Who's Who

[davidzz1988]

Name: David
Location: Quebec, Canada
Age: 25
Occupation: Recording studio
Musical Tastes: Almost everything, I love metal and jazz fusion
Favorite Band: Don't know... It change from time to time!
Favorite Album: (For the moment)Singularity by Northlane. I think it sound's amazing
Favorite Producer: Will Putney
Goal: Improve my mixing technique and my mixes.
That's about it guys!

David

 

[LowellWolfe]

Name: Lowell Wolfe
Location: Detroit, Michigan - United States
Age: 16
Own Band: Halfway Home
Occupation: Work at a guitar store in my area.
Musical Tastes: Melodic Hardcore, Metalcore, Punk.
Favorite Band: Counterparts, Hundredth, many more.
Favorite Album: Any by previously mentioned bands.
Favorite Producer: Will Putney, Sturgis, Audiohammer crew.
Production Experience: Recording my own band, trial and error for fun.
Goal: Keep getting better at mixing, learn more, gain knowledge, record bands for money.
Production Gear : Tascam US-1800, Yamaha HS80m's w/ HS10w sub, 3 57s, Beta 52, 58, SM7B, AT2050, Audix OM-5, 2 pairs Sennheiser HD595 Open Back Headphones, Peavey Block Letter 5150, Orange 4x12 Straight Cabinet, Fender Hot Rod Deluxe III, vFender Blues Deluxe, Vox AC-15 Limited Edition, Fender Rumble 350 Head, Fender 4x10 Bass Cabinet, plugins, cables, accessories.

 

[Stacey Staxx]

Name: Stacey Staxx
Location : West Hollywood ,"City of Angels"
Occupation: Entertainment Industry
Musical Tastes: Diverse
Production Experience: Diverse

 

[Art_Sound_Estudio]

Name: Marcelo
Location: España
Age: 30
Own Band: Thy Arcanum Orders (Guitar, Producer)
Occupation: (Trying to be) sound engineering and video-photography.
Musical Tastes: Metal (almost all types of metal), Every music stile involving a guitar.
Favorite Band: Metallica, Heroes del Silencio, For Today.
Favorite Album: all 3 Bands Discography
Favorite Producer: Fredrik, Suecof, Colin...
Production Experience: I´ll be re-writting this soon...my dream is to grow up as a mixer and engineer.
Production Gear : Imac. Pod UX2, M box 2 Pro, Ltd´s guitars, 5150 original head.

 

[Alex Castellan]

Name: Alexandre Castellan
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Age: 29
Own Band: Still doesn't have a name
Occupation: Work at an IT company
Musical Tastes: Thrash Metal, Death Metal, 70´s Rock, Blues, Jazz, Classical
Favorite Band: Slayer, Megadeth, Testament, Pantera, Gojira and many others...
Favorite Album: Rust in Peace, Reign in Blood
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap, Colin Richardson, Daniel Bergstrand, Jens Bogren, Mark Lewis
Production Experience: Very little, recorded some shitty demos years ago and my own things at home.
Goal: Learn, produce my band's CD and have fun working with music!
Production Gear : AT4040, SM57, SM7B, Focusrite Saffire Pro 40, Yamaha HS80, M-Audio Oxygen 8, Peavey 5150 head, Mesa Boogie Oversized 4x12 Cab, TS9, Countryman 85, Sansamp Bass DI, Schecter Blackjack Atx C7, Jackson Soloist Pro, Tagima Zero, Squier Vintage Modified Jazz Bass V 5-String, 6 and 12 stell string acoustic guitars.

 

[Sonic75]

Name: Fabio
Location: Salerno, Italy
Own band: Heimdall, Nude, From Depths
Occupation: I work in my studio, Sonic Temple
Musical tastes: Rock, Hard Rock, Metal, Prog, Folk etc
Favourite bands: Judas Priest, AC/DC, Savatage, Virgin Steele, Helloween, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, W.A.S.P., Anthrax, Amon Amarth etc.
Favourite albums: Sad wings of destiny, Painkiller, Screaming for Vengeance, Gutter Bullet, Keeper II, Highway to hell, Back in Black, Headless Children, Headless Cross etc.
Favorite Producers: Bob Rock, Andy Sneap, Mike Fraser, Jens Bogren, Achim Koehler ect.
Production experience: my love for audio started during the sessions of my bands so after some years I began recording them. In 2006 I opened my studio, recording many styles of music: rock, pop, metal, musical, folk, jazz-swing, blues etc, and go on producing my own bands.
Goal: To improve...always
Gear: too much! better to give a link http://www.sonictemple.it/www.Sonictemple.it/equipment.htm

 

[Fukevin]

Name: Kevin
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Age: 21
Own band: Nope
Occupation: Tour Manager/ FOH Engineer/ aspiring producer
Musical tastes: anything good.
Favourite bands: Slipknot, Mudvayne, Pink Floyd, Limp Bizkit.
Favourite album: Iowa.
Production experience: Producing and engineering lots of local bands as well as pre production for some smaller label bands. I've done touring FOH work for The Plot In You, Attila, Fit For A King, Like Moths to Flames, I Declare War and more.
Goal: Make a career out of audio engineering
Gear: iMac, firestudio, reaper, some mics and some plug-ins.

 

[JackTramps]

Name: Giacomo Barboni
Location: Udine, North-East of Italy
Age: 1986
Started: in 2007, recording myself, reading audio engineering books, attending short courses
Audio Engineering Degree: 2009
Assistant at Artesuono Recording Studio: 2010-present
Producing bands in my home studio: from 2010
Officially open my project studio: october 2013
My site: www.giacomobarboni.it
My Blog: http://giacomobarboni.blogspot.it/
Instruments: guitar, bass, programming
Fav producers/mixers: David Bendeth, Randy Staub, Fredrick Nordstrom, Joey Sturgis, Andy Sneap, Kevin Churko, Andy Scheps, Simone Mularoni, Anssi Kippo
Goals: To give my best to the music and to the bands, to have fun doing my job, to be creative, to be committed, to learn everyday and to share

 

[Gustavo-Plane]

Name : Gustavo Perez
Location : Cabimas, Zulia, Venezuela
Age : 23
Own Band : Astral Plane
Band Website: https://soundcloud.com/astral-plane-band
Occupation : Guitarrist, Procreator Of Noise, Producer
Musical Tastes : All kind of things, from Doom Metal to Salsa (Keeping The Latin Roots lol)
Favorite Band : Isis, Black Sabbath, Neurosis, Héroes Del Silencio, Mogwai, Sonic Youth, etc
Favorite Album : Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Favorite Producer : Joe Barresi, Andy Sneap, Fredrik Nordström, Steve Albini, Peter Tägtgren
Production Experience : I'm still learning
Production Gear : Vit (Venezuelan Computers) With ProTools Express (Which i have no idea how to make it work properly) and Cubase 5 with mostly freeware and a Waves Pack, a Shure sm48, M-audio M-Track Plus and my M-audio Av30 which i love so deeply.

 

[DanLights]

Name : Gustavo Perez

Location : Cabimas, Zulia, Venezuela

Age : 23

Own Band : Astral Plane

Band Website: https://soundcloud.com/astral-plane-band

Occupation : Guitarrist, Procreator Of Noise, Producer

Musical Tastes : All kind of things, from Doom Metal to Salsa (Keeping The Latin Roots lol)

Favorite Band : Isis, Black Sabbath, Neurosis, Héroes Del Silencio, Mogwai, Sonic Youth, etc

Favorite Album : Metallica - Ride The Lightning

Favorite Producer : Joe Barresi, Andy Sneap, Fredrik Nordström, Steve Albini, Peter Tägtgren

Production Experience : I'm still learning

Production Gear : Vit (Venezuelan Computers) With ProTools Express (Which i have no idea how to make it work properly) and Cubase 5 with mostly freeware and a Waves Pack, a Shure sm48, M-audio M-Track Plus and my M-audio Av30 which i love so deeply.

Que fue bro, ya somos como 3 o 4 venezolanos en toda la historia del foro jajaja

 

[ShylockVenice]

Name: Lorenzo
Location: center of Italy
Age: 29
Own Band: Subliminal Crusher
Occupation: event organizator
Musical Tastes: every kind of metal and hard rock
Favorite Band: In Flames, Alter Bridge, Mark Tremonti, Soilwork, At The Gates
Favorite Album: The Jester Race
Favorite Producer: Fredrik Nordström, Andy Sneap
Production Experience: only home recording, Bloody Imbolc demo
Goal: be a decent producer, improve as a player, play on the same stage of In Flames
Production Gear : a crappy acer aspire 7741g laptop with Cubase 5, a line6 ux2 and a pair of yamaha msp5
Guitars: ltd ec 1000 vb, jackson rr rx10d
Amp: bugera 333xl

 

[LTSmash1979]

Name: David
Location: Manacor, Mallorca
Age: 34
Own band: None
Occupation: Tattoo shop owner
Musical Tastes: almost all types of metal, some 70's rock, pop, indie, . . .
Favorite Band: Slayer, Neurosis, Cult of Luna, Mastodon, High On Fire, Napalm Death, Iron Maiden and so on . . .
Favorite Album: Depends on the day , right now Nails "Abandon All Life"
Favorite Producer: Colin Richardson, Terry Date, Kurt Ballou, Steve Albini
Production Experience: Not much, only home recordings
Production Gear: Macbook Pro, Logic 9, Motu 8pre, Focusrite Octopre
Guitars: Gibson Les Paul Menace, Ibanez RG7420 with Blackouts, Fender Telecaster MIM, LTD MHB-400
Amps and stuff: Kemper Profiling Amp, Peavey Classic 120 Poweamp, Orange PPC 4x12 cab, Peavey JSX cab

 

[Random3]

I'm very new here so I thought I'd fill this out

Name: Charlie
Location: Cardiff, UK
Age: 22
Own band: None, although I am a solo artist with self-released material.
Occupation: Masters student
Musical Tastes: Primarily progressive metal, but most genres of metal and some rock.
Favorite Band: Dream Theater, Between the Buried and Me, Protest The Hero, Periphery
Favorite Album: Octavarium by Dream Theater
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap, Misha Mansoor, Fredrik Nordstrom, Jamie King, Acle Kahney
Production Experience: Worked with a few bands on recordings for my degree and masters, have also done mixing work for a number of clients online. Currently producing my second full solo album for my major project for my masters.
Production Gear: iMac 27" 3.1GHz, Yamaha HS50s, Audio-Technica ATH-M50s, Izotope Ozone 5, Waves Gold Bundle
Guitars: Ibanez Prestige RG2570z (DiMarzio Crunch Lab and Liquifire pickups), Ibanez Prestige RG2570z (DiMarzio Mo' Joe and PAF Joe pickups), Schecter C-1 Hellraiser FR, Fender American Standard Stratocaster, Ibanez SR305, Ibanez GSR100.
Amps and stuff: Peavey 6505, Marshall 1960AV, Morley Bad Horsie II, Ibanez TS9DX, Boss NS2, TC Electronic Flashback X4, TC Electronic Dreamscape.

 

[this-is-a-cool-username]

Name: Thomas
Location: Germany/Bavaria/Passau
Age: 27
Own band: Apocryphal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krYGXR8E02s, https://soundcloud.com/apocryphalmusic/snippet-apocryphal)
Blackest Light (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AhY4CJSGII ), Meteorism (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx-OA3tpfzs), Michael Ammon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PCYnzbOZT0), Mudgod (...)
Occupation: Physiotherapist but at the moment Student
Musical Tastes: The good ones ... really, from Jazz to Classic to Deathmetal to Djent to oldschool Hiphop to pop... as long as the songs are good i don`t care about the Genre
Favorite Band: Opeth, Tool, Porcupine Tree, Sasquatch, Bumblefoot, Freak Kitchen, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, American Head Charge, Crobot, Buckethead...
Favorite Album: Opeth -Ghost Reveries, Bumblefoot - Hands, ... too many
Favorite Producer: Butch Vig, Stephen Wilson... but overall i don`t care about the Names only about specific
Production Experience: 1 Album, 1 Doublealbum, a few Singles ... and all Home recording
Production Gear: Motu 896MKIII, Tannoy Precision 8d with Subwoofer, a Shure sm7b, Spl Goldmike , Rode K2, Kemper, Cubase 8, ... and a few more mics and stuff
Guitars: Ibanez RG2228, VGS Skyline with Evertune, Ibanez RG 550 from 91 i think, a Hollowbody 7 String ... and much more
Amps and stuff: Kemper, Engl invader, Orange Hp8 4x12, Morpeus Bomber, EHX Pitchfork, the IT FUZZ (nr.8 of 10 ever made)... Laney 2x12, Ibanez TBX Halfstack ...

 

[LukasSchuft]

Hi Guys, excited to join this wonderful community!

Name: Lukas
Location: Arnsberg, Germany
Age: 21
Own band: None, but I'm working on own material.
Occupation: Unemployed but hopefully soon a studying engineer
Musical Tastes: Favourite Genre would be Melodic Death, but I also dig a lot of Metalcore, Prog (love Seventh Wonder to death) and a good portion of Rock. Also some classical stuff, Movie Soundtracks etc.
Favorite Band: Killswitch Engage, In Flames (old stuff), Mors Principium Est, A7X (yeah i know but i just can't help it) and As I Lay Dying
Favorite Album: Hard to decide but probably Colony by In Flames or Dawn of the 5th Era by Mors Principium Est
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap, Nolly Getgood, Colin Richardson
Production Experience: Only recorded myself so far, and two times vocals for a friend of mine.
Production Gear: Self build Desktop PC, Reaper, M-Audio BX5 D2, Focusrite Saffire 6 USB, Fabfilter EQ and Comp (so good)
Guitars: Only one eletric, Schecter Hellraiser Avenger Lefty with BKP Juggernauts, and an old Western Guitar
Amps and stuff: Line 6 Spider IV 150W which i regret buying and now gathers dust because i rarely play or record it.

 

[Weirdbeard]

Name: David McCafferty (Weirdbeard)
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Age: 38
Own band: Volt Paralyzer (New) - Stratejacket and The Deal (Past)
Occupation: Music Producer | Studio Owner | Audio Engineer at http://AudioFetishStudio.com
Musical Tastes: all
Favorite Band: Pantera, Buddy Guy, My Chemical Romance, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Katy Perry, etc.
Favorite Album: Changes weekly
Producer: Rob Cavallo, CLA for mix engineer
Production Experience: About 200 projects
Production Gear: Mac Pro, Pro Tools, Presonus StudioLive 24 - in the process of upgrading to 2 Apollo 16's. API lunchbox with ams Neve 1073's, Avalon 737 and a U5, Sans Amp
Guitars: Gibson Les Paul Standard, Gibson Les Paul Traditional Pro, Fender Telecaster Fender American Standard Strat, Ibanez UVMC77 (1991) and 10-15 other guitars and basses.
Amps and stuff: Splawn Quick Rod, Bogner Shiva, VooDoo Amps ADA MP1, 6505+, and a few others.
Mics: U87, 421x2, sm57x3, AT4050, several Audix including i5, D6, D4s, D3s and several others

 

[DrDentz]

Name: Lars
Location: Switzerland
Age: 20
Own Band: Irony Of Fate
Musical Tastes: Most types of Metal, especially if it's melodic.
Favorite Band: Trivium
Favorite Album: Trivium - Shogun
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap, Colin Richardson, Michael "Elvis" Baskette
Production Experience: Not so much. Just produced some own stuff and my own Band, hopefully I can get better and produce some others.
Goal: Make a living with the music. Playing many shows with my own Band and becoming better in producing music.
Guitars / Basses : Jackson Chris Broderick Pro Series Soloist 6, Dean Dimebag Razorback Skulls, Epiphone Matthew K. Heafy Signature Les Paul Custom 7-String, Dean Dimebag ML Dime-O-Flage, Chevy Les Paul, Vision Strat, Dean EQA TBKS Acoustic guitar, Dean Edge 5 Bass
Amps : Kemper profiling Amplifier with a Behringer FCB1010 Footswitch
Production Gear : Reaper, Roland UA-55 Quad Capture, Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

 

[CiG]

It might be the old organisationalist nerd in me but this seems fun.

Name: Sean "mugged by a large man with a toilet seat" Knight
Location: Western Australia (public toilet)
Age: 27
Own Band: PUSTULE ( https://pustule.bandcamp.com/ )
Occupation: I'm permanently occupied with cassette collecting, eating cold pizza and drinking beer.
Musical Tastes: Heavy Metal (Death/Black/Thrash/Doom/Speed/USPM/Punk), Soundtracks, Irish/Celtic Folk, old Country, Punk Rock, Modern Classical/Ambient, Grindcore/Deathgrind, Dub, Synth, Hillbilly/Rockabilly/Rock & Roll.
Favorite Band: Fuck that's hard! In the Metal realm it's definitely Manilla Road but of all time it has to be The Dubliners.
Favorite Album: Laurence Rosenthal's Clash Of The Titans soundtrack.
Favorite Producer: Nicky Ryan!
Production Experience: Just very barebones experience.
Goal: Finally getting my band going with actual band members. It's hard to meet people here influenced by Abscess and Hasil Adkins.
Production Gear: Ha! Just a shitty, broken 8 track. Necro production!

 

[EStreetMusic]

Hi Guys!

It's an Honour to be Part of such a legendary Place on the Interwebs.

Now,let's see...

Name: Guido
Location: Oelde,Germany
Age: 36
Own Band: Playing Bass for "Konzis" (Heavy Rock with German Vocals)
Occupation: Working as a Shift Supervisor in a large Factory where we produce Washing Machines (Well known international but i don't name it )
Musical Tastes: Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Skatepunk, Rock, Heavy Metal in General
Favorite Band: Too Many, but my Alltime Favourites are Metallica and Pantera
Favorite Album: Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap, Colin Richardson, Flemming Rasmussen (Only Metallica work, except AJFA)
Production Experience: Not so much, but i try my best to get more in Depth. I think this Place is a good Way to start!
Goal: Learning Things and make more Music
Production Gear : IMac (End 2013), Focusrite Saffire Pro 14, JBL LSR 308 Studio Monitors, Kemper Profiling Amp (Powered Version, also for Live Use), Tech 21 Midi Moose Floorboard, T-Bone Condenser Mic (don't know the correct Title at the Moment, but in it's Price Range it's awesome for Recording Vocals at Home), Sennheiser E936 (for Live Use), Amplitube 4 (i only use this for our Rehearsal Place so i don't have to carry around the Kemper). We play with IEM through a Behringer X32 and it's a great Way to Practice "Quietly") also for this Purpose i use a MacBook Air 2014 with a Behringer Uphoria UMC 204 HD which is a Cheap but awesome Audio Interface.
Guitars: Ibanez AEG10 Acoustic Guitar, J&D Acoustic Bass, Vester PJ Bass (my first electric Bass), Squier Chris Aiken Precision Bass, Squier Vintage Modified 70's Jazz Bass, Jackson Scott Ian SLXT Anarchy Signature, Jackson SLXFMG Soloist TBK, LTD EC 401, Epiphone Les Paul Custom (Matt Heafy Signature - 6 String Version) and a Harley Benton SC 450 Plus Vintage Series (Les Paul, cheap but VERY Awesome!!!)

So, that's up for now! If you have any further Questions don't hesitate to ask

 

[guitarguru777]

Updated: 2019

Name: Jason Constantine
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Age: 43
Own Band: Solo Stuff
Occupation: Producer, Mixing / Mastering Engineer
Musical Tastes: Metal, Progressive Rock & Metal, Jazz
Favorite Band: Pantera, Symphony X
Favorite Album: Vulgar Display Of Power / Iconoclast
Favorite Producers: Andy Sneap, Ross Robinson, Andrew Scheps
Production Experience: I have quite a few hip-hop, jazz and world music records under my belt since starting in 1994, but in the rock / metal genre:

Dario Lorina - Dario Lorina - Shrapnel Records (2013) (Eng, Mix, Master. Co-Prod)
Jacky Vincent - Star X Speed Story - Shrapnel Records (2013) (Eng, Mix, Master, Co-Prod)
Stoney Curtis Band - Halo Of Dark Matter - Blues Bureau (2013) (Eng, Mix, Master)
Red Zone Rider - Vinnie Moore, Kelly Keeling, Scot Coogan - Magna Carta Records (2014) (Eng)
Sicocis - Requiem Of The World Vol 1. - M Theory Audio (2014) (Eng / Arrangement)
Armored Saint - Carpe Noctum Live from Wacken - Metal Blade (2016) (Eng / Re-amp)
Attero Terra - Pray For Apocalypse- Backstage Metal (2016) (Eng, Mix, Master. Co-Prod)
Devils Run - Devils Run - Century Media (2016) (Mix)
Sicocis – Requiem Of The World (Full Length) - Salem Rose Music (2017) (Co-Prod)
DC4 - Atomic Highway - High Vol Music / Sony (2018) (Eng / Re-amp)
Jeff Duncan - Wanderlust - High Vol Music / Sony (2019) (Eng, Mix, Master. Co-Prod)
Marten Andersson - Marten Andersson - Frontiers (coming 2020) (Eng, Mix, Master. Co-Prod / Writing)

Goal: Rule the world.
Production Gear : ProTools, Focusrite, UA, Empirical, and too much other shit to list
Endorsements: ESP Guitars, Two Notes Audio Engineering, Seymour Duncan, Spectraflex, InTune GP, TC Electronic, FU-Tone, Avid
Amps: EVH 5150 iii 50w, EVH 5150 iii EL34 50w, EVH 5150iii LBX II, Peavey 5150, 74 Marshall JMP
Go To Plugins: Fortin NTS, Bias FX, SSL-G Channel, SSL Comp, Slate VCC