- 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)
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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)
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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
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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.
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