Working Class Audio

Kim Rosen grew up in the western Massachusetts town of Northampton. Known for its amazing college music scene, the town and surrounding area is infamous for spawning such ground-breaking acts as Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr. and Buffalo Tom…just to name a few. Kim realized early-on that music was a driving force in her life. She poured herself into the local music scene while searching out a way to carve...

Bird and Egg  studio owner Nino Moschella is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer, and producer, who has been professionally engineering and producing for 15 years (though his interest in record-making started nearly 25 years ago). Born into a musical family, Nino began playing drums at the age of 6 when his father asked him to keep time on the snare drum at a band rehearsal after the...

John Greenham  has had a love affair with mastering for over 20 years, starting in San Francisco at Rocket Lab in the mid-90s, and currently in Los Angeles where he re-located to in 2012 to work at  Infrasonic Sound  in Echo Park alongside Pete Lyman and Jeffrey Ehrenberg. John has earned several awards over the course of his career including  Los Tigres Del Norte :  Histo...

Daniel Cantor  is an Assistant Professor at  Berklee College of music  and Teaches music production in the Songwriting Department and Music Productions and Engineering Department. Dan in 2015 received Berklee’s prestigious Fly Grant for teaching innovation and with that grant brought 2 male and 2 female outspoken Muslim Hip-Hop artists from Iraq, Syria, Jamaica and London...

Sean McLaughlin loves a lot of things, but his two favorite things are his wife and recording/mixing songs. After working in Los Angeles for the early part of the 2000s with some notable producers (Andy Johns, Jimbo Barton, Carmen Rizzo) and artists (Rush, Elliott Smith, Marilyn Manson, Death Row Records) Sean returned to Boston in 2004 to open his own studio,  37’ Productions . Since op...

Warren Huart is an English music producer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. He has played a fundamental part in the creation of many platinum-selling and billboard soaring albums, as well as the development of many of today’s most successful artists’ careers. He also has the  Produce Like A Pro  video series, which offers recording tutorials to beginners as well...

Catherine Vericolli lives in a recording studio, or rather her studio has taken over most of her residence since its beginnings in 2005. As an owner, engineer, and occasional tech at Fivethirteen Recording in Phoenix, AZ, she is dedicated to keeping the traditional analog recording process alive in the desert. Going on a decade of being in business, Fivethirteen has grown out of its loca...

Mark Rubel is Co-Director of Education and Instructor at  The Blackbird Academy , an intensive recording school at famed  Blackbird Studios  in Nashville, TN. Since 1980, Mark has made about a zillion recordings at his  Pogo Studio  in  Champaign, IL  (currently reopening in Nashville), including such artists as Allison Krauss, Jay Bennett, Ludacri...

Joe Barresi has produced, engineered, and mixed some of the most important hard rock, metal, and punk bands of the last 15 years including  Tool ,  Queens Of The Stone Age ,  Bad Religion ,  The Melvins ,  Skunk Anansie ,  Turbonegro , and  Clutch . Although widely respected for his abilities as an engineer (one writer wrote “If you don’t generally think of sound...

Myles Boisen has enjoyed a 35-year career in recording, beginning as the head instructor at one of the country’s first accredited university-level recording studio programs. With his roots in the punk rock/ D.I.Y. recording scene of the late 1970’s, Myles has avoided the world of major labels and top-dollar studios, choosing instead to pursue affordable and top-quality recording from his Oakland C...

Allen Farmelo has begun to call himself a “recordmaker”.”We all do everything these days,” he says, “and the old terms like producer, engineer, mixer, carry so many assumptions that aren’t really accurate these days. They have their roots in a much more ordered hierarchy that’s rarely true today.” As a record maker, Allen has worked intimately with everyone from Ian Gillan of Deep Purple to T...

Bruce Kaphan is a producer/engineer/mixer and one hell of pedal steel player! Bruce has worked with so many names in the music world on both sides of the glass including John Lee Hooker, Sheryl Crowe,  Jellyfish  as well as  American Music Club  of which he is a former member of. Bruce sits down with Matt at his home studio in Fresno (Niles), California to discuss all aspects o...

Michael Beinhorn is a producer and engineer who got a major jump-start in the early ’80s by working with his bandmate  Bill Laswell  on  Herbie Hancoc k’s  Future Shock   record which contained the hit single “ Rockit “. What followed was a career of work with a list of household names in music including The  Red Hot Chili Peppers ,  Violent Femmes ,&nb...

John Congleton is Grammy Winning American producer/engineer/mixer/writer who joins Matt for session #028 of Working Class Audio. John works out of his his studio (Elmwood Studios) in Dallas, Texas. In addition to his production work Congleton fronted the indie rock band,  The Paper Chase , and writes music for a newer project entitled The Nighty Nite  and music for various projects,...

Dan Jaspar is a sound mixer, boom operator, and sound designer from the  Bay Area . As a Graduate of  San Francisco State University  with a Bachelor’s Degree in Cinema production and Sound Design he continues to work in the field of production audio for the film and video Industry. Dan and Matt have worked together in the past when Dan was fronting the Bay Area band Yellow 5 a...

John Siket  is a producer, engineer, and mixer and is best known for his work with  Sonic Youth ,  Phish ,  Yo La Tengo ,  Dave Matthews Band ,  Blonde Redhead ,  Fountains of Wayne ,  Moe ,  Peter Murphy ,  Freedy Johnston , and Ex Cops. Having spent 30 years in the recording world, John has amassed a world of experience. John has also h...

Tim Palmer has produced and mixed albums for a huge selection of classic and alternative artists, from  Robert Plant ,  David Bowie , and  Tears For Fears  to  Ozzy Osbourne ,  Goo Goo Dolls , and  U2 . In 1989 Tim mixed ‘TEN’ for  Pearl Jam , which is now in the top 50 best album sellers in US history. In 2001 Palmer was nominated for a Grammy for his...

Gary Philips is a talented multi-instrumentalist, producer, songwriter and mix engineer. During his college years at University of Pennsylvania, Gary realized his life would follow a musical path. This path soon led to a life as a touring musician. Touring led Gary to New York, where he quickly found himself in studios playing guitar and bass for artists both up-and-coming and legendary, incl...

Ryan Hewitt began his musical career by taking up drums and piano in the third grade and set up his first primitive bedroom recording studio at age 10. His interest in recording prompted his father, remote recording engineer David Hewitt, to take him on the road at age 12. Over the course of 15 years on the Remote Recording Services trucks, Ryan learned to get sessions going quickly, pay...

Michael Rosen is a Grammy-winning producer/engineer who has worked with Santana, Rancid, Papa Roach, Tesla, AFI, The Donnas, Journey, Death Angel, Tony Macalpine, and Testament……..to name a few! In addition to recording and producing he also teaches at Chabot College and San Francisco State and is an alumnus of the famed Automatt studios where he got started on his professional recording journey....

Doug Kallmeyer is a 25 year plus veteran of live sound, a bass player and composer as well as a studio rat. Doug is a fan suggestion and carries with him a large amount of experience and miles travelled who is based in Virginia. Traveling the world mostly doing FOH (Front of House) sound, Doug has worked with Phantogram, Blonde Redhead, Shellac, Sunny Day Real Estate, Rancid, D...

Don Gunn is a Seattle-based recording/mixing engineer, producer, and musician who flies under the radar yet seems to work with cool people! Soundgarden, Death Cab for Cutie, Peter Frampton, Trey Gunn (No relation), and Matt Cameron! Don was a WCA fan suggestion from our Facebook page and joins Matt for a Skype chat from his home studio in Seattle called The Office. Don talks gear, money, busi...

Working Class Audio Session #019 with Matt Kelley!!! Matt Kelley has been at the recording game for just over 27 years. Based in the  Bay Area in California Matt has worked with Tupac, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, DJ Qbert, Digital Underground, George Clinton,  Hieroglyphics as well as Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine.  Matt started […] The post WCA #019 with Matt Ke...

David v. R. Bowles formed Swineshead Productions, LLC as a classical recording production company in 1995. His recordings have been GRAMMY-nominated (Classical – Best Orchestral Performance) and won the “Classical Orchestral Album” prize from Just Plain Folks Awards. Other Bowles-produced and engineered releases have been named “Record of the Month – Editor’s Choice” from Gramophone Magazine, Musi...

Ross Hogarth is a multiple Grammy-nominated and Grammy-winning producer/engineer/mixer who has worked with artists such as Keb’ Mo’, Motley Crue, Van Halen, Gov’t Mule, Roger Waters, The Black Crowes, Shawn Colvin, John Mellencamp, and R.E.M.  His studio work runs the gamut from the heavy metal insanity of Motley Crue and Coal Chamber to the Grammy-winning Keb’ Mo’ released  Slow Do...