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phredbull

Musician/producer/engineer/audio alchemist!

About Me

A lifetime musician, starting with the violin at 4 and clarinet at 8, everything changed when at 15, I discovered the guitar and started learning to play music that I actually enjoyed! Since music was the only thing that I really had a passion for, I enrolled at Berklee College of Music, graduating with a major in Music Production and Engineering, (My degree in Starvation). Cut my teeth at a commercial recording facility in Chicago, back in the pre-digital days. (Analog tape rules!) Gradually migrated from razor blade editing to Pro Tools wizardry, while recording everything from internationally renowned opera stars to Mariachi bands to 40 piece big bands along with all the rock, metal, r&b & hip hop that abounds in Chicago. Toured with a rock band as live sound engineer/road crew. Currently working as an audio editor, producing electronic music, and freelancing as a producer/engineer.
Free music for free people:
Part One: Assort
Part Two: Consort
In addition to my electro-experimental meanderings, you can hear some of my mixes, mastering, and engineering work:

Mastered Danish chill-out artist Lauge 's new album "Sundays",
(listen and buy here:
or here: ),
and Belgian electronica artist Bandarlog 's "Down with the Dark Side", coming soon, both on Divine Balance Records .

Mixed the songs, "The Way I Feel", and "Someday", from Early April's album "Through the Eyes of Her"; listen here: Early April myspace or here: .

Mixed the track, "Manifest"- Radiohiro remix, listen here:
(orig. by Karsh Kale) .

Mixed tracks 3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16 & 17 from the Natris G album,
.

Pro Tools engineer for the recording of Plácido Domingo in "Your Song", from the film and soundtrack,
.

Assistant engineer, sound design, & pre-mastering for the album,
.

And some more discog info on my .com entry .

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How I made my profile:
I used Dave & Jay's amazing myspace editor .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/10/2007
Band Members:
Influences:
Sounds Like: The sound that would come out of your speakers if you'd simply press that play button up there!
Record Label: FOEM
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The bicycle ride ends...

The course of human history was dramatically changed, starting with his infamous bike ride; Albert Hoffman has left his 102 year old body behind. 'Father' of LSD dies at 102...
Posted by phredbull on Thu, 01 May 2008 04:39:00 PST

R.I.P. Arthur C. Clarke

Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, inventor of the communications satallite, and visionary, left our world a better place than when he arrived.R.I.P....
Posted by phredbull on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:00:00 PST

My first release!

I guess someone likes my weird experimental noise making; my track "Redheaded Stepchild(remix)" has been included on the latest FOEM/Electronic Youth compilation. Download it here: FOEM/Electroni...
Posted by phredbull on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:45:00 PST

Supergroup: Makeout Bench!

Here's what happens when a metal head, (me, formerly), ventures into programming and co-producing indy/emo:Click me!(BTW, can someone tell me how to get more songs on my player? And not that Intel con...
Posted by phredbull on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:47:00 PST

Decomp 07...

...was off the hook! Brobot, Ill Measures, Steve-O, Jeekoos & Cringer, (Part Time Suckers), Radiohiro, Shai, (Divine Balance), Veroon & Damon, all threw down some dope-ass sets. A very, um, li...
Posted by phredbull on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:23:00 PST

Pac Man’s influence...

"Videogames don't affect children. I mean, if Pacman had an effect on us as kids, we would be moving across dark rooms, swallowing magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music" -Kristian W...
Posted by phredbull on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:36:00 PST

Doing 110 down 84 for a $120 shower

     Just back from Connecticut. I now realize that I like visiting different places, but the actual travelling part can suck, big time. Spent the night in a cold, flourescent airp...
Posted by phredbull on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:14:00 PST

this is a test

Why did I get so many views, and a bunch of spam, as soon as I posted my last blog? BTW, I love how all these knuckle-heads leave comments for spammers.And why the hell do so many people want to read ...
Posted by phredbull on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:51:00 PST

Internet Regression

     I believe we live in an age of "indefinitely prolonged adolesence". I see the popularity of video games amongst people well into their 30's as the clearest example of this, al...
Posted by phredbull on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:39:00 PST

Yoko Ono at Pitchfork

     I saw Yoko Ono at Pitchfork last night. I was expecting Yoko's charactaristic wordless-yodeling-mouth noise-making, but the bill said "with special guests", so I was also hopi...
Posted by phredbull on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:07:00 PST