Mark Wingfield

Mark Wingfield is a guitarist and composer based in the UK. Most of his output is rooted in jazz, but he is also active in contemporary classical music. Mark has a parallel career as an award-winning mixing and mastering engineer.

www.markwingfield.com/

Mark cites jazz, rock, Indian, Japanese, African, and classical music as influences and has written over 100 compositions. Recording mainly on the NYC label MoonJune Records and the Boston Based Greydisc, Mark has released 18 albums as bandleader to date. As a mixing and mastering engineer Mark works primarily at his own Heron Island Studio in the countryside an hour north of London.

Musician's on albums he has mixed or mastered include: Allan Holdsworth, Tony Levin, Chad Wackerman, Gary Husband, Nguyen Lee, Iain Ballamy, Gilad Atzmon, Asaf Sirkis, John Marshall, Jimmy Haslip, Carles Benavent, Bob Mintzer, Theo Travis and many more.

“Mark Wingfield is undoubtedly one of the greatest guitarists of recent years worldwide…. His languid, plaintive, spiritual sound, ambient and personal.” TOMAJAZZ

These words are confirmed by the multiple awards he has received as a musician and an engineer:

As well as composing music for his own albums, Mark also composes music for classical musicians. Mark recently composed a solo piano piece for pianist Kathryn Stott, known for her many collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma but also as a premier concert pianist with orchestras around the world. Mark has also composed a number of solo pieces for renowned harpsichordist Jane Chapman, as well as works for Pianist Kate Ryder, Mc Fall’s Chamber, Elaine Funaro, Geoffry Burgess, string quartets and other ensembles.

As guitarist:

All About Jazz Best Albums of the Year

Downbeat Magazine's Masterpiece Album of the Year

As engineer:

Three Downbeat Masterpiece Albums of the Year

Two All About Jazz Best Albums of the Year

JazzWise Best Release of the Year

Hi-Res Edition Favourite Release of the Year

Mark Wingfield recommends

MTurboAmp

Unique

"As a connoisseur of guitar tones I've been very impressed by MTurboAmp. The flexibility is head and shoulders above anything else I've seen. But more important to me is the sound quality, which is really something special in this plugin. From smooth creamy traditional valve sounds to out on the edge modern waveshaping and everything in between, MTurboAmp seems to excel at all of it. Most other amp sims just emulate specific amps and distortion pedals and let you tweak around the edges of that a little. MTurboAmp does that if you want, but what I love is the fact that you can be totally free of those constraints and create completely new and unique tones."

MGuitarArchitect

Unique

"MGuitaArchitect is the most versatile tone shaping and amp sim plugin I've seen. Anything from classic guitar sounds to new and innovative tones. There are all the stomp boxes you'd expect, as well as some really useful ones that aren't standard. But what makes MGA stand above the rest for me is that you can go in very deep. You can control the detail of the harmonic structure in a way I've not seen anywhere else."

← Maor Levi

MeldaProduction is a company I've heard about for many years doing what I'm doing, but It was more coherent when I tested the products myself, I was mind-blown and shocked I didn't do that any sooner. So much versatility to choose from with tools that give you infinite solutions, its forward thinking and innovative and in my books it's the right approach, I'm very grateful to have those tools available to me any time, Melda is the future!

Maztek →

In general these plugins are top quality and outstanding.