Dan Brodbeck is a Canadian

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, recording engineer/mixer and recording engineering professor based in

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Production and engineering career

Throughout the 1990s Brodbeck owned dB Recording Studios in London, Ontario. During that time he worked with various artists including

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and

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. In 2000, he became a partner at

EMAC Recording Studios EMAC Recording Studios is a music and commercial recording facility in downtown London Ontario Canada, established in 1979 by Robert Nation and Joe Vaughan. It offers services for Radio production and TV and Film. Building EMAC Studios is lo ...

where he worked with artists such as Headstrong,

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, Gord Prior, The Salads, Clockwise, Ana Lovelis, Landon Pigg. In 2003, he worked on the debut solo album ''

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'' by

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. He produced the self-titled debut album of Raven Quinn and Ivory Hours's ''Morning Light'' in 2015. He also co-produced ''Preservation America'' by Industry. 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

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. In 2007 and 2008 Brodbeck taught music production at

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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

Awards

In 2010, he won a

Juno Award for Recording Engineer of the Year Juno commonly refers to: *Juno (mythology), the Roman goddess of marriage and queen of the gods *Juno (film), ''Juno'' (film), the 2007 film Juno may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Fictional characters *Juno, a character in the boo ...

for his work on the songs "Apple of My Eye" and "Be Careful" from

's album '' No Baggage''. 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". 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.

Produced, engineered or mixed groups or artists

* Landon Pigg LP *

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Generation Genocide * The Salads Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries Ivory Hours Texas King Headstrong Landon Pigg Clockwise

References

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