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Al-P

Alex Puodziukas known by his stage name Al-P, is a Canadian musician, record producer and recording engineer, best known for being part of the electronic music duo MSTRKRFT along with Jesse F. Keeler.

Bill Holford

Bill Holford (né William Dwight Holford, Sr.; 12 June 1919 Bartlesville, Oklahoma — 22 March 1999 Houston) was, for 50 years, an American recording engineer and record producer.

Darleen Wilson

Darleen Wilson is a Boston, Massachusetts-based folk musician, recording engineer, producer, and Director of Content for Integrated Media at public radio and television station WGBH.

John Leventhal

John Leventhal (born December 18, 1952) is a Grammy Award-winning musician, producer, songwriter, and recording engineer who has produced albums for Michelle Branch, Rosanne Cash, Marc Cohn, Shawn Colvin, Rodney Crowell, Jim Lauderdale, Joan Osborne, Loudon Wainwright III, The Wreckers and many others.

Jonathan Summers

From 1970-1974, he worked as a technical operator and recording engineer with the Radio Division of the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Keep Me on Your Side

Keep Me on Your Side was mastered in New York by respected recording engineer Ted Jensen, who is best known for his work with Norah Jones' 2003 Grammy award winning album Come Away with Me, Simple Plan and is also signed up to do Metallica's upcoming 9th studio album.

Reggie Fisher

Fisher took a job at United Artists Records, where he became an recording engineer and recorded artists such as John Buck Wilkins, Rita Coolidge, Brenda Russell, Sly Stone, Bobby Womack, The Curtis Brothers, Waylan Jennings, Pablo Cruz, and Michael Jackson.

Robert Hupka

Robert Hupka (August 26, 1919 – July 3, 2001) was a recording engineer for RCA and later for Columbia Records and, until his retirement, a cameraman for CBS Television in New York.

Smoking Popes / Groovy Love Vibes

All tracks were recorded April 3, 1993 at Solid Sound Studio in Hoffman Estates, Illinois with recording engineer Phil Bonnet, the same location and engineer used for their previous EPs Break Up and 2.

Strange Parallel

Strange Parallel includes interviews with Elliott Smith himself, as well as fans, friends and other acquaintances, including Gus Van Sant, Larry Crane and the members of Quasi.


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1969: The Velvet Underground Live

On October 19, 1969 in the End of Cole Ave. club, Dallas, a fan who happened to be a recording engineer brought along his professional gear; and in November at The Matrix in San Francisco, the band was given permission to use the in-house four-track recording desk.

Alexandra Ripley

Ripley was thrice wed; to Leonard Ripley, an early partner and recording engineer at Elektra Records, Thomas Garlock, and John Graham (1926-2007), a former professor at The University of Virginia, from whom she was separated at the time of her death.

Bhopal Stiffs

After contributing "Too Much Pain" to the There's a Fungus Among Us compilation, the Bhopal Stiffs disbanded in 1989; Larry Damore and Steve Saylors later formed Pegboy with former Naked Raygun guitarist John Haggerty, while Dave Schleitwiler went on to play drums for local groups Buzzmuscle and The Indicators, amongst others, and Ron Lowe became a recording engineer at the Chicago Recording Company.

Choo-Choo Soul

Choo Choo Soul began as a collaboration between video game developer Greg Johnson, recording engineer and sound designer Burke Trieschmann, and vocalist Genevieve Goings during dialogue recordings for ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth, the first Xbox installment of the ToeJam & Earl video game franchise.

Cream Abdul Babar

In 1997, Cream Abdul Babar entered the studio with Tallahassee-based recording engineer, Tommy Hamilton, and exited with their first full-length record, "The Backwater of Masculine Ethics." The band toured the entire US several times on this release, including 10–15 shows in Atlanta, GA alone.

Daman Sood

Daman Sood is an Indian Sound Recording Engineer, best known for his work with musicians such as Jagjit Singh and Abida Parveen, as well as his prolific work as a Song Recordist for many Bollywood film soundtracks, including Devdas, Sarfarosh and Vaastav: The Reality.

David Charles

David Charles, also known as Dave Charles, British drummer, recording engineer and record producer

Florence Austral

The famous recording engineer and producer at HMV, Fred Gaisberg, said: "In the early twenties Florence Austral was the most important recording artist we had, thanks to the beauty, power and compass of her voice".

Griffin Boice

He interned for a short time at a local recording studio owned by recording engineer Trent Walker.

Grotus

Fox has become a specialized recording engineer "track surgeon" working on artists ranging from Nick Cave to Ashlee Simpson.

Hentschel

David Hentschel, English recording engineer, writer and music producer

Jagori Tanna

He won a Juno Award in 2000 for Best Recording Engineer (with Paul Northfield) for the band's singles "Summertime in the Void" and "When Did You Get Back From Mars?".

Joanie Pallatto

A singer, composer, record producer and recording engineer, she has worked with Bob Dorough, Von Freeman, Don Moye, Tatsu Aoki and Willie Pickens.

Joe Howell

Joe started his music career by working as a recording engineer in studios such as NYC's Chung King Studios, Playground studios under Untouchables/LaFace Entertainment, Sound on Sound, and Platinum Island.

Joey Benin

As a well known Filipino composer he has worked with such greats as Pido Lalimarmo, Janno Gibbs, Regine Velasquez, Martin Nievera, his own band Side A and renowned Japanese sound/recording engineer Koji Ishikawa.

Juan Luis Carrera

Juan Luis Carrera is a musician and recording engineer based in Washington, D.C. As a musician, Carrera was the bassist for the Dischord Records band The Warmers and has also played with bands like Lungfish, Lois, Junk Man Ran, and The Junction.

Kenneth Scott

Ken Scott (born 1947), English record producer and recording engineer

Lane Gibson

Lane Gibson is an American musician and recording engineer from Metuchen, NJ.

Last Time Around

Released 1968, it featured Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, Dewey Martin, Bruce Palmer, and Jim Messina, who also worked as producer and a recording engineer.

McEntire

John McEntire (born 1970), American recording engineer, drummer and multi-instrumentalist

Mike Stone

Mike "Clay" Stone (1951–2002), English recording engineer and record producer

Moonglow Records

The Moonglow Records building was purchased in 1969 by former RCA recording engineer and Warner Bros. Records/Reprise producer, David Hassinger who renamed it The Sound Factory.

Murray Anderson

Murray C. Anderson, South African composer, recording engineer and producer

Nick Larkins

Joe Geia (1993- ) Electric guitar, backing vocals, recording engineer.

Oblivion Records

The company was formed based on a casual conversation between Long Island, New York record store owner, musician, and blues scholar Tom Pomposello, and college student and amateur recording engineer Fred Seibert, when Pomposello was musing about the best way to record and release his music.

Peter Day

Pete Day (born 1970), recording engineer, record producer and songwriter

Playground Twist

Issued in the UK by Polydor Records in 1979, the track was produced by the band's manager Nils Stevenson and Mike Stavrou, a recording engineer on T. Rex's last album Dandy in the Underworld.

Prestige Records

For most of the 1950s and 1960s, the recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder was responsible for recording the company's releases and Ira Gitler occasionally fulfilled the role of producer in the early 1950s.

Ritscher

Malachi Ritscher, musician, recording engineer, human rights activist, and anti-war protester.

Rudy Van Gelder

In the late 90's he worked as a recording engineer for some of the songs featured on the soundtrack to the TV Show Cowboy Bebop.

Sigma Sound Studios

Sigma Sound Studios is an American music recording studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania founded by recording engineer Joseph Tarsia in 1968.

Stacy Parrish

His television and documentary credits include: Dog the Bounty Hunter season 4; Parking Wars season 2; and Music Makes a Better Person (sound recording engineer, music producer/supervisor).

Steve Kravac

Well known in the punk rock community, Westbeach was located in Hollywood and co-owned by Brett Gurewitz of Epitaph Records and his business partner, noted recording engineer Donnell Cameron.

The Hidden Hand

Falkinburg is a professional recording engineer, and his Phase Studios has been the commission site of works by Clutch, Sixty Watt Shaman and Stinking Lizaveta.

The Sound Factory

In 1969, former RCA recording engineer and Warner/Reprise producer, David Hassinger purchased the Moonglow Records/Studio building and renamed it The Sound Factory.

Tissue paper

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a sound recording engineer named Bob Clearmountain was said to have hung tissue paper over the tweeter of his pair of Yamaha NS-10 speakers to tame the over-bright treble coming from it.