Neal Merrick Blackwood

Neal Merrick Blackwood is the owner of Merrick Music and SMR Records. Neal is a musician, composer, orchestrator, recording engineer, mix engineer and producer, and has worked under multiple Grammy award-winning production teams and monikers in world-renowned recording studio facilities and concert venues with countless legendary artists representing many styles of music.

Neal has worked with artists and clients that include: PBS, BBC, NPR, The Walt Disney Company, Paisley Park Records, Warner Classics, Universal Music Group, Decca Records, The Olympic Games, Cyndi Lauper, Johnny Cash, Bill Mize (Grammy award-winning recording artist), AO Music project (Grammy Nominated and ZMR award-winning artists), Miriam Stockley, Sandeep Chowta, Julie Fowlis (award-winning Scottish artist), Fox Lima (Grammy award-winning Enigma), SEAY (2017 ZMR award-winning recording artist), Margaret Cornils Luke (Award-winning Naxos Records classical recording artist), etc.

Neal now dedicates his entire time to working with like-minded artists composing, orchestrating, producing, performing and recording classical, orchestral, choral, instrumental, ambient, world and vocal music. Neal Merrick Blackwood’s compositions are distributed worldwide by Universal Music Group and Merrick Music. Neal Merrick Blackwood’s music is used in films, recordings, TV shows, commercials, radio, live performances, etc.

Neal Merrick Blackwood and FabFilter

"I learned about FabFilter products from hearing other engineers tell me how good they sounded. Skeptically, I had to try them. I was very pleased to find out that they were right. I noticed right away how clean and wonderful the FabFilter plugins made my mixes sound. My favorite FabFilter plugin so far, is the FabFilter Pro-L limiter. I have to come to use this limiter as the final 'icing on the cake' on the master buss for mixing. The Pro-L really helps make my mixes sound more clear and focused."

Links

www.merrickmusic.com

twitter.com/MerrickMusic

www.facebook.com/nealmerrickblackwood

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