Who The Hell Are We?
We are a trio of award winning music producers, sound engineers and sound designers as well as accomplished composers and musicians out to combat mediocrity wherever it’s hiding.

Why Should We Brag?

Well we shouldn’t, but...by doing what we live we just happened to rack up a few little tchotchkes:

Grammy Award Winner: Best Contemporary Folk Album

Emmylou Harris "Red Dirt Girl" (sound engineer) .mp3 1.84mb

Grammy Award Nomination: Best Female Pop Vocal

Kelly Clarkson "Thankful" (Sound engineer)

Grammy Award Nomination: Best Comtemporary Folk Album

Patty Griffin "Impossible Dream" (Sound Engineer) .mp3 2.68mb

Acoustic Guitar Magazine: Best Independent Production

Erika Luckett "My Little Crime"

Golden Reel Award Winner: Best Sound Editing

Terminator 3: The Rise Of The Machines
High resolution .mov 5mb, Low resolution .mov 2.3mb

Golden Reel Award Nomination: Best Sound Editing

Area 51

Golden Reel Award Nomination: Best Sound Editing

Lineage 11

Golden Reel Award Nomination: Best Sound Editing

The Chronicles of Riddick anime

Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel: Best Sound Editing

Lost Planet and Getting Up T.B.D. Feb 24 2007 (Sound Design)

G.A.N.G. Award Nomination: Best Use of Multi Channel Surround

Van Helsing

2007 G.A.N.G Award Nomination: Best Sound Design & Best Cut Audio

Lost Planet

Bios

Jim Watts:

Born in New Orleans and growing up in Texas, Jim Watts began playing guitar at the age of ten. Looking for some way to make a living in the world of music, he took up audio engineering. In 1988 he began working as chief engineer at Lone Star Studio in Austin, TX recording jingles and radio spots during the day and blues albums at night. Jim went solo in 1995, working as a freelance engineer in Austin. After a brief time in 1998 at Dockside Recording in Lafayette, LA where he worked on five albums including B.B. King’s Blues On The Bayou, Jim returned to the city of his birth. While in New Orleans he engineered sessions at Kingsway Studio and recorded six albums with producer Malcolm Burn including Emmylou Harris’ Grammy winning album Red Dirt Girl. In 2002, Jim moved to Los Angeles. In LA, Jim worked for pop producer Rhett Lawrence, including work on Kelly Clarkson’s multi-platinum debut album Thankful before returning to independent production.

Pam Aronoff:

Pam Aronoff was born in Queens raised in New England, Upon graduating high school, she traveled the world by herself, then returned to attend Berklee College of Music. She was sent to Los Angeles by a professor at Berklee to study with Mort Subotnick at Cal Arts. While earning a masters degree in Electro-Acoustic Music Composition in the Early Nineties, she created a back woods Rock scene as she was living in a stone cabin and driving a zebra striped ‘74 gremlin. After graduating she hopped over to Los Angeles to make rock videos and play music. Having no other bankable skills she decided to become a Sound Designer. Pam has been recruited by and worked extensively for notables such as Stan Lee, Disney, Soundelux, Mattel, South Park and Beck. Since 1993, She has created original Music and Sound Design in every audio medium from movies to online to radio and television to computer games. Her original music has been played on alternative stations as well as radio Disney for children. In 2004 Pam won the Golden Reel award for Best Sound Design. She continues to be nominated for the Golden Reel and the G.A.N.G. awards every year since.

Ethan Allen:

Ethan Allen began his story in the Austin, Texas music scene, playing in bands and writing songs. Around the same time, he learned the craft of music recording by moonlighting as an assistant engineer at Lone Star Recording and at Willie Nelson’s two sister studios Arlyn and Perdenales. In 1995, Ethan answered an invitation to work at Kingsway, a residential studio located in the French Quarter of New Orleans owned by world renowned producer Daniel Lanois. Over the following six years, he ascended the ranks to become house engineer, working on over fifty major label and independent productions with artists like Tricky, Luscious Jackson, and Patty Griffin. Ethan left Kingsway in 2000 to pursue an independent career producing and mixing a variety of artists such as Gram Rabbit, The 88, The Pleasure Club, Wan Santo Condo, and Better than Ezra. He now lives and works in Silverlake, California where he has his own studio.

DEMO MATERIAL IS INTENDED FOR VIEWING PURPOSES ONLY.
CREDIT LIST INCLUDES MOXY PARTICIPATION ONLY

So What Do We Want?
World Peace. Since that’s a long shot, we’ll be happy to help you actualize your audio vision from beginning to end. We think that all mediums are created equal. There’s no trick to finding the divine in everything¸ you just have to listen.
What Do We Actually Do?
Glad you asked? We are actually a one stop music and audio post- production shop. This means we can compose, produce, sound design and engineer for artists, commercials, videogames, film, radio, logos and anything else that might come out of the human brain.

Featured Demo Material

Composition

SWAROVSKI "DAZZLING DAYDREAM"

composer/lyricist/singer: pam aronoff
engineer/mixer/programmer/e-bow guitar: jim watts
High resolution .mov 4.1mb, Low resolution.mov 1.9mb

THE 88: OVER AND OVER "HIDE ANOTHER MISTAKE"

composer/producer/programmer/engineer/mixer: ethan allen
mixer: jim watts .mp3 1.62mb

CHEETAH GIRLS: CHEETAH GIRLS GAME

composing/engineering/programming/vox: moxy music .mp3 1.81mb

PAM ARONOFF "PLEAZ COME HERE"

composer/producer/lyricist/singer: pam aronoff
producer/engineer/mixer/piano: jim watts .mp3 3.30mb

KEVIN GRIFFIN AND EHAN ALLEN "AVALANCHE"

composer/producer/engineer/mixer: ethan allen .mp3 2.19mb

OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN "CONNECTIONS"

composing/production/engineering/mixing: moxy music .mp3 2.68mb

Production and Engineering

TARGET "COMING HOME"

producer/engineer/mixer: ethan allen
mixer: jim watts .mov 1.9mb

GRAM RABBIT: CULTIVATION "BLODDY BUNNIES"

producer/programmer/engineer/mixer: ethan allen
mixer: jim watts .mp3 1.93mb

BETTER THAN EZRA: BEFORE THE ROBOTS "JUICY"

producer/engineer/mixer: ethan allen .mp3 2.44mb

EMMYLOU HARRIS: RED DIRT GIRL "BOY FROM TUPELO"

engineer/mixer: jim watts .mp3 1.84mb

GRAM RABBIT: CULTIVATION "COWBOYS AND ALIENS"

producer/engineer/programmer/mixer: ethan allen
programmer/mixer: jim watts .mp3 2.19mb

50 FOOT WAVE:GOLDEN OCEAN "GINGER PARK"

producer/engineer/mixer: ethan allen
engineer/mixer: jim watts .mp3 1.95mb

PATTY GRIFFIN: IMPOSSIBLE DREAM "STANDING"

engineer: ethan allen .mp3 2.68mb

JIM WATTS: STROLLING UPHILL "MY LAGAN LOVE"

arranger/producer/engineer/mixer/performer: jim watts .mp3 1.95mb

Sound Design

PLAY STATION "KILL ZONE"

Sound Design: Pam Aronoff .mov 1mb

CITIBANK "RUNNER"

Sound Design: Pam Aronoff .mov 835k

ATARI "TERMINATOR 3"

Sound Design: Pam Aronoff
High resolution .mov 5.6mb, Low resolution .mov 2.3mb

PARTICIPANT PRODUCTIONS LOGO "PARTICIPATE"

Composing/Engineering/Mixing/Sound Design: Moxy Music .mov 161k