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Tom Hackwell Producer

Producer, recording engineer and musician based in Bristol. My diverse skillset means I can operate as a sonic 'one stop shop' for many musical projects.
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I'm a versatile and musical producer/mix and recording engineer and musician, experienced in recording and producing many genres, from hard rock, to folk and much else in between. I work from my own custom recording studio space and also have access to multiple top-quality recording studios in Bristol who afford me preferential rates. Services I provide:

- Recording - anything from demos to full-

length, radio-ready albums.

- Mixing - creating a complete song from recorded 'stems'.

- Production - working alongside the artist to realise/help develop their artistic vision.

- Songwriting / Arranging - working with the artist to make the song/prject the best it can be. I love to work with people who are looking to collaborate with the producer on an artistic level, and who are striving to push sonic boundaries. I firmly believe that it's important to build a record up on strong foundations, and so I aim to meticulously cultivate the right sounds at the source, before anything hits tape. the idea of recording any old thing, with a view to shaping it later, tends to turn me off. Some of my favourite sessions have been with Sylvia Massy, Bite the Buffalo and The St Pierre Snake Invasion. Tracks i've produced/mixed have been played on mainstream radio including BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 6 and have been added to major Spotify editorial playlists. GEAR:

I have collected a large amount of weird and wonderful gear and instruments, including analogue mixers, reel-to-reel tape machines, and pre amps. My arsenal includes:

SOFTWARE

Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton and countless plugins

HARDWARE

CONSOLE

WEM Audiomaster MKII - a nine-channel, all analogue mixer. Great for adding analogue character to any audio signal. Particularly great for warping and distorting drums, guitars, vocals. TAPE

Akai 4000DS 4-track tape recorder

Grundig 4-track tape recorder

OUTBOARD

Sebatron VMP Quad Plus preamps

Audient ASP880 preamps

Golden Age Pre 73 preamp

Focusrite Octopre MKII preamp

Warm Audio WA76 compressor

Focusrite Saffire preamps

Focusrite Scarlett preamps

Great British Spring reverb unit

MICROPHONES

AKG C414

AKG D112 (pair)

AKG D19

Aston Origin

Golden Age FC3

Grundig tape mic

No Hype Audio ribbons (matched pair)

Rode NT1a (pair)

Rode NT55 (pair)

Sabo handheld lofi mic

SE2202T

Shure SM57 (numerous)

Shure SM58 (numerous)

Tannoy ribbon (vintage - extremely rare)

Wasaphone MKII

Wasaphone Signalman

Wasaphone Pipe and Slippers

Wasaphone Big Boy MKII

Western Electrics 630 Eightball

AMPS

Plenty of quirky, all-valve amps including vintage Fender, Budda, Dirty Girl, Supro etc. If you're interested in pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved on a modest budget, please get in touch.

02/11/2023

New Erotic Secrets of Pompeii!

Mixed and produced by moi. Recorded at the wonderful Humm Studios, homeland of Dominic Mitchison.

Epic visuals conceived and recorded under the directorship of Saul Knight!

It's out today! At last! At last! ‘Osiris at the Large Hadron Collider’ 🌌🔥

THIS. IS. OUR. BLOOD. SACRAMENT. TO. YOU. 🩸

YES, YES, YES… and we’re so excited to share it with you 🩸

Stream that little nasty & watch the video through here: https://song.link/osiris

Share it with the person you despise the most as an olive branch, a disfigured dove of peace. It all helps, my sweet! 🦤

Thank you to everyone who has supported us on our planetary voyage into the Egyptian afterlife. Your twisted love means a lot to us! 💀🖤

Recorded at Humm Studios
Produced by Tom Hackwell Producer
Assistant engineering by Brendan Davies
Video directed & edited by Saul Knight

18/07/2023

Bristol musical friends!

Can anyone recommend a good synth repair person/shop in or near our fine city?

10/07/2023

Friends! I'm now accepting mix/production work through the fantastic EngineEars platform.

To get my new profile on the platform off the ground, I'm offering 25% off until mid-August.

To receive the discounted rate, please book using this code:

https://engineears.com/tomhackwell/?promocode=TOMHACKWELLENGINEEARS

22/07/2022

💀🌹🦴 NEW MUSIC OUT SOON 🦴🌹💀

The new Erotic Secrets of Pompeii single, ‘Nemesis Please’ will be out on 19th August, Anno Domini 2022.

This glam-stomping hurricane of a track really might be our best work yet! An unreliable anthem from the mouth of the wise fool, full of signature guitar frizzles and big synth riffs - if you’ve seen us live, you’ll know the song! 💣

Pre- save it here:

https://share.amuse.io/track/erotic-secrets-of-pompeii-nemesis-please

📸/🎨 by Dave Sausin (with the assistance + artful eye of Becky Sausins)

27/05/2022

The day has come!

Thomas Hawtin and I have been twiddling, tweaking and warping in our subterranean lair, crafting the first Faux Hex sounds.

Here is the first track, 'See Bar Ray'. Hope you enjoy it.

FFO: Aphex Twin, Matmos, Nine Inch Nails.

https://ampl.ink/eoRE0

'See Bar Ray' is a song that combines bleak synthetics with raw biological instrumentation to form a brutal listening experience that enters the dark spaces found within the man-made landscape of the city and the mind.

29/04/2022

Really happy to have been asked to soundtrack this short promo by the good folk of Home Aid. They're doing great work for the people of Ukraine and have some wonderful endorsees, including James Acaster.

They urgently need all your support so please get involved if you can.

https://www.uk.givergy.com/HomeAid/?controller=home

31/10/2021

Happy release day to DROOGS - The Happy EP is out now and streaming in all the major places.

It was a real joy to produce this record with these fellas and I'm looking forward to seeing what their future brings!

https://open.spotify.com/album/4jUMzodOXHWR7MvVENHCMS?si=OhIDXKH5Sp29fu35GRGzvw

DROOGS · Ep · 2021 · 7 songs.

30/10/2021

The time is (almost) now!

Feast your ears on the new DROOGS EP - it was a pleasure to produce/mix this.

12 hours to go! Follow the link to pre-save our debut EP and start streaming from midnight.

• Production and mixing by Tom Hackwell Producer and Mark Aubrey
• Additional mixing by Stew Jackson
• Mastered by Sonicmastering
• Artwork by Livi Campbell

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/droogs1/the-happy-ep

29/10/2021

New Release!

Truth Coming Out of Her Well - Erotic Secrets of Pompeii. Really love how this ended up; the music bending around Thomas Hawtin's abstract vocals like a Play-Doh sausage.

Produced by me during our final sessions at Coach House.

Mixed by Sam Blighe / Unlucky XVII Audio

08/10/2021

I'm ecstatic that today, the new record by John E Vistic Rock n' Roll Soundsystem is unleashed unto the world.

Under the Volcano sees Vistic and the band scale to new heights of creative and musical prowess. As producer, it was incredibly liberating to find that John, Dan, Graham and Rob would encourage me to act on my strange little production ideas - the end result is an anthem-filled rock album with some serious depth.

Streaming everywhere, but here's the Spotify link:

https://open.spotify.com/album/6ZmNrOIkzCvPJ5i6dnZ8rW?si=l1go5SXXTOm8mLB-n59Kbg&dl_branch=1

Out today - Under the Volcano, the hell-raising new album from John E Vistic Rock n' Roll Soundsystem.

Stream it everywhere. Tell all your friends. ❤️ new music.

07/10/2021

It was great fun producing this.

Very excited for the world to hear the debut EP from one of Bristol's most exciting bands! ❤️❤️❤️

Stream and Pre-save The Happy EP - Distributed by DistroKid

14/09/2021

Double bassists!

Do I know anyone who would be interested in recording a bit of double bass on a track for an exciting little project Thomas from Erotic Secrets of Pompeii and I are working on?

Compensation likely to be beer-based.

07/09/2021

New release!

Recorded and produced at the beloved Coach House Studio during its final days, and just before all the chaos ensued. This was also the first studio session with the new line up, featuring Alex Auld on drums and Julian Port on bass.

This is Erotic Secrets of Pompeii - In the Cosmic Hour.

https://ampl.ink/pr3RZ

Stream on your favourite service through Amplify.link

22/08/2021

Friday night with Erotic Secrets of Pompeii at the fantabulous The Golden Lion couldn't have been a better way to wake from 19 months of involuntary slumber.

Thanks all who came. Onwards to Zed Alley with The New America and Frances Pylons on 08/09.

20/08/2021

She's restrung and ready to head out for the first time in 18 months with Erotic Secrets of Pompeii at the The Golden Lion this evening.

❤️❤️❤️

23/07/2021

Such a dream to be back playing live. View from the stage at gig #2 of the week with NGAIO at The Loco Klub for Sofar Sounds. Near the tower, beneath the brutal sun.

16/07/2021

New music! Erotic Secrets of Pompeii x Beefywink. Hard hitting vocals and throaty guitars make for a wild and unrelenting ride.

👊NEW SONG OUT TODAY 👊

Listen to 'And Then They Dug Our Graves' - the new collab with Beefywink here: https://ampl.ink/Q0rpr

It was a pleasure and a privilege to work with one of our favourite bands on the Bristol scene right now, especially on a song with such a powerful and important message.

Daizy, Az, K Rush and Robbie provide the battle crys in support of those who have ever felt threatened and unprotected by the status quo - female, trans, non-binary, male, and anyone who has faced injustice no matter race, sexuality or gender. As the song implores, “Who makes our streets safe?”

We, ESOP, back their verbal punches with what we do best - a maelstrom of noisy, hooky, bizarro rock. Solidarity through music.

What a song to work on ✊ We hope you enjoy it. Listen to it now!

📸 @ David "Hot Sauce" Sausins

01/07/2021

My beloved WEM Audiomaster MKII console is back after being modified to have individual track outs and phantom power for each channel, as well as a general service. Rare to start with, she’s quite probably now the only one of her kind in the whole wide world and she sounds SWEET.

16/06/2021

New track from Mumble Tide on which I played lapsteel. Really grateful to be a part of it. ❤️❤️❤️

Choose your preferred music service

29/05/2021

New music! Something Dawning by Lespectre.

Lots of swirling layers, big drums and violins through effects pedals. Was a lot of fun to make and so nice to have it out in the world.

Stream on your favourite service through Amplify.link

21/05/2021

Today in the studio: mixing the upcoming Erotic Secrets of Pompeii X Beefywink collaboration single.

It's sounding as large as Henry VIII after a 2-ton meal of pheasant wrapped in boar.

❤️❤️❤️

13/05/2021

Today the Wem Audiomaster MKII went to visit the electronics fairies in the Somerset wilderness for a series of long-overdue modifications which should, if all goes well, turn her into a fully functioning 9 in/ 9 out recording console.

Alfie was sure to be there to bid her old friend Wemmy goodbye and safe travels.

❤️❤️

30/04/2021

Out today! John E Vistic Rock n' Roll Soundsystem - Loutz

Seems like an age ago that we recorded and mixed this at Coach House and it's been really refreshing to hear it again. Can't wait to see these tracks live!

Stream and Pre-save LOUTZ EP - Distributed by DistroKid

30/04/2021

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Really happy to have been asked to soundtrack this short promo by the good folk of Home Aid. They're doing great work for the people of Ukraine and have some wonderful endorsees, including James Acaster. They urgently need all your support so please get involved if you can. https://www.uk.givergy.com/HomeAid/?controller=home

Today in the studio: mixing the upcoming Erotic Secrets of Pompeii X Beefywink collaboration single. It's sounding as large as Henry VIII after a 2-ton meal of pheasant wrapped in boar. ❤️❤️❤️