice’s ‘The Splash’.
JoJo – Thinking Out Loud
Jan 3, 2019
Recorded at Dean St., JoJo performs ‘Thinking Out Loud’ live on That Grape Juice’s ‘The Splash’.
With over 20 years of experience, Jan ‘Stan’ Kybert has worked with the greats to mix, engineer and produce music that combines experience, experimentalism and intuition. As engineer to Mark ‘Spike’ Stent, Kybert worked with the likes of Björk, Massive Attack and Oasis, including on their 2000 album Standing On The Shoulders of Giants.
At Wheeler End Studio whilst working as Oasis’ inhouse engineer, Kybert was introduced to Paul Weller and has gone on to engineer and co-produce every one of Weller’s albums, including the most recent Official UK number 1 album Fat Pop. From New Order and The Prodigy to Unkle and The Draytones, Kybert has employed his deep understanding and respect for sound to deliver inspired production and mixes that transcend genre.
As creative director and head Atmos Music mixer, Kybert now leads the UK’s immersive sound technology revolution representing Dean St Studios and Auraferix in changing the way people experience music forever. It is through his care and attention that Auraferix has become the immersive sound creators of choice for some of the world’s top creators including The Foo Fighters, Bastille and Fraser T Smith.
Created through collaboration with Dean St Studios, Veale Associates, Dolby and PMC speakers, our reference-level, statement Atmos music is the first of its kind in the UK. Made up of PMC’s flagship IB2S XBD-A active monitors covering left, centre and right main channels, discrete wafers for the surround and heights, and four sub2 subwoofers fulfilling the LFE. Due to its almost limitless headroom, power capabilities, pin-point accuracy and sonic fidelity our Auraferix suite is now recognised by Dolby, Universal Music Group and others as the template for Dolby Atmos Music mixing.
By designing a monitoring system that goes above and beyond the standard Dolby requirements, and coupled with PMC’s renowned Advance Transmission Line (ATL) technology, we have created a system for Dolby Atmos Music creation that delivers audio at a higher calibre to others before it and are able to respectfully, and easily, reproduce all genres of music consistently at all levels.
All of our mixes meet the highest quality control standards and comply with industry guidelines.
Where needed we ensure tracks are appropriately pre-mixed. Pre-mixing is to prepare the supplied audio files for Atmos and is an important stage of the process. All mixes include 1 hour of pre-mixing.
All mixes will contain an Atmos, 7.1, 5.1 & binaural headphone version which meet loudness requirements of -18LUFS as recommended by Dolby and UMG.
Once the mix is completed, we will provide you with an Atmos master ADM file for delivery to Amazon Music, Apple Music and Tidal for encoding.
After leaving Metropolis he went on to work as a freelance assistant on projects around the globe, orchestral editing for several feature films internationally, in addition to editing a series of vocal projects across Europe.
Eventually finding his way to Dean St Studios as a freelance assistant in late 2020, we have quickly adopted him as one of our own – and Joe has proven himself an invaluable asset to any session he is involved in.
This varied experience has led Joe to work with a wide selection of clients, from artists like Skepta and Jorja Smith, to Boy George. He has also worked on multiple Burna Boy tracks, most notably the GRAMMY-nominated album, ‘African Giant’.
Since returning to Dean Street in August 2020, he has picked up right where he left off, working on sessions for Headie One, Burna Boy, London Grammar and Marc Almond. Mixing his knowledge of the studio’s inner workings with a half-decade long study into Soho’s food culture, Charlie is invariably ready on session to either facilitate a mic change and fresh signal chain, or to proffer an enticing lunch choice from the area’s bounty of restaurants and shops.
Often to be found discussing his love for DIY audio equipment (see the Pultec and 1176 currently in Studio 1), Charlie is at his best furiously debating Motown drum sounds, pursuing a bordering-on-the-obsessive love for recording to tape, and weaponising English Literature recitals for unorthodox mic checks.
It was at the legendary RAK Studios that Rob got his start in the music industry before becoming the sole engineer for double-platinum selling, award winning artists, Chase & Status and their label imprint MTA Records. During his time with the duo he engineered for a host of clients including Nile Rodgers, Rihanna, Craig David, Emili Sandé, Stormzy, Pusha T, Blossoms and Slaves. Rob then began working with Plan B where he engineered and co-produced tracks for his fourth album ‘Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose’ which achieved widespread critical acclaim and was a Top 5 hit in the UK charts. Rob has since worked with a wide variety of top London recording studios, engineering tracks for artists including Jay-Z, Little Mix, Kylie Minogue, James Bay, Sir Tom Jones Young Thug, DJ Snake, Future, MF Doom, Ray BLK, Machine Gun Kelly, Jools Holland, Tom Grennan, Jacob Banks, Sub Focus and Laura White.
Head Engineer
Having started at Dean St in 2012 Jonny has quickly progressed to become head engineer. Since then he has been involved in engineering a variety of projects. Ranging from chart topping albums to feature film soundtracks.
Rarely seen without her phone in her hand, Ella is in charge of all our social media channels. With a background in Digital Marketing, she knows her stuff and will be sharing all the best that Dean St. Studios has to offer.
In the few moments when she has doesn’t have her eyes glued to her phone or laptop, she’ll be found spending too much money in a comic book shop (“But it’s a variant cover, I must have it”), or pondering why her Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry letter never made it to her (“Clearly the owl was having a bad day”).
Front of House
We searched far and wide to find the greatest person to begin your time spent with Dean St. Studios. Hailing from New York City, Emma is a recent Media Management graduate who has only just moved to London. What better place to learn more about the city than in the middle of Soho, as part of the Dean St. Team!
With a background in television production, as well having co-hosted a radio show, she’s no newbie when it comes to the Arts and in her spare time you can either find her getting her fill of all the incredible live music that London has to offer, or catching up on the latest release at the cinema.
Director
During 30 years wide-ranging experience in the music business, Suzanne has managed top bands, booked concert tours, co-ordinated with promoters, negotiated major record deals, interpreted contracts and gained an outstanding reputation as a dynamic and trustworthy organiser.
Suzanne is currently the music director for THE SILVERSTONE CLASSIC. She was the music director for HARLEY-DAVIDSON HOG (Harley Owner Group) 2005-2015, putting on rally events and concerts all over Europe.
Her network of contacts is vast, from artists, managers, agents and promoters to broadcasters, radio DJ’s, journalists and writers. Suzanne is one of the most knowledgeable and respected figures in the UK music industry today.
Gareth started his design career in London some 20 plus years ago, cutting his teeth in the industry and progressing onto senior roles for multiple agencies, specialising in brand and digital design. Gareth has worked with brands such as Visa/CyberSource, Railtrack, Lexus Nexus/Axxia, Costa Coffee, and clients in many sectors, all great projects, but many highlights. One such highlight along the way was the opportunity to work alongside the creative team at Apple at the Apple Creative Jam. Two designers from each country around the globe were selected to collaborate together in Paris alongside the world’s top creatives, Disney, Pixar, AMX Studio to name just a few. The platform, the Apple Expo, presented by none other than Steve Jobs!
Founded on his passion and experience Gareth established the agency, EngageConvert in Berkshire, building a team of talented creatives that service both international and global clients.
As Dean St Studio’s brand guardian, Gareth and his team are responsible for the visual language and brand communication that represents what Gareth describes as a “very special studio”, “one of true authenticity and passion”. He describes Dean St Studios as an “experience” not just a music studio.
Our resident Bulldog Accountant. No numbers can escape her mighty paws!
The genius that is Simon Saywood brings Analoguetube to Dean Street studios. Analoguetube’s mission has always been to build life back to products that have for many years been unavailable. With a unique emphasis on manufacturing that focuses workmanship, attention to detail and an open ended commitment to customer satisfaction we believe that once you own Analoguetube products you own them for life. How lucky are we to have this man under our roof! Learn more from the Analoguetube page.
As a recent graduate of the Abbey Road Institute with an Advanced Diploma and Production and Engineering, Rebekah has already gained a lot of experience with new and developing artists and producers. She has also spent time interning at Studio 301 in Australia, as well as writing and producing her own music.
Managing Director
Jasmin (‘Jazz’) is the daughter of Alvin Lee from ‘Ten Years After’. She grew up in studios and started running the family business with her mother which included residential recording studios Hook End and Wheeler End.
From 1997 to 2006, Oasis were in residence at their Wheeler End Studio and in 2000 she joined Noel’s record company Big Brother Recordings and started managing bands in 2001.
She is now based out of her current company Dean St. Studios (started in 2007) that integrates all of her resources and experience of the last 18 years.
From a young age Gio’s love of bands like The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix got him playing in bands in his native Italy. After attending the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome, majoring in Guitar and Arrangement. In 2012 he toured his band Shambhala across Europe and Australia before finding work in New Zealand and Italy as a session guitarist. When his band decided to move to London in 2015 he decided to take course in sound engineering at SAE. Gio loves to distort amplifiers, build pedal effects and record drums. Gio was raised in a rural area and sadly contracted an interest for Kayaking.
Studio Assistant
Having recently graduated with a degree in Music Technology, Jack is the newest member of our team.
Over the past three years, he has gained experience recording in different studios with a wide range of artists.
He has helped us out on sessions with Take That, Charlie XCX, Femi Kuti and Jade Bird.
Moving from Lisbon to London to pursue a career in music, Ricardo gained experience working in a production studio, in Soho, as an Assistant Engineer and Freelance Producer. Recently he started at Dean St Studios as an Assistant Engineer, having assisted sessions for world class artists and engineers.