Howard Benson
Howard Benson (born 1956 in Havertown, Pennsylvania) is a two-time Grammy-nominated music producer and aerospace engineer.[1]
[edit] Biography
Howard Benson has a degree in materials engineering from Drexel University and studied composition at the Philadelphia College for Performing Arts. Later he worked for Garrett AiResearch, where he worked on C-5s and F-18s. At that time he regularly played with his band in small Hollywood clubs and when his band finally went into the studio with a producer, he knew that that was what he wanted to do.[2]
His breakthrough came with the production of two albums for hardcore punk band T.S.O.L. (Revenge (1986) and Hit And Run (1987)), but the first really big record he produced was Bang Tango's Psycho Café in 1989.[3]
In 2000 he produced P.O.D.'s Satellite at Bay 7 studios and since then he has recorded numerous albums there. After the recording of an album he usually brings everything to his home studio, Sparky Dark Studios, where he does the arrangements, adds harmonies and his own keyboard parts. His personnel consists of main engineer Mike Plotnikoff, who had worked at Little Mountain Sound Studios before, Pro Tools engineer Paul Decarli, Guitar tech Mark Van Gool, who had worked for Dave Navarro before and second engineer Hatsukazu "Hatch" Inagaki.[4]
He was Grammy nominated twice for Producer of the Year:
2007 for producing Hoobastank (Every Man For Himself), Flyleaf (Flyleaf), Less Than Jake (In With the Out Crowd), Three Days Grace (One-X), Relient K (Five Score And Seven Years Ago), Papa Roach (The Paramour Sessions), Head Automatica (Popaganda) and Saosin (Saosin)
2008 for producing Daughtry (Daughtry), Mêlée (Devils & Angels), The Starting Line (Direction), and Sound The Alarm (Stay Inside)
[edit] Credits
| Year | Artist | Song |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Acceptance | Different |
| 2009 | Allison Iraheta | Don't Waste The Pretty |
| 2009 | Chris Cornell | Long Gone |
| 2002 | Cold | Gone Away |
| 2005 | Fefe Dobson | Don't Let It Go to Your Head |
| 2007 | Hawthorne Heights | Come Back Home |
| 2006 | Mêlée | The War (Alternate Version) |
| 2006 | My Chemical Romance | Desert Song |
| 2006 | The Panic Channel | Blue Bruises |
| 2006 | The Panic Channel | Half Hearted |
| 2005 | The Used & My Chemical Romance | Under Pressure |
[edit] References
- ^ Interview, HitQuarters Jan 2006
- ^ Grammy-Nominated Producer Turns Tracks Into Gold Mix Online, February 1, 2007
- ^ Feature "Howard Benson: Producer" Crusher Magazine; November 2004
- ^ Grammy-Nominated Producer Turns Tracks Into Gold Mix Online, February 1, 2007
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