MTF Week 7 26/04/2007

This week we continued presenting information on our chosen producers.
Kevin “The Caveman” Shirley was Jakes choice He was born in South Africa and has made his way around the world including some Australian time where did some mixing for “peanuts” as well as engineering the Baby Animals 1993 self-titled, multi-platinum release. Off to Canada for Rushs’ 1993 “Counterparts” then back to Australia for Silverchairs “Frogstomp”, another multi-platinum release. He has made a name for himself mixing and re-mixing DVDs for the likes of Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Slayer, Metallica and Joe Satriani. He has also recorded Tina Arena and Olivia Newton-John.
I was next with my “champ” of a producer “Dave Fridmann”. The full story is in the post below.
Rowan reported on Ross Robertson who started out as a thrash guitarist before assistant engineering job on 1992 album “The Crimson Idol” by W.A.S.P.. He steadily built his Discography with such artists as Korn, Deftones, Sepultura, Vanilla Ice (What the? Hehe!) , Slipknot, and At the Drive-In.
Scott H labelled Jason Suecof as LAZY. Jason doesn’t seem lazy to me, 25 yrs old and he has had his own studio since 1999, AudioHammer Studios in Florida. He has already produced many successful metal acts such as Trivium, God Forbid, Monstrosity and Adrift. Jason and his brother grew up immersed in the Beatles and Frank Zappa thanks to their drummer dad. They have had a band together for more than 10 yrs. Jason loves to use Audio-Technica AE 3000 to capture guitar highs.
Ben talked about the legendary Eddie Kramer who has many major credits including recording many Jimmy Hendrix albums, Woodstock Festival, many Led Zeppelin albums and Kiss.

All of these Engineers/Producers have their own tricks that have definitely been good to hear about this exercise has opened my eyes to the use of panning, contrast, effects, Low/Hi Fi, Loops, Programming and arranging etc. I was wondering where all the female producers/sound engineers are? I know that Alyssa has one on her blog. http://alyssa-wong.blogspot.com . Does anyone have any other favourite female producers?


References:
Music Technology Forum-EMU Adelaide Uni, Lect:Steve Fieldhouse, Presentations by MTF Class