Mike Terry (recording engineer)
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Mike Terry is an American
music producer A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure. Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...
, recording engineer, and mixer from Kalamazoo, Michigan.


Career

Originally from Kalamzoo, MI, Terry moved west in the 1990s and landed his first jobs at L.A.'s The Village, then went on to work at
Sound City Studios Sound City Studios is a recording studio in Los Angeles, California, known as one of the most successful in popular music. The complex opened in 1969 in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles. The facility had previously been a production facto ...
as an assistant engineer. Around the turn of the century, he became a freelance engineer and producer with his intentions aimed at helping to fulfill the artists vision. Terry has worked with
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, Halford,
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, Verbena and more. In 2006 Terry received a
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nomination for the Foo Fighters ''
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'' album. In 2008 Terry helped unite several musicians to form the band
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. He went on to produce, engineer and mix their first album "Ghost Notes" The album was recorded live in the studio entirely to
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tape. Everest was then signed to
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’s Vapor Records.


References


External links

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Living people American audio engineers People from Kalamazoo, Michigan Year of birth missing (living people) {{record-producer-stub