Who's Who

[unsilpauly]

name: Paul Maiolo
location: northampton, ma- usa
age: 33
own band: born in blood
occupation: engineer/producer, retail
musical tastes: all kinds, anything that moves me in some way. but i tend to like heavy music the most
favorite band: all-time, tool(its hard to pick one!)
favorite album: of all time im not sure. currently lamb of god-ashes of the wake
favorite producer: (in no particular order) machine, zeuss, adam d., andy sneap, rick rubin, james murphy, ben schigel, dave botrill, fredrik nordstrom
production experience: my own bands and a handful of local bands(like around 12)
goal: my goal is to be a successful engineer/producer and continue to play music.
production gear: mac g4(2), pentium 4 pc, motu 828, digital performer4.52, steinberg wavelab 4, event tr8 monitors, presonus digimax, alesis d4, studio projects vtb1, behringer ultragain pro(3), samson c-control, behringer b-control fader, monster power3500, audix d6, audix i5, audix f15, shure sm 57, shure pg 57, shure sm 58, sennheiser e609silver, sennheiser e609, rode nt1a, audio technica 3525, samson co1, peavey drum mic kit, rolls headphone amp

[Nitronium Blood]

Occupation : Billionaire.

Musical Tastes : Metal.

Favorite Band(s) : Megadeth, Testament, In Flames [Pre 'RTR' Era], Opeth, Dark Tranquillity, Children Of Bodom, KSE, Carcass, Kohle's 'Kopeth' project.

Favorite Album(s) : All the albums in set era of above mentioned bands. Except 'Risk' and 'The World Needs A Hero' by Megadeth.

Favorite Producer(s) : Andy Sneap, Fredrik Nordström, Max Norman, Kohle, Glenn Fricker, Peter Tagtgren.

Goal : TO LEARN HOW TO LAUGH AGAIN.

[~BURNY~]

Name: Stephane
Location: France
Age: 34
Own band: No
Occupation: Guitar player, FOH guy, Sound engineer (SAE graduate) ... Used to be soldering worker.
Musical tastes: Metal, (true) Hardcore, Indie Rock, 70's Progressive Rock, Pop, Punk, Jazz...
Favourite Bands/Artists: At the Gates, Iron Maiden, Carcass, PJ Harvey, Frank Zappa, The Hives, Kyuss, Sonic Youth...
Favourite Albums: Slaughter of the soul, The Number Of The Beast, Heartwork, Rid Of Me, The Grand Wazoo, Veni Vidi Vicious, Welcome To The Sky Valley
Favorite Producers: Andy Wallace, Terry Date, Colin Ridchardson, Steve Albini, George Martin
Production Experiences: Home Recorded Demos and Albums, Studio Recorded Demos and Albums

Gear:

M-Audio Profire 2626 x2
Behringer Ada8000
M-Audio Fast Track USB

ART MPA gold
Triton Audio Fethead
FMR RNLA comp

M-Audio Bx8
Philips 544

Beyerdynamic K271
Vic firth SIH 1

Shure SM7b
Michael Joly's OktavaMod MK-319 Floating Dome PEO
2 x Michael Joly's OktavaMod MK-012 PE
Audiotechnica ATM650
2 x Shure SM57
Audix D6
Audix I5
3 x Audix D2
Audix D4
2 x Rode NT3
Apex 205
2 x T-bone SC140
2 x T-bone MM-1
T-Bone RB500
T-Bone MB75
T-Bone RB100

4 x Tom T-Drum
SD T-Drum
KD T-Drum
KD Ddrum

Radial proRMP
Countryman Type 85
Alto D11 active DI
Ki-Sound passive DI

PC based DAW
Cubase SX
Protools M powered
Wavelab

1980 Burny SuperGrade Les Paul
Ibanez BTB 475
ESP LTD MH-400
Seagull S6
2 x Mod JCM900 dual reverb 100w heads
Blackheart Little Giant head
Harley Benton 4x12 cab w/vintage 30 spkrs
Mesa rectifier standard 4x12
Maxon OD-808 Overdrive
Brown mod Boss SD-1 Overdrive
Ibanez FZ-7 Fuzz
Ibanez TS-5 Tube Screamer
Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal
Boss MZ-2 Metalizer
EH Nano Muff Overdrive
Digitech GSP 2101

Revalver MKIII
Steven Slate Drums Platinum
Cubase 5

[Ravenous Enemy]

Name: Liam
Location: North Wales
Age: 18 (there are some OLD people on this forum!)
Occupation: at school, off to uni next year (Civ. Eng.)
Musical tastes: Pretty catholic: Metal, Rock, Alt. Rock, Alt. Metal, Industrial, Punk Rock, Some Indie-ish stuff, Metalcore (pretty unfashionable word there!)
Favourite Bands/Artists In rough Chronological Order: Rancid, My Vitriol, Muse, AFI, then discorvered Arch Enemy, Carcass, Children of Bodom, Satyricon, Atreyu, AX7, FFAF, back to Vex Red, Thrice, Spiritual Beggars, Skirtbox and loads more favourites...
Production Experiences: Home Recorded Demos in the alt. metal vein.
Gear: High spec. PC with Cubase SX, Various shitty microphones, Marshall amp, V-amp (I know!..) Wahsburn Idol 65 Guitar, LP, Yamaha Acoustic
More to come.

Waves back to fellow Welsh person (hopkins...)(waving head icon)...

[evildonkeymaster]

Name : Ross
Location : This week So Cal moving next week to Nashville TN
Age : 26
Own Band : Eyes Shut Tight (Everything but Drums, yes it is a studio project)
Occupation : I create, direct and manage training programs for a music based retailer
Musical Tastes : Anything heavy and unique (this includes most metal) and a bit from every genre as long as it is unique.
Favorite Band: ummm... that's hard! here is a quick list of faves ha ha. Sabbath, Zeppelin, Carcass, Meshuggah, Testament, Opeth, Helmet, Tool, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Alice in Chains,
Favorite Album : Carcass - Heartwork
Favorite Producer : Sneap (of course), Steve Wilson, Dave Sardy, Alex Newport, Ed Rose, Fredrik Nordström
Production Experience : Apprenticed at Big Round Records for 4 years, several workshops and picked up time with other mid-west producers. Worked on several horrible albums not worth mentioning here haha. Been doing the home studio thing since I got my first 2-Track reel to reel machine when I was 11.
Goal : Build a solid recording studio in the basement of my new Nashville home. Fill it with great gear. Find bands that want to record heavy stuff with some unknown dude in his basement for dirt cheap.
Production Gear : Tricked out overclocked PC (Athon XP at 2.4 GHz, 2 GB of RAM, 4 Hard Drives). 3 ADATs (I never use anymore), EMU 1212m audio card (I use one of the ADATs as an 8 channel interface for the 1212m), Monitor with HR824s and small cheapo speakers for comparison. TC Power Core (with Master X5), Mics: Bunch of SM57s, EV868 (kick mic), AKG C1000s (pair), TLM 103, Peavey 45i (snare drum secret weapon!), Guitars: main guitars are a Les Paul Custom (500T at bridge) Ibanez RG621 (EMG 85 at bridge 18 volt mod), Amp: Main AMP 5150 combo (Bias and tubes set custom) into a Marshall 1960AV cab for recording, POD XT (used to demo and track as needed). A crapload of old outboard gear I used with the ADATs like 10 years ago but now collect dust, eBay time?!?!
Software : Cubase SX 2 is the foundation, TC Powercore and Waves plugs are the most frequently used.

[Fredrik-Ablaze]

Since I've been stalking this forum, leaching on all the knowledge here I'd might as well take the time to introduce myself too.

Name : Fredrik Jordanius
Location : Sweden
Age : 25
Own Band : Ablaze
Occupation : Electronical engineer at Ericsson, repairs circuitboards
Musical Tastes : Metal, Metal, Acoustic music
Favorite Band : Nevermore, Haunted,
Favorite Album : Operation Mindcrime, Dead Heart in a Dead World
Favorite Producer : Andy Sneap.
Production Experience : Pre production projects in my home studio, some co producing on the albums I've recorded
Goal : Right now to get a label for Ablaze, we start recording our full length debut in August
Production Gear : M-Audio 1010LT soundcards, Mackie mixing desk, Shure/TSM/Audix microphones for main studio, Line 6 guitarport, Shure mics for homestudio. ENGL Powerball amp/ENGL Cab, Jackson Stars Kelly, Jackson KE3 Kelly, Ibanez RG620/RG527LTD plus a heap of other stuff

[LynchpiN]

Name : Caio
Location : Brasília, Brazil
Age : 22
Own Band : www.Dynahead.com.br (Vocals), www.Harllequin.com.br (Vocals/Bass), www.Abhorrent.com.br (Bass)
Occupation : Working, studying and free-lancing in design, record producer.
Musical Tastes : All kinds of Metal, Prog Rock, Brazilian music, Classical and anything that's nice.
Favorite Band : Tricky question... At the moment I can say it's Opeth and Orphaned Land.
Favorite Album : Unfairly I can name: Elegy (Amorphis), Demanufacture (Fear Factory), Ten (Pearl Jam), Blackwater Park (Opeth), Mabool (Orphaned Land), Vol. 4 (Black Sabbath), Aqualung (Jethro Tull)…
Favorite Producer : It crossed my mind of Colin Richardson, Alan Parsons, Bob Rock, Roy Z, Steven Wilson, Devin Townsend, Andy Wallace and Mr. Sneap. There are many more, but that’s all I can think of right now.
Goal : I'd like to own a self financing metal oriented studio, too (this doesn’t even exist here lol). If not, at least to have time to work on metal recording as a hobby. Go smarter and make some cool albums to be pride of, and show to my grandsons.
Production Gear : An AMD64 and a Pentium IV, some mics (such as a Rode NT1, 57's, 58's, Realistic PZM, some preamps) plus anything I can borrow.
Softwares : Nuendo 3 for recording and mixing, Sound Forge for mastering, Reason 3 and VSTi’s for sampling. As for plugins, mostly Waves, Izotope Ozone, Steinberg VSTs, Antares, Drumagog, and whatever is necessary.

[adrianvillan]

Name : Adrian Vilanueva
Location : Los Angeles
Age : 35
Own Band : Debauchery (project)
Occupation : Printing/Advertising -Make posters for Movies and Bands
Musical Tastes : Metal, Rock, Metal, classical, Metal and more Metal
Favorite Band : Like too many to pick one
Favorite Album : same as above
Favorite Producer : Rick Rubin-Andy S ( has the midas touch right now) Mutt Lang- Bob Ezrin- Roy Z
Production Experience : Recording Demos and preproduction at my home studio "The Dungeon Sound Studio"
Goal : To learn and build up my studio to continue to make better and better metal music for the masses
Production Gear ual 2.7GHz PowerPC G5512MB DDR400 SDRAM
Expandable to 8GB SDRAM
250GB Serial ATA
16x SuperDrive (double-layer)
Three PCI-X Slots
ATI Radeon 9650
312MB DDR video memory
Digi002 with Presonus 96k preamp exp. 16 channel
Gold + Renaissaince Waves bundles- sound replacer- T-Racks
mackie 1604 mixer
Big knob control center
Alesis DM5
Yamaha Ns 10 monitors
Event 20/20 Monitors
pod 2.0
sm 57 x 4
Carvin condenser mic
D112 X2
Shure PGDMK4 drum kit
B1 X 2
other misc mics
back line- Marshall JCM 800- Mesa Triple Rectifier 2 channel- cabs loaded with vintage 30's- Vox Bass boost- Roland micro cube in my office at work
Effect boss bcb6 pedal board-Digitec RP 20-Boos GT 5- Tube screamer ts9
Guitars- Gibson Custom-Gibson flying V-BC Rich Beast (EMG 81-85) Ibanez Rg-Jackson Pro Series- Sammy Sanchez custom guitar-Bc Rich Mocking bird-Fernandez Ravelle limited-Fender P bass (emg's) Ari pro- Horner in my office at work
tons of other toys too many to list.

[ThomasT]

Name : ThomasT
Location : Erfurt, Germany
Age : 31
Own Band : Asgaia (www.asgaia.de)
Occupation : programming
Musical Tastes : mostly Death-Metal, Gothic-Metal
Favorite Band: Carcass, TypeONegative, Therion, In Flames, Dark Tranquility, Kreator, Carnivore, Samael, Atrocity
Favorite Album : Carcass - Heartwork, TypeONegative - Slow, deep and hard
Favorite Producer : Colin Richardson, Waldemar Sorychta...and many more including Andy Sneap.
Production Experience : since 1995 sometime in a little studio, since 2001 I rent the rooms and continue the studio. Mostly Punk, Metal and Crunch-bands. But I'm my best costumer.
Today I'm working on my owns band next album and wondering how to make it loud without sounding crappy...
Goal : become rich and famous. (I gave up the idea to live from the studio)
Production Gear : 3 Creamware Pulsar-Cards, RME ADI-8 DS, an old ADAT, different Preamps (Sytek, Mindprint, LA Audio etc.), different FX (Lexicon, TC), no mixer anymore.
Still my old 700Mhz Athlon...
Software : still cubase VST5.1, Wavelab 3, Scope Software, many Plugins (Waves etc.)

[jamesboyd]

Name-James Alexander Boyd
location- New Zealand (hopefully london next year)
Occupation- full-time honours student, airport ground support, lawn mower
Fav music- metal, but really everything
fav producer- andy
fav band- syl and mesh
own band- doing full album as part of honours research project this year.
gear- esp h-202 (equiped with 81/85), ibanez ax77221 (soon to have 707's)
warwick 5 string bass, sansamp bass d.i, sm57, d112, boss ns-2, mesa 4x12 traditional slant, peavey xxx, sd-1, ts9. shitty pc, nuendo, dfh1, dudley drum samples, fruity loops.

[Lopes]

Name : Gabe Lopez

Location : Fallbrook, California

Age : 24

Own Band : Fractured Halo, A.I.V.

Occupation : Full-time Student, Slowly killing myself at a golf course.

Musical Tastes : Metal, Prog, Fusion, and Classical.

Favorite Band(s) : Dream Theater, Pain of Salvation, Opeth, Megadeth, Mr. Bungle, Symphony X, Nevermore, Iced Earth, Savatage, Porcupine Tree, Motorhead, and many more.

Favorite Album(s) : Awake, Be, Still Life, Rust in Peace, and Ace of Spades.

Favorite Producer(s) : Andy Sneap, Bob Rock (not including St. Anger).

Production Experience : Working in my Home Studio for fun.

Goal : To be surrounded by hot chicks and die with a slice of pizza in my mouth, a beer in one hand, and a greasy hooter in the other.

Production Gear : AMD 2.5 gHz, M-Audio Delta 1010, Shitty Mic preamp not worth mentioning, SM 57's & 58's, Epiphone Les Paul's w/ EMG's, Music Man John Petrucci Signature, Various Jacksons, Rocktron Voodu Valve, Carvin HT150 Power Amp, Peavey 6505, Carvin Legacy 2 x 12" Cab w/ Greenbacks.

Software : Sonar

[metalizer]

Name: Danny Hove Jensen
Location: Aalborg, Denmark
Age:25
Own band:Transparent www.transparent-metal.com
Occupation:Student
Musical tastes:Maiden,Priest,Nevermore,Carcass,Death,Arch enemy,Slayer,Machine head,Fear factory,Pantera,Testament,Megadeth,Anthrax(old),Me tallica(old),Dream theater,Suffocation,King diamond,Mesuggah,Soilwork,At the gates,Joe Satriani,Steve Vai,Spastic ink,Cynic,Halford,Theory in Practice,Necrophagist,
Favorite albums:to many to mention
Favorite producers:Sneap,Richardson,Nordstrom,Rock,Date,Ker non,Bergstrand
Producton experiece: mainly my own band
Gear:Carillon 2.6gHz,Motu896,Cubase sx,drumkits from hell,wavelab,Focusrite liquid channel,Blue sky prodesk monitors,T.c. powercore(firewire),Rode k2,2 shure sm57's,,Ibanez universe 777,2 Johnson millinium250 heads,Johnson j12 and j8 controllers,Carvin legacy cabbinet,Marshall 1960 cabbinet

[JoshSylosis]

Name: Josh Middleton

Age: 21

Location: Reading, England

Own Band: Sylosis (www.myspace.com/sylosis)

Occupation: Guitar Teacher / Producer (just about) / Bum

Music Tastes: Pantera, Metallica, Testament, Death, Sepultura, Dimmu Borgir, At The Gates, Soilwork, Obituary, Morbid Angel, Symphony X

Gear: Guitar wise:
ESP endorsee
M-II rosewood - EMG 81 + 85
M-II maple - EMG 81 + 89
LTD EC1000 - EMG 81 + 60
Caparison Dellinger - EMG 81 + SA + SA

Peavey Triple XXX + XXX 4x12
Maxon OD808

Gear:
Macbook pro
Cubase 4
MOTU 8 mic pre
loadsa mics
DFHS

Fave Producer: Andy Sneap, Colin Richardson and Devin Townsend

Fave Albums:
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Death - Symbolic
Sepultura - Arise
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just Breathing

[Torniojaws]

Name: Juha
Location: North Finland
Age: 23
Own Band: Vortech (Progressive Industrial Metal), Relativity (Grindcore), Coldway (Death Metal)
Occupation: Bacher of Engineering, Technology studies.
Musical Tastes: Metal, avantgarde, industrial, dark/ambient, darkwave, 60's pop, 70's rock jazz, blues, classical, hard rock, etc
Favorite Band: A toss-up between Arcturus, Emperor, Fear Factory, Front Line Assembly and Devin's solo/SYL
Favorite Album: Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Favorite Producer: No preference
Production Experience: Recording own stuff since 2000 in my "home studio" and doing some tracking/mixing for a few friends, plus composing ambient soundtracks for a few productions
Goal: To have a full fledged home studio
Production Gear: Schecter 007 Blackjack, Jackson DX7, Engl Powerball, Engl 2x12" Vintage, Epiphone PR100 Natural, Yamaha PSR-160 , Shure SM57, Behringer MX602A mixer, Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, 2 GB PQI DDR2-800 MHz, 720 GB (200 + 200 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, 320 GB WD Caviar SE), M-Audio Audiophile 2496, Behringer Truth B2030A, Millennium mic stand ( ), Danelectro CoolCat Chorus, Dunlop Crybaby, Behringer EQ700
Softwares: Cubase SX 3 + loads of VSTi's, Propellerheads Reason 3.0, Sony Sound Forge 8.0, Fruity Loops XXL 7.0, Waves Platinum Bundle, Drumagog, and a big bunch of VST/DX plugins

[Obscura]

Name: Todd Forkin
Location: NY, Philadelphia
Band: Starkweather (http://www.holyterror.com/starkweather)
Occupation: Physician Assistant/ Glazer
Favorite Bands: Gorguts, Hate Eternal, Fear of God, Human Remains, Pre 'Domination' Morbid Angel, old punk rock and hardcore, Springsteen, The Who, Fusion, Modern Classical.
Favorite Album:Gorguts-Obscura
Favorite Producers: Mr. Sneap, Colin Richardson, Daniel Bergstrand, Pierre Remillard, Flood,
Gear: Ibanez Universe UV7-BK, ESP M207, ESP Mirage Custom, ESP MII Deluxe, Boogie .50 Caliber, Boogie Rectifier Cab, 5150 Combo, Rocktron Replifex, BBE Sonic Maximizer, Fostex VF 80 digital 8 track, Shure SM 57

[Unicorn]

Hi,
I've posted here a few times and forgot to introduce me.
Moonlapse brought me here and I must say that I'm really liking it here.

Name: Markus
Age: born 1978
Location: Germany

Own Band: Hel, Elane, and others

Occupation: Student sound engineering

Music Tastes: Metal, (Art-)Rock, Folk
Band: Unicorn, Arena, Änglagård, Katatonia, Moonsorrow, Blackfield, Bathory ...

Gear: Rode NTK, Audio Technica 4050, Audix i5, D2 (x2), D4, D6, Oktava Mk012 pair..
Mindprint Envoice preamp, RME Fireface 800, FMR Audio RNP, Spirit Soundcraft mixer,
Jackson Dinky Rev., Walden western guitar (love that one), Technics KN 5000 keyboard, V-Amp 1, Peavey Windsor

Fave Producer: Dan Swanö, Jens Bogren, Andy Sneap, Tomas Skogsberg

Fave Prodction on albums:
Cash - Solitary Man
Arena - Immortal?
Katatonia - the great cold distance
Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water (not that I like the music, but the production is impressive)

Software: Cubase 4, Voxengo Elephant, Curve EQ, Crunshessor, ApTrigga, UAD

[estigma2001]

Name : Gustavo Garcia-Godos Salazar

Location : Pueblo Libre, Lima Peru

Age : 31

Own Band : www.narkan.tk , www.bleedofhate.com and previous band estigma

Occupation : physician, musician

Musical Tastes : Metal, Rock, 80s wave

Favorite Band(s) : Forbidden, Testament, Death Angel, Xentrix, Anacrusis, Evildead, Intruder, Slayer, Judas Priest, Exodus, Anthrax, Violence, Carcass, Death, napalm death, Deicide, Aborted( last 2 cds), In Flames, Paradise Lost, and many more
Favorite Album(s) : Act III, The Gathering, Practice what you preach, R2R, Icon, Draconian Times, Bonded by Blood, Forbidden Evil, Twisted into form, etc

Favorite Producer(s) : Andy Sneap, Bill Metoyer (the sound of thrash metal), Scott Burns

Production Experience : Working in my Home Studio for fun.

Goal : to have my cds mixed and produced by Andy lol
Production Gear : PC pentium 4, wave 8/24 gadgetlabs, yamaha custom series drum, 5150(2) crate 4x12 cab and 5150 4x12 cab, Ibanez Guitar (shitty series lol), quadraverb gt

Software : Adobe Audition, Cool Edit Pro, T racks, Wavelab

[STINNETT]

Name: Will
Location : Kentucky
Age: 29
Own band: Currently?...An assortment of un-named projects.....
Occupation: Engineer (plastic injection mold design)
Musical Tastes: Most metal, especially technical Death Metal, Progressive rock, some classical, soundtracks, some jazz/fusion
Favorite Band(s): Death, Atheist, Cynic, Spiral Architect, Gory Blister, John Arch era Fates Warning, way too many...
Favorite Album: very hard to narrow down, but probably Death - "Individual Thought Patterns"
Favorite Producer: I enjoy several different flavors of production. I definitely love Andy's albums and I have to say Neil Kernon just because of "A Sceptic's Universe"..and how can I not say Jim Morris of Morrisound?
Production Experience: Record demos for local bands and a couple independant "albums". Started out just recording my own stuff, and that is still ultimately why I have a studio.
Goal: Finish my assorted musical projects and try to actually get my music out there for people to hear. Someday have a more serious studio in my home.
Production Gear:
PC, 2.8 Ghz dual core, 2 gigs of RAM, dual 160 gig HD's + external Drive for backups. 19" LCD monitor
Software: Sonar 5 Producer Edition, Various plugins....DFHS
Front end: FMR Audio RNP preamps, DMP-3 preamps, M-Audio Delta interfaces, Mackie CFX-20
Mics: Shure 57's, 58's, Beta 52, Audio Technica AT25, 3035, Studio Projects C1, Joe Meek JM27's, Sennheiser e609s, Audix i5, and a few others...
Other Stuff: Sansamp RBI, Radial X-amp, A few Behringer Items, Alesis monitors
Amps: 5150 II, JCM 900, Marshall VS100, Marshall cab, V-amp pro
Guitars: Jackson USA SL2H Soloist, Jackson SLSMG Soloist with Seymour Duncan "Full Shred" pickup. Taylor Acoustic, Ibanez SRX500 bass, Dean "Rhapsody" fretless bass.

[madbutcher]

Name: Matt

Location : St louis Missouri

Age: 23

Own band: Harkonin www.harkonin.com

Occupation: Wannabe musician / wannabe engineer / Deity (basically unemployed)

Musical Tastes: Mostly metal, some punk, some classical/symphony, some rock, and Frank Zappa. 100% ANTI-EMO

Favorite Band(s): Too many to name,at the moment probably Khold.

Favorite Album: Can't really name one, Slayer "season's in the abyss" is probably one i've heard the most though.

Favorite Producer: Peter Tagtgren, Neil Kernon, Andy Sneap, Jim Morris, Steve Albini, Terry Date, Machine, GGGarth,

Production Experience: Record demos for local bands, my own band, various odd recordings, lot of hip/hop vocals. Some vocals for a couple major label rappers and major label rap producers.

Goal: To have my own recording studio that is up to my preffered standards, and to have a 3some with Jessica Alba and the chick form "the Scorpion King"

Production Gear:
My own.....a d112 and a couple 58's.....a fostex vf-16
Of the studio I do work at (and hopefully still do as it was just subleased to someone else that is a rap producer.....)
Mics:Akg= c12VR (Stereo pai)r, d112, 414. Shure = 57's, sm81 (pair), sm91, beta 52. Sennheiser= 421's. Neumann= Km184 (pair), Soundelux= u95s
Pro tools tdm system (mix +++) Apgogee ad8000 and 888 converters. Bunch of plugins...
Board= control 24
Outboard= Valley Sound Neve 1272-2 channels, Midas XL4-8 channels, Crane Song Flamingo-2 channels, Manley Vox Box- 2 channels. EL Fatso, 2 UA 1176's, TC Fireworx, TC D two, Lexicon pcm 91

Amps: Crate BV 120, Peavey 5150
Guitars: Gibson Les Paul studio, Ibanez Rg 770. Both stock.

[A Toolish Circle]

Name: Roland

Location: Perth WA, Australia

Age: 20

Own Band: none

Occupation: Producer/mixer

Musical Tastes: Metalcore, Prog metal ,Prog Rock , Classical
,jazz , rock

Favorite Band: Opeth, A perfect circle, Tool ,Meshuggah

Favorite Album: Blackwater park ( Opeth ) Mer De Noms ( APC) DEI ( Meshuggah)

Favorite Producers: Steven Wilson,David Botrill,Billy Howerdel,Don Gilmour,Machine, Adam Dutkiewicz

Favourite Mixers : Andy Wallace , Rich Costey , Andy Sneap , Joe Chicarelli,Colin Richardson

Production Experience: 14 bands ( Perth )

Goal: Run a full Pro Tools HD system with Neve/Focusrite/API preamps and own a huge studio
or touring around the world with a band !

Production Gear: Cubase SX 3 , Genelec 1029a , B&W 602s monitors ,Tascam FW1804 soundcard , Shure/rode/samson mics / PSP|Waves|NI|TC bundles , Super PC

Other Gear : PRS singlecut SE , POD XT PRO , ROLAND RS -5 keyboard

[cobhc]

Name : Steven.
Location : East Midlands, UK.
Age : 20.
Own Band : Nothing at the moment.
Occupation : Nothing at the moment (hehe!).
Musical Tastes : Metal/rock, mainly black/death metal though.
Favorite Band : Overall (Children Of Bodom) Current (Daylight Dies)
Favorite Album : Overall (Follow The Reaper) Current (This Godless Endeavor)
Favorite Producer : Pretty much Andy.
Production Experience : Mainly just stuff at home, nothing great, need to get a bit better at doing my own mixes before i start to spread out into doing other things.
Goal : To be in some type of black/death metal band along the lines of Behemoth, and to be a half decent producer.
Production Gear : Shure SM57, M-Audio Delta 10/10LT, Sennheiser/Shure Headphones, 2x246 Opteron Cpu's, 2GB DDR400 Ram, 400GB SATA Raid.
Amps/Pedals: Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer, Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive, Lee Jackson GP-1000 Preamp, Rocktron Intellifex, Peavey Classic 50/50 Poweramp, Marshall G12T75 loaded 2x12 cab, also an original Line 6 Spider 112 Combo.
Guitars: Epiphone Les Paul Standard (Left Handed with stock p/up's), Jackson PS3T (Left Handed, with Jackson J50BC p/up, and JE-1000 gainboost), Jackson PS4 (Left Handed with EMG's), Tanglewood Acoustic (Left Handed)
Softwares : Cubase SX for Midi, Pro Tools M-Powered for mixing.
Plugins : Drumkit From Hell Superior, Waves Diamond Bundle 5.2, Izotope Ozone, Drumagog (with andy's samples).

[Pman]

Name : Parman
Location : north east uk, sunderland
Age : 15
Own Band : Nothing at the moment. had a small thing goin on here for a bit with some school friends but they didnt want to commit... www.purevolume.com/fromtheabyss
Occupation : school,
Instruments: mainly drums and guitar, also bass and piano
Musical Tastes : Metal(all types) alternative, etc
Favorite Band : constantly changing, at the moment: megadeth, death, carcass, bolt thrower, mendeed
Favorite Album : way too many, constantly changing etc
Favorite Producer : Andy, colin,
Production Experience : stuff at home, just progressively learning more and getting better with what i use and learning more about generally just recording, i usually record my own mixes
Goal : to get a band with the same music tastes and mindset, and to learn production professionally,
Production Gear : Shure SM57, Tascam FW1804, Oktava MK012 legitimate pair, cheap connect-it mics,
Headphones, beyerdynamics (?) and koss (?)
Amps/Pedals: zoom707 guitar fxpedal, marshall 30dfx amp,
Drums: pearl export double bass 8 piece with zildjian/sabian cymbals, pro mark 7a
Guitars: only real serious guitar is Ibanex EX350
Sofware: cubase sx, musicmatch jukebox for efficient wav conversion
Plugins : Drumagog

[Garfo]

Name : Gareth
Location : South Wales, Opposite the biggest Heavy Metal Factory in Europe aka Port Talbot Steelworks
Age : 23
Own Band : Got my own Progressive Rock Project/Album, other than that I play in an acoustic jazz covers band called Crowd Around
Occupation : Used to be in Marketing, now I just teach guitar at the mo
Musical Tastes : Prog Metal - Jazz, and Country, yep I like a bit of everything really
Favorite Band : Hmm, I'd have to go with Dream Theater here
Favorite Album : I like so many, so probably couldn't single it down to one
Favorite Producer : Andy, Bob Rock, Rick Rubin
Production Experience : Not that much really, mainly just recording and mixing my own music, and sometimes recording my acoustic band, for promo albums to get gigs and such
Goal : To make a living out of music, either playing it, or recording it.
Production Gear : Hmm, I don't have much of this, just a Pod XTL, shure sm57mic, and that for the moment is about it, oh, and a crappy 1.3ghz pc, with a soundblaster live
Softwares : Sonar 4 Producer Edition, A few Soft Synths, Reason 3, and a few fx plugins.

[Deus.exe]

Name: Leo
Location : Cologne, Germany
Age: 27
Own band: Deus.exe
Occupation: Network Technician (Unix, Linux, Storage,etc)
Musical Tastes: Mostly metal, some jazz, other assoted stuff (Garbage, Depeche Mode, Aphex Twin)
Favorite Band(s): Nevermore, Mnemic, Meshuggah, Strapping Young Lad, Soilwork, Darkane, Gojira, Type O Negative, Moonspell, Carcass, Raunchy
Favorite Album: Impossible to say really, there are just too many but TGE, City, Heartwork, Mechanical Spin Phenomena and Confusion Bay come instantly to mind
Favorite Producer: Andy (Obvously), Daniel Bergastrand, Tue Madsen, Devin Townsend, Neil Kernon, Colin Richardson,Peter Tätgren
Production Experience: Demos for my own band and just a little fucking around at home.
Goal: To do somthing with my band before I get to old (Rock 'n' Roll is a young mans game after all).
Production Gear:
PC: AMD Athlon 2800 XP 64, 512 of RAM, 120 gig HD. 19" monitor
Software: Abelton Delta, DFH, Guitar Rig, etc
Front end: M-Audio Transit (Yeah I know)
Mics: Shure 58, Rode NT1
Amps: Marshall TSL100, Marshall cab, Engel Thunder
Guitars: Jackson Rhodes and Kelly Performer

[ToxicNothing]

Name: Jeff M.
Location : RI, USA
Age: 48
Own band: ToxicNothing …significant
Occupation: Sr. Systems Architect for a Fortune 100 company
Musical Tastes: Rock, metal, prog

Favorite Band(s):Nevermore, Megadeth, DT, Rush, ELP, any Uli Roth, pre-Moonie Schenker

Favorite Album: too many …faves would be ^^

Favorite Producer: Sneap, NK, Templeman, Lange, Rundgren, Roy Z

Production Experience: Local radio, a couple of indy CDs, own material

Goal: Getting a guitar tone that I’m 100% satisfied with 2 weeks later

Production Gear:
PC: P4 3.4Ghz, 2G RAM, 2x160G HDD’s

Software: Sonar 5, Waves & other plugs, BFD w/XFL

Front end: Mackie 1402 VLZ, Aphex 207 pre, Echo Gina-24

Mics: 57, 58, i5, CAD E-200, AT Pro37R

Other Stuff: Tannoy Reveal passives, Marshall JFX-1, Roland V-Drum rig with Visu-Lites, Ashley gate, BBE 482, Evo 249C MIDI controller

Amps: ’82 Marshall JCM-800 50W combo, Marshall JMP-1, Digitech 2101 Artist, Pod 2.0, Pod XTL

Guitars: Jackson SL1, Parker Fly Deluxe, Gibson SG, ’78 Iceman, Peavey Fury 6’er, Alvarez DY45 acoustic