Tchad Blake

Tchad Blake

  • The Arctic Monkeys
  • The Black Keys
  • Tom Waits
  • Sheryl Crow
  • Suzanne Vega
  • Elvis Costello
  • Peter Gabriel
  • The Dandy Warhols

Bio

Tchad Blake has an impressive discography, having worked with numerous artists and musicians, including Arctic Monkeys, State Radio, Apartment 26, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel, Pearl Jam, Tom Waits, Sheryl Crow, Crowded House, Tracy Chapman, The Dandy Warhols, The Black Keys, U2, and The Pretenders, amongst many others. Blake to date has won five Grammy Awards, including Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical and Best Rock Album for Sheryl Crow's The Globe Sessions (1998), Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for his work on Suzanne Vega's Beauty & Crime (2007), and two Grammys for his work with The Black Keys on 2010's Brothers. He is well known in the industry for creating original sonic textures (often with unorthodox gear, such as everyday objects like wooden pipes, metal cans, and cardboard boxes), and constantly shifting mixes, as well as his use of binaural recording, resulting in the unique sound his name connotes.

Although Blake made his name by pushing the sonic limits of the analogue domain, since 2005, he has worked almost entirely in the box. He has a Pro Tools HD rig with an Icon D Control, plus a choice selection of loads of guitar pedals and a few pieces of outboard. Blake comments, “I’m 99.8% in the box now, as opposed to mixing off tape through a vintage API console at The Sound Factory or the very large SSL at Real World Studios in the past. The 0.2% represents instruments I add or pedal-style effects I use.”

Tchad Blake

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Webinars

Tchad Blake
We are excited to launch a new kind of online masterclass! You'll have the opportunity to participate in special day-long webinars with the producers & engineers part of the MWTM program. For this second session, join Grammy-winning mix engineer Tchad Blake for an exceptional one-day webinar! ...

Tchad Blake
FREE FOR EVERYONE - Join engineers Tchad Blake & Andrew Scheps for an informal conversation with special guest, author Bella Bathurst & astrophysicist Adam Samuels! Some questions taken from the audience during the second half.

Tchad Blake
Join mixer Tchad Blake for an exclusive webinar during which he will go over his mixing approach and philosophy and answer all questions you may have about his workflow and techniques.

Tchad Blake
Join Grammy-winning mixer Tchad Blake for an exclusive webinar during which he will go over his mixing approach and philosophy and answer all questions you may have about his workflow and techniques.

Tchad Blake
Join Grammy-winning mixer Tchad Blake for an exclusive webinar during which he will go over his mixing approach and philosophy and answer all questions you may have about his workflow and techniques.

Events

Seminar with Tchad Blake


Masterclass with Tchad Blake


Seminar with Tchad Blake


Seminar with Tchad Blake


Masterclass with Tchad Blake


Seminar with Tchad Blake


Masterclass with Tchad Blake


Seminar with Tchad Blake


Seminar with Tchad Blake


Seminar with Tchad Blake


Seminar with Tchad Blake


Seminar with Tchad Blake


Seminar with Tchad Blake


Seminar with Tchad Blake


Seminar with Tchad Blake