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"Andy's ability to walk the line between technical and creative is unparalleled. He can tune a vocal in the most natural way, arrange strings with the best of them, and always brings the best out of what he has to work with. He is always serving the song. He is an important asset to all my productions."

Robert Marvin - producer / songwriter
"Andy Selby can do it all. The last two records wouldn't have been the same without him. If he got all the credits he deserved, there wouldn't be any left for anyone else. He has written and recorded strings for some of my most popular songs, mixed, recorded vocals, and solved all the nagging computer troubles that pop up. He has great ears and strong opinions; a combo I love to have around in the studio."

Mat Kearney - artist / songwriter
"No one can handle a song like Andy Selby. When I want to make sure vocals sound their best, it's an obvious first call."

Jeff Cohen - artist / songwriter / producer
"He has a brilliant set of skills for studio work - combining a strong musicality with lots of technical 'know-how'. His editing efforts were therefore some of the most intuitive and precise I've ever encountered."

Matt Redman - worship artist / songwriter
"When I think of Andy, the word that most readily comes to mind is 'trust'.  Whatever you give Andy, you can always trust it's going to come back better. Not only, does he NOT sacrifice the intangibles while correcting (vocals, drums, guitars, etc), he actually finds a way to enhance them. He's a hard/diligent worker who is wholly artist/musician and fully technician; a killer combo that allows Andy to give great attention to detail, while finding more emotion to pull out of any given track. Add to all of this his gift for exceptional string arrangements, programming, skills for trouble shooting computer problems, his 'mobile studio' and his commitment to tirelessly fight for the best in every song and you've got the producer's dream and the artist's saviour…Nashville's 'one stop shop' and 'best kept secret'. (And I don't say that because he's such a fun hang either!)"

Anthony Skinner - artist / songwriter / producer
"Andy is that rare combination of talent, musicality and technical chops that in my opinion sets the standard against which all others are judged.  I love working with him because if Andy's doing it, it's stress free- it's done once, it's done right and it's killer, period."

F. Reid Shippen - mix master / robot lemon
"Andy is the yin and yang, the neutron and the proton of today's music. He, at once, can perform a perfect classical piano part, program with the best of them, guide a vocalist to the performance of their lifetime (then tune it, edit it, and mute it later!), arrange the most brilliant string lines all while running the entire technical side of the studio. Is there an app for that? I think not!"

Michael Ochs - songwriter / producer
"I'll be blunt. Andy is a miracle worker. There has never been a production problem he couldn't get me out of. Mangled drums miraculously fixed, 'difficult' vocals turned into gold, whole orchestras created from nothing. Andy is inside the Matrix. I almost don't want to tell you how good he is 'cause he'll get too busy and I'll be in big trouble."

Max Abrams - producer / sax master
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