Chad Blinman is an American

recording engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, ...

and mixer,

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, and

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. He has worked with such artists as Face to Face,

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, Monica Richards,

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, The Deep Eynde and

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, and is a member of the remix/mash-up team

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and recording projects Viva Death and Real Space Noise. He is also on the faculty of the Music Production and Engineering department at

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Biography and career

Blinman was born and grew up near

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, California. From an early age, he had a strong interest in music and recording technology, citing

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and many

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and new wave bands among his favorites. In high school he began playing drums in an electronic band and experimenting with recording at home. His professional audio career began at theme park

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, where he engineered live sound for various bands and theatrical shows in 1986-87. Blinman began his professional studio career in 1990, working as a runner at Ground Control Studios in

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and Studio 55 in

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before moving to The Complex Studios in West Los Angeles in 1991. At The Complex he worked as an assistant engineer for several years with such artists as Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, The Yellowjackets, Jack Sheldon, Neil Diamond and Tracy Chapman. He also worked at The Complex and Wilshire Stages as an ADR recordist and

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for film and television shows including many episodes of the animated programs

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, and

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. In the mid-1990s Blinman moved into freelance record work, mixing albums by

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and Popsicko in 1994 and founding his own production company and personal studio The Eye Socket in 1995, where he recorded and co-produced albums by

, Malign, and Autumn. In 1998 he mixed the album ''Live'' by Face to Face, the first of many collaborations with the band and members

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at

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, including Viva Death and

. He co-produced, recorded and mixed the 1999 Face to Face album ''Ignorance Is Bliss'', their 1999 covers album ''Standards & Practices'', their 2000 album ''Reactionary'', and their 2002 album '' How to Ruin Everything'', as well as Trever Keith's 2008 solo album '' Melancholics Anonymous'' and all three albums by Viva Death: their eponymous debut in 2002, '' One Percent Panic'' in 2006, and '' Curse the Darkness'' in 2010.

achieved notoriety for their 2005 mash-up album ''Incorporated'', which they leaked intentionally onto

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s after their original plan to license all of the material proved impossible. Estimates of P2P downloads number in the millions, and fan-created videos for the ''Incorporated'' mash-ups have millions of views. The Legion of Doom has remixed songs by

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, and others. In 2006 Blinman co-founded independent artist collective and label Functional Equivalent Recordings to release records by Real Space Noise, Viva Death, Tate Eskew and others. As a touring musician, Blinman has performed on drums with

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and Ichor in 1995-96, and on keyboards/electronics with

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at

front of house engineer for Face to Face and Tweaker in 2004. Relocating to

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in 2010, Blinman joined the

faculty as Assistant Professor of Music Production and Engineering. Blinman also serves as Faculty Advisor and General Manager of Berklee's radio station, the BIRN (Berklee Internet Radio Network). He hosts a weekly show on the BIRN called ''Laboratory X''. He also continues his freelance work, recording at The Eye Socket and elsewhere.

References

External links

Official siteCredits on allmusic.comChad Blinman on artistdirect.comThe Legion of Doom - official siteViva Death - official siteReal Space Noise - official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blinman, Chad 1969 births Living people Berklee College of Music faculty Record producers from California Viva Death members