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We know you have options when selecting a studio. We believe the most valuable asset we have to offer you is our team of experienced staff. We pride ourselves in having the talent to consistently achieve successful results for a diverse selection of artists and clients. We have a range of some of the industry's finest working at Beaver to best match you and your project, whatever the genre, with the reassurance of knowing that your project is in proven capable hands. We want to maintain our record of successful results, so we always apply our high standards to all work we do, whomever the client.
Producer Simon Holloway established Beaver in 1991. He has worked with pretty much everyone in the New Zealand music industry during that time and has numerous gold and platinum records. His productions have significantly contributed to New Zealand artists’ increased chart presence in their home territory over the last decade, exemplified at one stage in 2004 by his having mixed or produced 20% of the records on both the NZ Top 20 singles and album charts. Simon has been a finalist for both Producer and Engineer of the Year at the New Zealand Music Awards, and was a finalist for Songwriter of the Year at the 2001 NZ APRA Silver Scroll Awards.
Simon’s mixes are consistently in the NZ radio industry monitoring body RadioScope’s most played tracks of the year, to such an extent that twice in the last few years Beaver mixes have been on aggregate the most listened to NZ tracks at radio. When he decided to start his own label in 2003 he did so with characteristic success - first signing Misfits Of Science went to #1 on the NZ Top 40, reaching platinum sales status and winning numerous awards with industry defining videos and innovative recordings.
Simon has been mastering various projects in Atlanta GA over the past few years and this connection saw him working on his first US project in a production capacity in 2005. Somewhere in between this he also managed to produce and program the music backing track for Moana Maniopoto’s 2003 International Songwriting Competition Grand Prize winning song ‘Moko’.
Producer Dave Goodison runs the C studio facility, under the Metronome moniker. Dave has over a decade’s experience in rock and pop performance and production, while still finding time to moonlight as guitarist with Gin Wigmore, Elemeno P, Boh Runga and Carly Binding. Dave is hands on with our band demo package deals.
