David Rideau
Los Angeles-based producer, engineer and mixer David Rideau has worked with Janet Jackson, Sting, TLC, Kirk Franklin, George Duke and JLo and often sits side-by-side with producer friends extraordinaire Jam & Lewis and Tom Scott in the big chairs. He's been nominated for three Grammy Awards, has lots of gold and platinum records, and is also a discerning journalist-in-a-lab-coat for magazines like Audio Media and Pro Audio Review, yet no one's ever turned the story mic his way for anything more than a technical sidebar. [read on]

Endless Noise
It's worth a visit to Endless Noise's website to sample a pair of well-crafted television ads the Los Angeles firm recently created for Mazda. Using audio tracks that were spot-miked in and around a Mazda 6 car racing at 90 miles an hour in "Tach," sound designer, composer and Endless Noise founder Jeff Elmassian raises heart rates high for 15 seconds with extreme tachometer close-ups as his only visual guide. [read on]

Michael Bradford
Playing guitar at age 6 was a blast, but for one inner city kid all that changed the day Detroit radio first aired "Smoke On The Water." Later that night Michael Bradford plugged his first bass guitar into a fuzz box he'd received for his 11th birthday and he's never been the same since. [read on]