Charlie McClean

Charlie McClean is a producer, engineer and multi-instrumentalist from England, currently based in Berlin. Hailing from a background of classical training, she cultivated her skills as an arranger, performer and band leader through years of live and studio sessions. Combined with her experience and love of composition and songwriting, after graduating from BIMM/Sussex University with a 1st Class BA Hons in Music, as a guitar major, the move toward production was a natural one. She was taken on as an assistant engineer to producer Biff Stannard (Spice Girls, Kylie, Ellie Goulding), and Ash Howes (Dido, Jools Holland, One Direction) in 2011, where she was given the opportunity to work with incredibly talented artists assisting and running recording and writing sessions, learning the craft and the business, and being mentored and inspired by the Biffco team. Among other skills, she has become an editing and tuning specialist (Melodyne) and is now the ‘go-to’ for engineers, producers and labels for household names from Sony, Syco, Warner and many others.

As a producer, songwriter and recording and mixing engineer she has worked in studios across the UK and Europe, she is now building an impressive roster of her own artists and credits. Working alongside songwriters and artists, and now being mentored by the legendary producer Rupert Hine (Tina Turner, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Nicks), she works in studios in both London and Berlin.