Ciarán Byrne is an engineer producer whose credits read like a who’s who in the music industry. Having started his career in Dublin’s Windmill Lane Studios in July ‘87. Progress in this company was rapid. An assistant early in 1988 he quickly moved on to be house engineer.

While at Windmill lane he worked on projects such as Van Morrison and the Chieftains “ Celtic Heartbeat”, U2 “Rattle & Hum” and “Achtung Baby” while also developing a production style which saw him regarded as one the few producers to which live in studio type recordings didn’t suffer to poor sounds. His engineering style, built on the fact that Byrne is a multi-instumentalist, lets him deal with a myriad of guitar, drums and noises, melodic and experimental soundscapes. This is a reason he is first choice for a lot of top artists today.

The more acoustic seminal Irish traditional albums such as Sharon Shannon “Sharon Shannon”, Cooney and Begley “Meitheal” Seán Smyths “Blue Fiddle” and Liam O Flynn “Pipers call” is an area where his expertise is renowned. Since going freelance in 1992 old and new clients like U2, Metallica, The Cranberries, Garth Brooks and Sinead O Connor have enabled Ciarán to work with some of the worlds top producers like Daniel Lanois, Pat mc Carthy, Jimmy Iovine ...the list goes on. Orchestral recordings with The Three Irish Tenors (Ronan Tynan etc...) and Brian Byrne's various film work including the Glenn Close movie "Albert Nobbs".

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Bill Shanley is an internationally renowned guitarist and producer who has worked with Ray Davies, Paul Brady, Sinead O’ Connor, Mary Black, Gilbert O’ Sullivan, and also with Ray Davies has recorded with people like Jackson Browne, Frank Black, Gary Lightbody, Amy Mac Donald, Debbie Harry amongst others.

In 2000 Bill set up “The Cauldron“ with Ciaran which is now one of Irelands foremost recording facilities. The purpose being, to have a base to continue his work as a producer / sideman to artists and to further his production skills and secondly to set up a good studio plain and simple,  so artists could come in and have a productive journey recording their music, in a good atmosphere. Bill is an outstanding multi-instrumentalist who can take an artist and work with them intimately and carve out a sound for them (and hopefully get it on the radio!). So far in 2011 Bill has produced for South African singer Cathryn Green whom Hot press magazine quoted as “This is so good we could soon be claiming her as one of our own“. Finbar Furey whose new album “Colours” featuring duets with Shayne Ward and Mary Black has shot straight in at no.13 in the Irish charts and has so far been lauded as ”Finbar’s best solo work to date ‘‘.

Bill also produced various tracks on Mary Blacks forthcoming albums due for release in Nov 2011 as well as a busy touring schedule with Ray Davies in the US with whom he’s the Kinks guitar player of choice.

At present Bill is producing various tracks for legendary singer-songwriter Gilbert O’ Sullivan and other projects on the go are, an album with Maria Butterly, an American Old Time Roots album with US Bluegrass Fiddler Matt Gordan and Canadian Banjo Maestro Leonard Podolak.

Bill also released a solo guitar instrumental album in 2008 called ‘Fingerpainting”.

Michael has worked across a wide range of musical genres and has an extensive knowledge of analogue and digital formats. Since joining Cauldron Studios Michael has worked on a large and diverse range of projects with many different types of artists/producers (some of which are listed below).

Having been at The Cauldron since 2005 Michael has moved up through the ranks and is now one of the in-house Engineers, with a wealth of experience and the knowledge and ability to get the artist in the direction they want.

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