Dan Grech-Marguerat

Daniel James Grech-Marguerat (born 11 July 1981 in Bedford), is an English-Maltese recording engineer, record producer and mixer.

Grech has worked with Lana Del Rey, Keane, and Moby.

Dan Grech started working at RAK Studios in St John's Wood, London as an assistant recording engineer.

He worked with record producer Nigel Godrich for two years, participating in records with Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Divine Comedy, Beck and Radiohead.

In 2006 he mixed the Scissor Sisters second album Ta-Dah, including the single I Don't Feel Like Dancin', co-written by Elton John, which went to number one in 8 countries, and top 10 in 20 countries.

Later that year, Grech mixed the debut record for the band Dragonette, starting a long-term relationship with the band.

In 2007, Grech produced two tracks for the Radio 1 Established 1967 anniversary album, one for The Kooks and one for The Kaiser Chiefs.

Following on from this he went on to produce several tracks for The Kooks second album Konk.

He also mixed the Moby album 'Last Night

He won a Grammy Award for his work with Godrich in 2009 for his work on Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' which picked up 'Best Alternative Album 2009'.

In 2010, Grech produced the debut album for The Vaccines, What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?.

In May 2012, Keane released their 4th studio album Strangeland, which Grech both produced and mixed.

In 2013, Grech produced Long Way Down, the debut record for Tom Odell, winner of the BRITs Critics Choice Award.

In 2013 Grech also produced The Brink, the second album for the Australian band The Jezabels.

In 2014, Grech worked with Liverpool-based guitar band Circa Waves.

He produced and mixed their debut album which entered the UK charts at number 10 in April 2015.

Singles from the album included Fossils and T-Shirt Weather.

In 2015, he produced and mixed the Birdy and Rhodes duet Let It All Go.

At the start of 2016, Grech worked with Mumford & Sons.

He recorded the Johannesburg EP in South Africa with the band.

Grech's releases in 2017 included Liam Gallagher's debut solo album As You Were, he produced 8 of the 12 tracks including the single For What It's Worth.

On working with Grech, Gallagher said, “I’ll play him a tune very badly and he’ll go, ‘Yeah, I get where you’re coming from’ and get the acoustics down and away we go.” The album was released on October 6.

In 2018, Grech mixed Staying at Tamara's, George Ezra's second album.

In the same year, he also mixed releases for Rae Morris, Mikky Ekko, and Tom Grennan.

Grech has additional production and live credits on 2021's Rag'n'Bone Man and Pink single Anywhere Away From Here.

He contributed additional production and mixing for the radio single and worked with the NHS choir on the live performance at the Brit Awards.

Grech won UK Mixer of the Year 2021 at the Music Producers’ Guild Awards.

In 2021, Grech began working with Sam Ryder, mixing Sam's debut EP Sun’s Gonna Rise.

Grech mixed and produced the UK Eurovision entry song for 2022, Sam Ryder's There's Nothing but Space, Man!.

Grech opted for a simple, streamlined mixing process when working on George Ezra's Paradise.

In the Paradise session, Grech used 73 tracks, cntaining additional elements such as kick sample tracks and a snare track.

Several auxiliary tracks were included, adding delays and reverbs.

Grech condensed individual instrument parts such as bass, guitar, synth, and piano into single stereo tracks.

The backing vocals initially spread over approximately 20 tracks, were consolidated into six.

Grech divided the lead vocal track into two segments to apply varying treatments to the pre-chorus sections.

Despite the simplified layout, the session included hundreds of plug-ins, heavily concentrated on the Akai MPC loop, bass, guitar, and vocal tracks.

Grech used colour coding to organise the session.

Grech uses busses sparingly, claiming that the desired sound should be realised with no more than 10 inserts per Pro Tools.

At the time, Grech's go-to audio plug-ins were the UAD API compressor and the Waves Audio's RCompressor to achieve specific effects and control frequencies across the tracks.

He frequently uses a high pass filter to manage low-end frequencies and prefers plug-ins with graphical interfaces.