Dan Rudin is an American

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and

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, who has amassed thousands of hours in studios across the country, receiving two

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, and several gold and platinum records in the process. Rudin began his recording career working as a studio runner and general assistant at AAA

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, in

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, while still in high school. After studying music and electrical engineering at the

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, he moved to

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in 1986, where he took an entry-level position at the

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studios on 54th St. He went on to work at New York's

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and eventually became chief staff engineer at Grandslam Recording in

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. He was surrounded and mentored by some of New York's best engineers and producers (William Wittman, Doug Oberkircher, Rick Kerr, Kooster McCallister), and used the opportunity to learn and polish his engineering skills. Since 1989, Rudin has resided in

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. Working as a freelance engineer and producer in studios around the city and around the country, he worked on many projects in rock, pop, gospel and jazz recording. He became a frequent contributor to projects by producers

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, Tommy Simms, Chris McDonald and Joe Baldridge. In 2006, he opened his own recording facility, My Space Recording, at the former site of Nashville's Money Pit studio. Rudin's extensive record and film client list includes The Loudhorns, Tempest, Riders In The Sky, Pixar, ''

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2'', Chayenne, Matt Belsante,

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, Billy Dean, Wynonna, Flick,

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, Alberto Plaza and

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, original scores for films '' Boundin''', ''Sioux City'' and ''The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything''. AllMusic list of Dan Rudin credits

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His work with Riders in the Sky earned him two Grammy Awards, and collaboration on Pixar's

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winning short film, '' For the Birds''. From 1999 through 2005, Rudin was a scoring, mix and mastering engineer for

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curricula from two leading publishers, Silver Burdett's ''Making Music'' and McGraw-Hill's ''Share the Music''. Together more than 3000 tracks, both projects involved a wide variety of styles, periods, instruments and ensembles. He has also recorded dozens of Broadway musicals and licensing adaptations for

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and Disney Theatrical. Other award-winning projects Rudin has contributed to include JoEl Sonnier's ''Cajun Mardi Gras'', 2006 Grammy nominee for best traditional folk album,

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's 1996 Grammy winning ''I Love to Tell the Story'', and

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's ''Independiente'' which earned Rudin two 2012

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nominations. Currently, Rudin continues to record and mix music of many styles for a variety of uses.

References

External links

Dan Rudin Official Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rudin, Dan Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American record producers American audio engineers Grammy Award winners People from Nashville, Tennessee University of Miami alumni