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gunnersound

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About Me

So, in case you haven't figured it out, I'm not really a band. My art doesn't come through playing the music, but more through sculpting the sound of the music. I'm an independent producer/engineer in the LA/Ventura area.

I started out in junior high playing guitar in a garageband and fooling around with a 4-track. There were so many amazing things that could be done, even with that little 4-track, that I decided I had to be an engineer. After receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Music Business/Product Development and Engineering, I went on to spend ten years as an engineer in Nashville. I've worked on just about every style of music, and can honestly say I like just about all of it. I've spent countless hours in all manner of studios working with [and learning from] some truly amazing producers, engineers and musicians. See my discography for a complete list, but a sampling of albums I've worked on include artists like Faith Hill , Brooks and Dunn , Jonny Lang , Buddy Guy , Gretchen Wilson , Gary Allan , Natalie Cole , Mike Gordon , Leo Kottke and Leann Rimes to name a few.

After 10 years working in Nashville it was time for a change of pace, so I packed everything up and moved to Southern California. It's definitely been an interesting experience and I can honestly say I've been involved in more bizarre turns of events in the two years I've been in Cali than the entire rest of my life. Some recent artists I've had the pleasure of working with (mostly indies in the San Diego area): Ravi Shankar (yes, the Ravi Shankar whom the Beatles studied with...), Cadence , Anoushka Shankar , JZMN , mrDSP , Jamie Varley , The Fryday Band , Ryan Montana and the Ten O'Clock Scholars , Compass Rose , The Woodrows , Kevin Cooper , and Voce , as well as audio for the Veronica Mars show on CW and some upcoming videogames from Take2Sports.

Please check out my website at gunnersound.net and feel free to contact me. I'd love to help you make some amazing music.

Thanks for visiting!
- Todd

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Member Since: 2/28/2006
Band Website: gunnersound.net
Band Members: Todd Gunnerson: I'm a one man "Band," or am I? Is it possible that one person can be a band? I think that by definition a band implies more than one individual. The plural is also applied to "Members," again making me feel as though I really can't be a "Band Member" as there seems to be a lacking of other "Members." But then, who's rules are these anyway? What if I let the some of the voices in my head be "Members?" Then I suppose I could be a "Band." Fine, it's settled then, we're in.
Influences: Everything really. Anything I hear, see or do on a given day influences the outcome.
Sounds Like: Whatever you want to sound like! My job is to make you sound the way you want to sound. Either that or to make it sound like I think it should sound and then convince you that it's really how you wanted it to sound all along and it was in fact your idea to begin with...
Type of Label: None