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Matt

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About Me

I'm Matt, and I'm 20. I graduated from the Los Angeles Recording School, now I'm pursuing a career as a Recording and Mixing Engineer.I currently work as an engineer at Cobblestone Studios in North Hollywood, and do freelance recording/mixing/live sound as well. I also work as an Apple Computer Technician, specializing in Digital Audio.
AIM - RussellAudio
Your Birthdate: December 20
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My Interests

Music, Hanging Out With My Friends, Partying, Playing My Drums, Recording Mixing and Producing Music, Image Editing, and Random Trivia.

I'd like to meet:

Anybody who plays, engineers, produces, or is just generally as fascinated with music as I am.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
-Victor Hugo

Music:

Classic Rock, Alternative Rock, Heavy Metal, Prog, Blues, Jazz, Funk, Fusion, etc.

Examples:
Audioslave, Velvet Revolver, Stone Temple Pilots, Zakk Wylde, BLS, Chevelle, Black Stone Cherry, Live, 3 Doors Down, The Black Crowes, Pearl Jam, Third Eye Blind, Goo Goo Dolls, Buckcherry

Led Zeppelin, Tom Petty, The Doors, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Deep Purple, CCR, Cream, Tesla, Eric Clapton, Ted Nugent, Thin Lizzy, UFO, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Miller Band

Rush, Liquid Tension Experiment, Dream Theater, Fates Warning, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Yes, Kansas, Boston, Styx, Dave Matthews Band, Tower Of Power, BB King, Buddy Guy, Blues Traveler, Dennis Chambers, Dave Weckl, James Brown, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Mayer

Iron Maiden, Dio, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Guns 'N' Roses, Judas Priest, Halford, In Flames, Motley Crue, Bruce Dickinson, Sonata Arctica, Primal Fear, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, The Scorpions, Van Halen, Skid Row

Movies:

Swingers
Shooter
Smokin' Aces
The Departed
Deuces Wild
Full Metal Jacket
Man on Fire
Ocean's 11
Batman Begins
The Bourne Identity and Supremacy
Meet Joe Black
Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal
Lord Of The Rings
Blow
I, Robot
Dazed And Confused
Colors
Falling Down
And a whole bunch more I can't remember right now.

Television:

The Shield

Books:

The Art of Music Production by Richard James Burgess

Modern Recording Techniques by David Miles Huber

The Mixing Engineer's Handbook by Bobby Owsinski

The Recording Engineer's Handbook by Bobby Owsinski

A Brief History Of Time by Dr. Stephen Hawking

Heroes:

Neil Peart

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
-Lewis Thomas..