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Few people have had a career as illustrious as Ken Scott. Beginning at the iconic Abbey Road Studios when he was just 16, over six decades later, Ken Scott remains a celebrated music producer and engineer. His collaborators include The Beatles, Elton John, David Bowie, Pink Floyd and Duran Duran, just to name a few. For this musical maven, it’s more about being present in the studio and feeling the magic that happens within those hallowed walls than anything else. That, he says, is what makes a great track.
In this episode of Masters of Sound, Ken Scott sits down with Jack Sharkey, our Senior Technical Engineer, to discuss how he approaches his craft, his creative process and the lessons he’s learned along the way.
Music should move you. It needs to come from the soul, it needs to feel, it needs to be human.”
As a producer, I prefer to either not do any pre-production work, or if we do pre-production work, it’s kept to a minimum so that there’s a certain amount of experimentation.”
It’s what happens in the studio that matters most to me. You need a good performance, you need good players – it’s that that’s most important. It’s the feel of it. To me, it should always come from deep within.”
About Ken Scott
Ken Scott’s first session as an engineer was on The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night album. Not many people can say their careers started as brightly as his. But even more impressive was his ability to keep it shining just as bright, even after six decades.
As co-producer on David Bowie’s Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and Pin Ups records, Scott proved himself as a musically diverse talent. Throughout his career, he developed a reputation for marrying complex orchestrations to massive hits. On the other hand, his less commercial but equally successful work in jazz-rock led to an evolution of the genre, which can be seen in the works he produced with Stanley Clarke, Jeff Beck, Happy the Man and Dixie Dregs.
These days, the producer and engineer is still a mainstay in the studio. He also gives talks around the world and shares his experiences working on some of the most iconic bodies of music of all time. Scott is currently a Senior Professor at Leeds Beckett University’s School of Film, Music and Performing Arts.
