Producer Pete Wilkinson met singer Amy MacDonald after he posted an ad in the NME asking for talent for his new production company.
Out of thousands of respondents, Amy shone through, and shortly after their first meeting, the pair were recording This Is The Life, an album that would go on to sell three million copies worldwide and top the album charts in numerous countries.

Focusrite have been behind Amy's sound from the very first sessions in Pete's home studio "We work in a very lo-fi way where Amy comes to my little studio at home and she puts down her vocal. All of Amy's vocals have been recorded through my Focusrite Voicemaster Pro, and the vocal that we do through the Focusrite is the vocal that the mix engineer and mastering house ends up with."

But it's not just Amy's vocal that gets the Focusrite treatment. Joe Fields, Pete's engineer of choice, continues: "When Pete brings the template in, we replace the instruments to try to get it sounding how he had it in his studio. We start with drums then bass and guitars, then live strings. We tracked the strings and most of the drums through Focusrite ISA428s."
Amy's second album is due for release in March 2010.