We popped by the home and studio of multi-platinum selling producer, songwriter and artist Fred Cox at his London studio to see what he is doing and what he is using!
A bright open space drastically differs to Fred’s old studio, which had its own unique vibe, but was in stark contrast to what we find in east London’s trendy Shoreditch. Bright white walls, big windows allowing light to venture inside and of course, a plethora of instruments and equipment to help assist Fred when capturing and creating his work and talent.
The world of music I’m creating has live instruments in the forefront, manipulating them to create emotional textures, fitting somewhere inside the FUTURE-SOUL space.
Recording guitar and bass is an essential part of my music production. Having gorgeous clean tones ready to go on my L5 is now such an important writing tool! The addition of the Digbeth bass pedal has already become the way I will record bass.
I’m currently working on the production and writing of Paloma Faith’s 6th studio album, and we are going pretty hard and rocky at times, so being able to quickly dial in tones really helps me keep the pace in writing sessions.
The L5 guitar head has been on everything I’ve done the last couple of years. I’ve been closely working with “Pip Millett”, a new signing to “Dream Life/ Sony”. I have 5 songs coming out on her first album on October 21st that I’ve produced, every guitar is with my L5 head!
I’ve been fortunate to have been working with a bunch of cool artists this last year, including chart toppers Tom Grennan and Sam Ryder, the latter of which is dropping his first album too in November with one of songs on it too.
A really guitar focused song I’ve had out this year is with London artist James Vickery. His single “the reason” starts off with a guitar solo I played, and you know it’s through the Laney rig!! This song has “The Secret Path” reverb on too, so it really sings!!
You can check out more of Fred’s work on his Spotify playlist below, and be sure to check out his socials too for regular updates.
Spotify Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3zAMEqYNN5QrMdMjQtXX1m?si=bnVVMIv8RPyMh4ZGK32cJw
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