It’s apt praise to call Australian-born singer-songwriter Leah Martin-Brown a breakout artist.
Just after hosting the video premiere of her third single “Shush,” she spoke with AUDIX about her musical roots and her new favourite microphones.
After touring clubs and festivals steadily since high school, the Covid pandemic imposed a studio-only hiatus, which she took in Stockholm, Sweden, where she would connect with super-producers Mutt Lange and Tony Nilsson, and mix engineer Tommy Denander. Now a solo artist signed to Frontiers Records, Ms. Martin-Brown explores pop territory without sacrificing the hard-rock energy of her formative work. Her voice melts faces off, and the torches that channels its heat are AUDIX microphones: the OMX series (especially the OMX-E) onstage and the A231 for studio recording.
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“I didn’t know that I was a good singer until maybe fifth grade, when we had this assignment at school where each of us had to get up and sing,” she begins. “I sang the part, and my teacher reacted, ‘Oh, so you’re a singer?’ I was, like, ‘I am? Why yes, I am!’”
“I had always been aware of the AUDIX brand, starting with knowing they made great drum mics,”
“Last year I got a call from [engineer and producer] Kevin Majorino, whom I’d met backstage at a show in Utah. He invited me to do some recordings at Studio 606, which is Dave Grohl’s private studio. We did an acoustic version my second big single, ‘Hysterical Love.’ So, of course I went, and for handheld vocal mics we were working with the OMX series. I remember thinking, ‘These sound insane!’”
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