Throughout my college years, I worked nights in quality assurance as a digital test tech for various SoCal aerospace firms contracted by NASA and others. After graduating, I engineered my first #1 record in 1972 and went on to engineer and mix over 30 gold/platinum, Grammy-winning records by artists: All Wilson, Rod Stewart, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Waylon Jennings, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Enrique Iglesias, Pat Benatar, Steve Cropper, Keith Moon, Mick Jagger, the Corrs and more.

I have my own futuristic Tones 4 $ Studios mixing facility and I'm lifetime Grammy-voting member of NARAS. I enjoy teaching audio engineering classes, writing for print publications, online blogs, and beta testing new equipment and software. I also maintain a 6,000 page web site with all my reviews (from 1994), tutorials, over 2,500 equipment front panel recall sheets and manuals, personal stories about the famous people I have worked with, and many anecdotal and humorous fables.