Beau Burchell (born December 17, 1978) is an American musician, record producer, and audio engineer from

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. As a performer, he is best known as the guitarist and backing vocalist in

Saosin Saosin ( or ) is an American rock band formed in 2003 in Orange County, California. The group originally consisted of Beau Burchell, Justin Shekoski, Zach Kennedy and Anthony Green. They released their debut EP, '' Translating the Name'', i ...

. He is one of Saosin's founders, and the band's only remaining member who has played with the band through its entire existence. He has previously been a member of Kosmos Express and Open Hand. Burchell also has a prolific reputation as a record producer. He has been credited on over thirty albums of various types of

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. He also owns the record label Death Do Us Part.

Gear

On stage, Burchell has been seen playing a

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, a

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Standard, a Burny Les Paul Custom, a Fender Jaguar, and a Balaguer Guitars Thicket BB. He plays a Hughes & Kettner Triamp MKII amp through both a Hughes & Kettner 4x12 cabinet with Vintage 30 speakers and a 2x12 cabinet with Greenback speakers. He has also stated that onstage he uses a Bob Bradshaw Custom Audio Electronics Looper, a RS-10 MIDI Switching Module, a Line 6 Echo Pro Delay Unit, TC Electronic G-Major, Shure U4D wireless Unit, a Boss noise gate, and a Dunlop Tremolo Pedal. To record ''Translating the Name'', Burchell played both a Gibson Les Paul Standard and Gibson SG Standard. He used a modded Mesa/Boogie 2-Channel Dual Rectifier amp through a Marshall 1960B cabinet for the rhythm tracks.

Discography

With Kosmos Express

* ''Now'' (1997) * ''Simulcast'' (1998)

With As Hope Dies

* ''Birth Place and Burial Site'' (2002) * ''Legions Bow To A Faceless God'' (2003)

With Saosin

* '' Translating the Name'' (2003) * ''

'' (2006) * '' Come Close'' (2008) * ''The Grey EP'' (2008) * ''

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'' (2009) * '' Along the Shadow'' (2016)

Production credits

External links

Saosin Official Website

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burchell, Beau Record producers from California Living people American punk rock guitarists 1978 births Musicians from Orange County, California Guitarists from California American male guitarists 21st-century American guitarists 21st-century American male musicians Saosin members Open Hand members