Who's Who

[sincethefailing]

Hi everybody,

I'm from south africa, been doing live sound for a number of years and studio work for a number of years

Name: Brett
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Age: 25
Own Band: Failing Forward, I am the Warmachine!
Occupation:Studio Retail Salesman, PA Retail Salesman, Live Sound engineer, Studio Engineer, Metal Producer.
Musical Tastes: Mostly melodic death metal, grindcore, some metalcore, progressive metal, mathrock and the odd alternative number
Favorite Band: Hard to say, at the moment, Underoath, Scar Symmetry, He Is Legend, Dave Matthews Band.
Favorite Album: Whoracle
Favorite Producer: Colin Richardson / Matt Hyde
Production Experience: a few albums, many demos, recording live and mixing FOH.

Production Gear :
- Various Microphones: AKG, Audio-Technica, Rode, Sennheiser, Shure, Violet design, neumann, geffel, blue.

- Audio Interface and Pres: Creamware Sound Card, 2 x Alesis HD24's, Various custom built pre's, JLM Baby Animal, Amek Rembrandt Pre's, DBX 386's, Art Tube Pre's, Neve 1272, Millennia STTS, Avalon 747... and anything else i can hire in... Sometimes i hire Lavry Engineering Blue A/D's.


- Monitors: NS10's, MSP5A's, Focal Solo6's(when I can hire them)

- Backline: DDrum Triggers + DDrum4SE module. Peavey 5150 mark I head. Orange V30's 4x12, Marshall 1960A Lead Cab, Marshall 4x12 with Greenbacks, Buddah 4x12 with buddah and v30s. Premier XPK All Maple kit with 10,12,14 sized toms, Sabian Cymbals. A few bass guitars (fender, warwick, cort, ibanez).


- Computer: AMD quadcore thing with 4 gb or ram and 1 terabyte of hdd space. and 2 250gb hard drives in my HD24's each. 2 lcd 19' monitors, ASUS.

thats me...

[nwright]

Name: Nate
Location: New Castle, IN
Age: 31
Current Project: Judgement
Occupation: Nuclear Medicine/ Positron Emission Technologist, freelance AE
Musical Tastes: Metal, cinematic scores
Favorite Band: right now it's Behemoth, Arch Enemy, Black Dahlia Murder, etc., but I mostly listen to other local bands I'm friends with or bands in our scene I dig.
Favorite Album: Hmmm, from a production standpoint, I like Chimaira's s/t, Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine, Devil Driver Fury of our Maker's Hand, Machine Head TTAOE
Favorite Producer: Andy, Colin, Zeuss, some Terry Date stuff, some Jason Suecof stuff, Some of Eric Rachel's work.
Production Experience: My band, Judgement's releases, a variety of local bands/musicians, and some regional and national work.
Goal: Learn as much as I can in the field of AE, get better, get better gear, have fun and hopefully be able to help local bands out and produce nice results
Production Gear:
STUDIO:
Pro Tools HD2; pacifica, API, UA, Focusrite and presonus pre's, Mackie HR824 monitors, way too many mics, etc. to list.

HOME/PERSONAL gear:
- Microphones: Shure, Audio Technica, Samson, Peavey
- Audio Interface and Pres: M-Audio Profire 2626
- Monitors: Alesis Monitor 1 MkII's, Behringer Truth 2030 passives, Infinity sub, Bowers and Wilkins 602S's, Senny HD280Pro headphones, AKG 55 headphones (tracking)
- Other Gear: PODxt, Digitech Studio multi fx, Behringer Powerplay Pro, Yamaha power amp (for passive monitors), Ddrum Pro Triggers
- Guitars: ESP Viper, ESP Eclipse, ESP/LTD Vipers (x2), ESP/LTD MC-500 (Max Cavalera sig), 1976 Gibson Les Paul Custom, 1995 Fender Strat, Ovation A/E
-Amps and cabs: Peavey 6505+, Peavey XXX, 2 Madison 4x12's (V 30's)
- Computer: HP dv9235nr, Core 2 Duo T5200, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 ultimate
- Software: Cubase 5, Waves plugs, Izotope Ozone 4, Drumagog 4, Aptrigga, Ampeg SVX, Various Voxengo, GVST, Antress Modern and assorted free plugins.

[unsilpauly]

name: Paul Maiolo
location: northampton, ma- usa
age: 34
own band: new band, no name yet.
occupation: dad/engineer/producer/musician
musical tastes: all kinds, anything that moves me in some way. but i tend to like heavy music the most.
favorite band: iron maiden, tool, lamb of god, too many more to list.
favorite album: of all time im not sure. currently lamb of god-sacrement
favorite producer: (in no particular order) machine, zeuss, adam d., andy sneap, colin richardson, rick rubin, james murphy, jason s. and mark, ben schigel, dave botrill, fredrik nordstrom
production experience: going on eight years now. i have about 50 seperate recordings under my belt at this point.
goal: my goal is to be a happy, successful dad/husband/engineer/producer and continue to play music.
production gear: mac g4(2), mac g5, apogee mini dac, lucid genx 96, motu 828, m-box, digital performer 4.61, protools 7, steinberg wavelab 4, waves ssl, waves npp and mb2, m.h. channel strip, drumagog pro, line 6 toneport ux1, event asp8 monitors, rme quad mic, presonus digimax, alesis d4, studio projects vtb1, fmr rnp, presonus central station, tascam us 2400, monster power3500, audix d6, audix i5x3, audix f15x2, shure sm 57 x2, shure pg 57, shure sm 58x2, sennheiser e609silver and 609 black, sennheiser e609, sennheiser 604x4, rode nt1a, audio technica 3525, samson co1x2, rolls headphone amp

[Keessi]

Name: Panu
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Age: 18(15. march -89)
Current Project: Afgrund - first full length
Previous Projects: Afgrund split with relevant few, a few projects that are undone yet
Occupation: Studying Audio Engineering
Musical Tastes: From grind to electronic pop. Stuff with heart and feeling.
Favorite Band: At the moment... hmm hard. listening to Nasum at the moment..
Favorite Album: Production: Nasum - Helvete, Chimaira - s/t, rotten sound - exit
Favorite Producer: Mieszko Talarczyk
Production Experience: Done a dozen of demos and a couple of unfinished albums. first split ep soon to be released!
Goal: To make ass kicking records that sound unique.
Production Gear:
- Microphones: Shure, Sennheiser, Rode
- Audio Interface and Pres: 2x Presonus Firepod's
- Monitors: Tannoy reveals (old ones)
- Other Gear: KI-sound passive DI box(45e and does reamping! ), Alesis DM5, tama superstar drums (2x20, 10, 12, 14, 14 snare. I'm a drummer mainly!) Boss hm-2, boss ds-1 ultramod, ts7->ts808, big muff deluxe distorter from 1965. boss ns-2
- Guitars: LTD vb-400 baritone guitar.
-Amps and cabs: Mesa f-30 that I'm gonna sell, Fender dual showman redknob -89, marshall jcm 800 4x12 bass cab. marshall lead 1960 4x12 cab from the mid 80's
- Computer: Mac G5 dual core 2,5ghz, 2,5gigs ram, 160gigs space, 250gig external drive
- Software: Drumagog 4, waves musicians bundle, Digital performer 5, aptrigga, Bias peak LE

[KTShannon]

Name: Kyle Shannon
Location: Orlando, Florida
Age: 20
Own Band: n/a just side project recording
Occupation: Student in recording arts / working on production, engineering
Musical Tastes: Metal, Rock, Jam Bands, Punk, alot of stuff mostly metal
Favorite Band: Children of Bodom
Favorite Album: Hatecrew Deathroll
Favorite Producer: Andy is badass
Production Experience: I have no production experience, just small projects
Goal: To enjoy what I do, and to make the best recordings I could possibly make
Production Gear :
- Microphones: Shure SM-57, MXL 990, 3 Seinheiser e815s
- Audio Interface and Pres: M-Audio 1010LT / Built in mixer preamp
- Monitors: M-Audio BX5 Studiophile / Seinsheiser Headphones
- Musical Equipment: Line 6 Spider II 150W / Carvin DC-135 / ESP LTD Viper 301 / Bass Collectors Bass w/ EMGs / Yamaha Acoustic / Misc. Percussion / M-Audio Keystation 61es
- Computer: Just a self made Athlon XP 64 with external harddrives and lots of RAM... Also I'm Running Cubase SX 3

[thebulbinator]

Name: Martin
Location: London
Age: 23
Own Band: Demagogue http://www.myspace.com/thedemagogue
Occupation: Musician (guitarist and Metal Producer, also teach and work in
Chappell of Bond Street in London.
Musical Tastes: Metal, Regina Spektor, Tori Amos et al. Shpongle, and a load
of others
Favorite Band: Dream Theater
Favorite Album: One of the Dream Theater albums
Favorite Producer: John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy, Kevin Shirley, Mutt Lange,
the guys from Shpongle and various other electronic bands.
Production Experience:
Kachana - Plains of Illyricum EP. http://www.myspace.com/kachana
Demagogue - Ruin http://www.myspace.com/thedemagogue
Lost Legion - currently in production
Goal: I have too many, I want a successful studio and a successful band. These will have to come at different times obviously.
Production Gear :
Microphones: Shure AKG
Audio Interface and Pres: Mackie Onyx 1640 with Firewire
Monitors: Yamaha MSP5 and RH5ma headphones.
Backline: Laney VH100R + 4x12 Laney cab, Marshall TSL601, Pod XT Pro
Computer: Carillon 3.2GHz Computer

[Rekisum]

Name: Frank Juul Nielsen
Location: Jyderup, Denmark
Age: 38
Own Band: Finished with bands... was guitarist in Compulsory DK
Occupation: Got EDS and don't know yet. Stopped working January 2006
Musical Tastes: Metal in so many shapes... and anything else that "touches" me
Favorite Band: Nevermore, Illdisposed, Suffocation, Testament, Morbid Angel and so much more... phew...
Favorite Album: Nevermore Godless... Morbid Angel Domination... Testament The Gathering... Suffocation Pierced... and so much more...
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap, Jacob Hansen
Production Experience: Home made things for a year now...
Goal: To finish some projects... can't sing or write lyrics
Production Gear :
- Microphones: GA Project TC1
- Audio Interface and Pres: M-Audio Delta 66
- Monitors: behringer Thuth B2031A
- POD XT PRO, Bass V-AMP PRO, Yamaha MG16/6FX mixer, Marshall JMP1 Preamp, Marshall 9200 Slave, Rocktron Intellifex, BBE 362 Maximizer, Behringer Ultra-Q PRO EQ, Toneworks tuner ;-), Marshall 9000 Preamp, Marshall 40x40 Valvestate slave, and that's about it...
- Musical Equipment: Jackson RR1 USA mmmm... candy/ Kramer Neptune with EMG/ Hunter Costume with Dimarzio PU's / Ibanez RG1271 with EMG707/ Cort Bas-
Computer: Something Chinese build (named SHG) Athlon 3200+ 2048MB RAM, 200GB Hardisk plus 250NGB Backup eksternal harddisk - Running Cubase SX 3

And i'm still looking for a good guitarsound... with that... i can do anything. Until then... i learn.

[Rob Logic]

Name: Rob
Location: Newport News, Virginia
Age: 24
Own Band: The Logic
Occupation: Retail Manager (best buy)
Musical Tastes: Metal, 80's Rock, Jazz
Favorite Band: Pantera or the Crue
Favorite Album: Shout At The Devil
Favorite Producer: Terry Date, Andy Sneap, Jacob Hansen, Lord Alge's
Production Experience: Sunset Riffs, The Jayden Sentence, The Logic, Sexual Falcon (my joke 80's metal stuff), God KE, Sequoia
Goal: Live off of music production instead of my life being controlled by retail management!!!
Production Gear :
- Microphones: Shure, Sennheiser, AKG, Yamaha (Subkick)
- Audio Interface and Pres: Digi 002, M-Audio Delta 1010, DBX, Mackie Onyx 8-pre,
- Monitors: Mackie HR624, Sony headphones
- Backline: Radial X-Amp, Peavey Triple XXX, Line 6 HD147, Mesa Boogie 2x12 cab with Celestion Vintage 30's, Peavey 4x12, Marshall 4x12, Maxon Tube Screamer OD808, ISP Decimator,
- Computer: Apple Power Mac G4 Dual 1.25ghz with 2GB of Ram, Gateway POS 3.0ghz with 1GB that runs Cakewalk Sonor Producer 6.0

[gibbed]

Name: Erik
Location: Chicago
Age: 22
Own Band: just me at the moment
Occupation: senior mechanical engineer student, IT work
Musical Tastes: metal metal metal and some classic rock, hair metal, jam band shit, hip hop, prog, etc..
Favorite Band: meshuggah
Favorite Album: destroy, erase, improve
Favorite Producer: everything andy touches is golden
Experience: 10+ years piano, 6+ years bassoon, 2 years guitar, drum and bass
still learning this production stuff
Gear :
Agile 2500 with mighty mite motherbuckers
Squier Strat with a floyd and gfs invader copy
SX bass
Tama Stagestar with Tama double bass pedals and Aquarian heads
Maudio black box interface / guitar amp sim
Roland Cube
Shure SM57
computer is an old athlon xp watercooled rig

still need to aquire a lot more gear, but am on a college budget

[Mark - Before The Rise]

Name: Mark

Location: Wolverhampton, England.

Age: 17

Band: Before The Rise

Occupation: Cashier/Student/Producer

Guitars:

Ibanez RGT3120 (D Sonic in bridge) - C standard
Ibanez RG2570 - C standard
Ibanez RG7321
Fender Standard Strat

Amp:

Marshall DSL 50
Marshall 1960AV

Recording:
Macbook Pro
Logic 7.2
Motu 8pre
3xSM57
1xSM58
2xAKG C1000S
1xAKG D112
M-Audio Keystation 61es

Favourite Producer: Devin Townsend/Andy Sneap. Either would be nice if we only had the money Kevin Shirley also worth a mention for his work with Dream Theater.

Favourite Albums (mix of current and all time):

Between The Buried And Me - Alaska
Dream Theater - Images And Words
Steve Vai - Passion And Warfare
Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
Protest The Hero - Kezia
At The Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease (I find SOTS gets a bit samey after Suicide Nation tbh, although it is badass up to then)
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
In Flames - Reroute To Remain (controversial :P)
Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper (NARROWLY above Hatebreeder)
The Gorgeous - Great Lakes

Bands I think deserve your attention:

Sylosis
Architects
The Gorgeous
Viatrophy
Stick To Your Guns
Between The Buried And Me
Darkest Hour
Protest The Hero
Exit Ten

[The_Shred]

Hello for I am new!

Name: Jaymz
Location: Darlington/UK
Age: 19
Own Band: The Black Stymphalian (solo project) Fallen Fate (drummer)
Occupation: Student
Musical Tastes: Progressive metal/thrash metal etc etc
Favorite Band: Dream Theater/Testament/SYL
Favorite Album: Too hard to call
Favorite Producer: Mr Sneap/Steven Wilson/Colin R
Experience: 8 years of guitar playing, 1 year drumming and around 2 years recording interest.
Gear :

Guitars:
Schecter C1 Hellraiser, Schecter C7 Hellraiser, ESP ltd explorer, Jackson DXMG (modded), Dean Mach 5X, Taylor Big Baby acoustic.
Amps:
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Head + Framus Dragon 4x12 w/v30's

Mics:
Shure SM57 + 58 + Rode NT1A

Recording Gear

Sonar 7 Producer Edition, Focusrite Saffire Pro 10/IO, Tapco S5 monitors.

Misc

Small Korg midi keyboard, Roland TD3KW electronic drum-kit

[skuller]

Name: Skyler
Location: SL, UT
Age: 21
Own Band: Vinia
Occupation: Music
Musical Tastes: Progressive, Metal, Rock, etc..
Favorite Band: Yes
Favorite Album: Close to the Edge
Favorite Producer: Eddie Offord, Sneap
Production Experience: Minimal, but commencing
Goal: High quality music, high quality demonstrations of performence, etc..
Production Gear :
- Microphones: AKG, Heil
- Audio Interface and Pres: PreSonus Firepod
- Monitors: JBL
- Backline: Mesa Boogie, Yamaha, Korg, Alesis, Boss, ISP, MXR, Epiphone, Ibanez, Roland
- Computer: HP XW6000, Gateway

[Dandelium]

Name: Erik

Location: Madrid, Spain

Age: 17

Occupation: Songwriter, Guitarrist, Singer and Producer of the band Dandelium.

Musical taste: All kinds of melodic metal, also metalcore and soundtracks.

Favourite Bands: Epica, Killswitch Engage, Arch Enemy, In Flames, Opeth

Favourite Album: Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion

Favourite Producer: Andy Sneap, Sascha Paeth, Brett Caldas-Lima.

Production Experience: Dandelium, LeitMotiv (when I was starting). Current working with a few local bands. Nothing special...

Goal: Have succes with my band. If I can't, just have my own metal recording studio.

Equipment:

Framus Cobra Head (modded, NOS tubes)
Framus Cobra 4x12 Cab,
Ibanez guitars,
Line6 Toneport UX1,
3,0Ghz generic laptop, 1Gb ram...
M-Audio Keystation 61es
AKG D3800 Vocal mic.
Shure SM57.

Cheers!!

[slinky_]

Name: Niko Häkkinen
Location: Southern Finland
Age: 19
Own Bands: Dyessence (Guitar, vocals, composing+shit), Mensura (Guitar & Backing vocals)
Occupation: Working in an office. Just got out of the Finnish army and this spring I´m aiming to study audio engineering.
Musical Tastes: Metal, prog, ambient, jazz
Favorite Band: Strapping Young Lad
Favorite Album: SYL - City
Favorite Producer: Sneap, Devin Townsend, Steven Wilson
Production Experience: My Own bands and a few projects for acquaintances
Goal: To make music and make living with it.
Production Gear :
- Microphones: Rode
- Audio Interface and Pres: E-MU 1820m, Behringer MIC100
- Monitors: Genelec 8020, Sennheiser headphones
- Backline: Engl Fireball, 2x12" guitar cab with Celestion V30´s (built the cab myself), Digitech Bad Monkey, Radial Pro DI, Line 6 Pod XT, Ibanez RG 570,
- Computer: PC loaded with AMD Athlon XP3200, 1,5gb of RAM, Seagate Barracuda HD´s; Sonar 6 Studio Edition, ApTrigga, Voxengo plugins

[Executioner213]

Name: Kevin
Location: Butte, Montana, USA
Age: 24
Own Band: River Runs Red (www.myspace.com/riverrunsredmt) and God Blessed Devil (www.myspace.com/godblesseddevil)
Occupation: Juvenile Correctional Officer/Guitarist/Guitar Instructor. Been playing guitar for 14 years, teaching for 4 years. Playing in bands for about 8 years now.
Musical Tastes: Metal, Blues, Classical, Rock...pretty much anything but rap and country
Favorite Band: Changes all the time....as of now, Gojira
Favorite Album: Darkane - Rusted Angel
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap or Colin Richardson
Production Experience: Some of my own band's demos, some twiddling knobs during gigs. Lots of cutting wood in my room, though I still don't get all of it.
Production Gear :
- Microphones: Shure 57 & 58, AT2020 and a couple other AT condensers
- Audio Interface and Pres: M-Audio Delta66 (x2), Presonus BlueTube. I have an MBox that a friend gave to me, but it has been all but useless to me.
- Monitors: Don't laugh....Behringer PMH5000 into 2 Crate 10' live monitors. Behringer PowerPlay headphone driver.
- Backline: Mesa TriAxis/2:90, Carvin Legacy Cabs (x2), TC Electronic G-Major, Line 6 Pod Pro, Peavey Ultra Plus (burned up, needs fixed), Peavey 4x12, '70s Peavey Mark III Bass head, Peavey 2x15 cab
- Drums: Sold my Tama Granstars recently, will get another kit soon. Iron Cobra Dual pedal is about all I have right now.
- Guitars: Ibanez RG450DX (Stripped and repainted flat black. EMG 81/85, O.G. Floyd installed), early 90's Ibanez RG570DX (Black, stock), Ibanez JS100 (Trans Red, everything replaced with black H/W, EMG 81/85, O.G. Floyd installed), Japanese Strat Squier (Black, Duncan Distortion in br, graphtech saddles), Ibanez Acoustic, Fender 5 string (Trans red/pearl pickguard, soapbar pups that I plan to replace with EMG's soon, gold H/W)
- Computer: AMD Opteron Dual Core 1.8Ghz, 2Gb RAM, total of 500Gb drive space. HP Laptop 1.6Ghz, 2Gb RAM, 160Gb drive space. 2 External HD's- one is 200Gb, one is 300Gb. Lots of plug-ins ever since I joined this forum and found out what all there was. Using ACID Pro 6 for recording, but finding it's limits really fast and wanting to get into something else. DFH EZ Drummer. Waves plug-ins.

I hope that wasn't too disappointing.

[Loomer]

Name: Christian Friis Jensen

Location: South of Denmark, place of no hope...

Age: 21

Current Project: Cadillac Carnage (plain ol' RAWK!!), and when I get my recording chops up, I'll bring back my old metal band Kraken.

Previous Projects: Nothing worth noticing.

Occupation: Store clerk, in a store that sells mopeds, car parts and stereos and stuff like that. Kinda strange how I got a job there, since I know jack about cars, least of all how to drive one. Oh well, must be because I'm so freakin' charming

Musical Tastes: Mainly metal, but with frequent excursions into other things. I actually dig Justin Timberlake, no shit!

Favorite Band: Mastodon, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Death, Emperor, Arsis, Jethro Tull, Caravan (any 70s prog really), Black Fuckin' Sabbath, Thin Lizzy and Morbid Angel.

Favorite Album: Hmm, an awful lot. Currently the most played:
"Live And Dangerous" - Thin Lizzy.. RAWK!!!
"Prometheus -The Discipline Of Fire and Demise" - Emperor.
"Pink Moon" - Nick Drake

Favorite Producer: Steven Wilson, The Sneapster, Scott Burns, Timbaland (yeah, and?!), Dj Premier (soundtrack to my adolescence, still awesome to this day), Ihsahn, Daniel Bergstrand

Production Experience: Jack shit..

Goal: To not suck. To be able to play in time with a freakin' metronome. I can play tight as hell in a band, but I am totally lost with that little click sound. Practice time

Production Gear: iMac, PodXT, fingers.
Guitars: Ok, this is the fun part

Ibanez S7420. Heavily modded; Stripped to natural mahogany, tremol-no and a DiMarzio X2N-7 in the bridge, wired in single pickup configuration. the Neck pickup is basically just there to look pretty.

Ibanez RG7321. Stock. Needs new pups though.

Both 7's in B standard, and so far used exclusively at home.

Washburn PS500, Paul Stanley signature model. My main axe in the band. Tuned to Eb. Plays, sound and LOOKS freaking awesome.

ESP M1. I know nothing about this, but I got it at a steal, and it rocks.

Old-ass Aria SG copy. Plays like crap, but sound´s really good.

Epiphone LP Special II. My first axe, and has served me well throughout the years.

On the way, is a Cort 5-string bass w. bartolini pickups.

Amps and cabs: Laney GH50L, and an ENGL pro 4x12 w. v30's is on it's way to me as I'm typing this

[RyanUsesThis]

Name: Ryan Nolan

Location: New Hampshire, USA

Age: 24

Current Project: Recording my Band, The Breaking. And several others..

Previous Projects: Several other bands..

Occupation: Support Engineer for Avid Tech. Networking, Shared storage and shit.. Only good part about it is the discount on Digidesign, and M-Audio gear.. WOOOO!!

Musical Tastes: Metal. Any and All..

Favorite Band: Started listenting to metal at age 12 (Slayer).. at the moment I've been listening to a lot of power metal.. Blind Guardian, and such..

Favorite Album: That's tough..

Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap was the first "Producer" that was brought to my attention.. but I'd have to say my favorite is an aquantance of mine..

RUTCHO!!

Production Experience: Teaching myself.. Forums.. HighJacked documentation.. and good ol trial and error.

Goal: To produce very low cost albums for local artists...

Production Gear:

HP Workstation Laptop nw9440
Digi 002r w/ ProTools LE7
M-Audio Octane 8mic pre - AdaT
Alesis DM5 w/ DDrum Pro Triggers.
Mics: Sm57s, Beta52, M-Audio Pulsars and Solaris'

Guitars:

Jackson RR1 Custom w/ EMG HZ81's (pre-Fender Buy-out)
Jackson Dinky Reverse w/ Duncan Stock (pre-Fender..)
Jackson Dnky Reverse w/ EMG 81's (Post Fender...yatta yatta)
Peavey Bass.. crap
Ibanez Bass.. crap

Amps and cabs:

Line6 Pod Pro
Peavey Poweramp.. sigh.
Marshall 1960 lead 4x12

[Ermz]

Name: Ermin
Location: Melbourne, Aus
Age: 20
Own Band: None
Occupation: Freelance Audio Engineer/Producer/Student
Musical Tastes: Metal, Trip-hop, Lounge, Ambient, Darkwave, Classical, Baroque, Romantic, Industrial
Favorite Band: Opeth
Favorite Album: Still Life
Favorite Producer: Hard to say. Don't have a single favorite. But I have learned so much from Andy and this forum, so if it had to be anyone, it may as well be him.
Production Experience: Did my first real band 'demo' about 2 years back, and have been progressively improving since. Finally at a point where my mixes are starting to compete on a commercial level. My dedication to this field is so unwavering that I anticipate to hit a very high level in the next few years.

Repertoire so far consists of a few demo tracks and an EP. Currently at work on an album, with another two lined up, and also another EP.

Goal: Become the 'go-to' metal producer in Australia... god knows, we need one. Beyond that I want to one day be considered one of the best in the world (yeah I know it's dreamy, so sue me).

Production Gear :
PC:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
2GB RAM
ASUS P5B Deluxe Motherboard

Monitors: Mann PMA6 (soon to be replaced by Event ASP8s)

DAW: ProTools LE 7.1, Nuendo 3.

Audio Interface: Digidesign Mbox2-Mini.

Guitar: Schecter Hellraiser C-7

[MetalWorks]

Name : Josh
Location : Folsom, CA USA
Age : 29
Own Band : Ashes of Icons www.myspace.com/ashesoficonsmusic
Occupation : LAN Administrator
Musical Tastes : Death, Melodic Death, Thrash, most European Metal.
Favorite Bands: Arch Enemy, Nevermore, Behemoth, Diablo, Eternal Grey, Decapitated, Dimmu Borgir, In Flames, Necrophagist, Machine Head, The Black Dahlia Murder, tons more.
Favorite Album : Tie Between Behemoth - Demigod and Black Dahlia - Miasma.
Favorite Producers : Andy Sneap, Colin Richardson, Terry Date, Frederick Nordstrom
Production Experience : Home Studio, record local bands and my own band. www.myspace.com/metalworksrecordingstudio
Goal : Eventually develop to a low key pro level Metal Recording Studio.
Production Gear : Apple MAC G4 1.2 Ghz, Nuendo/RME 9652, Nuendo 2.2
Outboard: Mackie 32.8 Mixer, Nuendo/RME 96k converters (x2), Mackie HR824 Monitors, Grace Design Model 101 Mic Pre, Eventide H3000D/SE, Alesis 3630 Compressor, Antares VP1, Bellari RP562, TC Electronic 96K
Amps: Peavey XXX, Ampeg VL-1002, Madison Divinity, Line 6 Flextone II HD, POD, POD Pro, Bass POD Pro.
Cabs: Marshall 1960A, Marshall 1960B with V30’s, Madison 412 Angled, Madison 412 Strait (x2)
Guitars: ESP LTD EX400, ESP LTD AX350, ESP SC500 all with EMG81’s. ESP SC500 Duncan JB, Schecter A7-Elite, Ibanez UV77MC, Ibanez RG770DX, Ibanez RG7620, Tobias Toby Pro 5, Takamine Electric Accoustic
Mics: Shure SM57, Beta 57, SM58 (x3), Beta 58, AKG D112, Audix D2 (x2), D4, D6, i5, Neumann KM184 Matched Pair, Audio Technica 4060.

[Put]

High since i'm new here i thaught i might fill in a little "who am i form"

Name:Ruben
Location: Holland
Age: 18
Own Band: Caged (Guitar, Vocals)
Occupation: Musician
Musical Tastes: Almost all guitarmusic
Favorite Band: I think that would be machine head
Favorite Album: that question is to tough for me
Favorite Producer: Andy ...
Production Experience: recording some stuff at home etc.
Goal: Get big with ma band
Production Gear :
- Microphones:shure
- Backline: Peavey 5150 + 1960 4x12 + Ts-9 + NS2 + jackson kv2
- Computer: uuuhm, crap with a line6 toneportux2

latest work http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page...?bandID=509420

[Goddamn Guitar]

Hello since I've been a member since 2001 I thought it would be a perfect time to fill this form so here goes:

Name:Ola
Location: Sweden
Age: 25
Own Band: Subcyde, guitars
Occupation: officejunkie
Musical Tastes: Metal
Favorite Band: Pantera
Favorite Album: CFH
Favorite Producer: Andy is pretty great.
Production Experience: Owned a studio in stockholm. Done many bands.
Goal: Practice guitar at least 1 hour a week
Production Gear : ALOT... who cares

[pifos_2]

Hep, I had a good time around for a while reading, asking and ...sometimes... answering question (occasionally). It's time for an introduction :

Name: pifos
Location: Belgium, Louvain-la-neuve during the week, Aubange during the week-end
Age: 22
Own Band: Forced Evolution (Guitar and some programming)
Occupation: Automation enginner in a company designing cyclotrons during the day. Playing-guitar-like-crazy during the evening-night. Ahhh someday I'm gonne be a pro-musician.....
Musical Tastes: Metal (progressive, trash, heavy, death ...), Progressive rock, some acoustic, and jazz.
Favorite Bands: Nevermore, Arch eEemy, Dream Theater, Freak Kitchen, Opeth, Children of Bodom, Threat Signal and many more.
Favorite Albums: Dream Theater / Metropolis Pt 2 : Scenes From a Memory, Metallica / Justice For All, Freak Kitchen / Dead Soul Men, Children Of Bodom / Hatebreeder, Opeth / Blackwater Park
Favorite Producer: Andy Sneap, Steve Wilson
Production Experience:
None really. I programmed the keys for my band first demo and added few samples and effects. At least nothing practical. But I read dozens of posts all over this great forum and asked a lot of question. Trying to learn something. I will handle the production of my band next demo/EP.

Goal: Becoming a rock-star . To Wake-up one day, and saying to myself that the only thing I have to care about today is playing guitar.......

Gear:
- Need a serious vavle amplifier, still havent chosen yet (playing on a vodoo valve actually)
- Randall XLT cabinet
- Ibanez RG7620 7 strings rullleee !!!!!
- My best friend, my metronome

[pifos_2]

i like double posting lalalala-lalalal

sorry

[botus99]

Name: George
Location: Chicago, IL suburbs
Age: 20
Own Band: War Zombie Balls of Destruction
My own private shit (Only has AIC Covers for now)
Occupation: Cashier at a Jewel-Osco by day, suburban metal fiend by night
Musical Tastes: I loves my metal , I can also dig some reggae, industrial from time to time, classical can be pretty cool, and blugrass/folk stuff is the shit
Favorite Band: Metallica, Dream Theater, Alice In Chains... don't make me choose
Favorite Album: Scenes From A Memory - DT
Favorite Producer: Can't say I really have one. I have my set of producers that always seem to create some kick ass tones and I borrow from each of them to make my own style (or at least try to )
Production Experience: I've been self-producing my own stuff for... about 5-6 years
Production Gear :
- Microphones: Shitloads of Shure dynamics, some Samsons, and a couple Audio Technicas
- Audio Interface: MOTU PCI 424 (been doin me well)
- Monitors: Alesis M1 Active Mk2's
- Computer: AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 PC, 1 gig RAM, 1 Terabyte hard drive (including the 2 external drives), using Nuendo 3, Waves Diamond Bundle, Waves Mastering Bundle, T-Racks, Drumagog 4, Voxengo plugs, GVST stuff, Modern Plugs

I'm a drummer and I have a 6-piece (double bass) Tama Rockstar kit with Sabian AA and AAX cymbals. Remo pinstripes on everything except the snare (that has an Emperor). BIG advocate of Ahead drumsticks and the Triplet Drum Glove (those things have spared me countless blisters since I've switched from wood sticks). I've only recently been taking producing seriously for the past 6 months or so and this site has always pointed me in the direction of some cool ideas. I just started drum replacement and I'm gonna be trying reamping soon. Plus the plugs you guys mentioned have been really cool.

[deanbailey]

Name: DeanBailey

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Age: 21

Own Band: The Horror Cast

Occupation: Bum/A.E/Producer

Musical Tastes: Death Metal/Progressive/anything with good musicians really

Favorite Bands: Behemoth, Opeth, Mastodon, Gojira, Amon Amarth, Daylight Dies (it's always changing though)

Favorite Albums: Opeth - Deliverance, Ghost Reveries, Damnation, Blackwater Park. Behemoth - Zos Kia Cultus, Demigod, Apostasy.

Favorite Producer: Jens Bogren, David Castillo

Experience: Never enough

Gear : Intel 3.4GHz, 3.2 GB RAM, 74.5 SATA, 298 SATA, 2x 19 inch flat LCD, Gforece 5200 graphics card (dual screen)



AMP/CAB GEAR:
Krank rev1
Mesa rec v30
Maxon OD820

INSTRUMENTS:
Jackson 6 string X-series King V with EMG 81 B only (18v mod)
Brian Fanner Origional Custom; Custom 7 string

MICS:
Shure KSM27
Shure SM58 x 1
AKG c1000 x2
Audix D2 x2
Audix D4 x1
Audix i5 x1

MISC:
Alesis CLX 440 Compressor/expander/limiter
Behringer 2442 desk
Ddrum SE4 Drum Module
Ddrum Pro Trigger set:
x 1 Kick Trigger
x 2 Snare Trigger
x 6 Tom Trigers
Dunlop Crybaby from Hell "Dimebag" sig. Wah Pedal
ESI 1010 soundcard
KRK 6
Presonus HP4
Studio fully "auralexed" :P