Dan Brodbeck
{{Short description|Canadian record producer, recording engineer/mixer and professor}}
Dan Brodbeck is a Canadian record producer, recording engineer/mixer and recording engineering professor based in London, Ontario.
Production and engineering career
Throughout the 1990s Brodbeck owned dB Recording Studios in London, Ontario. During that time he worked with various artists including The Gandharvas, Brian Vollmer and Garnet Rogers. In 2000, he became a partner at EMAC Recording Studios where he worked with artists such as Headstrong, Helix, Gord Prior, The Salads, Clockwise, Ana Lovelis, Landon Pigg. In 2003, he worked on the debut solo album Are You Listening by Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries.{{cite news | url=https://lfpress.com/entertainment/2010/04/16/13618776.html | title=About Dan Brodbeck | newspaper=London Free Press | date=16 April 2010 | accessdate=2010-04-18 | archive-date=2011-06-11 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611085716/http://www.lfpress.com/entertainment/2010/04/16/13618776.html | url-status=dead }} He produced the self-titled debut album of Raven Quinn and Ivory Hours's Morning Light in 2015.{{cite news|title=Canada's Walk of Fame announces the winners of the 2015 'Emerging Artist Music Mentorship Program supported by RBC' valued at over $100,000|url=http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/canadas-walk-of-fame-announces-the-winners-of-the-2015-emerging-artist-music-mentorship-program-supported-by-rbc-valued-at-over-100000-528652811.html|accessdate=25 June 2016|publisher=Canadian Newswire|date=22 Sep 2015}} He also co-produced Preservation America by Industry.[http://www.melodic.net/reviewsOne.asp?revnr=2790 melodic.net reviews Preservation America] In 2017 he co-produced, engineered and mixed Ivory Hours' Dreamworld as well as Texas King's Circles. He has had contributions to three Cranberries albums (Roses, Something Else and In The End) as a musician and recording engineer
Educational career
Brodbeck went to high school at London South Collegiate Institute.{{Cite web |title=South Alumni Newsletter Spring 2020 |url=http://southalumni.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Spring-2020-Newsletter.pdf |website=South Alumni}} In 2007 and 2008 Brodbeck taught music production at Fanshawe College in the Music Industry Arts program. In 2010, he returned to the Music Industry Arts program as a full-time professor of recording engineering and is now the Program Coordinator of the Fanshawe Music Industry Arts program as well as the Audio Post Production Program {{cite news | url=https://lfpress.com/entertainment/columnists/james_reaney/2010/04/16/13618376.html | title=Brodbeck's nod emotional journey | date=16 April 2010 | newspaper=London Free Press | first=James | last=Reaney | accessdate=2010-04-18 | archive-date=2011-06-11 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611085732/http://www.lfpress.com/entertainment/columnists/james_reaney/2010/04/16/13618376.html | url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.fanshawec.ca/50/people/dan-brodbeck |title=Dan Brodbeck | Fanshawe College |access-date=2017-10-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011185517/https://www.fanshawec.ca/50/people/dan-brodbeck |archive-date=2017-10-11 |url-status=dead }}
Awards
In 2010, he won a Juno Award for Recording Engineer of the Year for his work on the songs "Apple of My Eye" and "Be Careful" from Dolores O'Riordan's album No Baggage.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/winners-of-the-2010-juno-awards-1.870964|title=Winners of the 2010 Juno Awards |website=CBC News.|date=18 April 2010|access-date=25 February 2020}}
In 2017 he was nominated for Record Producer of The Year at the Country Music Association of Ontario Awards for his work on Dani Strong's "Time To Breathe".{{cite web|url=https://cmaontario.ca/2017-nominees/|title=Record Producer(s) Of The Year|website=CMAOntario.|date=19 June 2017|accessdate=25 February 2020}}
The Cranberries final album, In The End, was nominated for Rock Album of The Year at the 2020 Grammy Awards. Dan engineered, played guitar and keyboards, and wrote on that record.{{cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/2020-grammy-awards-complete-winners-list|title=2020 GRAMMY Awards: Complete Winners List|website=Grammy.|date=20 November 2019|accessdate=25 February 2020}}
Produced, engineered or mixed groups or artists
- Landon Pigg{{Cite web |url=http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Pigg,_Landon/Biography/ |title=Landon Pigg Biography |access-date=2008-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080222091014/http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Pigg,_Landon/Biography/ |archive-date=2008-02-22 |url-status=dead }} LP
- Jersey Generation Genocide[https://archive.today/20120915085600/http://www.sweetslyrics.com/bio-Jersey.html Jersey Biography]
- The Salads{{Cite web |url=http://www.punktv.ca/?c=105&a=1659 |title=The Salads interview with Darren in support of The Big Picture |access-date=2008-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080413015349/http://punktv.ca/?c=105&a=1659 |archive-date=2008-04-13 |url-status=dead }}
Dolores O'Riordan
The Cranberries
Ivory Hours
Texas King
Headstrong
Landon Pigg
Clockwise
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Category:Canadian record producers
Category:Juno Award for Recording Engineer of the Year winners
Category:Musicians from London, Ontario
Category:Canadian audio engineers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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