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Services

Other than as a Performer and DJ my services are also available for hire on occasions in various other areas.

You will not see a large list of previous clients; on the whole I do not advertise these services or go looking for work. Most of the jobs I have taken on have been the result of people seeing/hearing the work I have previously done (usually on my own projects) and asking me if I can do the same for them. Sometimes this will be people who are already clients for other services.

If you do decide to use me for one of these tasks it is likely to be for one of 2 reasons: that you like what I do - the colours and mood that are present in both my musical and visual work, or that you have heard from someone else I have done work for that I take great effort to get into the head of the 'client' and have a bit of a knack for doing just that.

I do not usually have a fixed rate for any of these jobs. Whether I take a job may depend on my enthusiasm for the project concerned, and this may also affect my price. However, for a job which stirs my interest my prices are likely to be below the 'going rate'.
To discuss any of the following please email me at pete@peteardron.com, preferably with a phone number, and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Mastering

Clients have included Jazzie B and Onyx Ashanti (SoulIISoul), Archangel Recordings, Kris Darang (for Notion magazine), Blackmarc Productions, BudaBless Productions.
I have mastered all my own projects since Glow, up to and including CD1 (but not CD2) of Orchid-Star Birth//reBirth on Liquid Sound

Whilst I usually prefer to meet the client first this can be done without, preferably from wav files or audio CD but in exceptional circumstances I have mastered from high quality mp3s, though I would not really recommend this for release

Remixing

Clients have included Archangel Recordings - Kwali Lox and Phoenix Rose and at the time of writing I am working on 5 remixes for Martin Russell's (AfroCelt SoundSystem) new project with Dorothee Munyaneza

Co-Writing/Arranging/Production

I have put these together as there are no firm dividing lines from one to another, and wherever it starts it usually proceeds through to the final product.

By co-writing I am not talking about working with a writing 'partner' in the way I might within a band situation, but where, even if 95% of the creative work has come from me, the aim is entirely to produce something that the client feels is 'their' music, not mine.
I have worked in situations from that above, where only the bearest skeleton of an idea is provided through situations where I am producing work for someone but am also required my own colour to the keyborads etc. to pure production, where the artist already knows exactly what the final result should sound like and merely requires my to make that happen.

Web design

This one of course!


www.orchidstar.info
www.pinkhampster.com
www.sopex.co.uk
www.ottband.co.uk
www.glow.cx
www.dennisjustdennis.com

Graphic Design

CD Covers


Other artists:

Complete, full-scale pdf samples of some of these covers may be provided on request

Video editing/production

This is a new area for me but immediately after doing my first video - for Orchid-Star's "Passion" - I was asked to edit and produce (from previously filmed footage) the video for the O.T.T. Band's "Don't Know"