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About 

Roy is a mix engineer, producer and vocal specialist based on the UK's south coast, offering vocal production, mixing and tutoring backed by over 30 years of industry experience.

Working from a 32 I/O Pro Tools - Apogee system in a dedicated production room, Roy brings the same engineering values honed across three decades in some of the UK's most respected studios to every project, whatever the style or scale.

Roy holds a Masters in the Production of Popular Music from Kingston University, aswell as mixing and mastering professionally he now lectures and mentors with ThinkSpace Education (online masters degree) and The Ivors Academy. He has priviously tutored at Bournemouth Academy of Modern Music (BAMM) and guest lectured at Bristol dBs, Bournemouth and Plymouth Universities.

A career built in the studio

Roy started assisting in 1991 at Hot Nights Studios in Fulham, London, learning studio etiquette from ex-CBS engineer Graham Dixon and producer Grant Mitchell. After 18 months he followed studio manager Sarah Partridge to Berwick St Studios in Soho, where he learnt his programming and engineering skills, focussing mainly on urban music.

In 1995 he moved to Jamaica with the same company, recording and mixing two albums for their in-house label and also worked with UK and US artists and producers as the commercial studio engineer. From there he spent three months at Mystic Studios in NYC before returning to the UK.

In 1997 Roy began working with Emily Taylor (Home Management) as a freelance engineer, then in 1999 became in-house engineer at the Dairy Studios in Brixton. Now, with credits contributing to around 10 million record sales and over a billion streams, he works completely independently writing, producing and engineering with a wide range of artists and producers across many styles.

Equipment List

Digital

 

Ableton Live 11

Ableton Push 2

Apogee Symphony Mk II

32 I/O

Axiom 49 controller keyboard
Emagic AMT 8 MIDI interface
MPC 3000 + 250 ZIP Drive

Pro Tools Ultimate
Roland SH-01A

 

Analogue

Audioscape Opto Comp

Avalon 747 Compressor/EQ

DBX160X

Distressor EL8-X (Pair)

Manley Elop+ 

Manley Vari Mu

Neve 1073 DPA Mic pre

Phoenix N16 Summing mixer
Smart Research C2

Urei LA-4
Valley people Dynamite limiter

Wes Audio Beta76

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Moog Minitaur

Neumann U87i
AKG D19
STC 4021

Plug-ins

Waves

Plugin Alliance
Sound Toys V5 Bundle
Fabfilter total bundle

Sonnox Inflator

SoundID Ref 4
McDSP bundle
Melodyne 5 Studio
Vocalign
Valhalla Room/Vintage Verb
Arturia V Collection
NI Komplete 8
Philharmonik 2
…Plus more.

Monitors

ATC SCM25A
Yamaha NS10m/Crown DC-300
Adam - A7

Avantone Mix Cubes

Sennheiser HD 650

Roy

Merchant

© 2026 by Roy Merchant.

Over 30 years in music production, recording and mixing, offering the highest quality engineering.
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