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Dan Richards - "Dot", Editor
Dan is currently engineering and producing The Listening Sessions where he's been buried for the last four years overseeing the largest project for using, recording and testing gear in the audio-recording industry. He offers Pro Audio Consulting services. He co-moderates the Recording Forum with Ronan Chris Murphy at Studio Forums. Ronan Chris Murphy, Contributing Editor
He continues to collaborate with artists as a songwriter and musician and perform his own music with Lives of the Saints. Murphy was a charter member of the Music Producers Guild of the Americas, a member of the Recording Academy and a contributing writer for the Grammy newsletter, Fuse Magazine and Just Plain Folks. He has been an invited speaker and panelist at SXSW (South by Southwest), NXNW (North by Northwest), The Action Poetry Festival, the International Organ Festival, The Taxi Road Rally, 2NMC and the ICMC (International Computer Music Conference), served as musical director for the Paris based Ka Ti Ma dance company and twice invited to the composers symposium of the Oregon Bach Festival. He also runs a series of international recording workshops called Home Recording Boot Camp. Ronan also hosts the official radio station of Studio Reviews, Veneto West Radio, featuring the best mix of eclectic music from around the world. More info on Ronan can be found at his website, Veneto West. John Scrip, Contributing Editor
A voting N.A.R.A.S. (Grammy® organization) member, John's album credits include a widely varying collection including blues, rock and metal bands such as Manowar, the Radiators, Subsonic and Metal Militia; the flamenco & world music recordings of Amsterdam's Jacco Muller and Artur Trajko; "pop gospel" sounds of the Sun State Quartet, Vignola and the First Four; adult contemporary recordings from Grammy® nominee and Gold Record winner Dave Rudolf and dozens more covering several styles. John's articles as "The RecTech" have appeared in print and on websites since the late '90's. He moderates the Mastering Forum at Studio Forums. Dave Pearlman, Contributing Editor
Dave also designed and builds his own tube microphone, The Pearlman TM 1. Bruce Miller, Contributing Editor
Bruce is commited to passing on the craft and artform of audio engineering, and is currently setting up Free Online Audio Classes that will begin in July 2005. For more info vist www.bruceamiller.us. Ted Perlman, Contributing Editor
He also has extensive credits in television and film, writing and producing soundtracks and jingles. More information at www.tedperlman.com Rob "Gonzo" Gilliand, Guitar Wizard-in-Residence
SWELL, Contributing Editor
SWELL has taught Beat Making classes at Scratch DJ Academy in New York City, founded by Jam MasterJay of Run-DMC. He attended NAMM 2004 and 2005 with Platinum producer Def Jef working with AKAI Professional, where they were both on hand with AKAI demonstrating gear including the MPC 1000, MPC 2000XL/MCD and the MPC 4000. Bizune, Software Review Editors
For more information on Bizune and their music visit bizune.net. And
for more information on the BizuneVST plug-in and Mantragora synthesizer visit bizune.com
Brian has been heavily involved with The Listening Sessions since the beginning in 2002, and
has used countless microphones and preamplifiers in A/B tests and on the front lines in sessions in his studio. When not in the studio, Brian and Studio Reviews' Editor, Dan Richards, can often
be found dining in finer restaurants on the coast of South Carolina discussing recording gear and comparing sushi, sake and single-malt whisky in real-world A/B tests.
Paul Wolff of Tonelux Peter Janis of Cabletek (Gefell North America) Doug Robinson, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist Johannes Rankl of Plateau Studio Mark A. Lizak, MD Marc "M2E" Smith Glenn Bucci Kane D. Williams
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Dan has written articles and reviews for numerous industry publications and has been a contributing editor for Digital Pro Sound.
As an engineer and musician he has worked with many diverse artists including Talking Heads, Todd Rundgren,
Chaka Khan, The Flaming Lips, and Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians. His recording of JAZZOOO's "
As a producer, engineer and/or mixer, Ronan Chris Murphy has worked with the likes of King Crimson (several albums), Steve Morse (Dixie Dreggs Deep Purple), Terry Bozzio (Zappa, Missing Persons), Steve Stevens (Billy Idol), Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, John Lennon, Pink Floyd), Martin Sexton, Jamie Walters, Ulver, The California Guitar Trio, Chucho Valdes y Groupo Irakere, Joan LaBarbara (Philip Glass Ensemble, Steve Reich) as well as various projects featuring members of Tool, Ministry, Weezer Dishwalla, and Yes.
Owner of 
An "old school" guy in the truest sense of the word, Dave owns LA-based 
A true veteran of the New York City studio scene, Bruce has earned over 24 gold and platinum albums, and worked on a wide variety of music from jazz to hard rock to hardcore to pop to rap to hiphop to jingles to techno to club pop. He has worked with a who's who of artists including Miles Davis, Yes, Mariah Carey, White Stripes, Lost Boyz, Dave Matthews, Canibus, Luther Vandross, Whitney Houston, and many more.
LA-based producer, musician, arranger, engineer and programmer, Ted has worked with a dizzying array of artists including
Whitney Houston, Elton John, Ronald Isley, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, The Manhattans, Chicago, Young MC, Katie Cassidy, Carole King, Carol Bayer Sager, Billy Preston, Bernie Taupin, and Kaci.
Gonzo started out as a singer — from the moment the doctor spanked his butt, he's been all about making noise.
Piano through the pre-teen years, then gave it up to play baseball. But something stuck...like a fishbone in the throat, and exposure to Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin at an early age caused a young Gonzo
to take up electric guitar. Singing in various vocal groups helped
round out the chops. Formative bands were created and killed throughout
high school, and after brief jaunt at college, he was convinced that
the "real life" was over-rated, and dropped out to take on
full-time gigging and road work. Seven years followed, with many stories tucked away in the vault,
and then years writing songs and self recording, and honing a sound and style that he could call his own.
Gonzo looks for new and fresh noise 24/7. Soundfiles of some of his sonic musings can be found at his 
SWELL is a DJ/producer/sound designer who is better known as a "beatsmith". Swell has witnessed first hand the evolution of Hip Hop production from cassette pause tapes to professional sampler sequencers ranging from the EMU SP12 to the AKAI MPC 4000. He has painted soundscapes that have been heard on records by Eminem, Erykah Badu, Biggie Smalls, Usher, Mary J Blige, Jay Z and more. Swell continues to service the Hip Hop production community through his sound company 
Zeus Issariotis (right) and Michelle Bylow (left) joined forces in 2002 to form the
electronic music duo Bizune. They are best known for their popular line of
innovative VST plug-ins and standalone synthesizer programs, which have
captured the attention of the international audio production community.
Their critically acclaimed BizuneVST has been featured in audio production
magazines from all over the world including; Computer Music Magazine(UK),
Music-Tech Magazine(UK), and DTM Magazine(Japan). Their new Mantragora
Synthesizer takes it to the next level, adding high-end features such as
Standalone, Midi-Learn, Recording and the all original X-Tone Generator.
Released in April 2005, it is already flying off the virtual shelves at a
rapid pace. Bizune use their vast knowledge of synthesizers and audio
software to sculpt breath-taking soundscapes and heart-pounding rhythms.
Issariotis and Bylow are in the process
of finishing their debut album.
Brian is a multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer and owner of 
l33t is the director of all things technical at Studio Reviews. He r00lz with Unix-like operating systems, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8, and several distributions of Linux. Can speak to hackers in bash, korn, and Perl. Can speak to script kiddiez in LART. l33t lives at home with his parents in an undisclosed location somewhere in the US northeast.
He has played air drums to MP3 files of such top artists as Van Halen, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, The Go-Go's, Right Said Fred, and Kenny G.