Who's Who

[friendforafoe]

Name: Chris
Location: Washington DC
Age: 26
Own Band: Friend For A Foe (Guitar, Programming, Producer)
Occupation: Active Duty in the US Navy (Petty Officer 2nd Class) until next year then plan on going full-time with my band/production as well as be a government contractor if possible (methinks I'll be mucho busy)
Musical Tastes: Metal (pretty much every sub-genre), classical, blues, jazz
Favorite Band: I can't name just one ... Meshuggah, Soilwork, In Flames, Thrice, and waaaaay too many other bands to list haha
Favorite Album: Impossible to choose also
Favorite Producer: Andy (obligatory), Jocke Skog, Devin Townsend, and just like with everything else, I could be here all day
Production Experience: My band Friend For A Foe, some tracks for Greg Pope (former Monuments vocalist), Nociceptor ... hopefully loads more in the near futre
Goal: To keep learning the art of audio production/engineering
Production/Music Gear: Cubase 5, every Toontrack Product (gotta love being endorsed!), multiple DMG, Waves, Voxengo, and Sonnox plugins, Axe-FX Ultra, Shure SM-7b, Shure SM-57, Shure SM-58, Neumann TLM 49, KRK RP8s, Beyerdynamics DT770s and DT880s, Presonus Firestudio, Behringer Powerplay PRO-XL HA4700 headphone amp, Ibanez Custom Prestige RG-1527 w/Bareknuckle Aftermaths, Schecter C7 Hellraiser w/Seymour Duncan Blackouts, Schecter C8 Hellraiser w/Seymour Duncan Blackouts, Schecter Custom Stiletto 5-string Bass, and much, much more

 

[kareemvots]

Name: Kareem
Location: Boston (Originally from Lebanon)
Age: 19
Own Band: Voice of the Soul (Vocals/Lead Guitars) - Facebook.com/votsband
Occupation: University student, but I've been working at an economic research department in a bank during my summers.
Favorite Bands: Death, Swallow the Sun, The Vines, Pearl Jam, Agalloch, Arch Enemy, Novembre
Favorite Albums: Highly Evolved (The Vines), The Morning Never Came (Swallow the Sun), The Blue (Novembre)
Favorite Producer: Can't decide.

 

[halcyonwayband@aol.com]

Name : Jon Bodan
Location : Atlanta, GA USA
Age : 35
Own Band : Halcyon Way - www.halcyonway.com | karbonBlack industrial side project - www.reverbnation.com/karbonblack
Occupation : Own a mortgage company
Musical Tastes : Metal, Stoner Rock, Electronica
Favorite Band : Queensryche before they sucked
Favorite Album : Operation:Mindcrime but have to mention Awake by Dream Theater, Carver City by CKY, Cycles by Wicked Maraya, The Human Factor by Metal Church, Monolithic Baby! by Monster Magnet, Resurrection by Chimaira....more
Favorite Producer : hard to say....Andy, Lasse, James
Production Experience : Engineering the first HW album, badly, and watching James Murphy and Lasse Lammert save it, haha - programming and co-producing Building The Towers with Lasse, went much better than the first one - used to record local bands back when I had my ADAT rig way back when
Production Gear : Apple MacBook Pro, Digi 003, LA-610, Avalon U5, TL Audio Tube Mic Pre/Comp, Roland GI-20, Fractal Audio Axe-FX Standard, Mackie HR824s, SoundToys Native Bundle, Reason 4, Komplete 7, ProTools 9, Vocalizer, more
Amps: Framus Cobra, Madison Divinity II, Mesa Dual Recto 3-Channel, Marshall MG100, 2 Mesa Recto 4x12s
Guitars: Brian Moore C55 custom shop (x2), Brian Moore i8, Brian Moore i8.1, Brian Moore i81.13, Ernie Ball Petrucci Signature, Ibanez S470, Gibson Victory Bass, Washburn Spitfire.

 

[alexander.brusencev]

Name: Alex
Location:Frankfurt/GER
Age: 25
Occupation: Producer, Student (musicology & english studies)
Musical Tastes: Metal of all kinds, Rock, Soul (I'm talking Ray Charles and others), Jazz, Classical
Favorite Band: Katatonia, Opeth, Death, Scorpions (yep, I mean it), Porcupine Tree, Hellacopters. This could go on for a while....
Favorite Album: Great Cold Distance, High Visibility (Hellacopters), everything from Porcupine Tree with Gavin Harrison on drums; again: this could go on for a while too
Favorite Producer: Jens Bogren, Andy Sneap, Nick Raskulinecz, Chris Lord Alge
Production Experience: mostly local bands from Germany, it's getting hopefully bigger next time soon
Goal: more experience, more equipment, more fun in life

Production Gear:
OS: Win 7 64 bit
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) X6 100T Processor
HD: OCZ Agility III (120 GB) and 2 Western Digital SATA Drives for storage & backup
I/O: M-Audio ProFire2626 + Behringer Pro-8 Digital (only for trigger purposes); Upgrade to RME in progress (hopefully)
DAW: Pro Tools 9, Cubase 6 (haven't used it for a while though)
Preamp(s): UA LA-610 MK II, more in progress
Mics: Shure SM7, SM57, Beta58, AKG C3000B, C4000B, Neumann TLM 102
AND: Every available PlugIn from Steven Slate! This is AWESOME SHIT!

 

[tfrel]

Name: Tom Frelek
Location: Canada
Age: 26
Own Band: Third Dynasty (www.thirddynasty.com) Tom Frelek (www.tomfrelek.com)
Occupation: Graphic Designer
Musical Tastes: Everything but leaning towards Metal and Classical.
Favorite Band: Too many.....Iron Maiden all the way to Marcus Miller
Favorite Album: Scenes from a Memory
Favorite Producer: Jens Bogren, Andy Sneap, Fredrik Nordstrom, Peter Northfield
Production Experience: Recorded my own Instrumental CD (www.tomfrelek.com) Third Dynasty (www.thirddynasty.com), A few Pop songs for short films.
Goal: To make a stable living with music, whether it be with my band, my solo career or Studio.
Production Gear : Intel i7 980 3.33 ghz 24 gig ram, M-audio Delta -44 , Cubase 6, Nuendo 3, EWQL Libraries, Omnisphere, DOD Compressor, Peavey JSX, SM57, ART Tube Pre, KRK 6

 

[florianvantuil]

Name: Florian van Tuil
Location: The Netherlands, Utrecht
Age: 19
Own Band: Shade Of Hatred (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shade-Of-Hatred/119165271502387)
Occupation: Producer, student at the Herman Brood Academy (Utrecht)
Musical Tastes: Metal, Hard Rock, Classical, Blues
Favorite Bands: Arch Enemy, Satyricon, Cannibal Corpse, Nevermore (Just to name a few)
Production Experience: Recorded a few bands at my studio and at school
Production Gear : Mac Pro, Pro Tools 9
Recording Gear: Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 + Octopre
Speakers: Dynaudio BM5

 

[Anthropocide]

Name: Ivan
Age: 27
Location: Domodedovo (small town near Moscow, Rus)
Occupation: mixing & mastering engineer
Production Experience: I have worked with following bands: Abominable Putridity, Dead Silence Hides My Cries, Aborted Fetus, Apokefale, Devoid Of Grace and many more. My works were released on the following labels: Amputated Vein Records (Japan), Comatose Music (USA), Brutal Bands (USA), MDD records (Germany), etc.
My studio page: http://facebook.com/anthropocidestudio
My personal page: http://facebook.com/anthropocide
Musical Tastes: hardcore, deathcore, metalcore, alternative, modern & cyber & death metal

 

[Enghell]

Name: Peter
Location: South of Sweden (soon to be Brisbane, Australia)
Age: 41
Own Band: Currently unnamed black/funeral doom metal project (everything except some bass played by "J")
Occupation: Industrial electrician (I don't call myself "producer/engineer" just because I have a home recording studio)
Musical Tastes: Black metal, orthodox black metal, death metal, funeral doom metal
Favorite Band: Don't have one favorite, but here's some... Deathspell Omega, Corpus Christii, Funeral Mist, Aeon
Favorite Album: Don't have one favorite, but here's some... Funeral Mist - Salvation, Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice, Watain - Casus Luciferi, Aeon - Rise To Dominate
Favorite Producer: Don't have one favorite, but here's some...Tore Stjerna (Watain, Funeral Mist, Corpus Christii, Merrimack, Ondskapt), Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy, Marduk, Immortal, Septic Flesh, Dark Funeral), Fredrik Nordström (At The Gates, Dimmu Borgir, Dream Evil, Septic Flesh, Soilwork, In Flames)
Production Experience: At the moment just working at home with my own stuff, but earlier, mostly local bands. Most known band I've worked with is Soilwork(S).
Goal: Starting up some kind of studio when I've moved.
Production Gear : I/O: RME Babyface, Software: Steinberg Wavelab Elements 7|Toontrack EZDrummer (DFH & Metalheads)|Line6 POD Farm 2.51, Amps: Peavey 5150|ENGL Powerball|Line6 POD 2.0, Cabs: Peavey 4x12|ENGL 4x12, Monitor: Tannoy Reveal Active|KRK KNS8400|AKG K240, Stuff: Steinberg CC121|midi-keyboard|Roland JV-1010|OKKO Dominator, Guitars: Jackson DKMGT Dinky|Charvel 475 Deluxe (with EMG81)|Peavey EVH Wolfgang Special|Ovation 1861 Standard Balladeer|Yamaha RBX 375 (5-string bass)

 

[Kinkh]

Well, after a year or so of lurking, I'm in need of advice, but first things first, need to intriduce myself properly ;D

Name: Tibor

Location: Nova Gradiška, Croatia

Age: 20 (actually a bit more, but nobody cares)

Own Band: Currently a prog project named Project

Occupation: Student (EECS - electronics / electroacoustics)

Musical Tastes: All kinds of music that is good - mostly prog metal, folk metal, film music, video game music.

Favorite Band: Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Tool

Favorite Album: Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Favorite Producer: Steven Wilson

Production Experience: Mostly some home recording of demos, and some solo "projects"

Goal: Learn more, work on more stuff, get more gear, etc.

Gear: Not woth mentioning

 

[bassguy]

So like the person above, I am a long time lurker on this forum, decided to register and thought I may as well introduce myself here

Name: Nick
Location: Melbourne
Age: 18
Own Band: Have two at the moment. The more metal of the two that people on here may be interested in is a death metal band called Headless
Occupation: Nothing worth listing
Musical Tastes: Lots of stuff. Mostly metal (surprise) but I'm also into industrial, proggy rock, dubstep, drum n bass, and I enjoy some blues and old funk stuff
Favorite Band: Not sure. Perhaps Cannibal Corpse, or maybe Whitechapel. I dunno, I like lots of bands haha
Favorite Album: We The Fallen by Psyclon Nine.
Favorite Producer: Stuck again hahaha. Andy's work is great. Also like a lot of what Fredrik Nordström does
Production Experience: Not much so far. Mostly recording crappy demos at home haha. But I am doing a sound production course which does give me a chance to record and mix bands in a proper studio with a fair amount of freedom, and keeps me constantly learning new stuff.
Goal: To really improve my recordings that I do at home. With what I have available to me in the studio at university, It's not hard to record and mix something that's of releasable quality. At home I'm working primarily ITB (which isn't necessarily a bad thing), and tracking in my bedroom, which is really not the best of spaces. So I really just want to learn more about maximising what I can do with what I have
Production Gear: Almost not worth listing. Computer running Pro Tools 9 LE, I use a Line 6 UX2 audio interface, AudioTechnica AT2020 condenser mic and a couple of SM57 ripoffs. I also have access to a Focusrite Liquidmix, It's just a pain to use because my computer has no firewire port, so I need to bounce all my tracks and then bring them over to another computer to use it. Oh well, it's not even mine anyway, just something I can use any time

That about sums me up I suppose

 

[Shinozoku]

New here, so I'll throw in an intro late in the game

Name: Nick
Location: Southwest Virginia/Northeast Tennessee.
Age: 21, turning 22 in a month.
Own Band: Human Extinction Attack (still young, might name change, not sure...)
Occupation: Student in electrical engineering
Musical Tastes: Metal, Classic Rock, Prog, Classical, some jazz, a bit of pop here and there, and some radio rock. If it sounds good and doesn't compel me to destroy the speakers/musicians, I'm cool with it.
Favorite Band: Iced Earth, Children of Bodom, Behemoth, Nevermore, Megadeth, The Absence.
Favorite Album: Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Favorite Producer: Can't place it! Probably Flemming Rasmussen, Peter Tägtgren, maybe a few others who I don't even know about!
Production Experience: Zilch. All my experience is FOH so far.
Goal: To engineer/produce/mix/master my own band and make a small business in it. I love making bands sound good..
Production Gear: Incoming Macbook Pro, SM57, MXL M-80, and that's about it so far
Amps: Randall RM100, VAder 2x12 cab.
Guitars: Edwards E-AL128, Kramer 610, Ibanez Hollowbody.

 

[ArroldW]

Name: Arrold

Location: San Diego, CA

Age: 22

Own Band: Silencer [vocals, song writer]

Occupation: Hardcore/Metal/Rock/Pop Producer

Musical Tastes: Everything. Grew up listening to rap and jazz, the punk and rock. There is no end for me [except dubstep ]

Favorite Band: I don't have one because it changes all the time/week by week. BUT I will always love Dream Theater's discography. Every album, any time.

Favorite Album: ATM it's "Colors" by Between The Buried and Me

Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap, Brian Hood, Kris Crummett, Sturgis, Matt Goldman and few others. But everyone I happen to like is AMAZING at the type of music they do. For me its all about having different influences in sound.

Production Experience: Been recording the last year at my place so I've done demos, an album, a bunch of EPs and singles. I've also ONLY done, drums, drum editing, or vocals for bands as well.

Goal: To learn from the best, not copy anyone else's style [just influence off of it], and create my own sound. Also attempting to get better and better with every record I produce.

My Studio: 395 Recording Studio

 

[delayshifter]

Name: Fariz Pahlevi

Location: Bandung, Indonesia

Age: 23

Own Band: http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=166329600688

Occupation: Metal/Rock Producer

Musical Tastes: Metal, Indie Rock, Hard Rock, Sludge

Favorite Band:System of a Down, Mastodon

Favorite Album: The Hunter, Mastodon

Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap, Joey Sturgis, Andy Wallace

Production Experience: Recording 2 Band, mixed lot of band, Start doing serious audio engineering probably next year

Goal: Better than before

My Studio: http://www.wix.com/delayshifter/enclaverecords

 

[Headof75]

Name: Duncan

Location: Birmingham UK (Home of Metal)

Age: 36

Own Band: As yet unnamed

Occupation: Desk Jockey and Dad.

Musical Tastes: Everything

Favorite Metal Bands: Mastodon, Voivod, Godflesh, Celtic Frost, Neurosis

Favorite Album: Depends on my mood.

Favorite Producers: Andy Sneap, Colin Richardson.

Production Experience: Previously (2001-2005) owned and ran a studio in London, producing electronic and dance music(!), voiceover, advertising jingles and soundtrack.

Goal: To not make the same mistakes again... lol, and seriously increase my knowledge and ability in the engineering and production of guitar-based music.

My Studio: is at my house at the moment.

 

[EightDeadlyWords]

Name: Pete
Location: UK
Age: 39
Own Band: Currently solo (previously Eight Deadly Words)
Occupation: IT
Musical Tastes: Mainly metal and rock, as long as most of the vocals are melodic!
Production Experience: Recording, mixing, mastering (non professional)
Goal: Improve my mixing / mastering
Production Gear: Reaper, Fast Track Pro, and many plugins
My studio: At home!

 

[veesfistofdeath]

Hello.
Name: Vee
Location: USA/Ohio
Age: 24
Own Band: The Apocalyptic Fist of the Black Death
Occupation: Janitor
Musical Tastes: Open Mind, rooted in metal.
Production Experience: Recording, mixing, mastering (non professional)
Goal: Improve my mixing / mastering
Production Gear: 2 Zoom R16's and an old copy of acid pro
My studio: Kinda mobile.

 

[septic]

Name: René
Age: 38
Location: Oelde/NRW-GER
Own Band: Swarm of Malice / Guitar´s
Occupation: Wastewater Inc.

I´m a child of 80´s HC/Punk-Stuff ! but also i like new modern stuff. doesn´t matter if it´s metal or any kind of other music! this is why i play in a metal band with a new fresh vibe! helps me to get out from working and problems!
don´t cut yourselft! any kind of music is great, because WE MADE IT !

 

[Baron of Norsworthy]

Name: House
Location:UK Next door to Mr Sneap- mind those sheep, No pun intended. Andy's driveway is very steep in the literal sense.
Age: 30
Occupation: Guess
Musical Tastes: blues Rock and the really heavy stuff
Production Experience: Recording, mixing, mastering (non professional and Professional) SQC,
Goal: Improve mixing / mastering
Production Gear: not telling it's on a Mac
My studio: Mobile

learned from a Dr of physics!!!

 

[johnnygas]

Name: Johnnygas
Location: The Netherlands (That's a small country in Europe)
Age: 28
Own Band: None
Occupation: Certified Anesthesia Nurse
Musical Tastes: mostly metal, but I dig classical, blues and other stuff at times.
Production Experience: Just starting out, so don't blame me for stupid questions, comments
Goal: Improve my mixing / mastering
Production Gear: A Mac Mini, Logic, Line 6 GX and EzDrummer for now. Hope to improve my gear as I improve my skills
My studio: I have a desk with a computer on it.

 

[LordSmartin]

Name: Martin
Location: Germany
Age: 28
Own Band: Dimneon
Occupation: working in the Chemical Industry
Musical Tastes: Metal, Rock, Movies Soundtrack, Classic, sometimes Elektro as contrast and some Punk/Hardcore
Favorite Band: If id have to chosse... Megadeth.
Favorite Album: even harder to choose. Big Fan of the last Exodus Albums, Tesseracts One i enjoyed a lot lately...
Favorite Producer: Mr.Sneap of course!
Production Experience: Only my own Stuff so far.
Goal: Getting my Projects done. Learning as much as i can and maybe do some little Projects with othe people in the Future
Production Gear: PC (Cubase) with Echo Audiofire 12 Interface, Engl Sovereign Combo, Superior Drummer with some expansions, Palmer ADIG-LB,
Redwirez, a lot of free VSTs....