Record production

'Music doesn't get more exciting than this.'

The Boston Globe

Jim's eclectic background in commercial, folk, art, and electronic music gives him the unique ability to work with artists in conventional genres such as folk, pop, and rock as well as with new generation artists who cross musical boundaries.

He has produced more than 80 Albums covering a wide range of genre as well as film and TV score recordings.

Jim is well known for his unorthodox approach to production and brings out the best in a project, whether using his sophisticated, hi-tech programming skills or his legendary one microphone technique for recording.

Jim works closely with…

Jim's legendary single microphone recording technique as used on Aberfeldy's widely aclaimed debut album 'Young Forever'

writers, developing structures, inspiring new ideas, building tracks and encouraging them to fulfill their potential
vocalists, recording complex, intricate and subtle performances
musicians, motivating them to explore the boundaries of their performance.

He combines his musical experience and programming skills to integrate all the aspects of great songwriting and performance with technology and cutting edge arrangements.

'Recent years have seen a revival in back-to-basics recording techniques, but few engineers or producers have taken things as far as Jim Sutherland did with Edinburgh folk-pop band Aberfeldy!'
Sound on Sound Magazine - see full, 5 page article here

'Really imaginatively done, interesting production!'

Ricky Ross-BBC Radio Scotland

'Oh-so-irresistable.'

Billboard

'The recording of your dreams, intelligently mixed, energetic and precise.'

Dirty Linen

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