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Ruminator Audio

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About Me

audio production of all kinds: producing, recording, mixing, sounddesign, etc.

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Member Since: 3/23/2006
Band Website: ruminatoraudio.com
Band Members: monte vallier - the ruminator
Influences: Here are some bands and artists that I've played with or am currently playing with from 1979-present: [the]caseworker, Jet Black Crayon, Tommy Guerrero, Kelley Stoltz, Swell, Kaleyard, Bambara Mask (Robert Rich, Ron Macleod, Sean Kirkpatrick), Half Church, Dynamaton, Nightmare, Motley and the Crew (way before Motley Crue, dude)
Sounds Like: As either producer, mixer, engineer, composer, editor, or any combination of these, I've worked and am working on records or songs by: Peggy Honeywell, Tommy Guerrero, Swell, [the] caseworker, Jet Black Crayon, Charles Atlas, Half Film, Erik Arnaud, Amscray, Willow Willow, Oxbow, Rova Saxophone Quartet (Orchestra Rova), Larry Ochs Trio, Kelley Stoltz, Half Church, Brian Gregory, American Music Club, Granfaloon Bus and Todd Felix Costanza, Touched By A Janitor, HIM, Helene Renaut and Beam, With Hearts Of Heroes, The BLKTOP Project, The Meek(or now "Trust"), Mattson Twins, The Japanese Motors, Phil Crumar, New Maps of the West, Pig Latin, and more that I can't think of right now.Films that I've worked on as a composer and or mixer: American Dancer, John Cleese's Wine For The Confused, Monumental: David Brauer's Fight for Wild America, Power of the Sun, In This Short Life, One Bite of the Apple: A Portrait of the Artist Edwina Sandys, Ping Pong Love, Lost in the Fog, Just Me?, Sons of a Gun. And more that I can't think of...Currently I am working with composer Marc Capelle as a production team doing scoring, cues and sound design for a variety of clients including Wild Planet Toys, Adobe, InCa Productions, Runaway Films, and many more.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

ruminator site

My real RuminatorAudio.com site is finally up and running. It's a work in progress, but at least it's a start. I've posted my discography and filmography and will be figuring out how to handle media s...
Posted by Ruminator Audio on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:52:00 PST

the japanese motors sessions

Last week I had the japanese motors in the studio to record their new album with Thomas Campbell producing. We did all the basics (drums, bass and a rhythm guitar, a scratch vocal) to one-inch 16 trac...
Posted by Ruminator Audio on Fri, 02 May 2008 09:09:00 PST

Old songs, old friends

I've just put 3 Half Church songs on the page. I've recently had a bunch of master tapes transferred to a drive. My goal is to find every recording that Half Church did between 1980 and 1985 and eithe...
Posted by Ruminator Audio on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:20:00 PST

more recording stuff

Hey whoever,Just finished mixing an album (was the Meek, now the Drones Club) that I've been working on for one year. We met every Wednesday night and completed a pretty solid, deep LP of 14 songs (p...
Posted by Ruminator Audio on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:40:00 PST

Willow Willow album released!

Finally, after a couple of years of work and waiting for the right time, the self-titled Willow Willow album is out. It's on local indie label Mod Lang. Check out what the SF Chronicle had to say:http...
Posted by Ruminator Audio on Thu, 10 May 2007 01:34:00 PST

The Blacktop Project

Been recording The Blacktop Project all weekend. Basic tracks. Drums - Chuck Treece (McRad, Bad Brains, etc.), Guitar - Ray Barbee (Bones Brigader), bass - Tommy Guerrero (Jet Black Crayon, Free Beer...
Posted by Ruminator Audio on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:14:00 PST

some corporate stuff

Don't know if anyone who glances by this way would be interested but this is an example of some of the work that Marc Capelle and I do for one of our best clients, Adobe:http://www.adobe.com/products/...
Posted by Ruminator Audio on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:04:00 PST

End of the year wrap up

Things have been good this last year: the caseworker album "When I Was a Young King" was released, the scores to two films: Balloon Animals (Michael Karbelnikoff) and Is This A Vocation? (Cheryl Dunn)...
Posted by Ruminator Audio on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:16:00 PST

live band basics and Willow Willow mastering

It's rare these days to record 4 people playing music live together in the studio. Used to be the norm. I hardly ever have the chance. Last week I had Patty Spiglanin (Naked Barbies) in the stude with...
Posted by Ruminator Audio on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:44:00 PST

Peggy Honeywell plus

Peggy Honeywell's latest was finished in July. We recorded the thing over about a year and mixed it all in 6 days. It sounds really cool. Kind of oldey-timey. The songs are more fleshed out than the p...
Posted by Ruminator Audio on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 04:02:00 PST