Pedro Syrah is a Producer, Recording, Mixing and Mastering Engineer currently living in Portugal. As a musician, Pedro toured and worked with many artists, highlighting his work with the  Grammy ® Winner, José Cid. As a solo artist, Pedro recorded with Grammy ® Winner Thomas Pridgen (The Mars Volta) making his debut as a producer and established recording artist. After moving to London Pedro graduated from Abbey Road Institute and started producing and recording many artists in the legendary Abbey Road Studios, highlighting his work as a producer, recording and mixing engineer on Steve Diggle’s and Buzzcocks latest to be released album. More recently Pedro started working as a songwriter with Nick Hodgson (Kaiser Chiefs, Mark Ronson, Dua Lipa), Ben Gordon (The Dead 60s) and Mark Collins (The Charlatans) with whom he formed a band called Cosmic Kite - Pedro is Cosmic Kite’s bass boy. His later works as a composer and producer include collaborations with the award winning Director Libby Burke-Wilde (who worked with Royal Blood, David Gilmour, Daughter) and the choreographer Alexandra Green (Stormzy, Gucci) - to highlight the short - “Mettle” and the awarded short “Dreamers”.

 

In studio, Pedro has hours of experience in many sessions, learning with some of the best Engineers, Producers and Lecturers (see below).

 

Pedro is the only Certified Sound Engineer in Portugal to record with the Decca Tree Recording Technique, having learned from the Multi Award and Grammy ® Winner John Dunkerley.

 

Pedro now spends his time between Social Protocol Studios in Portugal and London, where he still has strong ties.

 

List of Producers, Engineers and Lecturers that Pedro Syrah learned from in the studio sessions and lectures:

• John Dunkerley

• Peter Walsh

• Haydn Bendall

• John Kurlander

• Sylvia Massy

• Aamir Yaqub

• John Leckie

• Jason O’Brien

• Pete Dowsett

• Mark Ronson

• Brian Eno

 

Pedro has been a gear collector and aficionado for more than a decade and now his private collection is available to be used in the studio. Having acquired gear from some of the most iconic studios in the world, including the BBC Studios, the mythical AIR Studios in Monserratt and the legendary Abbey Road Studios; Pedro has collected some of the rarest and most iconic microphones, effects and amplifiers. From The Beatles to The Police, from Edith Piaff to Winston Churchill, Pedro curates the finest collection of vintage gear in Portugal, and one of the best available in a recording studio.