A conversation with Producer and Mixing engineer Tony Platt, responsible for the engineering behind the biggest selling Rock album of all time AC/DC’s ‘Back in Black’ and Bob Marley’s ‘Catch A Fire’ album. Tony will be offering feedback on students’ recordings and answering their questions on specific points about music production.
Platt’s career started at Trident Studios in London and eventually became an engineer at Island Studios. Working his way from assistant engineer on sessions with the likes of Traffic, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin[3] he started to engineer on sessions with Free, Sutherland Brothers, Paul McCartney, Jess Roden and Mott the Hoople. He went on to engineer the Catch a Fire and Burnin’ albums for Jamaican artist Bob Marley which, it is claimed, would launch reggae music into the mainstream.
Having recorded demos for Thin Lizzy and the Stranglers, he became an engineer for legendary producer Mutt Lange. With Lange he worked on the AC/DC albums Highway to Hell and Back in Black, and the Foreigner album 4. On his own he engineered and produced the work of artists such as Krokus, Motörhead, Gary Moore, Cheap Trick, the Cult, Testament and Marillion.
Check out his full discography: https://www.platinumtones.com/styled/
See you there!
