Who's Who

[Star Ark]

NAME: Neil Flavelle

LOCATION: Melbourne Australia

BANDS: Teramaze (prog metal produced by Jeff Waters Mixed by Neil Kernon) and my own project Star Ark (trippy heavy ambient produced by me)

PROFESSION: Guitar, bass, drum, piano teacher

AGE : 26

GOAL: Tour the world with Teramaze, get Star Ark's music out there, collaborate with Kevin Moore

GEAR: Musicman, Ibanez, Jackson, Takamine guitars
Krankenstein, Vox Ac50

[AllanD]

Name: Allan Davis
Location: Houston, Texas
Bands: Freedom Lies Ahead (Hardcore/Punk)
Profession: Student, clerk at a doctors office
Age: 19
Goal: Get some shows playing with my band, possibly become a music teacher.
Gear: Modded Windsor, Avatar 2x12, Modded Squier affinity tele

[Paulie!]

Names: Paul Carter [Paulie!.. yes with an exclamation point]
Localation: North Carolina
Bands: Sevarius, A Perilous Momentum[Former], The Nuclear Option[Former], Ned Flanders' Revenge[Former]
Occupation: Musician, Patient Services Coordinator
Musical Tastes: Metal, Prog Rock, Jazz, whatever I'm in the mood for.
Favorite Band: Iron Maiden, Nevermore
Favorite Album: Maiden - Brave New World/Number Of The Beast | Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World/This Godless Endeavor
Favorite Song: The Trooper - Iron Maiden
Favorite Producer: Andy, Jamie King, and Kevin Shirley
Production Experience: Mostly Demos for My Bands and other Local Bands
Production Gear : MOTU 2408 w/ 324-PCI, various shite mics, various crap mixers (used for pre's usually), Sonar 6
"Backline" Gear: G&L Strat, 1986 Laney Pro-Tube AOR 50, Fender Ultimate Chorus, Peavey Vypyr(Practice Amp.. Mainly), DIY 1x12 cab, DIY 1x15 Cab, Tubescreamer

[NovembersDirge]

Name: Phil
Location: Uppsala, Sweden
Age: 28
Own Band: Æthereal [Everything—though, looking for other musicians]
Occupation: Student
Musical Tastes: Pretty eclectic, lots of metal though, obviously...
Favorite Band: Top 5 from Last.fm: Iron Maiden, Nobuo Uematsu, Opeth, Amorphis, The Beatles
Favorite Album: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Favorite Producer: Obviously Andy Sneap, Jens Bogren, Adam Tucker, Steven Wilson, Dan Swanö
Production Experience: My own project... that's it.
Goal: To be able to work with metal professionally in some capacity. Particularly to take steps into production. Also, to get Æthereal up to be a fully functioning, touring project. Oh, also: become King of the World.

[poisson]

Name: Teddy Veatch
Location: Illinois
Occupation: Graphic Artist
Band: uberwolf
Age: 36

[Boerboel666]

Hi my name is Nick
INSTRUMENT - Guitar
HOME - Brighton, England .
FAV BAND - PANTERA
Soon to be working in my own studio in the Sussex countryside .
I was lucky enough to have been in the studio with both Colin Richardson and Andy Sneap back in the 90's . ( I wish I had paid more attention ! ) In fact I think these recordings were the first time the two met each other . They were both pro's and even though Andy was
the engineer at the time it was obvious to anyone he would go on to do great thing's . Unfortunately me and my band mates at the time were an immature bunch of cu^ts who probably did not deserve the opportunity !
PETS - A BIG FU*KING DOG called Caleb .(Studio security)
MUSICAL TASTE - Varied but only if it's the full fat version , cannot stand watered down commercial interpretations of any genre .

[Lechugaz]

Name : Benjamin Lechuga
Location : Chile, South America
Age : 22
Own Band : DELTA www.deltachile.com
Occupation : Composition student, sessionist, guitar teacher.
Musical Tastes : Rock, Metal, Funk, Tango, Jazz, Classic, Bach, Wagner... don't know... just about everything.
Favorite Band : Pain Of Salvation
Favorite Album : It changes everyday, but latey I've been listening to Pain of Salvation - BE
Favorite Producer : Andy Sneap
Production Experience : I've recorded and Mixed my band's 3rd album. Alwats recording and mixing other bands and doing little jobs as a producer.
Goal : Having a worldwide tour.
Production Gear : Intel Quad Core, MOTU 896mk3, JoeMeek One Q, RODE NT2A, Cubase 5, sm57, Behringer TRUTHB2031A.
Amps: ENGL e530, Piece of shit "5", BOSS GT PRO, KORG rack tuner.
Guitars: Ibanez: RGT3170, RG1527, RG7420, JPM100P4, AW40, and a Squier strat for my students.
Mics: some 57's and a RODE NT2A.

[BlackwingGabriel]

Hi, i've been a lurker for almost two years now

Name: Gabriel
Location: the Capital of Indonesia... errr nope not Bali..
Age: February 5th 1982
Own Band: Don't have any at the moment
Occupation: Full-time studio engineer
Musical Tastes: My first love with music is from 90's metal and hardcore (Sepultura, Dismember, Carcass, Gorefest, Amorphis, Sick of It All, Ryker's etc) and now expand to acoustics, jazz, post-rock, experimental, electronics and..
errr.. pop, of course.
Favorite Band: There's so many, the list would be full.
Favorite Album: Metal production-wise, i'll take Dream Theater's Train of Thought and Lamb of God's Sacrament.
Favorite Producer: Butch Vig, Michael H. Brauer, Chris Lord-Alge, Randy Staub, and Andy Wallace.
Production Experience: recording, mixing and mastering of Indonesian bands. Nothing international-wide yet.
Goal: Saving money for my own Backstage Studio in the country, and become THE most go to producer/mixer for non-pop music.
Production Gear : Currently, i'am working in MusikTek Studio http://musiktekstudio.com using/have used the following gears:
- Microphones: AKG, Rode, Audix, Royer, Blue mics..
- Audio Interface/Pres/Outboards: RME Fireface 800, Mbox2, lots of Presonus products/pres, Avalon 737vt sp, True Systems P2, Daking's, TL Audio's, UA-710, Summit Audio's, Grace Design m101, RNLA, TC-Electronics M-One XL, Lexicons.
- Monitors: Event Opal (main), Quested S7R, Adam A7, A5, small JBLs.
- Backline: ddrum, Tech-21's amp, PRS..
- Computer: A quad Intel running Cubase 5 with almost all UAD-2 plugins.

see ya in the pit,
Gabriel

[P-E]

I don't think I've ever done this, it's been a while since I'm here though.

Name: Philip-Emmanuel Aubry
Location: Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada
Age: 16
Own Band: None, got a few small projects with friends though
Occupation: Student
Musical Tastes: Mostly melodic death metal, most other metal and folk.
Band: Top 5 from Last.fm: Damien Rice, Pain of Salvation, Slice the Cake, In Flames, Eminem
Favorite Album: The Gallery (Dark Tranquillity)
Favorite Producer: Jens Bogren and earlier Fredrik Nordstrom
Production Experience: Mixed loads of bands that were posted here for fun, then a few songs I made with friends
Goal: Have fun writing music, recording it and making it sound as good as possible
Gear: Studio projects b1 x2, crap 2.1 speakers (that I know very well though), E-MU 0404 USB

[Geno_]

Long time lurker!

Name: James Walford
Location: Birmingham, England
Age: 27
Own Band: Down to one at the moment - Vicious Bastard http://www.myspace.com/vbgrind I used to be in Deadweight (tech) and Theoktony (death) both on FETO records.
Occupation: Studio guy/Guitar teacher
Musical Tastes: from extreme metal to neil young.
Favorite Band: maiden?
Favorite Album: live after death
Favorite Producer: fredrik nordstrom
Production Experience: started off recording my own music, then others asked me to do theirs. The most recent/biggest bands i have done are Venomous Concept, Lionheart and Sorrows. As for the future, next week i start on the new Anaal Nathrakh with Mick Kenney.
Goal: Actually get good! To make a decent living from music production, to get more bands from other countries/work with bigger bands. Get loads more gear!
production Gear :
- Microphones: SM7B, SM57's/58's, Audix D6 D4 D2x2 i5 Rode NT-5's SE2200
- Audio Interface/Pres/Outboards: Fireface 800, platinum octopre, firepod
- Monitors: Mackie hr824mkII, tannoy reveal active.
- Amps: 5150II 6505 Framus Cobra Orange rockerverb and tiny terror
- Computer: Carillon custom w/ quad core extreme.
- DAW of Choice: Cubase SX3! getting the crossgrade in the next month though

[TheIllusionist]

Name: Chris Clancy
Location: Blackpool - UK / Edison NJ - USA
Age: 25
Own Band: Mutiny Within (Vocals, Production, Engineering, Lyrics)
Occupation: Musician and Mixer. Vocalist in Mutiny Within - Roadrunner Records
Musical Tastes: Metal, Rock, Country, 40's, anything that catches my ear
Favorite Band: Karnivool
Favorite Album: Themata
Favorite Mixer: Colin Richardson
Mixing Experience: Live bonus tracks on "Mutiny Within Special Edition", Born To Win - WWE, Highway To Hell - Metal Hammer, Hit The Lights - Vultures Don't Eat Van's DVD, With Daggers Drawn Demos, Mutiny Within Demos, Christoph Knie - EP.
Goal: To eventually have enough money to put together a nice mixing studio and work on mixing when i'm not touring. Upgrading from an Mbox 2.0 to a Pro Tools HD unit would be a start. I'm also interested in producing bands in the future.
Production Gear :
- Microphones: Shure SM58, SM7
- Audio Interface: MBOX 2.0
- Monitors: 2x Rokit 8 with 10" Rokit sub
- Backline: All Virtual
- Computer: Core 2 Quad 6600 PC, Win XP, Pro Tools 8, 4 gig ram, 1.5Tb HD space.

[Jorge Escudero]

Hi!

I discovered this forum last week and loved it.

Name: Jorge Escudero Ruiz
Location: Madrid, Spain
Age: 30
Own Band: Crownless
Occupation: Producer, composer, engineer and guitar teacher
Musical Tastes: Mostly metal/rock but i also dig classical stuff and blues.
Mixing Experience: I´ve mixed some LP for local bands and my own band. I´ve also mixed music for some shows i´ve been hired to compose.
Goal: As the buddy right up said, gather some money to put up a nice studio and to make my band progress.
Production Gear :
- Microphones: Shure SM58, Rode NT2-A, Shure 87 beta
- Audio Interface: Motu traveller
- Monitors: 2x genelec 8020B, 1 x 5040A sub
- Backline: Not much but a treated room for recording, some instruments and virtual stuff.
- Computer: AMD Phenomenom(tm) II Quadcore 940 processor. 3.00 Ghz. UAD 2 quadcore card.

See you all around!

[ttiwguitar]

Name: Alan
Location: Richmond, VA
Age: 22
Own Band: This Time It's War (Guitar)
Occupation: Musician, amateur engineer/producer, odd jobs...
Musical Tastes: Metal, progressive, rock, whatever is interesting and catches my ear.
Favorite Band: Opeth/Rush/Porcupine Tree
Favorite Album: Blackwater Park
Favorite Producer: Steven Wilson, Andy Sneap, Jens Bogren, Devin Townsend
Production Experience: Very little.
Goal: Play music for the rest of my life and get as many people as possible to listen to it. Or not.
Production Gear :
- Microphones: SM7
- Audio Interface and Pres: Digidesign Eleven
- Monitors: Some computer speakers and a decent pair of headphones.
- Amps: Framus Cobra, 5150, Framus Dragon cabs loaded with V30s and Greenbacks (x-pattern)
- Computer: Macbook... I'd be lying if I said I knew all the specs.

[amarshism]

Cant remember if ive done one of these before

Name: Andrew Marsh
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Band: www.myspace.com/abraxishc
Occupation: Guitarist/engineer/producer/guitar tech
Musical tastes: Prog, instrumental, death and black metal, hardcore
Goals: Tour the world through music, be it playing or working, setup own home studio for select clients and personal use
Gear: Mesa triple recto, mesa mark V, ibanez jem brmr, esp ltd viper 1000 deluxe, fernandes native custom, agile intrepid 8, dean rc7x, parker fly deluxe, customshop robin medley, various rack fx, pedals, tuners etc

[cmstrike]

I've been lurking here for a long time, figured I'd finally start posting

Name: Chris
Location: Long Island, New York
Age: 19
Own Band: None at the moment
Occupation: Musician, aspiring radio production manager
Musical Tastes: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Prog Rock, Funk, Soul, New Jack Swing
Favorite Band: Rush
Favorite Album: Dangerous by Michael Jackson
Favorite Producer: It's a tie between Terry Brown and Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis
Production Experience: I got started out recording a lot of Hip Hop sessions for local emcees. Got involved with Hip Hop production and eventually learned to play guitar. Scrapped the Hip Hop and started writing Metal/Hard Rock stuff, and I've been writing and recording my own stuff ever since. I attended an audio engineering school and began doing sessions in their studios, working with consoles and tape machines and fell in love with the production process. I now go to college for radio production.
Goal: To work in the radio production field as a career, and produce my own music as a labor of love.
Production Gear :
- Microphones: Just a gool ol' SM57 for now!
- Audio Interface and Pres: Echo AudioFire 4 interface
- Monitors: KRK RP5 monitors and Sennheiser headphones
- Backline: Nothing impressive right now. Peavey ValveKing 212 combo, Peavey Butcher (original) head, Ampeg 4x12 with stock speakers. Running some of the fantastic amp sims from LePou.
- Computer: Gateway FX530, Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz, 3GB RAM.

[sopulurn]

I just realized I've never done this.

Name: Olli Salonen

Location: Helsinki, Finland

Age: 20

Own Band: Chaotech (Melodic death metal)

Musical Tastes: Various kinds of metal, namely modern, melodic, tech death metal etc. I listen to many other genres as well... I guess you could say I generally like good music usually well produced, unless it has a vibe of its own that I like.

Production Experience: Some mixes I've done while studying, and my band's demo which is about to be released. I've worked on that one for the past year, for various reasons. First and foremost, I learned everything I know while doing it and I was too much of a perfectionist to leave it sounding like absolute shit.

Goal: At this point, I'm not sure of how pro I'm planning to get on into this stuff, but I'm hoping to get to record and mix my own clients at some point.

Band Gear: Yamaha Recording Custom 8" - 10" - 12" - 14" - 20", Ludwig Supraphonic '64, Sabian AAX, Sabian AA, Stagg, and shitty cymbals because buying those drums left me poor.

[kamikaze]

Name: Jason
Location: Idaho Falls
Age: 35
Own Band: http://www.myspace.com/divinenightmare
Occupation: SCEA help desk (as in PS3)
Musical Tastes: Metal mostly but a bit of everything is okay with me.
Favorite Band: Way too many, The Vision Bleak, Cemetary, Katatonia, Tiamat
Favorite Album: Lately, The Wolves Hunt Their Prey or A Thin Shell
Favorite Producer: Mathias Lodmalm, Markus Stock
Production Experience: Recording, mixing my own material and some local bands for the past 10 years. Worked with good friend Mathias Lodmalm (Cemetary)
Goal: Getting my studio finished, still a ways to go but almost there.
Production Gear -
- Microphones: AKG, Rode, CAD, AT
- Audio Interface/Pres/Outboards: Fosusrite
- Monitors: M-Audio
- Backline: ddrum, Peavey, Kustom 4x12 Celestion loaded, Jackson dinky, Jackson Kelly, Dean Black Gold V with EMG 81/85, LTD 5 string bass and an Ibanez RG350 MDX, Digitech, Line 6, M-Audio Radium, Monster cables etc..
- Computer: Quadcore AMD running Cubase 5 with a host of other plug ins and various software.

[producerDylan]

Hey!

I'm new around here.

Name: Dylan
Location: Media City, Dubai. UAE
Revolutions around the sun: 25
Own Band: None at the moment
Occupation: Producer, Recording and Mixing Engineer.
Musical Tastes: All sorts, I enjoy progressive rock and metal a little more than the others though.
Favorite Album: Lateralus - Tool
Favorite Producers: David Bottrill, Terry Date, Andy Wallace, GGGarth Richardson, Bob Ezrin, Andy Sneap.
Production Experience: Worked with a lot of bands and artists from all over the world, everything from new comers to multi platinum.
Goalsl: To Better myself each day, To work with the best.
Production Gear: (portable rig) Genelec 6010a's, M-audio project mix, Core i7 laptop with Pro Tools M-powered, Cakewalk Sonar and T-racks 3 deluxe, Shure, AKG, mics.

Im lucky to work in various studios in the UAE, I have access to some cool consoles, outboard and mics.

I hope to grow and learn more each day

[Audiosprite]

Name: John
Location: New Jersey
Age: 20
Own Band: ¯\(º o)/¯ freelance jazz gigs
Occupation: Lifeguard and student
Musical Tastes: Jazz, riffrock and 20th-century classical mostly
Favorite Band: John Coltrane
Favorite Album: A Love Supreme
Favorite AE: Andy Wallace
Production Experience: Self-motivated tinkerings
Goal: Incidental musician/composer
Production Gear :
- Microphones: Sm57, sm58, perception 220 LCD, 2xC02 SCD, Zoom h4, cassette player
- Audio Interface and Pres: Saffire Pro 40
- Monitors: MSP5A's
- Other: Oxygen61 midi keyboard, dbx 166xl
- Computer: Q9400 @ 2.66 ghz, GTX260, 4gb ddr2

[sinewavealex]

Name: Alex
Location: Israel
Age: 27
Own Band: Acropolis (Keyboards)
Occupation: Keyboard player. Mostly for my band, but enjoy the occasional live/studio session work. Got to play a wide range of musical styles in my life from classical music to "Israeli idol" pop music, musicals, to metal obviously.
Musical Tastes: All the musical spectrum. Mostly metal though
Production Experience: Mostly laying down/mixing my own stuff. Not too high class. Never actually tracked/mixed a band so far.
Gear:

Keyboards:
- Kurzweil K2600
- Roland Juno-G
- Roland AX-7 (yes, that is a keytar, folks!)
Software:
- Cubase 5
- Reason 5
- Spectrasonics Omnisphere
- EastWest Symphonic Orchestra Gold
- Z3ta+
Microphones:
- SM58
- AKG C2000B
Audio Interface:
- Lexicon I-ONIX u42s

[Kripa]

Name : Ronny Sinha
Location : Kolkata, India
Age : 25
Own Band : Kripa (vocals/guitars)
Occupation : Musician
Musical Tastes : \metal/
Favorite Band : Nevermore, Opeth, Alter Bridge, Periphery
Favorite Producer : Andy Sneap, Fredrik Nordström, Misha 'bulb' Mansoor
Production Experience: not much, just a beginner
Goal : confused!
Production Gear : Line6 pod studio gx, Sony mdr-xd100 headphone

[JimBreed]

Name : Jim Houghton
Location : Chicago, IL
Age : 23
Own Band : Central Disorder (also looking elsewhere youtube.com/camaro4726)
Occupation : automechanic, starving musician
Musical Tastes : Metal, electronica, drum and bass and everything in between
Favorite Band : In Flames, Sylosis, Sybreed
Favorite Album : Soundtrack To Your Escape
Favorite Producer : Joe Tiberi
Production Experience : 1 Album so far
Goal : Survive in the music world
Production Gear : mbox2, pod xt pro, intel i7 rig
Softwares : pro tools, fruity loops, podfarm
Backline: Peavey 6505+, Marshal 1960a, decimator
Guitars: LTD Alexi 600 with emg 81, Razorback 255, rr3 rhoadds with rev headstock and emg81, rg7321

[Daemoniac]

Name : Mischa Newman
Location : Gold Coast, Australia
Age : 21
Own Band : Daemoniac
Occupation : Commercial Arts student... AKA: Poor fucker
Musical Tastes : Industrial, Metal of various forms, other stuff.
Favorite Band : 16Volt, Gojira, Velvet Acid Christ, Mnemic, Combichrist, Skinny Puppy & older KoRn
Favorite Album : SuperCoolNothing V2.0
Favorite Producer : Trent Reznor & Dave Ogilvie
Production Experience : None yet. Working on an EP
Goal : Work somewhere in the Graphic design industry, start my own music studio and produce some nice Industrial records.
Production Gear : A laptop
Softwares: FL Studio 9 with way too many soft synths and noise samples for my own good.
Backline: None...
Guitars: None Had to sell it all. Hopefully I'll be starting again soon though

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Haha, realized I haven't updated mine in 4 years, quite a lot have changed, was funny to read stuff that old

Who's Who

[Daemoniac]

^ Nonsense, once it's on the internet nothing ever changes. Ever.