Brad Kern - ProfilesArchive

About Me

These are some of the people I've recorded, mixed and/or toured with: Trip Shakespeare, Semisonic, Dan Wilson, Matt Wilson, John Munson, The Flops, The New Standards, The Hang Ups, The Owls, The Deaths, Duplomacy, Chan Poling, Adam Levy, Mason and Amy Jennings, N*E*R*D, The Neptunes, The Manhattan Transfer, Brian Tighe, Sean Watkins, Sara Watkins, Benmont Tench, Tracy Bonham, Deep Pool, Dana Thompson, Mike Doughty, Purest Spiritual Pigs, Colonial Vipers Attack, Revolver Modele, Faux Jean, Epic Hero, The Piggies, Spymob, Outhouse, Kristen Mooney, Bic Runga, Heavy Sleeper, Panoramic Blue, Laurie Lindeen, The Tropicals, Barb Prindle, Boiled In Lead, The Spring Collection, Shooting Star, Divorcee, Perpetual Change... I have a wife, a babe and two beagles.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/6/2005
Band Members: Charley, Autumn, Alice and Daisy
Influences: Geoff Emerick, Sir George Martin, Bob Clearmountain, Tchad Blake, Dan Wilson, Rick Rubin, Dave Fridmann, Jacob Slichter, Hugh Padgham, Eddie Offord, Tom Rothrock, Jim Scott, Richard Dodd, Ethan Johns, Nigel Godrich, Jack Munson, Nick Launay, Mark Endert, Greg Fidelman, Andrew Moore...to name a few
Type of Label: None

My Blog

radio friendly

while drivng to do a soundcheck with Dan Wilson, on the radio I heard his song "Cry"and three or four songs later I heard "The Way On" from the new Owls record.A proud papa kind of moment for sure....
Posted by Brad Kern on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:41:00 PST

some of my recording credits found here:

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Posted by Brad Kern on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:05:00 PST

cool Semisonic gig in Holland

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Posted by Brad Kern on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:11:00 PST

Melodica...the secret weapon of pop music!

The three projects I'm currently mixing, (Dan Wilson, The Owls and The Deaths,) all feature the melodica. I think it's destined to take the place of the mudshark in pop mythology.
Posted by Brad Kern on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:07:00 PST

No boasting...or pics of me without a shirt.

I have a long standing positive relationship with mixing consoles.I made it to first base with a console in the summer of 1985. That was followed by sixyears of flirting and courting, finally going a...
Posted by Brad Kern on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:05:00 PST