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Hugh Gregory Waldock

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Hugh Gregory Waldock is a pianist & composer with vocal talent, who started life as a Chorister at Ipswich School & Widford Lodge Boys Choir in Chelmsford UK. He won 3 of his accolades studying at Ipswich School including the Senior Singing Cup in 1995. His choral repertoire boasts 26 Oratorios, 3 Operas, 1 musical & 1 set of Part Songs as well as 4 recordings; 1 having been for the BBC & 1 for Hyperion Records in 1995 and 1998 respectively. He is an alumnus of GSMD and HfM Cologne Wuppertal Campus but did not study to the end at either conservatoire. He left Cologne with a 2nd Study Piano Certificate from Jan Ehnes, & then practised alone for 10 years & won a Special Mention from LCMC in 2021, for III Rondo from Sonata Facile by Mozart, & an Honourable Mention from BIMC & an Honor Prize from Euterpe music Awards 2022 for concert piano solo. He studies production at HOFA College, Mannheim where he won 2 further jury prizes there in songwriting & production in 2021 and 2022. Hugh has 10 accolades in performing arts in total. He is currently in the 2022 LCMC final. He plays violin, but not seriously. Hugh passed an Oxford Uni Short Course in Musical Analysis with Jonathan Darnbrough in 2023 & a GSMD Short Course in Film Music Composition for Beginners in 2022 with Barbara DI Biasi. He is a HOFA Audio Assistant (in professional mixing) on the old V2 syllabus. Starting the new V3 course he has a 70% average in 9 music production theory exams since last December and is doing well.

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Having used it to produce these two videos. I felt the mic was ideal for processing the sound of my electric piano. As a trainee producer it allows the instruments to sit nicely in the background with a mellow tone that blends well in the mix. In the first video, it's me playing the keys in a piece of modern Classical music I wrote as a score in a conventional way and then recorded live with the mic used on it's own as a solo mic. I then added a bit of production. It is quite a sensitive mic so I recommend a hard PAD switch to reduce the line input by at least 15 dB to reduce the danger of clipping. It's large diaphragm means that it is probably best used not in a front room by a road because it does tend to pick up ambience from outside.In the second recording I have processed my Christian rock song in the DAW or home studio and used the mic in combination with another mic the Shure SM58 Dynamic Cardiod mic. These two work in perfect combination allowing the keys that were recorded with the TZX2 to sit perfectly behind the vocals whilst the combination mic gives the vocals the attack at the front of the mix. So, it is perfect for use both in combination and multi miking and as a solo mic. I just used the overdub technique recording the vocals over the backing one after the other. It don't have 2 XLR cables right now but I'd like to use them in combination on the vocals next time having my Shure SM58 as a spot and the X2 as the room mic. I'm sure that would produce an ideal combination of sound to consider experimenting with in the future.