AUDIOSIEGE

18/08/2025

One of my favorite things about music has always been the people you meet while making it, and I consider myself very fortunate not only to have crossed paths with so much talent over the years, but to be in a position that keeps me in touch with many old friends. Over twenty years ago, I discovered Sweden’s Victims, and my band eventually released a split LP with them. We went on to play many shows together, and all of us became great friends.

The newest musical project from these dudes is ALARM!, who’ve released an LP and 7”, both of which I mastered, and it was a nice surprise to see the 7” and a shirt arrive in the mail a couple weeks ago-a surprise for which I’m very grateful. This band rules, and continues in the path that Victims forged-blazing, relentless Swedish hardcore. The LP is available from Armageddon Shop, and the EP from Svensk Hardcore Kultur. Thanks to Linus Björklund as well, for making my job easy with the recording and mix.

16/08/2025

It’s a good to record something. Get after it y’all!

13/08/2025

Massive cheers to Spider Kitten from the UK for sending a copy of their stellar new album, “The Truth Is Caustic To Love” across the Atlantic! This album is really complex and unique, blending different styles in a way that works well, and it’s nice revisiting it on vinyl with my engineer hat off. Check it out and support the band if you want a copy on vinyl!

11/08/2025

Technical difficulties this morning. Please stand by… I got this.

01/08/2025

Part of knowing your machines is having the ability to accept that some of them may throw a little tantrum when a new piece comes along. Fortunately, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott has rigged the left channel of the Massive Passive to be always engaged, but we lost the light in the process. Since I’ll be ordering new switches on our way back to the Orbital Drydock facility, should we stick with the blue lights, or go with a different color?

31/07/2025

The Debt Of Nature/Crepitus split LP was a fun one restore and remaster, and I’m thrilled to see it get a proper release on vinyl. Ultra mega thanks to Jason at Supreme Echo for entrusting me with it, and for sending a nice care package with this one and a few others (more to come). This came out great, and the vinyl is a beautiful shade of red as well. Stoked!

23/07/2025

21/07/2025

Huge thanks to Dogshark from the UK for sending a copy of their new album, “Earth Is Not Room Enough” (and entrusting me with the mastering). They spared no expense and it shows with a beautiful gatefold and 180 gram vinyl. It sounds and looks incredible. This is also another great recording by JB Pilon, whom I’ve had the pleasure of working with for years. Bonus points for the shirt and CD too… thanks so much y’all!

17/07/2025

I’ve been waiting until I had a good amount of time with it before posting my thoughts on the newest equalizer in the rack. After a couple weeks of getting used to it, I’m really digging the Carnaby HE2 Harmonic EQ from Cranborne Audio, and a few masters have even been finalized with it. This one is quite unique, with a fully analog signal that uses harmonics and saturation to boost or cut-definitely not traditional by any means. Once you get it dialed in, you can hear the frequency ranges working together, harmonizing with subtle movement. There have been a few comparisons to exciters, and that’s valid, but it’s more of an EQ when fed gentle signals. The plugin control is also handy for recall, and automation can even be written to it, which is very cool. Not stopping there, it’s got full mid/side capability, two TRS inserts to place another piece (handy if you want to use something else in M/S). All in all, I really like this EQ, and it’s a nice addition that fills a spot rather than replacing hardware I have. Thanks to for the innovation!

10/07/2025

Selling my UAD-2 Solo, with a few nice plugins included. Make me an offer!
Manley Massive Passive EQ
Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection
Pultec Passive EQ Collection
Massenburg MDWEQ5 Parametric EQ
Dangerous BAX EQ Collection
Precision Multiband Compressor
Precision Mix Rack Collection
Neve 88RS Channel Strip
Teletronix LA-2A Legacy Classic Leveling Amplifier
1176SE Legacy Classic Limiting Amplifier
1176LN Legacy Classic Limiting Amplifier
Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection - Heritage Edition
Fairchild 670 Legacy Compressor
Pultec EQP-1A Legacy
Pultec Pro EQ Legacy
Pultec Passive EQ Collection - Heritage Edition
RealVerb Pro Custom Room Modeler

09/07/2025

Last week, Nate from Sonision Pro finished building my new custom workstation, and it’s fully up and running now. Based around a liquid-cooled AMD 9900X processor mounted on an ASRock motherboard in a rack mount case, this is not only the fastest computer I’ve used, but also the quietest. I’ll be racking it as soon as I’m done building another cabinet for it, but for the time being, I could not be happier with this upgrade. Nate also has two more rack units prepped, so if you’re interested, hit him up at

08/07/2025

This ragged box of parts has seen some work. For over a decade, this Intel 4790k-based PC that I built never failed me. But as it got older, it developed a low resonance that was difficult to tune out, leading me to tape vinyl and rubber to it, attach adhesive magnetic strips to the sides, put guitar picks in the cracks, and even rubber erasers in gaps to stabilize the sound. I came to call it “The Tire Wall” since it reminded me of the protective barriers at racetracks. This week, we say goodbye to The Tire Wall, as it passes the solid state torch of processing to an amazing new build from Sonision Pro (more on that one tomorrow).