User:Clint Murphy

Clint Murphy is a Producer/Engineer/Mix Engineer, born in Auckland, New Zealand on 20th August 1979. At the age of 13 he began playing drums and quickly became passionate about music and music recording. At the age of 17, Clint studied Audio Engineering at SAE (School of Audio Engineering), and not long after graduating he became the house engineer at York Street Studios.

While working at York Street, Clint began carving out a successful career. In 2003 he was awarded 'Engineer Of The Year' at the New Zealand Music Awards for Blindspott's self-titled album. Subsequently, he was a finalist at the New Zealand Music Awards in 2004 for Opshop's "You are Here" and runner-up in 2007 for Opshop's "2nd Hand Planet".

It was during his time at York Street that he met producer Greg Haver. In 2004, Clint moved to London where he worked as Greg's engineer on various projects including Melanie C's "Beautiful Intentions" which reached gold status in Germany, Switzerland and Austria and also double platinum status in Portugal, spending nine weeks at number one.

Clint moved back to New Zealand in 2007 and began working as a producer. Clint spent the majority of his time working on projects overseas, so three years later he relocated to the Cotswolds where he could work out of Modern World Studios with long-time friend Greg Haver.