Tim Speight

Engineer - programmer - producer
bio from spag.tv
Biography of Tim 'Spag' Speight, Professional sound engineer.
Spag is a well-established, highly successful freelance engineer and mixer from Yorkshire with 10 years experience in the music industry. He specialises in recording, engineering & mixing various genres of pop music. Spag graduated from the highly acclaimed Gateway School of Sound Recording at Kingston University in 1993. He then gained employment at P.W.L where he was introduced to the world of pop music by guru Pete Waterman, and began engineering in-house projects. Whilst working at P.W.L Spag engineered and mixed much of the massively popular Steps albums x 3.

In 1996 Spag became a freelance engineer/mixer and producer and since then has repeatedly worked with the very accomplished production and writing team - Topham & Twigg (Steps, Westlife, Allstars, Kim Marsh). More recently Spag has teamed up with the hugely successful record producers Morrison & Sidoli (M&S) (M People, Blockster, Ultra Nate, Barbara Tucker, ), Jewels & Stone (Rachel Stevens, Gareth Gates, S Club 8, Dannii Minogue) & Craig Hardy (McFLY, V). Spag continues to frequently work on projects for London Records, Island Records and Polydor Records.

In 1999 Spag recorded, engineered, mixed and co-produced a monster 900,000 French selling album for rock/folk band Matmatah.
In 2001 Spag teamed up with the Jiant production and writing team (Tim Hawes & Pete Kirtley) to record, engineer and mix THE MOST SUCCESSFUL DEBUT SINGLE EVER - “PURE & SIMPLE” - HEAR’ SAY. Click here to read the Sound On Sound article.

Since 1997 Spag has been producing his own tracks, some of which have been signed by record companies in America and Europe including TOMMY BOY, USA and TRANSK/BEATS INCLUDED, Holland. In 2002 Spag established two production teams known as Sinister and SNB. Sinister have already signed tracks to BMG/ARISTA UK.

When he has time, production & writing is an area of work that he indulges in at his home recording & production studio, which he calls 'Blue Room Studios' in honour of of one his favourite trance artists - 'The Orb' who hold the record for the longest CD single to date - "Blue Room" lasting 39m 58sec.

Spag skilfully mixes on SSL, Neve, Mackie and Yamaha desks. He is also a qualified Pro-Tools Instructor and uses this platform in all aspects of his work for recording and mixing. Spag is also proficient in using all versions of Logic Audio Platinum for programming, production and mixing. Spag currently provides workshops on all systems both at level 3(BTEC etc.) and level 4(degree) standard for various colleges & universities.

Spag is available for studio recordings, mixdowns (Stereo & 5.1), workshops and lectures.