Roger Manning
He's been Beck's main keysman and a Pro Tools guy since Mutations with a 12-year list of credits that includes recent Beck, Air, and The Vines releases, as well as Blink 182, Nikka Costa, Shonen Knife, and Ringo Starr, among others. "[The waveform] serves a sonically exciting purpose but now it's just making everything sound so homogenous. Every project I've been involved with has been about appreciating that stuff but also doing what we can to push the sonics in another direction while still sounding like a pop record." [read on]

Buddy Miller
Starting out a bluegrass upright bass player in the late '60s, he switched to guitar and formed a band that at one time included singer/songwriter Shawn Colvin. Eventually making it to Tennessee and working with Victoria Williams, Jim Lauderdale, and many others, Miller then did the same for himself with 1995's Your Love and Other Lies and solo and duo efforts with wife Julie. Buddy was voted best guitarist by the Nashville Music Awards in 1999, and last year's Buddy & Julie Miller — recorded and mixed entirely within Pro Tools — received a Grammy nomination, as well. [read on]

Clint Bajakian
Clint Bajakian is an 11-year game audio and music veteran who cut his teeth developing enough Star Wars and interactive audio games at LucasArts Entertainment (Outlaws, Full Throttle, Star Wars: Tie Fighter) to automatically qualify for Jedi status. In 2002 he co-founded The Bay Area Sound Department in San Rafael, California, and along with sound designer Kwasneski has been way busy on many XBox (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic), Playstation (The Simpsons: Wrestling), and numerous other sound design, music editing, voice post, and original music projects ever since. [read on]