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ShugaLi Productions

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About Me

I am an audio engineer with a passion for sound and determination unmatched. Most would describe me as a laid back gentleman southern raised from New Orleans. Anyway this site is mainly dedicated to my business SHUGALI PRODUCTIONS. I love to help band's dreams come true and love to see a musician's smile when they say "that sounds incredible". I love all genres, especially metal and jazz. I work with Pro Tools, have my own studio with all the fixins including Auto-Tune and other great processing FX's plug-ins and outboard gear. I am also very adamant about building the awareness of audio quality to bands and managers. Most have no clue of the importance of a great mix and master. A mix could make or break a band, PLEASE KNOW THAT! Also, if there are any bands/artists out there that need feedback about production, mixing, or recording.... just let me know and I will help. I have been a musican for more than 10 years and still going strong.
If you would like to hear some of my work, contact me or click on one of my top 4-8 friends/bands and listen.
"Everyday that I am not learning, I am not living"

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My Interests

Anything that involves change and/or positivity.

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Ryan T.
Birthday: 03/28/80
Birthplace: New Orleans or Nawlins if your southern, bitch
Current Location: New Orleans, LA
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 6'2
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: french, german, italian, in other words... a mut
The Shoes You Wore Today: Adidas Sandles
Your Weakness: Older Women
Your Fears: REALIZING I'VE WASTED TIME!!!
Your Perfect Pizza: Light Sauce, Extra Cheese, and sausage
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Learn, not just memorize
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: LOL or TTL (That does get annoying!!!)
Thoughts First Waking Up: How am I going to aim this thing?
Your Best Physical Feature: My hair and my flapjack calves
Your Bedtime: Depends on the plans
Your Most Missed Memory: Feeding the ducks bunny bread in the park with my family
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: I thought the spelling was Mc Donalds?
Single or Group Dates: Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Neither (Homemade)
Chocolate or Vanilla: Both
Cappuccino or Coffee: Neither
Do you Smoke: No
Do you Swear: Usually
Do you Sing: If it gets cold enough
Do you Shower Daily: sometimes more than once
Have you Been in Love: yes but as usual, it didn't end well
Do you want to go to College: Graduated
Do you want to get Married: Eventually
Do you belive in yourself: More than others
Do you get Motion Sickness: Sometimes
Do you think you are Attractive: I was sculpted after a greek god biatch
Are you a Health Freak: nope
Do you get along with your Parents: not at first
Do you like Thunderstorms: when I'm in bed
Do you play an Instrument: yes
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: On more than one occasion
In the past month have you Smoked: Nope
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Touchy Subject
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Nah, I'm a loser, but a loveable one
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Nope
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Nope
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Nope
In the past month have you been on Stage: Nope
In the past month have you been Dumped: Nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: you have to pay to see these goods
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: i do not steal
Ever been Drunk: to many times
Ever been called a Tease: way to much
Ever been Beaten up: Once
Ever Shoplifted: nope
How do you want to Die: The only way I'm suppose to
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Mixing/Mastering Engineer
What country would you most like to Visit: Not sure
In a Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Green/Hazel
Favourite Hair Color: Brown/Red
Short or Long Hair: Either
Height: i don't care
Weight: i don't care
Best Clothing Style: Depends
Number of Drugs I have taken: Not answering that
Number of CDs I own: well over a 1000
Number of Piercings: 1
Number of Tattoos: 5
Number of things in my Past I Regret: I try not to regret, only learn

I'd like to meet:

friends, musicians, metal heads, jazz fanatics, bar hoppers, tokers, and anyone else who can be trusted

Music:

Check out my friends or my own music page "myspace.com/tiltheday" to also get an idea........Metal Metal Metal, Slayer, Killswitch Engage, Billy Joel, Slang Angus, Ill Nino, Marilyn Manson, Skillet, Portishead, PJ Harvey, NWA, I AM GHOST, Iron Maiden, 40 Below Summer, Michael Jackson(oldskool), Such is Life, Hollowtype, Machine Head, Fugees, Black Eye Peas, Rage Against the Machine, Dre, Wynton Marsalis, Snoop, Sage Francis, Sade, James Taylor, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Bird Parker, Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Ashley Monroe, Trivium, All that Remains, Tupac, Biggie, The SPOOKS (Ming Xia is a GOD), Old School rap and R&B, chillout, and gotta love the classical/opera....killer harmonies. Also... anything that invloves a high level of talent!

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Devil's Rejects/House of 1000 Corpses, Super Troopers, Little Nicky, Black Circle Boys, The Crow, Reign of Fire, Equilibrium, Demons 1 & 2, Ace Ventura, Spaceballs, Half Baked (duh), Blow, Airplane, Dazed and Confused, Sleepy Hollow, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Gremlins, Anchorman, Ladies Man, Dark Crystal, THE GOONIES, Psycho, IT, Strangeland, Phantasm, Weird Science, Frailty, American Psycho, In the Mouth of Madness, Tales from the Crypt, Saw, Dodgeball, Old School, Dead Alive, Munchies, Repossessed, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, all Friday the 13th's, all Nightmare on Elm St's, most Halloween's, Scarface, Above the Rim, Goodfellas, Casino, Total Recall, Series of Unfortunate Events, Legend, End of Days, Usual Suspects, Identity, In the Line of Fire, Nightmare Before Christmas, Clue, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Highlander, Fright Night, Underworld The Exorcist and any of the living dead movies (Romero preferred), and most 80's flix

Television:

Simpsons, Family Guy, Aqua Teen, Robot Chicken, Dead Like Me, Headbanger's Ball, Discovery and History channels

Books:

"I slept with Faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning." .......................... Guess Who?

Heroes:

The Lord-Algae Brothers and Bob Katz

My Blog

New CD's

Jus dropping a line to day I have completed "Siever's Drive". Great guys with some killer material. Check em out and tell me what you think? Also in the works..... "Slang Angus, Evan G, Sons of Kalal,...
Posted by ShugaLi Productions on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:10:00 PST

Family

All my life, I have heard that your family will always love you... through the best and the worst. I 've been thinking maybe this is not such a good gig. For even though your family will love you alwa...
Posted by ShugaLi Productions on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 03:58:00 PST

On the lookout for the new

Well, another album to the credits. My good buds in Unconscious Regret are coming out with their new album called "Between Angels & Eternity" and it is going to make all of you who say "there are ...
Posted by ShugaLi Productions on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:15:00 PST

Another Album Mixed!!!!!

The band: Straight Line Stitch (located on my "top 8")The album: To Be GodlikeThis is an album that, I thought, would never see the light of day. But it is done and in the mastering stages, whcih star...
Posted by ShugaLi Productions on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:16:00 PST

La maison est où le coeur est.

Well, it's time.... I am finally going home. I have an incredible offer for an audio job that I can not refuse. Plus, since my sister is pregnant, I prefer to be close to her. It's not everyday that o...
Posted by ShugaLi Productions on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:29:00 PST

New CDs for "Such is Life" and "Straight Line Stitch"!!!!!!

Well its that time... time for some new kick-ass metal music! 2 bands that I am working with, Such is Life and Straight Line Stitch, have finished recording so now its time for mixing and mastering......
Posted by ShugaLi Productions on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:28:00 PST

Time for Reckoning

I'm realizing that I am unlucky! As my maker in the shades takes the last bit of confidence; I grind my nails against the bricks feeling them ripping from my fingertips for a cause that empathy cannot...
Posted by ShugaLi Productions on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:12:00 PST

I've mixed/mastered a new song!

This is one of the songs re-recorded due to unforseen circumstances sooooo check it out.... the bands site is www.myspace.com/slangangus. The song is called "Rooftops" and is about Katrina so show som...
Posted by ShugaLi Productions on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 10:57:00 PST

A Special "Goodbye"

Today I had to make a difficult decision that was inevitable. My granny has been sick for a while and is deteriorating currently in the hospital. A few days ago, when my granny was "out of it", I kiss...
Posted by ShugaLi Productions on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 11:38:00 PST

Going Back to the N.O.L.A.

Hello everyone, just dropping a line to say its time........ its time for me to go home for the holidays. But this is not going to be just any visit. I am going home to New Orleans for the first time ...
Posted by ShugaLi Productions on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:02:00 PST