Record Producer

Let Producer, Andy Moore, Bring Your Vision to Reality at Big Horse Recordings.

Andy’s experience, attitude and vision for music and its cultural impact gives him the unique ability to partner with musicians in their artistic creation. As a record producer, Andy’s vision is to:

Enter into the creative process with you to develop and capture your sound with high definition equipment.
Discuss music, art, literature, and movies that inspire you to better understand your musical direction and vision.
Give sonic structure to unfinished songs, song starts, abstract ideas and feelings.
Provide real-time objective feedback to your creative process to help realize your musical creations, especially when you are at a creative wall or are facing writer’s block.
Partner with you in your overall musical vision to determine your musical voice, and develop steps toward realization, from songwriting, to instrumentation, recording, performances, and final mixing.

Interview 2021

Daniel: I would come up with an idea and Andy would make it better. For instance, on Carrauntoohil I, it starts out hi-fi and then it disintegrates into lo-fi sound… he put some filters on and made it sound like it was turned into old tape and that led into that Blue fox song and that is almost Neil Young, Tim Buckley kind of in that range. Just ideas like that… those are Andy’s ideas. Like on the song Prisoners – the guitar, the sustained kind of sound; I did the ending solo that has the weird sustained guitar, Andy did the sort of clean rushing guitars. But I hit a few clankers and Andy liked it. He liked the dissonance. Reminded him of Brian Eno. But what he did was he took a pitch correct and hard corrected it and it sort of gave it a robotic kind of – and we use digital delay on that solo – so it kind of had a real biting sort of sound. But anyway that was his idea. Things like that like panning hard left, hard right. He’s a genius kind of producer.

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Azy: So shifting back to your music, your sound, No two tracks are the same and you kind of flow freely from this more electronic and synth laden tracks to these more pared down acoustic ones and it really is such a range and you were talking before about how you have all of these neat production things that Andy does so then why have the pared down acoustic tracks along side that kind of really interesting experimentation. Not that the acoustic tracks aren’t interesting.. they are too. It’s just a lot going on in a single album.

Andy: I think it’s kind of a relief sometimes like if we were to do that kind of heavy electronics the whole time it might get tiring as a listener, but I think part of it was what serves this song and where is this song going and that is where we started and it almost all started acoustic and we started adding things and taking out the acoustic parts on a lot of it and that’s kind of how each song evolved and I think we’re just trying to keep our expectations loose and see how the song feels.

For instance Carrauntoohil II the last song on the album.. at one point it sounded like it could have been on U2’s War album, just a really driving punk rock song and it had a little bit of atmosphere, a little bit of delay and reverb going and I remember coming back to the studio the next day and Daniel was like ‘This isn’t it. this isn’t what this song is supposed to feel like’. We went back to the drawing board and we changed the chord structure and lyrics and we changed a lot of it and we came up with a new sound. And to me it’s one of my favorite songs on the album and I don’t know if it’s because we rewrote it together or if it’s because.. I do like what it’s about so it could be that to. The vision for the album as a whole was to just have it loaded with a bunch of really strong songs and not necessarily to have one distinct sound the whole time.

Azy: I hope you guys keep doing that going forward because it makes it really interesting to listen to and it comes out exactly how you describe.. what you put into it, which doesn’t always happen. That’s really interesting that we do get a true half of the picture for it.