Since I began recording bands in 1997, I’ve worked with over 200 artists. Styles have run the gamut from indie, power pop and punk to folk, avant garde and blues. Performers have ranged from bands signed to international labels to young kids, senior citizens and folks who figured out how to play guitar yesterday. Whoever the artist is, I try to help them realize their musical goals by capturing the sound they hear in their minds for posterity on tape or CD.

Lovvers —
OCD Go Go Go Girls
I worked with these 4 lads from England at Jackpot Recording in Portland OR for three weeks in March and April of 2009. The goal was to make a very melodic noise-rock-and-roll record that was more over the top than anything before.

1. OCD Go Go Girls




2. I Want To (Go)
The Exploding Hearts —
Guitar Romantic
I knew this record was good when I mixed it, but I never imagined it would change my world in the ways it did. We recorded and mixed it at my very first and very tiny Studio 13. It was all done on an analog half inch 16 Track Fostex machine, which I still have. This recording has the key ingredient to making a fantastic CD: great songs.



1. Sleeping Aides and Razorblades
2. Throwaway Style
Patrick Buckley —
Research Files
This was one of the first records done on PermaPress Recording’s SoundWorkshop Series 34 Mixing board, which came from A&M Recording. Research Files is a very quiet, acoustic guitar and vocal record. It marked the return to music of an old client of mine, Patrick Buckley. It was recorded in digital in 2009, but it doesn’t sound like it. There’s a great message in Research Files never give up on your art.



1. Subtraction
2. A Breeze to Blow Away
Catch and Release —
Steelhead
This is their second CD, completed in 2013. The band's name stems from
 co-founder Chris Santella's passion for angling, but bandmates Keith 
Carlson, Doug Mateer and Sloan Morris take the ensemble's folk-rock sound
 beyond on the river with story songs about life, love...and, a little
fishing!


1. Skinny Jeans


2. Same Old Dream
The Welfare State —
High Times
The Welfare State is songwriter Eric Gregory (Crack City Rockers), guitarist Kenny (Cosmopolitans, Amelia), drummer Greg Odell (8 Foot Tender, Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers) and bassist Freddy Trujillo (Curtis Salgado, Federale) Needless to say, these guys had been in a studio a few times before. The songs were excellent, the musicianship superb, and my job was to capture the band to tape and mostly stay out of the way. The guys really had their ideas together, and this made for great and very efficient recording. High Times was done on 2” Tape and was recorded and mixed in around 5 and 1/2 days.



1. Vertigo On Demand
2. G.O.D.
Clorox Girls —
J’aime Les Filles
Justin Maurer came to me with a desire to do a french pop, punk rock record. I realized he didn’t mean pop punk and this record is the result. It’s totally different than any other Clorox Girls record and shares more with End of the Century than Rocket to Russia. It was done in 5 days on the half-inch 16 Track Fostex machine. The backing vocals were done with up to 5 of us singing at the same time — everyone had a different part and had to be placed the appropriate distance from the microphone.

1. Le Banana Split


2. Stuck in a Hole
Jerry Joseph —
Cherry
1. Cloud Eyes



2. Postcards
Pat mAcDonald —
Troubadour of Stomp

1. The Bridge Hater Song
The Soda Pop Kids —
Teen Bop Dream
1. Another Cigarette Ends



2. Bloodshot Eyes
Welcome Home Walker
1. Black as the Night Goes
2. Saving Every Secret
Liz Kelly

1. Nothing in the World
Mere Mention —
Actors and Actresses

1. The Campground Rule
Bridge City Blues Band —
First Recording
I recorded and mixed their 5 song demo in a single day in the winter of 2011. The 5 piece tracked their basics live, with no overdubs. We punched a mistake or two and then overdubbed the vocals. Here is one of my favorites from the session.

1. Shake Your Money Maker