Producers
Head Gap is the production home base for Melbourne producers Brent Punshon and Neil Thomason. These chaps have devoted their professional lives to the playing, recording, mixing and production of music. Read on to find out a little about what makes these fellows tick.
Neil Thomason
Neil Thomason has been recording bands since 1997 and has had the privilege of working with artists as varied as Wagons, My Disco, Kes Band, Heirs, Princess One Point Five, The Crayon Fields and Black Cab.
Neil sees his role in recording a band as "being kind of a conduit between the band and the finished record. If a band asks me to be involved in making a record with them, the first thing I ask is 'What kind of record do you want to make?' I see my job as one that involves ascertaining in as much detail as I can what it is the band wants to achieve with their recording, and then advising the best way I know about how the band can do that. "
Neil is equally at home working creatively with a band as a producer, or in a purely technical role as engineer, or a combination of both.
Click here to view a selected list of Neil's recording credits, or check the Listen page to hear Neil's work.
Prior to recording bands, Neil spent most of the 90's playing guitar and singing with Melbourne band Ricaine, who toured and recorded extensively throughout Australia and the US. In more recent times, he has been playing music with the group Night Orchids, who have ambitious plans to play live at least twice a year.
Email: neil @ headgap.com.au
Brent Punshon
*Please note Brent has taken an extended sabbatical from the studio and is currently not taking any bookings for tracking or mixing work for the remainder of 2012.
Producer, Engineer, Musician and Head Gap co-owner Brent Punshon has recently completed albums for Dan Brodie and the Grieving Widows, Don Fernando, Drawing Arcs, Tall Buildings, Matt Bailey and Adalita (awarded 'Best Independent Album' at the 2011 AIR Awards).
Previously Brent has worked with bands as diverse as Smog, The Nation Blue, ninetynine, Magic Dirt, The Slits, Ouch My Face and The Fearless Vampire Killers.
Over the previous two decades Brent has also done live sound for hundreds of Australian bands along with many international touring bands such as Deerhoof, Magnolia Electric Company, Bikini Kill, Ackercocke, The Berzerker, Snuff and Guided By Voices. He was also Magic Dirt's live sound engineer for 12 years.
Brent's musical background is very eclectic, formally studying classical percussion and composition and performing across many different styles, including small group Jazz ensembles, big bands, orchestral ensembles and rock bands.
These days you will find him playing drums with Matt Bailey when not making records in the studio.
Click here for a partial studio discography, or check the Listen page to hear some of Brent's older work.
