Working Class Audio

After 10 years working as a sales rep for a pro audio and recording equipment distributer, Robert Preston made the plunge into recording full-time by opening a recording studio ( GetReel ) and locating it inside a rehearsal facility ( Secret Studios ) surrounded by bands! As one would imagine Robert gets a lot of business directly from the many bands rehearsing in the buil...

Growing up in a house filled with music Peter studied the ʻclassicsʼ by day, but escaped to play – way underaged – at night in bars & clubs to gain the requisite “chops” – playing rock, blues, and jazz throughout high school. Although entering college in a pre-med program, he quickly re-found his musical bearings, and graduated with a degree in Electronic Music Composition!...

Larry Crane has been involved in music since the late seventies, when he self-released home recordings of his own music. Since then he’s been a musician, record producer/engineer/mixer,  Tape Op Magazine  founder and editor, book editor, studio owner, archivist, disc jockey, small label owner and even a record distributor employee. From 1994 to 1997, Crane ran Laundry...

You gotta love this guy. I asked him for a bio and I got this..... "I hate bios. Bios suck. For more information about me you can visit my website at  http://www.robotlemon.com/ " So in an effort to have a little bit more info here's this....  F. Reid Shippen is a New Jersey-born, Nashville-based, highly motivated, completely caffeinated multiple Grammy® award-winning producer/engin...

Bill Simpkins started in a music career by teaching guitar at the age of 16. In the early 1990s, he started recording his own projects and other bands mostly in the local hardcore punk or straight-edge metal scene with some ADATs and a Mackie mixer. He then worked for several years at Binary Recording Studio with regional bands, eclectic audio projects, orchestras and films.  In 2001, Bill gr...

John Vanderslice  (born in Gainesville, Florida) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and recording engineer. He is the owner and founder of  Tiny Telephone , and Tiny Telephone Oakland, Bay Area analog recording studios. In 10 full-length albums, and 5 remix records and EPs, Vanderslice’s songwriting is characterized by deeply personal and...

Matt Wallace  is an American  record producer . He is a graduate of the  University of California at Berkeley , and has been producing professionally since the early 1980s. He is best known for his work with  Faith No More ,  Maroon 5 ,  O.A.R. ,  The Replacements , and  Train . Wallace has produced some of Faith No More’s most iconic recordings, i...

Piper Payne is a Mastering Engineer at Coast Mastering (formerly Michael Romanowski Mastering) in San Francisco. Piper is the Vice President of the SF Chapter of the Recording Academy and she Co-Chairs the SF Producers and Engineers Wing. She also serves on the Education Committee. In addition she is an active member of the AES and the Women's Audio Mission, as well as being the CEO of Giving Stag...

Eli Crews has been recording since the early-'90s, when he started making weirdo fractured music on 4-track machines, hugely inspired by The Residents and early Devo. At the time he was also a very active musician, playing guitar and bass in a zillion and a half San Francisco bands. Over the course of making a few albums at small studios owned by Myles Boisen and Kyle Statham, he became inspired t...

Eric Valentine , is a record producer , who began his career as drummer and producer in the heavy metal band  T-Ride . He subsequently produced albums for artists such as  Good Charlotte ,  Taking Back Sunday ,  Nickel Creek ,  Queens of the Stone Age ,  Third Eye Blind ,  Smash Mouth ,  The All-American Rejects ,  Persephone’s Bees , and  Slash , among others. Eric chats with Matt about Undertone...

Greg Wurth is a Grammy Nominated, Gold & Platinum award-winning producer, working as Manager and Chief Engineer at L.A.’s Mothership Studio and Patagonia Studio. His credits range from Steve Vai and Tony MacAlpine to Tracii Guns to Jim Florentine & Don Jamieson ,  2Cellos and Mary J Blige . Greg has been Steve Vai’s Engineer for 10 years and spends much his time  in the “Harmony Hut” studi...

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,...