DEAN ST - Key Persons
With over 20 years of experience, Jan ‘Stan' Kybert has worked with the greats to mix, engineer and produce music that combines experience, experimentalism and intuition. As engineer to Mark ‘Spike' Stent, Kybert worked with the likes of Björk, Massive Attack and Oasis, including on their 2000 album Standing On The Shoulders of Giants.
At Wheeler End Studio whilst working as Oasis' inhouse engineer, Kybert was introduced to Paul Weller and has gone on to engineer and co-produce every one of Weller's albums, including the most recent Official UK number 1 album Fat Pop. From New Order and The Prodigy to Unkle and The Draytones, Kybert has employed his deep understanding and respect for sound to deliver inspired production and mixes that transcend genre.
As creative director and head Atmos Music mixer, Kybert now leads the UK's immersive sound technology revolution representing Dean St Studios and Auraferix in changing the way people experience music forever. It is through his care and attention that Auraferix has become the immersive sound creators of choice for some of the world's top creators including The Foo Fighters, Bastille and Fraser T Smith.
Charlie first came to us in 2015 on a work experience placement, which quickly turned into a year's internship - assisting on sessions with artists including Take That, Nicole Scherzinger, and UB40 - before leaving for university.
Since returning to Dean Street in August 2020, he has picked up right where he left off, working on sessions for Headie One, Burna Boy, London Grammar and Marc Almond. Mixing his knowledge of the studio's inner workings with a half-decade long study into Soho's food culture, Charlie is invariably ready on session to either facilitate a mic change and fresh signal chain, or to proffer an enticing lunch choice from the area's bounty of restaurants and shops.
Often to be found discussing his love for DIY audio equipment (see the Pultec and 1176 currently in Studio 1), Charlie is at his best furiously debating Motown drum sounds, pursuing a bordering-on-the-obsessive love for recording to tape, and weaponising English Literature recitals for unorthodox mic checks.
Charlie Russell is a successful producer, mixer, and songwriter. Most recent records include the new Wargasm album for Republic/Universal and 5B Management. He has mixed the latest Vukovi album which won this year's best production at The Heavy Music Awards at Wembley Arena. This years other projects include, DeathbyRomy, Ho99o9, Dust Coda (No.1 UK Rock Album), Harpy, Bambie Thug, and Cody Frost.
Charlie studied under the tutelage of acclaimed Trevor Horn. He began his career at Sarm Studios in Notting Hill, London, working on albums across a broad spectrum of genres, including superstars such as George Michael, Madonna and Ian Brown. It was during this period he also worked extensively with Horn, programming and engineering on The Seal V album amongst others.
He has since gone on to produce and/or mix for Alt-J, OK Go, Dead!, The Duke Spirit, Liam Gallagher, James Arthur, Passenger, Rhys Lewis, Black Sabbath, Kasabian, Rayland Baxter and Jake Bugg. Charlie has traveled the globe with his music, recording in many major studios around the world, including Abbey Road, British Grove and Sarm Hook End (UK) Electric Lady and Quad (NY) Omni, Blackbird and Ocean Way (Nashville) and will be spending more time in Los Angeles continuing to write and produce with Wargasm, amongst others.
Rarely seen without her phone in her hand, Ella is in charge of all our social media channels. With a background in Digital Marketing, she knows her stuff and will be sharing all the best that Dean St. Studios has to offer.
In the few moments when she has doesn't have her eyes glued to her phone or laptop, she'll be found spending too much money in a comic book shop ("But it's a variant cover, I must have it"), or pondering why her Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry letter never made it to her ("Clearly the owl was having a bad day").
We searched far and wide to find the greatest person to begin your time spent with Dean St. Studios. Hailing from New York City, Emma is a recent Media Management graduate who has only just moved to London. What better place to learn more about the city than in the middle of Soho, as part of the Dean St. Team! With a background in television production, as well having co-hosted a radio show, she's no newbie when it comes to the Arts and in her spare time you can either find her getting her fill of all the incredible live music that London has to offer, or catching up on the latest release at the cinema.
Gareth started his design career in London some 20 plus years ago, cutting his teeth in the industry and progressing onto senior roles for multiple agencies, specialising in brand and digital design. Gareth has worked with brands such as Visa/CyberSource, Railtrack, Lexus Nexus/Axxia, Costa Coffee, and clients in many sectors, all great projects, but many highlights. One such highlight along the way was the opportunity to work alongside the creative team at Apple at the Apple Creative Jam. Two designers from each country around the globe were selected to collaborate together in Paris alongside the world's top creatives, Disney, Pixar, AMX Studio to name just a few. The platform, the Apple Expo, presented by none other than Steve Jobs!
Founded on his passion and experience Gareth established the agency, EngageConvert in Berkshire, building a team of talented creatives that service both international and global clients.
As Dean St Studio's brand guardian, Gareth and his team are responsible for the visual language and brand communication that represents what Gareth describes as a "very special studio", "one of true authenticity and passion". He describes Dean St Studios as an "experience" not just a music studio.
From a young age Gio's love of bands like The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix got him playing in bands in his native Italy. After attending the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome, majoring in Guitar and Arrangement. In 2012 he toured his band Shambhala across Europe and Australia before finding work in New Zealand and Italy as a session guitarist. When his band decided to move to London in 2015 he decided to take course in sound engineering at SAE. Gio loves to distort amplifiers, build pedal effects and record drums. Gio was raised in a rural area and sadly contracted an interest for Kayaking.
Job Titles:
- Member of Our Team
- Studio Assistant
Having recently graduated with a degree in Music Technology, Jack is the newest member of our team.
Over the past three years, he has gained experience recording in different studios with a wide range of artists.
He has helped us out on sessions with Take That, Charlie XCX, Femi Kuti and Jade Bird.
Job Titles:
- Dolby Atmos Mixing & Mastering Engineer
With over a decade in audio engineering, specialising in immersive music production, mixing, and mastering, Jake honed his craft at Dolby for 7.5 years. Collaborating with industry giants like Craig Leon, Brian Eno, William Orbit, and SBTRKT, he's mixed and mastered hundreds of Dolby Atmos tracks, making him one of the UK's most experienced immersive mixers.
Additionally, he had the honour of being nominated for a Grammy for his work with Steven Wilson on his album "The Future Bites."
As a Dolby Atmos Mixing & Mastering Engineer, Jake specialises in creating immersive audio mixes and delivering top-quality masters for a diverse range of projects for streaming, Blu-ray or Theatrical release. Leveraging his expertise in Dolby Atmos technology, he collaborates closely with artists, producers, and directors to bring their creative visions to life.
Now based at Dean St Studios, boasting one of the best Atmos rooms in the UK, he's ready to deliver top-tier audio experiences across all genres.
Jasmin (‘Jazz') is the daughter of Alvin Lee from ‘Ten Years After'. She grew up in studios and started running the family business with her mother which included residential recording studios Hook End and Wheeler End.
From 1997 to 2006, Oasis were in residence at their Wheeler End Studio and in 2000 she joined Noel's record company Big Brother Recordings and started managing bands in 2001.
She is now based out of her current company Dean St. Studios (started in 2007) that integrates all of her resources and experience of the last 18 years.
Joe began his career at Metropolis Studios, gaining the valuable skills needed to provide a professional studio experience. Working his way up from interning during his studies, he became a full-time Runner - as well as assisting on a number of sessions whenever the opportunity presented itself.
After leaving Metropolis he went on to work as a freelance assistant on projects around the globe, orchestral editing for several feature films internationally, in addition to editing a series of vocal projects across Europe.
Eventually finding his way to Dean St Studios as a freelance assistant in late 2020, we have quickly adopted him as one of our own - and Joe has proven himself an invaluable asset to any session he is involved in.
This varied experience has led Joe to work with a wide selection of clients, from artists like Skepta and Jorja Smith, to Boy George. He has also worked on multiple Burna Boy tracks, most notably the GRAMMY-nominated album, ‘African Giant'.
Having started at Dean St in 2012 Jonny has quickly progressed to become head engineer. Since then he has been involved in engineering a variety of projects. Ranging from chart topping albums to feature film soundtracks.
Job Titles:
- Training Assistant Engineer
Jude is a training assistant engineer new to the world of the studio, however, passionate about the capture of performance, and translating the sonic vision a band or artist has.
Adapting recording techniques to accommodate for specific projects, whether that be capturing the natural sound scene of an acoustic ensemble, or experimenting with pushing sonic boundaries, is something Jude is impassioned by, and Dean St. is an ecosystem of creativity allowing him to hone
Kurt Martinez, our Dolby Atmos Mix Engineer, has applied his skills to Spatial Audio releases for top artists like Kylie Minogue, Rita Ora, Duran Duran, Switch Disco & Ella Henderson, Alt-J and more.
Before joining Dean Street, Kurt earned acclaim as one of London's most talented young engineers, working with renowned producers at studios like Sarm and Metropolis. Kurt's engineering credits include Aitch, AJ Tracey, JLS, Fleur East, Ina Wroldsen and many more.
As a recent graduate of the Abbey Road Institute with an Advanced Diploma and Production and Engineering, Rebekah has already gained a lot of experience with new and developing artists and producers. She has also spent time interning at Studio 301 in Australia, as well as writing and producing her own music.
It was at the legendary RAK Studios that Rob got his start in the music industry before becoming the sole engineer for double-platinum selling, award winning artists, Chase & Status and their label imprint MTA Records. During his time with the duo he engineered for a host of clients including Nile Rodgers, Rihanna, Craig David, Emili Sandé, Stormzy, Pusha T, Blossoms and Slaves. Rob then began working with Plan B where he engineered and co-produced tracks for his fourth album ‘Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose' which achieved widespread critical acclaim and was a Top 5 hit in the UK charts. Rob has since worked with a wide variety of top London recording studios, engineering tracks for artists including Jay-Z, Little Mix, Kylie Minogue, James Bay, Sir Tom Jones Young Thug, DJ Snake, Future, MF Doom, Ray BLK, Machine Gun Kelly, Jools Holland, Tom Grennan, Jacob Banks, Sub Focus and Laura White.
The genius that is Simon Saywood brings Analoguetube to Dean Street studios. Analoguetube's mission has always been to build life back to products that have for many years been unavailable. With a unique emphasis on manufacturing that focuses workmanship, attention to detail and an open ended commitment to customer satisfaction we believe that once you own Analoguetube products you own them for life. How lucky are we to have this man under our roof! Learn more from the Analoguetube page.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director for the SILVERSTONE CLASSIC
During 30 years wide-ranging experience in the music business, Suzanne has managed top bands, booked concert tours, co-ordinated with promoters, negotiated major record deals, interpreted contracts and gained an outstanding reputation as a dynamic and trustworthy organiser.
Suzanne is currently the music director for THE SILVERSTONE CLASSIC. She was the music director for HARLEY-DAVIDSON HOG (Harley Owner Group) 2005-2015, putting on rally events and concerts all over Europe.
Her network of contacts is vast, from artists, managers, agents and promoters to broadcasters, radio DJ's, journalists and writers. Suzanne is one of the most knowledgeable and respected figures in the UK music industry today.
Tom is our in house assistant engineer here at Dean Street. Since he started working in studios around the start of 2016 he has been involved in the recording and post production side of a variety of albums and projects which vary widely in genre.
In the dazzling world of Dean Street Zowie Fleming is our Assistant Manager extraordinaire. Her journey with the Dean Street family began in 2022 when she joined as a part-time booking assistant. Fast forward to January 2023 and she officially became a full-time superstar.
With a background in admin, management, and bookings, she is an integral part of the booking team and is here to ensure that your Dean Street experience is nothing short of fabulous. No matter what you're heading to Dean Street to create she is your go-to person for making it happen.