WCA #602 with Luke Burgoyne – Seven Years Assisting a Top UK Mixer, Mix Prep, and Going Solo in London
About this episode
Matt interviews mix engineer Luke Burgoyne about his journey from assisting a top UK mixer to starting his own career in London.
For episode 602, Matt talks with London mix engineer Luke Burgoyne, who joins from his room at Pony Studios in East London. Luke grew up in Winchester with two violinist parents, fell for the studio side of music at sixteen, and studied performance and recording at the University of West London before spending the last seven years assisting one of the UK's busiest mixers, Dan Grech-Marguerat (Lana Del Rey, The Killers, Liam Gallagher, George Ezra). Now he's transitioning into his own career as a mixer and producer. They get into the realities of high-level mix prep, what seven years of assisting actually teaches you, why UK managers tend to bring in work in a way American managers often don't, sharing expensive London rooms, his skeptical take on Atmos, and the differences between the UK and US recording ecosystems. In This Episode, We Discuss: Growing Up in Winchester With Two Violinist Parents From the Beatles and Guitar to the Pull of the Studio Why It Was Always About the Music, Not the Technology Studying Performance and Recording at the University of West London Realizing He'd Rather Record Great Players Than Compete With Them Cold-Emailing Abbey Road, RAK, and Getting No…
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