George Shilling  is a highly experienced and successful recording engineer and producer. He owns his own purpose-built recording studio Bank Cottage located at his home in a sublime Cotswolds village, 90 minutes from central London.

As well as providing expert recording, mixing and re-mixing, George has abundant musical skills and artists often ask him to play cello, add keyboards, strings, percussion or bass guitar to tracks he mixes.

His perfect pitch come in handy for vocal tuning, coaxing natural results from takes using Melodyne and Autotune. He is great with arrangements and editing, helping create song structures that get the best out of a song. His fantastic ear comes from a musical upbringing - his father was principal baritone at English National Opera. George studied 'cello and piano at the Royal College of Music. After the musical training, George received an engineering training from Jerry Boys (ex-Abbey Road) and many world-class producers and engineers who passed through Livingston Studios. He quickly achieved chart success with Coldcut, engineering the huge Number 1 gold smash 'The Only Way Is Up' by Yazz at the age of 21. Other hits rapidly followed with James Brown, Lisa Stansfield and The Soup Dragons, whose massive worldwide hit 'I'm Free' George produced and engineered.

He has engineered for luminary producers such as John Leckie, Brendan Lynch and Mike Hedges. He had enormous success working with self-producing artists such as Bernard Butler, whose 'Stay' reached Number 12 in the UK and Teenage Fanclub - George recorded and mixed 'Ain't That Enough', their highest charting single. Primal Scream’s single 'Kowalski' reached Number 8 after George mixed it. George has also engineered a number of remixes such as Gabrielle's 'Rise', New Radicals' 'Mother' and The Corrs' 'Lifting Me', and a glance at the Credit List reveals the names of Blur and Texas. He has worked with  Appleton, Jake Shillingford's Exile Inside, French recording legend Johnny Hallyday, and the Opera Babes. He has also recorded Darius, mixed Blue, and engineered Steve Winwood and 22-20s albums. He went to New York to work with  Longwave and in London worked with New Radicals' Gregg Alexander.

George designed and built Bank Cottage Studio in 2005. Lucky Soul were first through the doors and returned late 2006 to finish their acclaimed debut album. Since then clients have included Andy Yorke, The SheBeats, Rhythms Del Mundo and Slade and Ocean Colour Scene. Online mixing and mastering via FTP are an expanding part of George's work. George recorded the Classical Relief For Haiti single at Metropolis and mixed and mastered it at Bank Cottage.

In the last few years George has also branched into composition and performing, with some notable success in the world of production music for TV. His co-composition Extra Time was featured on ITV1 UEFA Champions League Weekly and ITV1 Guinness Premiership for the 2009-2010 seasons. His works are published by Warner Chappell, Sonoton, The Artful Library and KPM. His work has been used in commercials for Coke, Woolworths (Australia) and Philips.

Please visit http://tracks.gs to hear examples of George’s compositions and synchs.