Who's Who

[ronnan]

Name: Ronan
Location: Kildare Ireland
Age: 22
Occupation: Guitar teacher( trying to be)
Musical Tastes: Metal, Blues,
Favorite Bands: Nevermore, Mastodon , Chimaira , Behemoth
Favorite Album: Apostasy behemoth
Production Experience: Recording Local musicians etc nothing to extravagant
Production Gear : Mbox mini, Tascam monitors, Audix, Shure and Akg mics, Peavey XXX and harley benton 4x12 cab with V30s

 

[AshM]

Name: Ash
Age: 24
Location: London, UK
Occupation: Recording & Mix Engineer
Own Band: Giants Fall
Musical Tastes: Metal, punk, hardcore and traditional ska/reggae!
Favourite Bands: Architects, August Burns Red, Dillinger Escape Plan...
Favourite Album: Currently "Hollow Crown"
Favourite Producer: Not sure.
Production Experience: A number of band recordings and mixes.
Goal: To be a well known and respected producer and mixer
Recording Gear: Pro Tools HD, Logic Pro 8, NS10, Genelec and ATC monitoring, Teletronix LA2A, UA 1176, API 3124, Focusrite Red and ISA 220, SSL Converters, Waves, Neumann, AKG, Sennheiser, Calrec mics,
Personal Equipment: ESP Viper 200FM, Ibanez SZ520, Peavey 6505, ENGL 212, Peavey ReValver, SansAmp Bass Driver D.I, Ibanez TS9/808, DIY Re-Amp box.

 

[Macke/Crystal Light]

Name: Marcus
Age: 36
Location: Sandviken, Sweden
Occupation: telecommunication and musician
Own Band: Crystal Light (http://www.crystallight.se)
Musical Tastes: Metal, hard rock, rock´n roll
Favourite Bands: Queensryche, Firewind, Europe and a lot more....
Favourite Album: Operation Mindcrime
Favourite Producer: Not sure.
Production Experience: Mostly own band demos
Goal: To be able to produce good sounding demos/pre productions
Recording Gear: Cubase SX3, Studioproject pre amp and mic´s, Omnitronic speakers, Woodo guitars and ibanez 5 string bass, some plug in´s and software instruments

 

[joeritson]

Name: Joe Ritson
Location: Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Age: 20
Band: None
Occupation: Live Engineer/Graphic Designer/Some studio work
Musical Tastes: Prog Metal, dirty fuckin' rock
Favourite Bands: Between The Buried and Me, Opeth, Arrowsfly, Every Time I Die,
Favourite Artists: Blake Richardson
Favourite Album: Colors
Favorite Producer: Metal, Andy. Commercial, Brendan O'Brien
Production Experience: Regular carousel of metal bands from the surrounding 250km
Goal: Tour with Arrowsfly, doing live sound for them. When I'm not doing that, I'll be right at home in my studio in Clifton
Production Gear: Below

 

[johnb757]

Name : John Bryant
Location : Virginia Beach, VA
Age : 41
Own Band : None at the moment but working on it
Occupation : IT Helpdesk
Musical Tastes : Metal, Classical, Classic Rock,
Favorite Band : Dream Theater (all-time) and currently Scar Symmetry, Opeth
Favorite Album : I&W, Holographic Universe, Wages of Sin and really digging Wrath from LoG
Favorite Producer : Andy Sneap, James Murphy, Colin Richardson, Fredrik Nordstrom, Jason Suecoff and Chris Harris
Production Experience : I am a newbie and have been tinkering around with my own stuff and some covers
Goal : To learn as much as I can about the Production/engineering business as possible and to have my own studio...I am a sponge for knowledge
Production Gear : Apple iMac G5, Reaper, AD, Peavey Revalver and some free vst's
Amps: Rivera KTre120 head, Randall RG100 head, Peavey valveking100 head (I know it isn't the greatest) Mesa Rectifier Standard 4x12 slant cab, Line 6 POD XT Live with metal pack
Guitars: Ibanez RGR1570 Prestige with Dimarzio D Sonic, Ibanez RG320 with Dimarzio Super Distortion, Fender Mexi Strat, 1994 Jackson Professional series Dinky reverse with Seymour Duncan SH-6 Distortion, 1985 Kramer Striker 3000st (currently a project guitar)

 

[Pipsymbol]

Name: Piper
Location: Osijek, Croatia
Age: 29
Occupation: Environmental engineer & Musician
Bands: Drummer for War-Head and Symbolic
Musical Tastes: Progressive, Death and Thrash Metal, Rock, Classical...
Favorite Bands: Artension, Symphony X, Carcass, Exodus, Morbid Angel, Testament...
Production Experience: just started doing demos for local bands but i've been into this DAW thing for 10 years already mainly doing own songs and demos
Production Gear: M-Audio Profire 2626, Focusrite Twintrack Pro, Joemeek SixQ, TC powercore PCI
Musical equipment: Sonor Force 2007 double kit with Paiste Cymbals

 

[mick thompson]

Name: Ross Canpolat
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 21
Own Band: Dr Proctor & Several Other Projects
Occupation: Stone Mason, Musician, Self Educated Producer, Irish HND in Music Performance in the Irish Rock School (Stage Presence, Production, Performance, Touring, Piano, Vocals, Guitar, Music & Computers, Song Writing, Arrangement & Harmonies, Reharmonization, Music Industry, Record Contracts etc
Musical Tastes: Hardcore Metal, Gothenburg Metal, Dance, RnB, Indie, Rock
Favorite Band: I hate this question..but if i had to pick then old Arch Enemy - Before Angela came in
Favorite Album: Black Earth
Favorite Producer: Eh Andy Naturally!
Production Experience: Some demos, recording, Mixing and Mastering, Full Production including TV Crew / Portable Recording / Lighting Rig - That was my last gig i was in, Large Gigs - Basically any Production Performance i know my shit in.
Goal: Professional Musician & to own a Honda NSX
Production Gear : Peavey 6505+, Marshall Vintage 1960 A, Line 6 Spider 2 212 Series, Gibson Les Paul Custom Series Menace, Jackson RX Series V, Cort X-Series, Tanglewood Acustic, Apple Macbook, Line 6 ux2, M-audio Guitar Interface, Superior Drummer, EzDrummer and around 5 gigs worth of plugins i've collected over the last few years - A load of fx pedals and a Windows Desktop for production of non Mac friendly audio

Thats my poor ass!

 

[katatonic.]

Been lurking and occasionally posting around here quite a bit, but never posted one of these!
Name: Nick
Location: Rochester, NY
Age: 21
Own Band: Halothane (guitars/vocals/keyboards)
Occupation: Student and pizza delivery dude, unfortunately
Musical Tastes: All kinds of metal, jazz fusion, progressive rock, classic rock
5 Favorite Bands: Opeth, Katatonia, Porcupine Tree, Nevermore, Alice in Chains
10 Favorite Albums:
Opeth - Still Life
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion
Nevermore - Dead Heart, in a Dead World
Meshuggah - obZen
In Flames - The Jester Race
Pink Floyd - Animals
Ihsahn - angL
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap, Jens Bogren, Steven Wilson
Production Experience: Co-produced and co-engineered my band's demo, and I'm at the helm for the follow-up
Production Gear:
- Microphones: AKG, Audio-Technica, Sennheiser, Shure, a couple cheap Nadys
- Audio Interface: Presonus Firepod
- Monitors: Tiny M-Audio monitors for now, upgrading soon though
Guitar Gear:
ESP LTD EC-2005
Ibanez SZ520 (EMG 81b/60n)
Jackson DXMG (EMG 85b/81n @18v)
Brian Moore 7-string (SD JB-7 bridge, 59-7 neck)
Peavey 6505+ head/Marshall 1960BV cab
BOSS GT-3
Digitech Bad Monkey
Computer: Apple Core 2 Duo iMac 24" @2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, OSX.6, 2x 500GB external HDs

 

[Deofig]

I've lurked a little, and started posting recently.
Name: Dan
Location: Shelton, Wa.
Age: 19
Own Band: Vividus (guitar/vocals)
Occupation: I work at a youth center as an "intern" in a few different media programs.
Musical Tastes: Blackened-progressive-neoclassical-jazz-funk-metal with a touch of deathcore.
5 Favorite Bands: Megadeth, Death, Opeth, Protest the Hero, Between the Buried and Me.
3 Favorite Albums:
Megadeth - Rust in Peace; Megadeth - K.I.M.B.; Metallica - Ride the Lightning.
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap so far. Never really looked into who was producing an album until recently.
Production Experience: Lots of home recordings, a few days experience in a budget "studio".
Guitar Gear:
Schecter C1+, stock pickups.
BOSS GE-7
Behringer V-Ampire 2x10 combo.
Computer: Self built Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz, 1GB RAM, Win XP Pro, 80GB HD.

 

[lordofthestring]

Name : Joe Ellis
Location : Concord, CA.
Age : 23
Own Band : A few 'in progress' bands. I've mostly just been a hired gun for bands such All Shall Perish, Light This City, and With Passion. Also have a video game metal project known as 'Quickshot Game Metal'.
Occupation : Computer technician, Network Engineer, Music tutor
Musical Tastes : Metal (Just about anything but Nu), Contemporary classical, Smooth jazz, Video Game music, 90s rap/hip hop, 80s pop, the list goes on.
Favorite Band : Carcass
Favorite Album : Heartwork (cliche much?)
Favorite Producer : Zack Ohren (just because he's consistent, high quality, and overall a rad dude)
Production Experience : It all started with a video game metal cover project I started up in 2001. Started with the ever-so mighty Fruityloops, Zoom GFX pedalboard, and horrible 80s drum samples. Excelled to Toontrack products and now happily using XLN Audio, Alien Connections, Voxengo, and other products to polish my mixes with. I limit myself to bands on a budget, friends bands, and my own projects.
Gear: Sold most of my gear just recently, so at the moment only a few custom Jackson guitars, Mitchell electric acoustic, Ibanez S-Classic, Marshall 1960 Cab, Blackstar HT-Dist, M-Audio FTP, M-Audio Keystation 49e, Korg nanoPad, and probably some other stuff I can't think of at the moment.

 

[avrinder]

Name : Avrinder
Location : Winnipeg, Canada.
Age : 26
Own Band : Blackmail (Himsa/All Out War type stuff. www.myspace.com/blackmail204
Occupation : Loans Officer
Musical Tastes : Hardcore, Metal, Punk, Oldies (50's doo wop)
Favorite Band : At The Gates
Favorite Album : Slaughter of the Soul
Favorite Producer : John Paul Peters (recorded my old band Hollow Ground, and Comeback Kid/Every New Day/Figure Four, etc)
Production Experience : Recorded vocals for a guest spot Andrew Neufeld (Comeback Kid) did for All For Nothing (Holland), re-amped a few local bands (Withdrawal, Noose), and just been doing pre-productions for song ideas.
Gear: still in progress. Guitars: Gibson LP studio (lefty), Epiphone LP, Schecter Series. Amps: Mesa Triple Rectifier/Mesa matching Cab
Daw: Logic Pro 8/9. Mic: Samson c01u. Audix Fusion 7 set. Interface: Profire 2626

 

[Jind]

Figured I've been here for a while now so I might as well do one of these.

Name: Scott a.k.a. Jind (name from my old MMORPG days - mostly EverQuest)
Location: Connecticut, USA
Age: 43
Own Band: None - I write music as a form of enjoyment and relaxation. I'm a shy perfectionist so I'm never pleased enough to share it.
Occupation: Technology Adviser for the non-scientific groups (security/operations/finance/human resources) of a big Pharmaceutical company.
Musical Tastes: Metal (pretty much all types), Rock, Pop, Electronic/Industrial, Ambient
Favorite Band: Probably have to be Iron Maiden or Black Sabbath based upon my long life with them, but my favorite band at any given time varies.
Favorite Album: Queensryche "Operation Mindcrime"
Favorite Producer: Probably Colin Richardson and/or Any Sneap, but I do have a soft spot for Peter Collins as well.
Production Experience: Nothing aside from my own work.
Goal: I have no aspirations of becoming a "professional" in music - It's a passion, but in the personal sense. I love my job and my career - it supports this hobby of mine.
Production Gear :
- Microphones: Shure SM57/58, MXL990/991
- Audio Interface and Pres: Cakewalk/Roland V Studio 100
- Monitors: Behringer TRUTH B2031A, AKG K240 headphones
- Other Equipment: Line 6 GuitarPort, Edirol PCR-300 MIDI Controller, Ibanez TS7, BOSS NS-2, Morley Mark Tremonti Wah, VOX ToneLab ST
- Guitars & Amps: Ibanez RGR420EX, Ibanez ART300, Squier Classic Vibe 50's Telecaster & 60's Stratocaster, Egnater Tweaker 15 Watt Head & Matching 1x12 Cabinet w/ Celestion G12H-30 speaker, Weber MINI Mass Attenuator
- Computer/DAW: Sonar 8.5PE; AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000 w/8GB DDR2 Ram, MS Windows 7 x64, 1x500GB System Drive, 2x1TB Music Drives (Projects and Samples)

Nothing fancy - it works for me.

EDIT - hehe - it seems the forums consider my industry to be a dirty word and won't let me list it, thus the ***********. I'll tell you this it begins with "pharma" and ends in "ceuticles", how odd.

 

[monolithsound]

Name: Justin
Age: 26
Location: Nashua, New Hampshire
Occupation: Retail Manager
Favorite Bands: Carcass, At the Gates, Disfear, In Flames
Favorite Producers: Andy Sneap, Erik Rutan, Jack Endino, Kurt Ballou
Production Experience: doing demos and some full length albums for local bands
Production Gear:
DAW: iMac 24" 3.06GHz dual core 4gb RAM, Logic Pro 9
Outboard: Apogee Ensemble, Mackie MCU, Presonus Digimax LT, SCA API/Neve preamps, DBX 160A, FMR PBC-6A, POD XT Pro, Sansamp RBI
Mics: AKG C414 (2), SM7B, SM57 (3), SM58, Oktava MK012 (2), Heil PR20, PR30 (2), D112, Audix i5, D6, Ddrum trigger set
Monitoring: ADAM A7 monitors, Beyer DT770, ATH-M50, ATH-M40, ATH-M20
Guitar Gear: ESP M-II, Dual Rec, Uberschall, Recto 4x12, Diamond Spec Op 4x12, ISP Decimator, TS-808, Teese RMC-3 wah, TC Nova System

 

[MEGA DAVE]

Name: Dave Voll (soon to have last name changed)
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Age: 24
Own Band: Current: Black Shirt Cargo (Guitars) Former: Rose Funeral (Bass for 'The Resting Sonata')
Occupation: Acoustic Musician, as well as Full Band, Recording Engineer, Sound Engineer, Landscaper, High School/Grade School Music Teacher (yeah i work alot ha)
website : Personal: myspace.com/davidvoll03 Studio: myspace.com/ironforgestudios
Musical Tastes: Metal (every kind), Hardcore, Pop-Punk, Acoustic
Favorite Band: A toss up between Pantera and Oasis
Favorite Album: Vulgar Display of Power
Favorite Producer: Sneap
Production Experience: A LOT of locals as well as help on Rose Funeral's 'The Resting Sonata' (that's what got me into recording!)
Goal: To be happy and make music!
Production Gear :
- Microphones: AKG, Studio Projects, Rode, Sennheiser, Shure, and alot of oldschool mics (always fun to play with)
- Audio Interface and Pres: Presonus FP10, Line6 Toneport UX-1, ART Tube MP Project Series
- Software: Cubase SX3(laptop), Cubase 5(desktop), Drumagog, Izotope Ozone, EZ Drummer, POD Farm
- Monitors: Fostex PM0.5 MKII Active Nearfield Studio Monitors, Various Audio-Technica Headphones
- Backline: Peavey 5150, Peavey 6505 (purchased from the band Bury Your Dead), PODXT Live, PODXT Live v3
- Computer: HP core system refurb, quad-core processor, 8gb ram, 500gig seagate hd, 1tb seagate external
Toshiba Satellite A215-S5837, Dual Core Processor, 3gb ram, 160gig hd

 

[vespiz]

Bugger, this one escaped me somehow!

Name : Jussi Kulomaa
Location : Tampere, Finland
Born : 1979
Own Band : Masterstroke +other projects
Occupation : Salesperson in a local MI store, trying to get our own studio up and running (mstr-studios)
Musical Tastes : Various
Favorite Artist : Vangelis
Favorite Album : 1492
Favorite Producer : -
Production Experience : Recording, mixing and mastering several albums, demos, EP's, etc.
Goal : To make a living out of music!
Production Gear : PC running PT LE / Digi002, Lynx Aurora 8, Toft ATB24, Genelec 8040, Chandler Limited TG-2, SPL GoldMike, Drawmer 241, ART ProVLA, FMR RNLA, TC Electronic M300, Lexicon MPX-110, Digitech S100, Yamaha REV-5, Behringer HA4700, loads of headphones and other crap.
Several microphones (AKG, Shure, Audix, Rode..).
Amps and cabs at my disposal: Peavey 6505+, Engl Fireball, Powerball, Marshall JCM-800, 1960(?) cab (loaded with V30), Krank Rev1 cab, Mesa/Boogie Bass 400+ and cab (4x10+15), Laney cab (loaded with what was in the Marshall cab)
Synths : Yamaha CS40m, AN1x, Akai SG01v, Clavia Nord Modular Rack, Nord Electro 2, Fatar SL-1100, Roland XV-5050 (+2 cards), RS-505, PC-200, R-8, SH-2000, Novation DrumStation, MAM MB-33, Korg PolySix, ER-1, Symphony 03, Triton Extreme, Wavestation EX, WLM Hit, plus a big one coming up soon...

 

[SeVeN_corps]

Name: James
Location: Australia
Age: 22
Own Band: in process of forming
Occupation: currently a student was studying sound engineering but was forced to quit due to circumstances at the time now studying graphic design for a day job and doing recording and mixing as a hoby for the moment (hard to get work in aus)
Musical Tastes: i like all sorts of stuff from inxs to pantera to pink floyd to slim dusty just to name a few but my heart lies in metal
Favorite Band: would have to say pantera is the most favourite next to slipknot and a bunch of others
Favorite Album: Vulgar display of power
Favorite Producer: andy sneap colin richardson just to name a few
Production Experience: mainly trying to record my own stuff to hone my skills but am after some stuff to mix to get some experience down ( free of charge of course ) PM me if your interested.
Goal: would love to become the next dimebag sadly this will never happen but hopefully i get some where ( though 22 no band doesnt look promising ) if not finish my graphic design course work make money buy gear and do mixes on the side i do hope to get into this industry at some point
Production Gear :
- Microphones: Rode original NT-2 (recently serviced its roughly 10 years old)
- Audio Interface and Pres: M-audio Delta 24/96, guitar rig mobile I/O
- Monitors: Alesis point seven's and Sennheiser headphones
- Console: Mackie 12 channel analouge mixer
- Backline: LTD ESP Alexi-200 no amp :'(
- Computer: Intel Core i7 920, 6gb corsair dominator tripple channel ram, asus P6T deluxe V2, Segate 1TB hard drive, ATI 4870 1gb GDDR5, corsair HX 1000W PSU, thermalright true copper heatsink ( 1.9kg of pure copper ) 24inch benq monitor.

so thats a little about me hope it was an interesting read.
If any one is interested in sending me some mixes to help me further my experience i would be greatly appreciated will work for free.

SeVeN

 

[NeglectedField]

Name: Tim
Location: Farnborough, UK
Age: 22
Own Band: Fyrdsman, Ooh-Ooh, Robot Man, ex-Alestorm, Premithon (dormant/dead)
Musical Tastes: As far as metal goes, black mainly, some death/power/thrash/traditional/prog here and there; 70s/80s prog; classical; ambient/electro; the odd good contemporary/pop song
Favourite Band: Bal-Sagoth
Favourite Album: Impossible to say. I'm listening to Angra's Temple of Shadows right now and that's definitely up there
Favourite Producer: I tend not to think along those lines, though I like Devin Townsend's layered approach
Production Experience: Home recordings on my Cubase/Reason and Toneport/Gearbox setup, plenty of those! And some awful college/uni assignments
Goal: Just go nuts Devy-style releasing stuff that people love. Maybe I'll expand on a 'studio' setup and help others out, though it depends on a lot of things, really.
Production Gear:
- Microphones: Rode NT-1
- Software: Cubase 5, Reason 4, EZDrummer Dfh
- Audio Interface: Line 6 Toneport UX2
- Monitors: My shit computer speakers, haha!
- Headphones: AKG K-44 for recording, Grado SR80i for serious mixing in lieu of decent monitors
- Guitars: Ibanez S320 (awaiting modification), Ibanez RG321 (w/Bare Knuckle Warpigs), Ibanez RG7321 (Dimarzio Evo 7 in bridge), Yamaha RBX375 bass
- Amps: Line 6 Spider II 210, haha. I need a serious halfstack soon!

 

[AudioPhile777]

Been here for a while... thought I did this, but I was mistaken.

Name: Mathew Cohen
Location: Chatsworth, Ca, USA
Age: 26
Own Band: The Meridian Hour, The Mathew Cohen Project and various others.
Occupation: Musician, Producer, Web Designer/Developer
Musical Tastes: Just about anything that is well written/constructed or has a sick groove... I tend to like heavy, distorted guitar-based musics...
Favorite Band: Current favorites change all the time... all time fave, Machine Head.
Favorite Album: August and Everything After by The Counting Crows
Favorite Producer: I don't really know...
Production Experience: Lots of stuff for bands here and there... nothing major. Recently mostly my own music and friend's bands here and there.
Production Gear:
- DAW: Dual Core PC running Pro Tools 8,
- Interface: 002R, Digimax LT
- Monitoring: Yamaha HS80M, CA 1.2, Sony MDR-V900, Sennheiser HD280
- Amps: Peavey JSX, Fender Twin, Spider Valve 1x12, Line6 Lowdown
- Electric Guitars: 4 Ibanez, 2 Schecter, 1 Peavey, 1 PRS, 2 Fender Strats, 1 ESP/LTD, 1 Washburn
- Acoustic Guitars: Martin DM12, Dean Exotic, 2 Yamaha Classical guitars, Ovation curved-back,
- Bass Guitars: Ibanez SR800 4 string, Ibanex J.Bares Custom 5 string, Alvarez 6 string

 

[SomeGuy3]

Name: Justin
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Age: 28
Own Band: Cellar Door (http://www.myspace.com/cellardoorprog), The Meridian Hour (http://www.myspace.com/themeridianhour)
Occupation: Software Engineer / Musician / Producer
Musical Tastes: Mainly Progressive Rock/Metal and various Metal, Hard Rock & Rock
Favorite Bands: Dream Theater, Circus Maximus, Spiral Architect, Spock's Beard, Andromeda, Opeth, Pain of Salvation, Ayreon
Favorite Album: Too many
Favorite Producer: Dunno
Production Experience: Mostly my own projects here and there
Goal: Make awesome music
Production Gear:
- Software: Sonar Producer on Win XP, Waves Gold, iZotope Ozone+Trash, Celemony Melodyne, Superior Drummer 2
- Audio Interface: PreSonus FireStudio+DigiMax FS
- Monitors: Yamaha HS80M
- Drums: Tama 7-piece Rockstar with 5 toms and 2 octobans
- Guitars: ESP & Ibanez 6 & 7 strings, ESP 5 string bass
- Amps: Mesa Triple Rec, Gallien Krueger
- Keys: Triton Extreme 88

 

[professorlamp]

Name: Joe Reynolds
Location: Ruthin , Wales, UK
Age: 19
Own Band: Trans-sahara highways
Occupation: Musician, Producer,cleaner and student
Musical Tastes: prog punk , prog , prog prog, prog
Favorite Band: An endless sporadic, thrice , the offspring
Favorite Album: Smash by the offspring
Favorite Producer: I don't really know
Production Experience: very little, only just got the ball rolling, first 5 piece band in a month and an acoustic duo in 2-3 weeks
Production Gear: profire 2626, snazzy computer (cba with specs), laney lv300 tube amp , vox ac4 combo , shure sm57 , audix i5 , d6 , nt5's , samson c03 , cubase 4, numerous free plug ins ...