My name is David Carr.
I'm a Guitarist, Producer, engineer, multi-instrumentalist and I own and run the studio Rangemaster in Melbourne Australia (please read my post on gear and ethos). Below in my friends list are but a few of the people I've been lucky to work with. Please check out their pages too.
I'm proud to announce I have an endorsement with Flaxwood Guitars from Finland (Flaxwood.com) and I also with CARR Amplifiers (carramps.com) from Pittsboro USA (no close relative). I've just received a 2/12 Hammerhead combo and it will now appear with the Flaxwood Leikki on all new sessions.
Please check out my 'New-prog' instrumental band ANIM8. It's my other myspace site with my chum Alex Deegan: www.myspace.com/anim8music
I am a lucky guy. I spend my time earning a living doing what I love. I feel very blessed to continue to work with some of our countries most talented artists. Whether Producing, engineering, mixing , session playing or live touring, I have experienced much joy and delight. First and formost, I am a guitarist who loves recording and I believe my approach (where the musician in me leads and not the studio boffin) is what gives my work a distinctive and unique sound.
Some memorable people I've worked with have been
Deborah Conway
Taxiride 'Axiomatic' and 'Electrophobia'
The Antiskeptic catalog including a JJJ Hottest 100 album
Guy Sebastion- Elevator Love
Skipping girl vinegar- new album
Christine Anu- 45 degrees album
Carolyn Oates
Bring on the Junta- JJJ hit
Lior
Tamus Wells
Black Lodge sound
Kiss Chasey's Breakthrough Darkside Ep
Angela's Dish
Forgiven rival
Menace
Tread
Armageddon Sky
Braxton
The Sticks debut EP
Morphinstien from Canada
Paperadio from the UK
Evidence
The Scizzor file
Audience (UK)
Linolium (with one of my fav songwriters Neal Brennon)
and of course ANIM8.
The 1st project I ever worked on as sole producer/engineer in my own right was in 1994. It was an album by a duo called the Lo-Fi's. On a budget that resembled a tip to a McMaccas cleaner, we hired a piece of crap studio for drums and did the rest at home on my 8track cassette recorder. The mix was done at Baker St studios in Melbourne. Given the budget, people were so impressed with the sound that I was swamped with work and Paul from the LoFi's went .. his second album with me to get a Grammy Nomination for songs I had worked on.
In 1978 at the age of 13 I spent my life savings on a pair of industry standard Sennheiser 414 headphones. While my school chums were playing sport, I was listening on those expensive phones to Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Jethro tull, The Sweet, Gary Numan, 60's Lounge, The Alan Parsons Project, The Saints (Stranded), Tomita, ELO, 20th century/Romantic composers AND any '70's Hit singles comp albums (Explosive Hits 74...etc)' my parents would allow. I was always amazed by the way recording engineers used only 2 channels of stereo to create whole new worlds of aural experience. I still have my 1st Record player, a Garrard 301 and it goes!
The thing that kicked it off though was a family friend who bought a cardboard box filled with the discarded 45's from a Jukebox on my 10th Birthday. When I opened it up and put on 'Imagine' by John Lennon I realised that Music would be a major motivational force and have a distracting emotional impact on me (other than Michelle Tozer's Bottom half in High school). I could not get enough of music and the truth is it affected my school work greatly (and the one time Michelle talked to me I cried "I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy" and ran away).