I have been involved in music for 29 years with the last 17 devoted to mixing, recording and producing. I started out as a drummer growing up in southern New Mexico then moving to San Francisco in the late 80’s and experiencing early success with my first two bands The Sextants and Seven Day Diary. While in those bands I was exposed to making records with producer/engineers Larry Hirsch (Los Lobos, John Hiatt, Bonnie Raitt), Joe Chicarelli (Frank Zappa, Tori Amos, American Music Club, White Stripes) and Gil Norton(Echo and the Bunnymen, Foo Fighters, Counting Crows). These guys got me excited about the record making process.
In 1994 I switched gears from playing drums to the “other side of the glass”. The journey has taken me through a series of fantastic recording experiences, through which I have worked with a combination of artists you know, as well as many who you may not know. I have also had the pain and pleasure of owning a small and large scale commercial recording studio--Broken Radio Studios which I closed in January of 2012.
I'm now happily freelancing; primarily mixing and making records with some amazing people, performing audio restoration, teaching audio at Pyramind in San Francisco as well as recording and mixing major artists who come to play the famous KFOG Play Space.
Here is a list of musical artists I have either mixed, recorded, produced or some combination of the three.
BoDeans, The Shins, New Diplomat, Death Cab for Cutie, Tori Amos, Florence + The Machine, World Party, Thomas Dolby, Keb Mo, Amos Lee, Bruce Hornsby, Everest, Ray Lamontagne, The Jayhawks, Tim Robbins and the Rogues Gallery Band, Katie Herzig, Zee Avi, Black Furies, Ziggy Marley, Givers, The Samples, Michael Zisman's Americano Social Club, Joan Osbourne, Dar Williams, Scars on 45, Big Head Todd and The Monsters, Civil Wars, Sarah Bareilles, Trevor Hall, Shawn Mullins, Imelda May, The Kooks, George Thorogood, Jessica Lynn Mayfield, Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, Hermann Lara, Andrew Heringer Band, Denim TV, Golden Gram, Jerry Stucker, Sean O'Brien and His Dirty Hands, Alexis Harte, Austin Willacy, Brian Cline Band, Chi Chi Palace, Cubby Creatures, Davis Jones, Dialectic, Dolly Rocker, Dolores Haze, Drew Gasparini, Everything Nothing, Go Go Galaxion, Heidi Jane, Houston Jones, James Low, Killing Floor, M. K. O'Toole, The Welcome Matt, Matt Langlois, Matthew, Nicky Depaola, Pollux, Rod Washington Moore, Spackle, Steve Kirk Pop, Steven Emerson, Terese Taylor, The House Jacks, The Junes, Todd Walton, Veer, Zachary Ross & Desolation Angels.....
