Who's Who

[ADRSean]

Name : Sean Smith
Location : Lansing Michigan
Age : 19
Own Band : All Due Respect
Occupation : Vocalist/Guitarist/Producer/Recording Engineer/Digital Artist
Musical Tastes : Metal, Punk Rock, Screamo, Death Metal, Classic Rock, Hip Hop, (everything really!)
Favorite Bands : Opeth, Metallica, Green Day, Dream Theater, Megadeth, Trivium, Killswitch Engage, Suicide Silence, Papa Roach
Favorite Album : Watershed
Favorite Producer : Andy Sneap, Colin Richardson, Jason Suecoff, Jens Bogren
Production Experience : Produced the first akujin EP (www.myspace.com/akujin), currently mixing/mastering the first Burning The Night Sky CD (www.myspace.com/burningthenightsky), Produced, played on, wrote, and mix/mastered my own bands material. Also started mixing and mastering a CD by a local band called Silent Lapse, I am no longer doing that due to they actually got Jens Bogren to do it!
Goal : To keep doing what I love. Working in studios!
Production Gear : HP Entertainment Notebook, Audio-Technica USB Mic, IK Media Stealthplug, Line 6 x3 Floor Pod, Pro Tools 7.4, Adobe Audition 1.5, FL Studios 8 XXL, Gearbox, Amplitube 2 and Metal, Melodyne, Audacity, M-Audio Firewire Interface,
Amps: Line 6 Spider III 120 Watt combo, Marshall MG100HDFX Half Stack, Boss Metalzone Pedal
Guitars: Dean Dimebag 7 String Razorback, Gibson Les Paul Studio, Jackson Randy Rhodes V (the cheap one)

 

[GarethSE]

Name: Gareth
Location: Penzance, Cornwall, The UK
Age: 17
Own Band: Foetus In A Jar >_>
Occupation: Music student
Musical Tastes: Jazz, post-rock, post-metal, screamo, emoviolence, trip-hop, old school and underground hip-hop, technical death metal..
Favorite Band: Circle Takes The Square, Nile, Sage Francis
Favorite Album: At the minute, I'm not really sure. I'm just skipping between listening to Circle Takes The Square - As The Roots Undo, Annihilation of the Wicked and Personal Journals by Sage Francis
Favorite Producer: Again, I'm not really sure at the minute. I'm tiring of 100% quantised beats and total perfection is boring me. I'm getting back into natural, imperfect, HUMAN recordings. But Machine and Andy Sneap remain favourites.
Production Experience: Recorded many songs by my old band, recorded and mixed college bands, a bit of experience recording local bands
Goal: Get a studio set up some time in my 20's and try and record music for a living.
Production Gear : A couple of SM57's, an AKG Perception 200, PEavey 5150 mkII with a Framus cab loaded with 2 V30's, ART Tube preamp mk1, Yamaha UW500 usb interface, Custom PC: Q6600 stock @ 2.4ghz, 8800GT 512mb, 4GB OCZ RAM 800mhz.

 

[LeSedna]

Name: Mathieu
Location: Toulouse, France
Age: 20
Own Band: "Demonje" but this name is only an old joke and will change
Occupation: Airliner Plane Pilot student
Musical Tastes: Metal (mostly swedish and more groovy ones, I'm not so much into technical ones but I can like it), Classical music and rarely Jazz
Favorite Band: Hypocrisy
Favorite Album: Hypocrisy of hypocrisy, some of Devin Townsend
Favorite Producer: sneap, fredman, tagtgren, townsend
Production Experience: Recorded personnal stuff, mixing my band
Goal: Build a nice studio when I will be in an airline, be able to produce my band alone, and depending on time I'll have, produce friends or local bands.
Production Gear : Guitars / Toneport GX and UX2 / Tascam 2 XLR + midi interface / Sennheiser HD600 / Behringer BCF 2000 8 faders motorized midi interface / two 1440x900 LCD Screens / PC dual core 3Ghz + 3go RAM / Cubase / old Samplitude / Cockos Reaper / M-audio 25 keys midi keyboard / a bunch of VST freebies

 

[Put]

Name: Ruben
Location: Holland
Age: 19
Own Band: Caged (metal and on a hold . www.myspace.com/cagedmetal)
Occupation: Mailman
Musical Tastes: I give all music a chance
Favorite Band: ....right, the unawnserable question.
Once you pop you can’t stop, the list would be to big
Favorite Album: ....fuck why am I even trying this
Favorite Producer: singular-choice question....( i dare not to express my true feelings )
Production Experience: Some
Goal: to obtain the epic item : 'the cycle of happiness'
Production Gear : computar, toneport, behringer mixing thing wich i use to link my KRK’s

 

[katatonic.]

Name: Nick
Age: 21
Location: Rochester, NY
Occupation: History major/pizza delivery/freelance engineer
Own Band: Gray Halo (lead guitars)
Musical Tastes: Progressive, metal, jazz/fusion
Favorite Band: Opeth
Favorite Album: Lots
Favorite Producer: Jens Bogren, Andy Sneap, Fredrik Nordstrom, Steven Wilson
Experience: Lots of solo recordings, working on my band's full-length now
Goal: Happiness
Recording Gear:
- Computer: iMac 24" 2.4GHz, Black MacBook 2.4GHz
- Software: Logic 8, apTrigga and a bunch of excellent freeware plugins
- Audio Interface: Presonus Firepod
- Monitors: M-Audio Studiophile AV40
- Mics: Sennheiser e609 x4, Shure SM57 x2, Shure SM7B, AKG D112, and whatever I can borrow or rent
- Misc: Behringer Virtualizer Pro, BBE 362 Sonic Maximizer, Alesis 3630 compressor/limiter/gate, Behringer Ultragain tube mic preamp (though I had a buddy mod the hell out of it and most of the circuit has been changed)

Personal equipment: ESP EC-2005, Ibanez SZ520 (both with EMG 81b/60n), Jackson DXMG (EMG 85b/81n), Art & Lutherie and Takamine acoustics, Peavey 5150 II, Marshall 1960BV, Whirlwind cables, BOSS GT-3, BOSS NS-2, Digitech Bad Monkey, D'Addario 11-52 electric strings, Elixir 12-53 acoustics, La Bella classical strings, Dunlop Tortex greens

 

[Ashgarth]

Name: Jordi
Age: 20
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Occupation: Musician/sound technician
Own Band: Aenea (rythm & lead guitar)
Musical Tastes: Metal (mostly death/black metal), jazz, classical music, etc
Favourite Band: Don't know...lots!
Favourite Album: same
Favourite Producer: Steven Wilson, Andy Sneap, Peter Tagtgren
Production Experience: Solo recordings, recordings for my band, audio for some videos...
Goal: Have an own studio, or if I can become a rock star with my band XDD
Recording Gear:
- Pentium 4 3,2, 2gb ram
- Protools LE 7.1
- Digidesign Digi 002
- Fame Active monitors (need new (and better) ones soon)
- Mindprint Trio, for monitor controlling.
- AKG K141 and K141monitor headphones

Personal Equipment: ESP Horizon FR, Peavey 6505 head, Mesa Boogie Rectifier 4x12, Rocktron Xpression, PodXTLive (for some recordings and midi control for the xpression), Laboga&Monster cables, 07USAguitars Acoustic guitar, D'addario 10-46 strings, Dunlop Tortex 1,5mm picks, Jim Dunlop Wah pedal.

 

[MarkG]

Name: Mark
Location: Netherlands
Age: 20
Own Band: Dark Reign, guitarist.
Occupation: Psychology student, part time english tutor.
Musical Tastes: Metal of any sort.
Favorite Band: As I Lay Dying
Favorite Album: An Ocean Between Us.
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap. He did my fav album you know :Smug:

Production Experience: Virtually none. Just got into recording and mixing last week because I want better quality CD's for my band.
Goal: Wife, kids, a steady job combining criminology and psychology, being able to play all the songs I like.

Production Gear :
- shitty laptop running Cubase and a couple of plugins for impulses, EQing and mixing. I had a toneport but it died on me, currently saving up for a firewire interface.

- ENGL Blackmore, Framus 2x12 V30 cabinet, Schecter C1 classic, LTD MH-400, TC Electronics G-Sharp.

 

[Via Noctis]

Name : Davus
Location : Wisconsin, USA
Age : 27
Own Band : Via Noctis (no longer together), Imminent Betrayal, Malicious Resolve. Guitars
Occupation : I make your food packages
Musical Tastes : Metal, jazz.
Favorite Bands : Too many to list.
Favorite Album : Still too many to list
Favorite Producer : Andy Sneap, Fredrick Nordstrom
Production Experience : Demos for my bands, hopefully a full length cd soon.
Goal : To get a cd done.
Production Gear : Mac book pro, logic. Presonus firestudio lightpipe, digimax d8 x2.
amps: Marshall jcm 2000, 1960 cab, marshall jmp-1, mesa 2:100, mesa recto cab. mesa recto preamp.
guitars: Jackson randy roads x2, jackson custom.
mics: Akg 414, akg perception 200, sm 57 x3, audix d6, Ddrum triggers.

 

[Kivarenn82]

Hi there, Just joined a short while ago after lurking a bit and this looked like a good way to introduce myself. I was referred here from another forum by one of your members after asking him for some recording advice.

Name: Renn
Location: BC Canada
Age: 26
Own Band: Deafening Irritance (solo project)
Occupation: Kitchen Slave (Line cook)
Band website: www.myspace.com/DIstudios

Musical Tastes: Most types of metal, some underground rap, my wife has some cool ambient type stuff she listens to which i find pretty cool. Theres a cool jazz type station on my city i'll tune into as well.

Favorite Band: Strapping Young Lad/DTB
Favorite Album: just one?! SYL's Alien, City and The new black. Plus Ziltoid the Omniscient.
Favorite Producer: Devin townsend and Hevy Devy labs

Production Experience: Nil, this is mainly a hobby for me whenever I record my own stuff.
Production Gear: Just me an my Pod over here! ..

 

[Decimator]

Name: Arto
Location: Finland
Age: 25
Occupation: Purchaser
Musical Tastes: Metal, Fusion, Jazz, Blues, Pop, you name it.. Not rap
Favorite Bands: Devin Townsend, Faith No More, Opeth, Extreme, Pain Of Salvation, Slash's Snakepit, Rush
Favorite Album: 3 Sides to every story (Extreme)
Favorite Producer: No preference..
Production Experience: Few demos
Goal: Hmm.. to make a living as a musician
Gear : Engl 530, ADA MP-1, PodXt, Roland GR20, Peavey Windsor studio (modded), Studio projects B1 + all kinds of other crap
Guitars: Ibanez 1527, Godin ACS Nylon, Epiphone les paul std, Jackson DRX, Norman B18, Behringer strat and Cort artisan B5 bass

 

[rockmanxpr]

Name: Brian Acuff
Location: Bay Area California
Age: 38
Own Band: None
Occupation: Student
Musical Tastes: Metal (most genres), classic rock, J-rock/Pop, Jazz
Favorite Band: Too many
Favorite Album: Well I'll just name the ones that I think are well produced: Boston ST, anything Steely Dan recorded prior to 1981 breakup, and pretty much anything Arjen Lucassen is making.
Favorite Producer: None really but if I had to pick a sound I want my songs to sound like, again Arjen Lucassen ...
Production Experience: None really, just wrapped up school. Spent 2 weeks at Bennett Studios in NJ doing remedial work but educational nonetheless.
Goal: Pretty much work in a studio or work freelance. Also would love to work in Post Production
Production Gear :
Guitars: Explorer, Edwards LP, Edwards KL-160SE, Carvin Strat Kit, Ibanez Prestige RG3270
Bass: Ibanez SRG 4 string bass
Mics: SM57 x2, Sennheiser 421D, Rode NT-1a, and Matched pair of SE1a condenser mics
Amps: Hughes & Kettner Triamp MkII, Mesa Boogie Triaxis and 20/20 Power amp, RockmanXPR preamp for DI recording.
Bass DI: A Designs REDDI
Midi controller: M-Audio 88 keystation
Interface: Mbox 1
Software: Pro Tools 8, Reason 4.0, Massey Plugins, Media Composer, Waves SSL bundle, Waves silver bundle, EZdrummer, Drumkit From Hell Superior 1, Superior Drummer 2.0.

 

[DanLights]

Name: Daniel Luces
Location: Venezuela, South America
Age: 21
Own Band: Ad Intra (Bass/Vocals) and Intestinal Infection (Bass)
Band websites: http://www.myspace.com/adintra http://www.myspace.com/intestinalblasting
Occupation: Student (Ind. Engineering, will graduate this year), Musician, Aspiring producer
Musical tastes: Besides metal, I like EBM, ambient and jazz
Favorite Band: Opeth
Favorite Album: To pick one is too hard
Favorite Producer: Same here
Production Experience: Just starting, did my band's demo and will do another band's demo in a couple of weeks, hopefully more when I get better equipment
Goal: I love my career (Industrial Engineering), but if a chance ever comes to make a living out of playing or producing music I won't think it twice. Other than that, marry my girlfriend someday (who happens to be my guitarist also)
Gear: Strinberg Clb-25 Bass, Zoom 506 II pedal, Samson Microphone with wireless system, Epiphone Les Paul Special (Red) guitar, shitty laptop, Reaper and Cubase, Reason, FL Studio. Will very soon be getting a Bass head and cabinet, a small mixing board, Focusrite firewire interfase, an SM57 and two cheap condenser mics. Things are pretty damn expensive in this shithole country

 

[Everybody]

Name: Zach Miller
Location: South Carolina, US
Age: 17
Own Band: none
Occupation: Junior in High School
Musical tastes: Metal/DeathMetal/Hardcore/Techno
Favorite Band: Dream Theater
Favorite Album: Train of Thought
Favorite Producer: I dont really know any...Joey Sturgis maybe?
Production Experience: Just recorded my second band the other day, thats about it.
Goal: I would like to be able to make my recordings sound like, The Faclesses new stuff, Oceano, A Plea for Purging...I just want to be able to be proud of my recordings.
Gear: Cubase LE, PODxt, Presonus Firestudio Project, KRK RP8G2, e604s, sm57s, d112, F15s.

If anyone is down for helping me out, or giving me tips 1on1 via email or whatever, please help me out haha.

 

[P-E]

Location: St-Jérôme, Québec, Canada
Age: 15
Own Band: none
Occupation: High School Student
Musical tastes: Metal (pretty much anything really), Classical, Classic and Prog rock.
Favorite Band: Wintersun
Favorite Album: Wintersun
Favorite Producer: Fredrik Nordström
Production Experience: Recording some stuff, messing around with amp vsts, impulses and synth drums a la ezdrummer and DFHS2.
Goal: Make something that sounds good for more than two weeks! Seriously, producing an album that sounds as good as Clayman, STD or Sweet Vengeance would be wonderful.
Gear: Cheap BC Rich guitar, Toneport DI Gold, REAPER and (most important along with the Internet) my hands and brain.

 

[embrace.random]

Name: embrace.random

Location: England

Band: Own project [looking for sick drummer!]

Occupation: Student (BA Music Technology)

Musical Tastes: Progressive Metal, Experimental Metal, Instrumental Rock, Orchestral, Fixed Media...

Favourite Bands: Opeth, Dream Theater, Meshuggah, Gojira, Tool, Metallica.

Favourite Artists: Steve Vai, Joe Satriani.

Favourite Album: Opeth - Still Life (just ordered Bogren's remix/master!).

Favorite Producer: Yet to decide.

Production Experience: A few productions, mainly relating to my course.

Goal: A respected and well-known Mixing Engineer, Lead Guitarist and Composer [of my Prog Metal project], Guitar Tutor, Session Musician, A-level/BA Music Technology teacher.

Production Gear: Currently in the process of setting up my Home Project Studio.

 

[TOMB]

Name: Tom
Location: Manchester, UK
Age: 19
Own Band: Elmer Henley
Occupation: Customer Services Executive (not ideal, but it pays well)
website : www.myspace.com/elmerhenley
Musical Tastes: Metal, Pop, Jazz, Blues, Modern Classical, Drum n Bass, Trance,
Favorite Band: Architects
Favorite Album: Colors By Between The Buried & Me.
Production Experience: Recording My Band, And Reading Up LOADS on the Internet about techniques and ways of recording etc. (So not much experience at all)
Goal: To get somewhere with my band. Not Out for loads of monies, Would be more than happy JUST getting through life by playing music. Money is no object as music is my passion.
Production Gear : (See Signature)

 

[Anaon]

Name: Julien
Location: Paris, France
Age: 28
Own Band: Spleen Arcana
Occupation: Music
Musical Tastes: 70's progressive rock, old hard/heavy metal, progressive metal, power metal, folk...
Favorite Band: Marillion, Anathema, Yes, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Mike Oldfield, Opeth, Tool, Blind Guardian, Pain Of Salvation, Rush, Camel...
Favorite Album: Brave by Marillion, Lateralus by Tool, Close To The Edge by Yes, The Sham Mirrors by Arcturus, Still Life by Opeth, Judgement by Anathema
Favorite Producer: Steven Wilson, Nigel Godrich, Eddy Offord
Production Experience: Just my self-release album
Goal: I'd like to continue to record my music, release a second album, improve my sound.
Production Gear :
Guitars: Fender Classic Player 50, Maison Les Paul, Yamaha LL16
Bass: Fame Baphomet IV Limited Edition
Mics: SM57, Oktava MK-012 x 2, Oktava MK319, Studio Project C1, T Bone RM 700 (ribbon mic) and various low cost mics for the drums
Amps: Fender Bassman 70 + Matamp 4x12 cab
Bass DI: Tech 21 VT Bass
Midi controller: Edirol PCR50, Fatar TKM88
Interface: RME Multiface II
Monitors: Adam A7
Software: Samplitude Pro 9, Tracktion, Universal Audio UAD-1, Vocengo and Stillwell plugins

 

[mark.james]

Name : Mark James
Location : Oakland, CA
Age : 28
Own Band : Rise & Set
Occupation : Clinical IT Analyst
Musical Tastes : Space Rock, Indie, Folk, Metal when I was younger
Favorite Bands : Failure, Year of the Rabbit, Swervedriver, Starflyer 59
Favorite Album : Fantastic Planet, by Failure
Favorite Producer : Ken Andrews mixed my favorite record from DAT on a Mackie 8 bus.
Production Experience : I've been recording for 10 years in various locations. I've worked on a few records here and there, but mainly do it as a hobby. I'm currently in the process of building a mix room in my detached garage.
Goal : I was turned on to this forum by a friend, and I was amazed at what you guys are doing direct / ITB. I am going to record a solo EP completely ITB, and it's going to sound awesome, damnit. There is a lot of great content on this board!
Production Gear : Dell Precision 690, Protools HD2, 192io and 2x 882io. Soundcraft 500 series console (currently being repaired), Universal Audio 2108, Seventh Circle Audio with 1 A12 so far, Presonus Digimax, 2x Behringer V-Verb, Midiverb II, TC Electronics M300, Valley People Gatex, DBX 266, Sansamp RBI, Countryman DI, Line 6 M13, Rode NTK with NOS tube, 2x TLM103, 2x Earthworks TSO, 2x Nady RS-4 ribbons, Audix drum kit (D6, I5, etc.), 2x SM57s, MD421, Beta 52, and more I can't remember right now
Software : I've been using Protools for 10 years and haven't found another DAW that I am comfortable with. I like the Waves SSL plugins and Renaissance plugins. I'm getting into the Nebula thing now, and am planning on creating programs for some awesome gear a friend has access to (SSL 4000, La2a, 1176, etc.)
General : Recording is a hobby and a passion for me. After recording for a good amount of time I've realized that I am a perfectionist and tend to give up in the middle of projects when they don't sound like I hear them in my head, and I'm taking steps to get over that. I'm going to start writing and producing my own music for me personally, not for everyone else. The magic is in the process no matter what the final product sounds like. I seem to have lost touch with the creative moment because I'm worrying so much about the end product.

 

[Harry Hughes]

Name: Harry Hughes
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Age:20
Own Band: None right now
Occupation: Unemployed
Musical Tastes: Thrash metal, death metal (of various sub genres be it melodic death, technical death, brutal death et al), progressive metal of various sub genres (progressive death metal, progressive thrash metal, progressive metalcore etc although progressive power metal is not to my tastes), post metal, post rock, metalcore, post hardcore, deathcore, some old school progressive rock (late 60s and 70s stuff), instrumental rock (Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Guthrie Govan etc), jazz fusion, jazz, classical, some hip hop, math rock, mathcore.
Favorite artist/album/producer: To be honest, can't really say for sure for either of them. Obviously since I'm posting here, Andy Sneap is among the top of the heap of some of my favorite producers.
Andy Wallace, Chris Lord-Alge, David Bendeth, Colin Richardson and Jens Bogren are also favorites of mine
Production Experience[b/] None really lol
Production Gear: Windows Vista 32 bit OS equipped PC using Ableton Live 8 Suite software, Behringer Truth B2030A active studio monitors
Gear:
Guitar: Ibanez RG 7421 7 string guitar (modified with new pickups) for all guitar duties.
Amp modeling/effects: Line 6 POD X3 Live amplified by studio monitors or anything else I can find at the time to use and also for all guitar recording purposes.

 

[DolphinSplatter]

Name: Moe
Age: 20
Location: Miami/Orlando
Occupation: EE major, unemployed
Own Band: Dolphin Splatter
Musical Tastes: Death, Grind, Crust, HC Punk
Favorite Band: Death, Maruta
Favorite Album: Lots
Favorite Producer: none
Experience: worked in a production/backline company and learned shitloads. this past few months ive been recording my own band and some of my friends'
Goal: HA!
Recording Gear:
- Computer: My gf's shitty laptop
- Software: Reaper and assloads of plugins
- Audio Interface: Focusrite Saffire 10
- Monitors: Wish I had some, i just use AT cans
- Mics: 57's 58's 609's AT4050, some cad and nady mics and whatever else I wanna borrow from the shop

Personal equipment:
-with me: Jackson Dinky, A.R.T. eighty/eighty, traynor 2x15 cab, old charvel bass
-at my parents house: Peavey Vortex II, Dean ML noir, Blue Vodoo, HArtke 4x12 cab, behringer bass amp and 1x15 cab and fuckloads of things like that