May 7, 2008 3:15 PM

Shane Adams

Panelist: Plug-Ins Go Live, Tue., 4 p.m.

Chuck Ainlay

Multiple Grammy Award–winning producer/engineer Chuck Ainlay has recorded and mixed over 200 albums, including work with legendary country music artists George Strait, Trisha Yearwood, Lee Ann Womack, Vince Gill, Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris, the Dixie Chicks, Reba McEntire, Chet Atkins and Willie Nelson. In addition, Ainlay has placed his distinctive production and engineering stamp on projects with pop artists such as Mark Knopfler, James Taylor, Peter Frampton, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Melissa Etheridge, Everclear and Sheryl Crow. In partnership with Nashville's famed Sound Stage Studios, Ainlay built his 5.1 mixing studio, resulting in projects such as the 25th-anniversary surround remix of Frampton Comes Alive.
Panelist: Recording Guitars, Tue., 12:15 p.m.;
The Making of a Hit, Wed., 4 p.m.

Jeff Balding

Panelist: Making the Mix Personal, Wed., 11 a.m.

Tony Brown

With over 100 million albums sold and 100 No. 1 singles to his credit, Tony Brown is arguably one of Nashville's most successful creative leaders. For more than two decades, Brown was the driving creative force behind one of the most successful labels in country music history, MCA Nashville. He signed and produced countless superstar artists—from Reba McEntire and George Strait to Brooks & Dunn, Trisha Yearwood and Vince Gill. Brown is equally well-known for signing genre-bending artists such as Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, Shooter Jennings and many others. This past October, Brown announced the opening of Tony Brown Enterprises.
Panelist: The Making of a Hit, Wed., 4 p.m.

Wes Bulla

Dr. Wes Bulla has been teaching at Belmont University for 18 years and previously served as associate dean and an associate professor in the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business. Involved in the music industry for over 25 years, Bulla has published songs with 1010 Music, Millhouse Music and EMI Music Publishing. His engineering and production credits include projects for Liberty, Mercury-Polygram, BMG/RCA, Curb/MCA, Primer Records and many independent labels. Most recently, Bulla produced the Grammy Award–nominated and Dove Award–winning In Bright Mansions for the Fisk University Jubilee Singers.
Moderator: Making the Mix Personal, Wed., 11 a.m.

Bob Bullock

Producer/engineer Bob Bullock has worked with a variety of acts, including The Tubes, Art Garfunkel, Seals & Crofts, Chick Corea and REO Speedwagon. In 1981, while working at Lionshare Recording Studio for Kenny Rogers, legendary producer Jimmy Bowen approached him to engineer for Warner Bros. Records in Nashville. Bullock commuted from L.A. to Nashville until 1984, when he and his family made a permanent move. BullockÕs engineering credits while living in Nashville include over 50 Gold and Platinum albums, including projects with Shania Twain, Reba McEntire, George Strait, Tanya Tucker, Patty Loveless, Billy Dean, John Anderson, Hank Williams Jr., Jimmy Buffett and Suzy Bogguss.
Panelist: Making the Mix Personal, Wed., 11 a.m.; Speaker Optimization, Wed., 2:45 p.m.

Terry Christian

Terry Christian landed in Nashville via L.A. and has enjoyed a career spanning nearly 30 years. Having worked with producers including David Foster, Phil Ramone, George Martin and Prince, he eventually teamed up with Michael Omartian. Clients have included Peter Cetera, Toto, Amy Grant, Keith Urban and LeAnn Rimes, as well as numerous movie soundtracks and orchestral works. Christian has earned several Gold and Platinum awards and a 2006 Grammy Award nomination for Best Engineered Recording.
Panelist: Recording Guitars, Tue., 12:15 p.m.

Thad Cockrell

Thad Cockrell's first release, Stack of Dreams, was recorded at a formidable pace and received a strong international response from critics. His follow-up album and debut on Yep Roc Records, Warmth and Beauty, continued to shine on Cockrell's uncanny songwriting and harmonious tenor vocals—no doubt highlighted in his newest offering, To Be Loved. He is passionate about sharing his music with any listening ear.
Panelist: Inside the Outsiders, Tue., 5:15 p.m.

Sharon Corbitt-House

Sharon Corbitt-House joined Sound Kitchen in 2005 after a sixyear stint at Ocean Way Nashville. She has helped facilitate recordings that have sold over 100 million worldwide. She manages the six-room recording facility and handles marketing and PR. Studio clients include Willie Nelson, Wynonna Judd, Keith Urban, the Backstreet Boys, Rascal Flatts and Trace Adkins, to name a few. Corbitt-House is a member of NARAS, ACM, AES, Leadership Music and a board member of NAPRS. She also served on the Master Delivery Recommendation Committee for the NARAS P&E Wing.
Panelist: Studio Survival Strategies, Wed., 1:30 p.m.

Stephen Day

Stephen Day has a diverse music business background with experience in new technologies, record company operations, music publishing and audio engineering. He currently serves as the project manager for echo in Nashville and has worked for Skaggs Family Records, eMusic, Universal Music Group and Warner Bros. Records. Day is a member of NARAS; the CMA; Leadership Music; and a past board member of the Copyright Society of the South, the International Bluegrass Music Association and the music business Advisory Board for Belmont University.
Panelist: The New Label, Wed., 12:15 p.m.

Steve Durr

Over the course of 25 years, Steve Durr has played an integral part in the design of facilities for such prestigious clients as Disney Studios, Lenny Kravitz, Willie Nelson and DreamWorks, as well as numerous professional sporting venues. Durr has designed projects for corporate clients such as Hilton Hotels, SC Johnson, Procter & Gamble and Nissan Manufacturing. Durr has designed more than 2,000 recording studios throughout the world, acoustics and sound systems for restaurants, including BB King's, Billy Bob's Texas, Loveless Cafe and Bluebird Cafe, as well as hundreds of houses of worship and performance theaters.
Panelist: Speaker Optimization, Wed., 2:45 p.m.

Andre Fischer

As a producer, music industry executive, educator and performer, Andre Fischer has individually earned 40 Platinum and 25 Gold albums. He has won three Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, Soul Train Awards, and ASCAP and BMI awards. He is past president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, as well as trustee, governor and outreach chairman. Fischer has held executive and corporate positions at MCA/Universal Urban Music, Qwest/Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox. He was also vice president of jazz A&R for Quincy Jones.
Panelist: The New Label, Wed., 12:15 p.m.

Ian Fitchuk and Justin Loucks

The Nashville-based production and songwriting duo of Ian Fitchuk and Justin Loucks has quickly become one of the go-to teams in Nashville for the cityÕs emerging pop-rock artists, producing recent recordings for Jeremy Lister (Warner Bros.), Landon Pigg (RCA), De Novo Dahl (Roadrunner), Bethany Dillon (EMI/CMG), Griffin House (Nettwerk) and Kate York. TheyÕve also penned songs for Sixpence None the Richer, Erin McCarley and many others, as well as landed tunes on high-profile programs such as GreyÕs Anatomy and Without a Trace.
Panelists: Inside the Outsiders, Wed., 5:15 p.m.

Chris Grainger

Nashville-based producer, mixer, engineer and songwriter Chris Grainger began making records in the early '90s, working on projects for the likes of Wilco, Switchfoot, Sixpence None the Richer and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. In early 2003, Grainger decided to focus on developing new artists—the first of which was Minneapolis band Dropping Daylight, which signed with Octone Records. Grainger has since found similar success working with Luna Halo (American) and Ludo (Island).
Panelist: The Full-Blown Demo, Tue., 11 a.m.

Ashley Heron

Ashley Heron oversees new media and mobile marketing and sales initiatives, in addition to the creative elements, of Lyric Street Records. He has held various positions in marketing since 2004 and has been integrally involved with Lyric Street's digital business since its infancy to its climb to the top of the all-genre charts with supergroup Rascal Flatts. Heron holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Belmont University in Nashville.
Panelist: The New Label, Wed., 12:15 p.m.

Bob Hodas

Since 1993, Bob Hodas has traveled the world tuning well over 1,000 rooms. His clients are engineers, producers and studios alike. Clients include hit mixer David Pensado, producer Rob Cavallo, composer John Debney and recording artist Stevie Wonder. His work has taken him from Tokyo for Sony Music Entertainment to London for Abbey Road Mastering. Stateside, he has tuned rooms for NRG Recording, the Record Plant, Blackbird Studio and Lucasfilm, to name a few.
Panelist: Speaker Optimization, Wed., 2:45 p.m.

Buford Jones

From ZZ Top to Three Dog Night to Linda Ronstadt to James, live sound mixing engineer Buford Jones has a full list of top-notch artists under his touring belt. Jones' career began in the 1970s with a nine-year tenure at Showco Inc., which developed into a steady line of freelance mix work; he is currently tour liaison manager at Meyer Sound's Nashville office in Soundcheck. He took home a TEC Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement, Sound Reinforcement Engineer in 1989. Jones is also comfortable in the studio, engineering Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound of Thunder and Mark O'Connor's Meanings Of, as well as live releases for Pat Benatar, David Bowie and Iggy Pop, among others.
Panelist: Recording the Show, Tue., 1:30 p.m.

Andrew Kautz

Andrew Kautz is currently the general manager of Big Machine Records. Kautz was formerly the COO of the Emerald Entertainment Group, which operated five divisions within five facilities on Nashville's Music Row, with a total of 13 studios. Kautz oversaw the expansion of Emerald Sound Studios to include Emerald Broadcast Division, Masterfonics Mastering, Digital Audio Post and the Sessions Agency. Kautz is a past president of the Society of Professional Audio Recording Services and is also a member of the CMA, ACM and NARAS.
Panelist: The New Label, Wed., 12:15 p.m.

Julian King

A graduate of James Madison University, Julian King obtained an internship at Sound Stage Studios and MCA Records in 1987. Since that time, he has worked with many well-known producers and artists, including Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Sugarland, Toby Keith, Tracy Lawrence, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Clint Black, John Anderson, Lorrie Morgan, Jo Dee Messina, Randy Travis, Wynonna Judd and Lee Ann Womack. King's TV and film projects include the Super Bowl, The Prince of Egypt-Nashville, The Grinch, Austin City Limits and more.
Panelist: Making the Mix Personal, Wed., 11 a.m.

Stephen Law

Panelist: Recording the Show, Tue., 1:30 p.m.

Jason Lehning

A graduate of Boston's Berklee School of Music, producer/ writer/arranger Jason Lehning has accumulated experience with an uncommonly wide array of artists. A two-time Grammy Award winner, Lehning has worked with Guster, George Jones, Steve Forbert, Lyle Lovett, Jill Sobule, David Mead, Erasure, Alison Krauss, Nickel Creek, Bill Frisell, Jerry Douglas and many others.
Panelist: The Full-Blown Demo, Tue., 11 a.m.

Russ Long

Russ Long has been producing and engineering a wide variety of music and film projects since the late 1980s. His credits include the hits "Kiss Me" and "There She Goes" by Sixpence None the Richer, as well as albums by Wilco, Newsboys, Over the Rhine, Reliant K, Dolly Parton and Jim Brickman. His film credits include the soundtracks to Girl, Interrupted, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Second Chance and She's All That. In addition to doing 5.1 mixes for Allison Moorer, David Crowder Band and Mercy Me, Long has multitracked live performances for Switchfoot, Chris Tomlin and Nichole Nordeman.
Moderator: The Full-Blown Demo, Tue., 11 a.m.

Colin McDowell

Colin McDowell has made a niche in the pro audio industry with his company, McDSP. Founded in 1998, McDSP sought to meet the demand for better-quality audio processing on the Digidesign Pro Tools platform, with the added flexibility that could exist only in software. Prior to McDSP, McDowell worked at IBM, Digidesign and Dolby Laboratories. He authored many Digidesign plug-ins and the original TDM multishell prototype, and he was part of the Emmy Award–winning Dolby E engineering team.
Panelist: Plug-Ins Go Live, Tue., 4 p.m.

Richard McLaurin

Richard McLaurin moved to Nashville in 1985 and began his professional career playing guitar with fiddle great Vassar Clements. Other sideman gigs have included stints with Maura O'Connell and Iris Dement, as well as the altcountry band Farmer Not So John. As an engineer and producer, McLaurin has worked with acts such as Allison Moorer, Matthew Ryan, Billy Joe Shaver and John Davis. McLaurin now runs House of David recording studio.
Panelist: The Full-Blown Demo, Tue., 11 a.m.

Lee Moro

A native of Ontario, Moro has spent most of the past five years as FOH engineer and production manager for Norah Jones. In his two-decade career, Moro has also worked with Alannah Myles, Michael Buble, Blue Man Group, The Tragically Hip and Madeleine Peyroux. Now with Meyer Sound as Nashville operations and touring support, Moro works directly with Tour Liaison Manager Buford Jones at the Meyer Sound office within Soundcheck Nashville.
Panelist: Plug-Ins Go Live, Tue., 4 p.m.

Scott Phillips

Panelist: Studio Survival Strategies, Wed., 1:30 p.m.

Landon Pigg

Nashville native Landon Pigg started penning his own songs in high school and subsequently turned out two EPs (the Magritte-inspired This Is a Pigg and Connect Sets). His latest EP, Coffee Shop—which features the track "Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop" from the late-2007 "A Diamond Is Forever campaign"— is out now, and he is currently working on his first full-length release for RCA.
Panelist: Inside the Outsiders, Wed., 5:15 p.m.

KK Proffitt

KK Proffitt is the owner and chief engineer of JamSync. Now celebrating its 11th year on Music Row, JamSync was the first studio purposebuilt for surround sound in Nashville. Originally designed as a 7.2 monitoring environment, JamSync spent most of the past decade working in the 5.1 format. Proffitt designed the monitoring room acoustics and the patchbay; she also co-designed the bass-management system. JamSync moved into video production, post-production and content creation in 2005.
Panelist: Studio Survival Strategies, Wed., 1:30 p.m.

Marc Repp

Marc Repp has spent the past 34 years mixing and recording all types of music-related television projects, including live concerts and more than 160 live awards shows in more than 20 countries. For the past 12 years, Repp has been an engineer on MTV Networks' digital audio truck.
Panelist: Recording the Show, Tue., 1:30 p.m.

Johnny Rose

Johnny Rose is the VP of sales and marketing for Show Dog Nashville, Toby Keith's music company. Rose has 28 years in the music industry, with experience in both mass merchant retail distribution at Western (now Anderson) Merchandisers and various country music record labels, including MCA, Capitol and DreamWorks Nashville. Previously, he spent seven years as a touring musician. He is a member of CMA, ACM and Leadership Music Alumni.
Panelist: The New Label, Wed., 12:15 p.m.

Robert Scovill

Robert Scovill is a 28-year veteran of professional concert sound and recording who has mixed over 3,000 events in his career. His engineering and production talents have been enlisted by a veritable who's who of marquee music acts, including Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Matchbox Twenty, Prince, Rush and Def Leppard. Scovill's body of live-sound and recording work has garnered numerous industry accolades, including six TEC Awards for technical and creative achievement in sound reinforcement. He now serves as market manager for live sound products at Digidesign.
Panelist: Recording the Show, Tue., 1:30 p.m.; Plug-Ins Go Live, Tue., 2:45 p.m.

Ed Seay

Ed Seay is a 30-year veteran of the music industry, with chart success in the country, pop, Christian, adult contemporary, rock and R&B genres. He began his audio career in Atlanta in the "16-track" days and moved to Nashville in the mid-1980s. His engineering and production clients have included Blake Shelton, Martina McBride, Hank Williams Jr., Ricky Skaggs, Paul Davis, Collin Raye, Melissa Manchester, Peabo Bryson and John PrineÕs Grammy-winning efforts, among others.
Panelist: Speaker Optimization, Wed., 2:45 p.m.

Carl Tatz

Carl Tatz is a 23-year veteran of the pro audio business as an engineer/ producer and owner of Nashville's famed Recording Arts, which Sheryl Crow purchased in 2003. He is the principal of the Nashville-based Carl Tatz Design firm, which has been responsible for designing and building many worldclass home studios and screening rooms across the country. The company also installs Tatz's trademarked PhantomFocus System monitor-tuning protocol in applications ranging from small personal home studios to multimillion-dollar studio complexes.
Panelist: The Full-Blown Demo, Tue., 11 a.m.; Speaker Optimization, Wed. 2:45 p.m.

Steve Tviet

Steve Tviet has either managed or owned recording studios on Music Row for more than 20 years. For the past 10 years, he has been at OMNIsound Studios. Under his direction, OMNIsound has continued to thrive and evolve in an ever-changing music industry and is now a prominent studio both domestically and internationally. Tviet is past president of Nashville Association of Professional Recording Services, a nonprofit organization that promotes Nashville's recording services internationally. He has been listed in Music Row Magazine's In Charge edition for the past several years and is a member of NARAS and AMA.
Panelist: Studio Survival Strategies, Wed., 1:30 p.m.

Bil VornDick

Bil VornDick's love for music began when he was a teenager, recording songs in his studio and reaching out to record and produce other groups in the Washington, D.C., area. Transitioning to Nashville with the help of Marty Robbins (who made VornDick his chief recording engineer), the producer soon began a longtime working relationship with Alison Krauss, as well as many other Grammy-winning artists—Bob Dylan, Ralph Stanley and Bela Fleck, to name a few—and soundtrack work. He continues to be active in the local music community.
Panelist: Making the Mix Personal, Wed., 11 a.m.

Michael Wagener

Dokken. Motley Crue. X. Metallica. Poison. Alice Cooper. WASP. Ozzy. King's X…just a sampling of this producer powerhouse's impact on the hard-rock/metal world. After stints as maintenance engineer at Larrabee Sound and mixing live sound with Accept, Wagener truly burst onto the production scene with Dokken's Breaking the Chains. These days, Wagener calls Nashville home: His WireWorld Studio is a surround production facility for his Double Trouble projects, which have included Greatest Hits albums for Skid Row and Testament, as well as cultivating “young metal blood” from the likes of Karaoke and Hydrogyn.
Panelist: Recording Guitars, Tue., 12:15 p.m.

Danny White

Danny White is approaching 25 years as a musician, producer/engineer, songwriter and studio owner. After many years engineering at Vintage Recorders in Phoenix, he founded Formula One Recording Studios, which hosted a range of artists, from David Insley to Alice Cooper. In 2004, White opened Sixteen Ton Recording on Nashville's Music Row; clients include the Black Crowes, The Jordanaires and RCA Records. White performs occasionally with local and national acts and has become increasingly focused on songwriting and producing.
Panelist: Studio Survival Strategies, Wed., 1:30 p.m.

Dan Wothke

Dan Wothke has accrued more than a decade of studio and live-sound experience. He originally cut his audio teeth as the chief engineer for an independent record label followed by the role of technician for Masterfonics Tracking Room—engineering for broadcast and fulfilling touring engineering duties along the way. He is currently running the gauntlet of all things media in his role as media director at Belmont Church in Nashville and regularly writes a house-of-worship feature for Pro Audio Review.
Panelist: Recording the Show, Tue., 1:30 p.m.

THE MIX STAFF

Kevin Becka

Kevin Becka has been the technical editor of Mix since 2003. Prior to that, he served as an editor of Pro Audio Review and also as U.S. editor for the British publication Audio Media. Becka was an adjunct professor at Belmont University, teaching advanced recording at the Mike Curb School of Music. He also has taught surround recording at the Danish Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2005 and is currently the director of education at the Conservatory of Recording Arts in Arizona. A member of ASCAP, AES, SPARS and a voting member of NARAS, Becka has engineered multi-Platinum and Grammy-winning records for Kenny G, George Benson, Al Jarreau, Quincy Jones and Michael Bolton, among others.
Moderator: Recording Guitars, Tue., 11 a.m.

Sarah Jones

Sarah Jones is the editor of Mix magazine. In her 13 years at Mix, she has interviewed hundreds of legendary artists, producers and engineers and visited major studios around the world, from Sydney to London. She has contributed hundreds of magazine articles including technology features, profiles, reviews, career articles and news features. Her book, Assistant Engineer Handbook (Schirmer), is available at MixBooks.com.
Moderator: The Making of a Hit, Tue. and Wed., 4 p.m.

Tom Kenny

Tom Kenny joined the Mix staff as a proofreader in 1988 after graduating with a master's degree in journalism from Indiana University. In 1991, he started the "Sound for Picture" section in Mix and has authored hundreds of articles across a range of topics in his tenure. Today, he serves as editorial director for Penton Media's Audio Group, which includes Mix, EM and Remix magazines, along with associated Websites and events. He lives in Oakland, Calif., with his two teenage daughters.
Moderator: The New Label, Wed., 12:15 p.m.; Studio Survival Strategies, Wed., 1:30 p.m.

Mike Levine

Mike Levine is the executive editor and senior media producer at EM and the host of EM's twice-monthly podcast, EM Cast. Previously, he was the editor of Onstage, the managing editor of Home Recording and a senior editor at Guitar. Levine, a guitarist, has composed and arranged music for numerous commercials, including spots for Advil, Days Inn, Ford Trucks and Kool-Aid. He has also composed music for CNN and the History Channel. He has authored four books and is co-author of the Warren Haynes Guide to Slide Guitar.
Moderator: Inside the Outsiders, Tue. and Wed., 5:15 p.m.

George Petersen

In his 27 years at Mix, executive editor George Petersen has authored 900 technical articles and five books on audio and music production. Growing up in Italy, he played drums and guitar and toured with American and Italian bands. Coming to America, he worked in audio recording, film and video production and sound reinforcement. He also runs a record label, performs with San Francisco rock group Ariel and is currently producing the debut CD for surf band The Aquaphobics.
Moderator: Recording the Show, Tue., 1:30 p.m.; Plug-Ins Go Live, Tue., 2:45 p.m.; Speaker Optimization, Wed., 2:45 p.m.