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About Andy Edelstein

Andy Edelstein is an active educator, record producer, engineer, and multimedia developer. He is currently Associate Professor of Music Production and Engineering at Berklee, and has also served as Assistant Chair of the Music Production and Engineering Department during his twenty-five-year tenure at the College. Andy has produced, recorded, and/or mixed numerous records from jazz and rock to bluegrass, Celtic, and blues, including the genre-bending Wayfaring Strangers critically acclaimed Rounder releases, the SpinART debut by independent rockers Apollo Sunshine, and the latest Dry Branch Fire Squad live album, all using his Pro Tools HD system. Andy is Principal of Rapid Eye Media, specializing in multimedia production services. His design and production work is featured in a series of award-winning interactive exhibits at the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, MO and the Longyear Museum in Brookline, MA. Consulting clientele has included the GRAMMY Foundation in Santa Monica, CA. Andy holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

About David Franz

David Franz wrote the book on Pro Tools—literally. Professional producer, engineer, musician, and expert Pro Tools user, Franz collaborated with Digidesign and Berklee College of Music to write the first-ever book about using Pro Tools, Producing in the Home Studio with Pro Tools, now a bestseller for Berklee Press and in its second edition. Franz uses Pro Tools everyday in his studio, on stage with his band, and in the classroom.

Working mainly from his own commercial studio, Underground Sun Studio in Venice, CA, Franz has worked with many musical artists from all over the globe in almost every genre of music. In addition to producing music for other artists, Franz is also a composer, writing music for film, TV, and corporate clients, as well as a performing musician.

Translating his real-world studio, composition and touring experience into transferable knowledge, Franz has contributed to Electronic Musician, Keyboard Magazine, and DigiZine, Digidesign's online and print magazine. He has also written another book for Berklee Press called Recording and Producing in the Home Studio.

Franz wraps all these things together when teaching online courses for Berkleemusic.com. He has written two courses, Producing with Pro Tools and Recording and Producing in the Home Studio, teaching those along with the Production Workshop and Pro Tools 101 courses. He has been teaching online since the launch of Berkleemusic.com.

Franz holds a BS and MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, where he wrote his Master's thesis on mathematically modeling jazz improvisation. After Virginia Tech, Franz studied Music Production and Engineering at Berklee College of Music.

About Mehdi Hassine

Mehdi Hassine is an engineer and consultant with extensive industry experience in both sound and visual production and post-production. He is a certified Pro Tools instructor with 10 years of training experience in audio engineering, video editing, and motion graphics. Hassine's body of work includes trailer mixing and sound editing on the IMDB top all-time documentary Heima about the journey in the homeland for the Icelandic band Sigur Ros. He is an active editor and mixer on national television commercials and documentaries. He is also a seasoned video editor having produced all the video and audio content on many independent music videos and music DVDs for Hal Leonard. His recording engineering credits include Dave Weckl, Dennis Chambers, Gary Willis, Stanley Clark, and Scott Henderson. Hassine holds a master's degree in electro-optical engineering from Orsay University and a master's degree in business administration from Pantheon-Sorbonne University in France. He has a parallel career as a performing and recording bass player. In addition, Hassine is currently producing a variety of independent artists in the Los Angeles area.

About Erik Hawkins

Erik Hawkins has written and produced beats for songs on ABC, CBS, FOX, MTV, Nickelodeon, and New Line Cinema, on films and TV shows such as Ugly Betty, CSI:Miami, Burn Notice, Lie to Me, Big Brother, and The Last Day of Summer. He has worked with and remixed artists such as Irene Cara, Digital Underground, DJ Sasha, Conscious Daughters, Brenda Russell, and Stryper. He is the author of The Complete Guide to Remixing (Berklee Press), and numerous articles for publications including Remix, Mix, Electronic Musician, and Keyboard. He also created and instructs the Berkleemusic courses, Producing Music with Reason and Remixing with Pro Tools and Reason. His album, Erik Hawk & The 12-Bit Justice League (MuziCali/Synchronized Music), is packed full of killer beats and is available through iTunes and CD Baby.

For lots of cool music production tips and tricks, check out his Berkleemusic blog page:

erikhawkins.berkleemusicblogs.com

To hear more samples of his music, visit his Web site:

www.muzicali.com

And, his MySpace page:

www.myspace.com/erikhawk

About Richard Mendelson

Richard Mendelson is a senior faculty member in the Music Production and Engineering department at Berklee College of Music. A long-time educator, Mendelson specializes in mixing and recording. His former students include many Grammy-winning mixing and recording engineers.

Mendelson's work has been featured in recordings by artists such as Rihanna, Nicole Scherzinger, Fergie, and Garbage, and he is a first-call mix-down engineer in the Boston area. Mendelson is an expert in digital sampling and has created more than 10 international best- selling sample products for Big Fish Audio and East/West Communications.

About Ted Paduck

Ted Paduck is an assistant professor in the Music Production and Engineering (MP&E) Department at Berklee, where he teaches Mix Techniques 1 and 2, as well as Multitrack Techniques. Since graduating from Berklee in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in Music Production and Engineering, Paduck has worked with an impressive roster of artists.

Early freelance engineering projects in Boston at such studios as Syncro Sound, Newbury Sound, and Soundtechniques eventually led to a staff engineering position at the latter, where he worked with Aerosmith, Duran Duran, Nine Inch Nails, Run DMC, Busta Rhymes, and Erika Badu, and also engineered television spots for commercials and film scores for Better than Sex, Prefontaine, and the HBO series Earth to the Moon.

Today, he is a staff engineer/producer at Mix One Studios, formerly Soundtechniques. Recent clients include Paul Simon, John Mayer, Ciarra, Bow Wow, Jo Jo, Toots and the Maytalls), and countless local unsigned artists. Among his accomplishments is the recording of "Never Grow Old" with the Skatalites for their True Love album, which won a Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 2003. He has also worked on the film scores for the John Sayles film Silver City and Berklee alum Mike Teoli's film The Red Thread.

	Andy Edelstein Associate Professor of Music Production and Engineering at Berklee.
	David Franz Professional producer, engineer, musician, and expert Pro Tools user.
	Mehdi Hassine A certified Pro Tools instructor with 10 years of training experience.
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	Andy Edelstein Associate Professor of Music Production and Engineering at Berklee.
	David Franz Professional producer, engineer, musician, and expert Pro Tools user.
	Mehdi Hassine A certified Pro Tools instructor with 10 years of training experience.
	Erik Hawkins Composer, producer, remixer, and author who has worked with and remixed a variety of top artists.
	Richard Mendelson Senior faculty member in the Music Production and Engineering department at Berklee College of Music.
	Ted Paduck Assistant professor in the Music Production and Engineering Department at Berklee.
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