Who's Who

[BushmasterM4]

Name: Mike
Location: Ohio
Age: 45
Kids: 5 (4 daughters, 1 son) Son plays drums
Band: I just play for my own pleasure
Occupation: Aerospace Industry
Musical Tastes: All Music
Favorite Producer: Me Of Course
Production Experience: Learning on the Web and Just Playin Around
Gear: Mackie Onyx 1640/Firewire running into a very fast AMD Based PC. I use Tracktion 3 as my recording software and have numerous plugins to choose from. I have Carvin and Jackson electric guitars. A Peavey Bass, Sonar Force 3005 Drum set, Hartke Bass Amp, Peavey JSX Head into a XXX cab. Peavey Stereo Chorus, Oh there is just too much crap to list.
Studio: I have a 30' x 30' dedicated studio with 10 foot ceilings, I named for my father (Big Wake Studio). I have another 30' x 40' of space available if I need it. But 900 sq. ft. works for now.

 

[Arkasiana]

Name: Naomi
Location: South of France
Age: 23
Own Band: Not decided for the name yet
Occupation: Piano teacher, and metal photographer: promo shots and on stage (in amateur) you can see some of my shots on my myspacepage (www.myspace.com/arkasianapics)
Musical Tastes: death, melodic death, progressive.
Favorite Band: Edge of Sanity, Scar Symmetry, Soilwork, Arch Enemy, Black Mages, Moontower, Symphony X, The Devin Townsend Band and SYL, Annihilator, Pissing Razors, To Mera, Disarmonia Mundi, Fear Factory, Unmoored...
Favorite Album: Dan Swanö's CrimsonII.
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap, Jonas Kjellgren, Dan Swanö, Fredrik Nordström, Devin Townsend.
Production Experience: many little records for friends projects, preparing my demo cd.
Goal: succeed with my band.
Production Gear : Ltd MH400 with EMG 85/81 actives, Maxon OD 820 pro, ISP pedal, Krank rev1, 2x12 Framus V30, Triton Le 61, Yamaha P90, Kstation workstation, TD3, Edirol FA101, TwinQ Joemeek, Radial J48 and X-amp, Mackie 1402VLZpro, Powerplay pro 8, Emu midi Keyboard, Near05Exp, Faderport control, Sansamp bassdrive DI, 2xShure Sm57, Shure Sm58beta, Pod XTlive(with metal pack), Bass cort5strings, Akg headphones, cubase4
Computer: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4800+ , XP Pro, 2Go ram.

 

[Hipelius]

Name: Olli Hipeli
Location: Finland
Age: 19
Own Bands: Sacrecy (christian metal, keyboards), Baranduin (viking metal, keyboards), Limbless (death metal, vocals), Frost Core (shit metal, guitars), + a yet unnamed death metal-project (guitars + vocals).
Occupation: Student
Musical Tastes: Anything, except rap and techno. Metal is still dearest.
Favorite Bands: (in no particular order): Devin Townsend (Band), Strapping Young Lad, Opeth, Pink Floyd, Wintersun, Nightwish, Porcupine Tree, Death, Agua de Annique, Stam1na, Jethro Tull, Mokoma, Queen, The Rain, Yes, Cannibal Corpse, Diablo, King Diamond, Sonata Arctica, Symphony X, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Focus, Blackmore's Night + soundtracks by Nobuo Uematsu, Michael Land and Hans Zimmer. And all that I've forgotten
Favorite Album: Too many. Let's say Alien by Strapping Young Lad, Terria by Devin Townsend, Still Life and Blackwater Park by Opeth, Oceanborn by Nightwish, Wintersun by Wintersun and Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.
Favorite Producer: No fav in particular. Samu Oittinen, Jens Bogren and Steven Wilson for some.
Production Experience: Not much, mostly home demos, learning by trial and error. I engineered my band's album and I'm currently producing my friends pop/rock band.
Goal: To have a studio of my own and to make a living by both producing and as a musician.
Instruments:
Synths:
Roland JV2080, expanded with Session-card.
Korg TR-Rack
Yamaha DX7
I also used to have a Korg N364 and an Alesis Micron.
Guitar stuff.
Fender Strat, made in Japan with a Kent Armstrong Hot Rails humbucker in the bridge position. One hell of a guitar, as versatile as an instrument can be!
Vox Tonelab, with a Tung-Sol 12AX7.

 

[ashgallows]

Name: Justin Turner
Location: Culver City, CA
Age: 24
Own Bands: Drown Transmission
Occupation: Unemployed
Musical Tastes: Metal, Industrial, Coldwave,Thrash, EBM.
Favorite Bands: Rob/White Zombie, Old Metallica, Razed in Black, Pain, Arch Enemy, old Nine Inch Nails, Fear Factory, Nightwish, Type O Negative. Pantera, Dimmu Borgir, Moonspell, Pink Floyd, Chemlab.
Favorite Album: The Downward Spiral
Favorite Producer: A couple I like are Rhys Fulber, Peter Tatgren, Andy Sneap
Production Experience: Mostly home projects, I've done a couple of remixes and projects for other ppl.
Goal: To get a job in a decent studio around here, get my musical projects up off the ground and take it as big as I can.
Instruments:Guitar, programming, vocals,
gear:
Pro Tools Le/002r
line 6 vetta
B.C. Rich Warlock with Emg 81 tuned to low A standard tuning
ART mpa gold preap
Alesis Dm pro
Tannoy reveal monitors/ sub
caffeine

 

[talon_v]

Alright... so here we go.

Name: Joe
Location: Quebec
Age: 32
Musical Tastes: Anything. Music is my life... for me it's the one true universal language... so I listen to everything I can. From Paco DeLucia to NWA. Why limit yourself to one style?
Favorite Band: Pantera, Slayer and Van Halen.
Favorite Album: too many
Favorite Producer's: Andy Sneap, Rick Rubin, Scott Burns, Devin Townsend... to name a few.
Production Experience: none... i'm a total noob in this field!!
Goal: learn as much as i can with recording.
Music Gear/Production Gear : a lot to list

 

[Onset to putrefaction]

Name: Alec Milewski
Location: Princeton, NJ
Age: 19
Own Bands: Reverie, Doorway to Norway, Manzier
Occupation: recording
Musical Tastes: Metal, classical, everything except country.
Favorite Bands: Between the buried and me, Ben Folds (five), Necrophagist, Protest the hero, Killswitch engage, Spastic Ink, Apocalyptica, The faceless
Favorite Album: theres alot of them
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap, Jason Suecof, Adam D, Jamie King
Production Experience: Home projects and local bands
Goal: To get a job in a studio, and eventually start my own and spread the metal like peanut butter.
Instruments: Drums, Guitar, maybe piano maybe bass
gear: Pro Tools m-powered.
-Mac G5 desktop.
-M-Audio Project Mix I/O
-1 AKG Perception 200 Condenser mic
-3 SM57's
-1 MXL Condenser mic
-1 Audix D6 kick drum mic
-1 Nady Condenser mic
-4 Sennheiser e604 drum microphones (thanks oz!)

 

[kostikas2002]

hi everyone, noob here, in a lot of aspects, looking forward to sharing my experiences with all of u in this community,and to learn as much as i can about recording, but also goof off every now and then c u around

 

[benversluis]

Name: Benjamin Versluis
Location: Emeryville, CA
Age: 22
Own Bands: OWLBEAT [blacknoise]
Occupation: Student
Musical Tastes: Noise, Drone, metal, hardcorepunk
Favorite Bands: Artimus Pyle, Tragedy, Boris, Merzbow, Sunn
Favorite Albums: Boris - Akuma no Uta/Heavy Rocks/Pink, anything Nick Drake
Favorite Engineer: Steve Albini
Production Experience: record for fun @ expression college. do some post-prod stuff in my spare time for a demo-reel of sorts.
Goal: to become a really good recording/mix engineer. to someday own my own home studio w/ an all analog recording room and a digital mixing room.
Instruments: drums (kind of)
Gear: Pro Tools 7.3 M-Powered, M-Audio Delta 1010LT

 

[Manicompression]

Name: Donald

Location: Cleveland Ohio USA

Age: 32

Own Bands: carriedbysix

Occupation: Starbucks Mgr

Musical Tastes: 80s early 90s thrash, modern metal, grind, death, folk stuff, singer songwriter stuff, older industrial, avant, experimental, some classical, jazz, early 90s gangsta rap

Favorite Bands: Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Pantera, Tom Waits, Faith No More, Dillinger Escape Plan, Quicksand, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, The Mars Volta, Fugazi, Portishead

Favorite Album: The Downward Spiral, Aenima, Deloused in the Comatorium, Vulger Display of Power, Closing Time, Slip, Angel Dust....

Favorite Producers/Mixers: Reznor, Sneap, Date, Richardson, Moulder, Andy Wallace, Brenden Obrien, Butch Vig,

Production Experience: Started in the mid 90's as a master of the Tascam 488, transitioned into DAW based recording. I have recorded demos for my own bands and some of my friends.

Goal: Clear out enough time in my day to day life to stay creative.

Instruments: started on bass at age 12-15, switched to guitar which has become my primary instrument

Guitar stuff: Past: Ibanez prestige s2020x with the crazy piezo bridge, yamaha aes 620hb (should never have sold this one)
current: Franken-strat with US fender body, Guitar Fetish bridge a duncan JB in the bridge and duncan designed singles, Ibanez 81 AR-50 with a duncan 59/Custom hybrid in the bridge, Epiphone les paul with emg 85 in bridge, Kawai F2B bass (badass Japanese Alembic knock off)

Effects: Boss GT3, L6 HD500, various stomps and overdrives from Boss, MXR, Maxon, and EH.

Amps: 2001 Mesa Dual Rectifier, Marshall VS8080 combo modded, Sovtek Midget 50H, EVH 5153 50w

Recording crap: Focusrite LS56, Old School Yamaha rack mixers modded by REVIVE AUDIO, DBX compressors, Urei Graphic Eq, Yamaha NS-10s, GAP Zen Pro full modded Pre-73, A heavily modded Presonus Eureka, Shure, Audix, and AT microphones, Tons of plugins

 

[guitarguru777]

Outdated, see new post ... lol I buy WAY too much gear

 

[sickchris]

Name: Chris
Location: Near Reading and London
Occupation: currently working for the man / writing music / producer
Own Band: Indrid Cold (R.I.P) lead guitar
Musical Tastes: Metal
Favorite Band: August Burns Red, Architects, Behold... The Arctopus, The Arusha Accord, Meshuggah loads...
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap, Colin Richardson, Andreas Magnusson,
Experience: Recorded bands at both pro and home studios
Goal: Get a decent home/portable studio for producing bands and my own stuff(on the way soon!!)
Recording Gear:
- Computer: Mac G5 dual core pro
- Software: Logic Pro 7, DFHS, PSP Vintage Warmer, T-Racks(soon)
- Audio Interface: Moto 828 mkii
- Monitors: Rubicon R5a
- Mics: Currently just an SM-58
- Guitar Equipment: ESP LTD MH1000NT (EMG81 in bridge, 85 in neck), Gibson Les Paul Standard, 2x Custom Fender Strats(invader pickups), 50s Fender reissue Bass, Maxon OD-808, Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier head, Vintage Marshall JTM/JCM? combo, Marshall Mode 4 head, Marshall MF400 cab

 

[EerieVon]

Name: John
Location: Las Vegas
Age: 32
Own Band: Violent Fury-DM(former), Canine Christ-thrashcore(former), Crucified Savior-BM(former)
Occupation: self employed IT consultant/custom pc builder
Musical Tastes: Mostly metal, some classic rock
Favorite Band: Kreator/Carcass
Favorite Album: Swansong-Carcass, Ihsahn-The Adversary, Enemy of God-Kreator, Practice What You Preach-Testament
Favorite Producer: Colin Richardson, Mark Dodson, Alex Perialas, Andy Sneap, Scott Burns, Max Norman
Production Experience: Band demos, live recording, home recording
Goals: Mainly to create the album I have inside of me--recording and engineering
Production Gear: PC: AMD FX-52, 4GB Ram, 1TB HDD(RAID), Windows XP X64/32 bit dual boot
Sonar6 Producer Edition, Reaper
Alesis I014, EMU 0404
Various plugins, including EZDrummer DFH, and others

Music Gear: Jackson KVX10, Ibanez RG2550E, Kramer mid 80's USA Vanguard/Ibanez BTB200
Line 6 Spider III HD 150, Marshall JCM2000/Gallien-Krueger Backline 600
DigiTech GNX3, Boss DS-1, Boss MT-2, Rocktron Metal Planet, Boss DD-6, Line 6 POD X3 LIVE, Ibanez TS808, Boss NS-2

 

[Jeff-Loomis-fan]

hi, im normally on the Neverboard but im bored so give other forums a shot

Name: Niels
Location: The Netherlands
Age: 21
Own Band: Small Projects
Occupation: Student, Guitar player
Musical Tastes: Metal (Groove, Industrial, melodic death, grind)
Favorite Band: a lot of bands if i must choose: Soilwork
Favorite Album: Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
Favorite Producer: Peter Wichers
Production Experience: my own(BR-600 Digital Studio) and @ local music centre i recorded demo's for small bands
Goal: Bachelor business economics

 

[ryanojohn]

Location: San Francisco
Age: 24
Own Band: No One's Kind
Occupation: Full-time engineer, front of house engineer
Musical Tastes: Metal, Rock, Classical, Jazz, Motown
Favorite Band: Unearth, Black Dahlia Murder, Circa Survive, Dredg, George Winston, Lamb Of God, Itzhak Perlman, Chopin
Favorite Album: Rage Against the Machine (Self Titled), Bury Your Dead - Beauty and the Breakdown, A Life Once Lost, Underoath - Define the Great Line
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap, Andy Wallace etc...
Production Experience: Since 1995, 5am, In Honor Of, Dance Gavin Dance, about 60 more...
Production Gear : Mac Pro, Protools M-powered, M-Audio Profire, API Lunchbox (6 x 312c), Tampa, Distressor EL8sx (x2), Furman C128 Comp/Lim(x2), Waves API Bundle, MCI JH110 1/2" Machine

Probably more, just can't think of it...

 

[RKelly]

Name: Ryan
Location: NYC
Occupation: Engineer/Electronics Tinkerer/husband
Musical Tastes: Metal, Some Classical, Acoustic, Pop, Hip-hop, Rock, Salsa...
Favorite Band: Maiden? Varies from week to week....
Favorite Album: Uh... The Fountain OST
Favorite Engineer: Big fan of Fredrik's stuff, F2 is pretty awesome, Massenburg....
Production Experience: Engineered some metal EP's, reggaeton albums, Reggae live albums, lots of live indie/punk recordings, a couple of shows as a PT Op for touring acts.
Goal: Never have a 'day job'
Production Gear : Telefunken, Shure, Audio-Technica, whatever the studio I'm working at has...

Would love to meet some more metal engineers in NY!

 

[Saculus]

Name: Saculus aka Rich F.
Location: Delawhere?
Age: 35
Own Band: Altar of Dagon(DoomRock), Alazith(Power/thrash),Gods of Doom (Cheesy Industrial) [all on myspace]
Occupation: eCommerce @ AMZN, Moonlight as Engineer at a small project studio.
Musical Tastes: Metal, Classic Rock, DnB
Favorite Band: Maiden, Cliff Era, SLayer, Morbid Angel, Carcass, Black Sabbath
Favorite Album: Heartwork-Carcass, Piece - Seventh Son - Maiden
Favorite Producer: Rick Rubin, Andy Sneap, Scott Burns, That Birch guy for maiden
Production Experience: Band demos, live recording, home recording
Goals: Improve production skills to professional level, Record all of my music projects with continual improvement.
Production Gear: PC: Crap eMachine 2.63 Ghz, HP Laptop 4Gig Ram Dual Core TL-60, Reaper, (2) Firepods, M-Audio 2496, REAPER, Reason 4, Abelton Live 6 LE, Tapco Mix 100, Mackie 1202(s),FS:Yamaha AW2816, Various Outboard Comps/Pres/BBEs(entry level really), Audix DP5a set i5 D6 D2(2) D4 ,SM57s, AT4033, AKGC1000S, Blue Kickball, MXL 990s/991s, more CAD SA-70s than should of been made.

Backline: 5150/slantCab, ADA Turbo 75, Hartke 115 Kickback, Ludwig Accent Black, Sabian AA,AAH/Paiste signature cymbals, DW Pedals, Ibanez SDGR 5-String, Fender Mexi-Jazz, ESP M-II Deluxe, LTD-MH251, Schecter Damien-6, LTD f-50 w/Dimebucker, LTD M-207, Ibanez RG w/ Dimebucker, Charvel Model 2A, Hardwire, MXR, Ibanez, Boss Pedals, Peterson virtual strobe Tuner Pedal.

 

[ATLA]

Name: mickey
Location: northern california
Age: 18
Own Band:my old band (maelstrome)
Occupation: i work at an unamed coffe shope.
Musical Tastes: everything, except maybe country.
Favorite Band: (in no particular order..) nevermore, megadeth, decapitated, blood of cain, the faceless, metallica and many more.
Favorite Album: too many to list.
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap, frederik nordstrom. im not too familiar with many others..
Production Experience: very little.
Goal: go to school..
Production Gear : pod xt, tascam us-224, mesa/boogie triple rectifier, jackson soloist.

 

[jeffadies]

Name: Jeff
Location: Colorado
Age: 31
Own Band: AnaDies
Occupation: shitty day job.
Musical taste: I like alot of melodic stuff. hate rap.
Favorite Band: Katatonia,Tool,Within temptation and many more
Favorite album: cant name just one
Favorite Producer's: Dave Otero,Andy Sneap,James Murphy,Jason Seucof.
Production Experience: Just what i have learned from Otero and this forum.
Goal: To tour nonstop with my band.
Production Gear: Mesa Roadking,Mesa 212 open back,mesa 212 closed back,Dean,Ibanez baritone,Ibanez 7 string,Hamer Monico elite,Pod 2.0,trigger finger,oxygen 8,Imac.

 

[Rex Rocker]

Name: Hugo
Location: Mexico
Age: 20
Own Band: Logic of Distress
Occupation: college student (hates college)
Musical taste: I like music that inspires energy... I'm a sucka for melodies, harmonies, and lots of double kick
Favorite Band: Pantera
Favorite album: hard to name just one....
Favorite Producer's: Adam D., Andy Sneap
Production Experience: None, really... I've experimented a lot with GarageBand and my POD, but that's about it...
Goal: Maybe to one day get signed...
Production Gear: POD XT and MacBook... that's it...

 

[jason poulin]

Name: Jason Poulin
Location: Northern Ontario, Canada
Age: 26
Own Band: Apparatus (Lead Guitarist) www.apparatusmusic.com
Occupation: Hydro One Electrician and studio producer/recording/mix eng.
Musical Tastes: Something with a good melody... could be anything
Favorite Band: Tool
Favorite Album: Death (Symbolic)
Favorite Producer: hmmm can't comment... too many l
Production Experience: Produced/recorded/mixed APPARATUS
Goal: To quit my job
Production Gear :

- Microphones: Soundelux U99, Neumann TLM103, 2x KM184's, 2X AEAR84's, plus many dynamics

- Audio Interface and Pres: Lynk AES16... Great River MP2-NV, API 3124, 2x Avalon VT-737sp, Vintech X73i, TC elec Gold chan, Toft ATB24 chan console

-Outboard gear: 2istressors with brit/mod, Pendulum Audio OCL-2, RMS 755 Super Stereo Compressor, Great River EQ2NV, Purple Audio MC77,

- Monitors: Focal Twins BE w/sub, Mackie HR824, -

Converters: Apogee AD16x, Apogee DA16x, 2x Benchmark DAC-1

Both tracking and control room are acoustically treated which is the best piece of gear on this list.