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John

It's not the travel and the counseling...it's the drama and the trauma.

About Me

I don't have the patience to really fill this out so I'll give you the short version.
IN A NUTSHELL: unfortunately stable sort-of-country boy grows up in happy home. I fall in love with music in school, and move to New York City to be a record label bigwig. Plans are slightly derailed by industry slump and, after a stint as an administrator in NYU's Urban Planning program, a convergence of circumstances leads to a burgeoning career as a studio engineer. The same convergence of circumstances also leads me to the love of my life, Adair. We live together in Brooklyn which is my new (and only my third ever) favorite place.
I'm constantly wishing for a life of simplicity, but my own choices make that pretty much impossible for the time being.
Recently I've worked with Paramore , Your Vegas , Dive , Hawk Nelson , and Dark New Day . Right now, I'm working with The Urgency .
Here's my discography:


Tokio Hotel , "1000 Meere" (forthcoming).
Mixing.


Dark New Day (forthcoming).
Engineering and digital editing.


Hawk Nelson , Hawk Nelson Is My Friend (2008).
Vocal production, engineering, digital editing and background vocals.


Dive , The Truth About Us (2008).
Vocal production, engineering, digital editing and background vocals.


Your Vegas , A Town and Two Cities (2008).
Vocal production, engineering, and digital editing.


Paramore , Riot! (2007).
Vocal production, engineering, digital editing, background vocals and string arrangement.


Kids in the Way , Love Hate Masquerade (2007).
Engineering and digital editing.


The Almost , Southern Weather (2007).
Engineering.


Course of Nature , Damaged (forthcoming).
Vocal production, engineering, digital editing, and background vocals.


Silvertide , (forthcoming).
Vocal production, engineering, digital editing and background vocals.


Say When , I'm With the Band, (2006).
Digital editing.

Ima Robot , Monument to the Masses (2006)
Vocal production, engineering, mixing, digital editing, and background vocals


Breaking Benjamin , Phobia (2006)
Engineering and digital editing


The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus , Don't You Fake It (2006)
Engineering and digital editing


Dropping Daylight , Brace Yourself (2006)
Engineering and digital editing


Hawthorne Heights , If Only You Were Lonely (2006)
Engineering, digital editing, and background vocals


Fivespeed , Morning Over Midnight (2006)
Engineering, digital editing, and background vocals


Breaking Benjamin , "Who Wants to Live Forever,"
Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen (2005)
Digital editing


Bobaflex , Apologize for Nothing (2005)
Engineering, mixing, and digital editing


Freddie Jackson, Personal Reflections (2005)
Engineering


Meli'sa Morgan, I Remember (2005)
Engineering


Najiyah, It's Just Me (2005)
Engineering


Liz Wright, This Is My Story (2005)
Assistant engineer


Redman , BC4 Ill at Will Vol. 2 Mixtape (2005)
Engineering


E-Town Concrete, Made for War (2004)
Assistant engineer


Antigone Rising , From the Ground Up (Bonus Tracks) (2005)
Assistant engineer


Majorette , Flirting With Forever (forthcoming)
Assistant engineer


Fabolous , Real Talk (2004)
Assistant mix engineer


Ill Nino , Live In The Eye Of The Storm 5.1 DVD (2004)
Assistant mix engineer


Ari Hest , "They're On To Me" (Radio Mix) (2004)
Assistant mix engineer


Candiria , What Doesn't Kill You... (2004)
Engineering and digital editing


Breaking Benjamin , We Are Not Alone (2004)
Assistant engineer


Killswitch Engage , "The End of Heartache" single (2004)
Assistant mix engineer


Parmalee , Inside (2004)
Assistant engineer


At A Loss , A Falling Away From (2004)
Engineering


Crime In Stereo , Explosives and the Will to Use Them (2004)
Engineering


40 Below Summer , The Mourning After (2003)
Assistant engineer


Ill Nino , Confession (2003)
Assistant engineer


The Bouncing Souls , Anchors Aweigh (2003)
Assistant engineer


The Negatones , The Negatones (2005)
Assistant engineer

My Interests


Systems, languages, particulars, inconsequentia, triva, miscelleny, synthetics, organics, printing, harmony, texture, fundamentals, theory, spectra, oral history, spices, knacks for, whiskeys, salt.
Names for patterns, interlocking things, making from scratch, complexities, fractals, wood grains, old knowlege, winter sports, things meant to be read but not remembered, heirarchies, cooking, white wines, same times, drifting snow, halos.
Architecture, transportation, infrastructure, landmarks, monuments, Civil War battlefields, open expanses, mixed breed dogs, not going to bed, the value of saffron.
more:

Television:

Almost all of it sucks. I do however like The Simpsons, Family Guy, Battlestar Galactica, and a lot of old BBC sitcoms with poor production values, like All Creatures Great and Small, The Dutchess of Duke Street, and Are You Being Served?

Heroes:

No, no: "hoagies."

My Blog

Holy crap.

Wow.  I'm a studio owner!  I never thought this would happen, but I'm incredibly proud to say that we just finished our first project at our new place, House of Loud, located in pristene New...
Posted by John on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:09:00 PST

mix mix mix

awesome! i'm back home for a few days and now i'm hard at work mixing some songs for race the sun. i wish i could post some cool pics of me seated before a gigantic mixing console, but i'll have to ...
Posted by John on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 05:13:00 PST

Back to work!

Sigh... oh well, playtime's over. I'm starting work on Breaking Benjamin's new record at a studio in New Jersey. Wish me luck!
Posted by John on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:11:00 PST

Dumpster diving for pro audio

I've got a new personal project! I pulled an old recording console out of the trash in Manhattan, and now I'm trying to get it up and running. Some project studio was throwing it out, and now it's m...
Posted by John on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:09:00 PST

Goddammit. Now all I need to do is get to sleep.

This sucks.
Posted by John on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 02:43:00 PST

A body at rest

Whew. I just finished my work on the new Red Jumpsuit record. I'm fucking exhausted. Time for some rest.
Posted by John on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:48:00 PST