Notable bands I've been in: ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms), The John O'Brien Band (aka John Wills Band), Simple Men, Thucker, The Rejects.
Music
7 Seconds, 22-20s, 27 Various, AC/DC, The Accused, Ryan Adams and The Cardinals, Christina Aguilera, G.G. Allin, Amish Armada, Tori Amos, The Amps, Anal Cunt, Annihilator, Anthrax, Fiona Apple, Aqua, Arcwelder, Louis Armstrong, Awesome Snakes, Babes In Toyland, Baby Grant Johnson, Johann Sebastian Bach, Bad Religion, Bakamono, Richard Band, Battalion Of Saints, Bauhaus, The Beastie Boys, Jason Becker, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Believer, Betty Blowtorch, Big Black, Bikini Kill, Billy Bacon & The Forbidden Pigs, Franco Bixio, Björk, Black Dice, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Black-Eyed Snakes, The Blacks, The Blue Up?, Blur, Bongwater, Boredoms, Boss Hog, Boston, The Bottle Rockets, Johannes Brahms, Brainiac, The Breeders, Broken Social Scene, James Brown, Roy Budd, Buffalo Tom, Buss, Butthole Surfers, Cacophony, Cake, Cake Like, Calvin Krime, Cannibal Corpse, Johnny Cash, Casino Royale, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Chaotic Dischord, Charged G.B.H., Chavez, Cheap Trick, Chevreuil, Chinaski, Chopin, Cibo Matto, Circle Jerks, Civ, Clarissa & The Straightjackets, Clem Snide, Clinic, Leonard Cohen, Coil, Cold Water Flat, Colossamite, The Commitments, Conflict, Harry Connick Jr, Consonant, Converge, Nikka Costa, Elvis Costello, Coup De Grace, Francois Couperin, Cowboy Junkies, Cows, Crass, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crispy Ambulance, The Crucified, Crunt, The Cult, The Cure, Current 93, D.O.A., D.R.I., Daisy Chainsaw, Dälek, Dangerous Toys, Danzig, Miles Davis, Dead Kennedys, The Dead Milkmen, Deee-Lite, Deicide, Deltron 3030, Franco De Gemini, Francesco De Masi, Dessau, Destiny's Child, Destro, Deus, Deviated Instinct, Devo, Neil Diamond, Diledadafish, Dinosaur Jr, Dirty Knobs, Disco Inferno, Dollface, The Domo Sound, The Doors, Down, Down By Law, Dr. Octagon, Duh, Danielle Dax, Elastica, Elvis, Eve's Plum, Excessive Force, Exodus, Experimental Audio Research, The Exploited, Extreme Noise Terror, Faith No More, Fantômas, Fastbacks, Fat Tuesday, Faust, Fear, February, Nico Fidenco, Milo Fine, Firehose, Ella Fitzgerald, The Flaming Lips, Flash Girls, Flesh Eaters, John Fogerty, The Folk Implosion, The For Carnation, Frostbite, Fudge Tunnel, Fugazi, Peter Gabriel, Diamanda Galás, Garbage, Katie Jane Garside, Melanie Garside, The Geraldine Fibbers, Giant Sand, Paul Giger, Gism, Goblin, Godflesh, The Golden Palaminos, Golden Snog, Goldie, Gomez, Henryk Górecki, Gorge Trio, Gorillaz, Guitar Wolf, Guns N' Roses, Guzzard, Gwar, Hafler Trio, Nina Hagen, Grant Hart, Havana 3AM, P.J. Harvey, Helmet, Home, Hugo Largo, Hum, HüSker Dü, INXS, Iron Maiden, ISIS, Jawbox, Jawbreaker, The Jayhawks, The Jesus Lizard, Jets To Brazil, Robert Johnson, Spike Jones, Tom Jones, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Junkyard, Jupiter Avenue, L7, Laibach, Lalleshwari, Lard, Lead, Leatherface, Led Zeppelin, Lee Harvey Oswald Band, Lemon Kittens, Nicholas Lens, Les Savy Fav, Lifter Puller, György Ligeti, Lilith, Lilys, Limpspork, Live, Eric Johnson, Lollipop, Long Fin Killie, Traci Lords, Lordz Of Brooklyn, Lydia Lunch, Lungfish, Lustmord, Lycia, Shane MacGowan, Made Out Of Babies, Mad Season, Ann Magnuson, MAIN, Marcus Noise, Chris Mars, Masada, Masonna, Mazzy Star, MDC, Meat Puppets, The Meatmen, Meco, Megadeth, Melanie C, Melt-Banana, Melvins, Merzbow, Metallica, M.O.D., Milemarker, Milla, Mrs. Miller, Ministry, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Miranda Sex Garden, The Misfits, Mojave 3, MonkeyWrench, Monks, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Clouds, Morphine, Ennio Morricone, Mötley Crüe, Motörhead, Amadeus Mozart, Mr. Bungle, Murder Inc, Murphy's Law, Nada Surf, Nailbomb, Naked Aggression, Naked City, Napalm Death, Nashville Pussy, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Negative Approach, Negativland, Neurosis, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Nomeansno, Non, Ken Nordine, Heather Nova, Nova Mob, Nuclear Assault, Nurse With Wound, Obituary, Sinéad O'Connor, October Project, Old Skull, Riz Ortolani, Our Lady Peace, Overkill, P.U.C.K, Page & Plant, Painkiller, Pankow, Pantera, Mike Patton, Pave The Rocket, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty, Liz Phair, Piero Piccioni, The Plasmatics, Gianfranco Plenizio, Poison Girls, Polara, Poppa-Wheelie, Portishead, Poster Children, Powermad, Roberto Pregadio, Premature Ejaculation, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Pride & Glory, Primus, Prolapse, Prong, Pulp, Punchdrunk, Push On Junior, Q And Not U, Queen, Queen Adreena, Rachel's, Radar Bros, Radio 4, Radiohead, The Ramones, Red Aunts, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Lou Reed, The Rentals, Reverend Horton Heat, Rigor Mortis, Rocket From The Crypt, Rodan, Rollins Band, David Lee Roth, ruby throat, Run Westy Run, Rusty, S.S. Bountyhunter, Sacred Reich, Samhain, The Sandwiches, Saucer, Savage Aural Hotbed, Scatterbrain, Scissor Girls, Seaweed, Septic Death, Sepultura, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Seventh Angel, Shellac, Shinjuku Theif, Shipping News, Sick Of It All, Silverfish, Frank Sinatra, Skid Row, Skunk Anansie, Slayer, Slint, SLIVeR, Slow Club, Slowdive, Smashing Pumpkins, Smut, Social Distortion, Soul Asylum, Spacemen 3, Spice Girls, Spiritualized, Spitboy, Bruce Springsteen, Starflyer 59, Stone Temple Pilots, S.O.D, Stray Cats, Subhumans, Sugar, Sugarcubes, Suicide Commandos, Sun City Girls, Sunny Day Real Estate, Superchunk, Supersport 2000, Swans, Matthew Sweet, Swervedriver, System Of A Down, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Tenacious D, that dog, Thee LA Gentleman Callers, Throbbing Gristle, Tinnitus, Tool, Toxodeth, Tramps & Thieves, Armando Trovaioli, Trenchmouth, Tulip Sweet & Her Trail Of Tears, U2, Piero Umiliani, Uncle Tupelo, Urge Overkill, Van Halen, The Vandals, Velvet Monkeys, The Velvet Underground, Vena Cava, Vengeance Rising, Venison, Veruca Salt, The Vets, The Vibrators, Vinny and the Stardusters, Voivod, The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black, Tom Waits, Walt Mink, Warrior Soul, Anna Waronker, Mike Watt, Jon Wayne, Weezer, Whale, White Zombie, Whitehouse, Whitesnake, Wilco, Hank Williams Sr, Wolfsbane, X-Cops, Weird Al Yankovich, Gabriel Yared, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dwight Yoakam, Kristeen Young, The Young Gods, John Zorn, Zuzu's Petals, and all the bands I've worked with.
Movies
ANY, MANY, and ALL
Television
The shows I like:
Ghost In The Shell, The Muppet Show, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy (BBC), Home Movies, Family Guy, V, Mr. Show, Morel Orel, Danger Mouse, OZ, Deadwood, The Transformers (80's), The Electric Company, G.I. Joe (80's), He-Man (80's), The Larry Sander's Show, The Office (BBC), Futurama, Neverwhere (BBC), Dr. Who (BBC), Tripods (BBC), Twitch City, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Kids In The Hall, Cleopatra 2525, Jack Of All Trades, Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Greatest American Hero, Sledgehammer!, Reno 911, Cops, The Newsroom, 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning, Nova, America's Next Top Model, Robot Chicken, Independent Lens, 20/20, The Red Green Show, The Benny Hill Show, The Venture Bros., and The Lexx.
Books
Authors: Chuck Palahniuk, Henry Darger, Katherine Dunn, Bruce Campbell, Mike Nelson, J.D. Salinger, Wally Lamb, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, J.G. Ballard, William Gibson, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Henry Miller, Piers Anthony, Douglas Adams, Arthur C. Clarke, Elmore Leonard, William S. Burroughs, Neil Gaiman, Jon Stewart, and Nikos Kazantazkis...
Magazines: Fangoria, Rue Morgue, Shock Cinema, Ultra Violent, Vampirella, Psychotronic, MAD, Wizard, Popular Science, Star Wars Insider, Tape Op, Maxim, Motor Trend, The Rift...
Comic books/Graphic Novels: The Amazing Spiderman, Elfquest, The Uncanny X-Men, The Silver Surfer, Hellblazer, TMNT (original series - before the commercial bastardization), Cerebus, Concrete, Hellboy, HATE!, The Walking Dead, The Watchmen, Give Me Liberty, Mr. Monster, Love & Rockets, Clive Barker's Great and Secret Show, The Dark Knight Returns, The Killing Joke, Sin City, The Goon, 300, Marvel's New Universe, Anything Goes, The Hulk (Grey-Hulk as a Vegas-club bouncer-era), Sandman, Death, Army of Darkness, Hellblazer, GI Joe, The Punisher, Wolverine/Weapon X, Hard Boiled, Lone Wolf and Cub...
I've been a full-time recording engineer since 1995. I obsess over movies and microphones (sometimes both at the same time!). I'm also a jack-off of all-trades and former Minneapolis, MN resident up until late 2006, now living in Arizona and working at Apple.
Audio Engineering Society (AES) Member since 1999.
My Clients:
Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms (ATF), All In, James Apollo, Anywhere But Here (St. Louis), The April Epidemic, Arch Stanton, Astronaut Wife, Autonomous, A Witch & Three Cowboys, Julie Ann Bailey, The Beautiful Mothers, Bjorn Briel (LS3), Blink Once Again, Blue Shadows, Both, Breakfast, The Breeders, Broadcaster, Brody, The Brokerdealer, Buck 65, Bullhead, Casanatra, Castle, Central Scrutinizer, Chariots, Billy Childish, H. Chinaski, Cockfight, the Crinn, CSNVTT, Cult Of One, The Dames, Dangerboy & the Road Vultures, The Damn Madisons, The Dead Meat Project, The Kelley Deal 6000, Decembers Architects, Dillinger 4, Discrepancies, Domo Sound, Dreamless, Dreamt Like So, Droplet, The 86'd, Emperor Penguin, Eufio, Exempt, Exercise, Fairweather Friend, Farewell Tour, Aaron Featherstone, Fighter Hayabusa, Figure of Merit, Formaldehyde Junkies, The Framed, Freeze Baby, Ghosts!, Giljunko, Gone Out Gone, Gorge Trio, Grant Hart, Green Grass Fields, Grounded, Scott Haag, Hammel On Trial, Grant Hart, Heads & Bodies, Hello Blue, Hollow, The Hostages, Hometown Zeros (HTZ), Hunger Pains, Jay Hurley, Inchtimer, Isle, ITYS, Izkander Bey, The Jeffcoats, Kafka Dreams, Komodo, Chris Koza, The Last Hard Men, Live In Japan, Los Assos Waxos, LOW, LTD Action, The Midnight Evils, Modern Day Tragedy, Mollycuddle, Mount Vernon, Moviestars, Myriad, Myriapoda, Non-Prophets, John O'Brien, Oedipus & the Mother-Fuckers, Oxpecker, Nightlife, The Pastel Knights, Pedro The Lion, Terri Phillipp, Plisskin, Popawheelie, Purr, Puzzle Factory, Red Satyrs, Resin, Retard Retardson, Ripsnorter, The Roadracers, Rocket Pops & the Soda Jerks, Roto Spasmo, Sada Complex, Sadie Foster, Savalis, Screen Hit, Shark with Breasts, Sicbay, Signal To Trust, Sinking Steps...Rising Eyes, Sleepeater, Slug & Eyedea, Smattering, Solitude, Song of Zarathustra, Alan Sparhawk, Streetsmack 120, Stuck On Wessman, Stylites, The Subversives, Super 6, Svenghali, Switchboard, Thucker, Thurston Sauer, Tonnage, Triad, 12 Rods, Unies, United Snakes, The Valentines, The Vets, Volante, We Invented Tornadoes, John Wills, Witness, Words To A Film Score, The Yellow Fine, Yog-Sothoth.
Let me know if I forgot your name/band and I'll add it to the list.
My Gear List As Of April 2009
Mics:
(1) Neumann U47 fet super-cardioid large condenser (1979)
(2) Neumann U87 multi-pattern large condensers (1974/1977)
(2) Neumann/Gefell CMV563 valve condenser w/EC92 tube (1950's)
(2) Neumann/Gefell M55K omni capsules (1950's)
(1) Neumann KMi 84 small cardioid condenser (1979) (2) Neumann KM 184 small cardioid condenser (matched pair - late 1990's)
(1) Telefunken Ela MZ 032/2 cardioid capsule (1932)
(1) Telefunken M16 MKII large diaphragm valve condenser w/6072a tube (multi-pattern) (1) RCA 44BX bi-directional velocity (ribbon element - 1940's) (1) RCA BK5b uniaxial velocity (ribbon element - 1950's)
(2) RCA 74b bi-directional junior velocity (ribbon element - 1950's) (1) Josephson e22s small side-address condenser (cardioid)
(1) Yamaha SKRM-100 Subkick large transducer sub-harmonic dynamic
(1) Analog Electric Binaural Head (custom - dual pencil point A/T capsules)
(1) Analog Electric "The Trucker" large dynamic (custom)
(1) B.L.U.E. Blueberry large condenser (cardioid - first production run- late 90's)
(1) B.L.U.E. B0 large capsule bayonet (cardioid - ELAM251)
(2) AKG C 414B TLII multi-pattern condensers
(1) AKG D112 dynamic (cardioid)
(1) Audio Technica AT4060 large valve condenser cardioid (tube)
(2) Audio Technica AT4050 large condenser (multi-pattern)
(4) Audio Technica ATM450 side-address condenser (cardioid)
(1) Audio Technica C87MKII small condenser (cardioid)
(1) Audio Technica ATM63HE mid-size dynamic (cardioid)
(3) Audio Technica ATM23HE mid-size dynamic (cardioid)
(1) Audio Technica AT961R UniPlate condenser (uni boundary - 1980's)
(1) Electrovoice PL20 (RE20) dynamic (cardioid - 1980's)
(1) Electrovoice 635a mid-size dynamic (omni - early 1980's)
(1) Audix i5 dynamic (cardioid)
(7) Sennheiser MD504 mid-size dynamic (cardioid)
(2) Sennheiser MD421 U5 dynamic (cardioid)
(2) Sennheiser e609 mid-size dynamic (early black grill hyper-cardioid)
(2) Shure SM57 dynamic cardioid (modified - transformerless)
(3) Shure SM57 dynamic (cardioid - stock transformer)
(1) Shure PE65L dynamic (cardioid)
(1) Shure SM7 large dynamic (early 1980's - cardioid)
(2) Shure SM81 small condenser (cardioid - late 1980's)
(2) Shure SM90 small condenser (contact/floor omni/uni - late 1980's)
(1) Shure 819 small condenser (contact/floor uni - mid 1980's)
(1) Shure SM59 mid-size dynamic (cardioid)
(1) Shure Beta56 mid-size dynamic (cardioid)
(1) Shure 55SH-SeriesII mid-size dynamic (cardioid - reissue)
(2) Behringer ECM8000 pencil-point condenser (omni - first generation silver-body)
(2) Crown 30GPB small condenser (contact/floor uni - early 1980's)
(1) Horner Blues mid-size dynamic (cardioid hand-held harmonica/vocal mic)
Mic Pre's: (2) Neve 33421 dual mic/line pre's (modules from a 1977 BBC Neve console)
(1) Drawmer 1960 dual mic/line pre/comp - tube (w/Telefunken tubes)
(1) ART Pro MPA dual mic/line pre - tube (first gen w/Telefunken tubes)
(8) Neotek Series One mic/line/EQ racked modules - sidecart (from a 1981 console)
(1) Sytek MPX-4aii quad mic pre w/Burr Brown IC's on channels 3&4
(1) Malcolm Toft (Trident) ATC-2 dual mic/line pre/EQ/comp (FET) (1) Trident S20 dual mic pre (Series 80)
(1) Hamptone HVTP2 dual tube mic pre w/step attenuators
Big things a-cookin’ at Signaturetone Recording – lots of new high quality 320kbps mp3s and pictures of our freshly remodeled studio have been posted. Browse through our large selection of genre samples for tastes of all the styles we’ve worked with – if you like what you hear, we can do it for you! Also, big congratulations to all of our newly signed bands, as well as everyone who put out some buzz making records in the last few months; you’re making us look good!
Who wants to be next? Get in touch now for July and August booking! Come find out how we can give you a record you can stand behind and get out to the masses.
AZ treating you well? I stumbled across your forum (where you list your gear and wish list a dozen times or so, throughout the ages) because I was looking for info on how to clean a capsule.. anyway, hope all is well, AL.
Thanks Adam, I just stumbled upon your profile today as well and I was wondering if you were still recording. Yeah, most of are or have still been playing in different bands. Myself ( eli ) and a few other ex-members of steps formed a new band called Roman Ships. Ill send you a link when we get some stuff up.
I am teaching high school math these days... when I am not playing.
Lots of great bands have come through Signaturetone recently, and we've helped unleash some spectacular new records from a bunch of genres. Check these artists out and support local music!
Let us give you the record you've always wanted but thought you wouldn't be able to get without mortgaging your home (again). Indie rock to alt country to extreme grind to free jazz, we've got the tape and tubes all warmed up for you.
