Audio in the Twilight Zone

John ‘Beetle’ Bailey is a Canadian freelance recording engineer, mixer, and producer. He has worked with such musicians as The Headstones, Tom Cochrane, Haywire, Triumph, Love Inc. Serena Ryder, Molly Johnson and Monkey House: {two albums: Headquarters (2012)[1] & Left (2016)}[2] and Alex Cuba.

He has been nominated seven times for the Juno Award for Recording Engineer of the Year,[3][4] and has earned two wins.

Francesco Benvenuto is a music producer, sound engineer, and composer signed to Universal Music. He has worked on different aspects of many diverse genre releases and projects including artists from Warner, Sony, Def Jam, and Universal Music, including artists like Maia, Mojito Lite, Mystikal, Pinto Picasso, Maya J, St. Bodhi, La Mafia, and more. In 2016 he produced and engineered “Maia’s” single “Esta Noche Hay Fiesta”which was nominated by the Latin Grammys for Best Tropical Song Of The Year. He recently composed “La Mafia’s” single “Te Voy Amar Asi” from the album “Live In Mexico” which won the Latin Grammy for Best Tejano Album of 2020.

He currently lives in Dallas TX, where he is developing artists, engineering, and serving as educator in the famous and prestigious facility Luminous Sound.

Heather Kirby is a Mastering Engineer & Sound Editor who works from Toronto and Prince Edward County.

Heather began her music career as an independent engineer, mixer, and producer before recognizing her passion for mastering. “Dreamlands Mastering” is her current focus, while still working occasionally in production and engineering.

Recent credits include work with Austra, Kashka, Vivek Shraya, L Con, Regina Gently, and Too Attached.

As a sound editor, Heather has worked with a number of Toronto’s top audio post production facilities on a wide range of films, TV series’, docs, and shorts. For a list of credits, visit https://www.imdb.com/HeatherKirby/

Primary Affiliation: McGill University – Montreal, QC, Canada
Secondary Affiliation: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) – Montreal, QC, Canada

Bryan Martin began his professional audio career in New York City in the 1980s. The artists he produced, recorded, and mastered range from singer songwriters Rufus Wainwright and Mark Eitzel, jazz artists Dave Liebmann and Max Roach, hiphop artists Run DMC and KRS One, world music productions for the Talking Head’s David Byrne, Zappa Plays Zappa, The Pretenders, and Pat Metheny. As the head of Sonosphere Mastering he garnered Grammy, Juno, and ADISQ awards.

He is currently a PhD candidate in Sound Recording at McGill University. His areas of research are multi-dimensional audio for music and virtual reality, acoustic guitars, and electric guitars and amplifiers of classic rock & roll.

Earl McCluskie, Producer, Chestnut Hall MusicEarl is an audio producer/engineer, video producer/director and live sound engineer with Chestnut Hall Music.

He has produced and engineered studio and live CDs, livestreams, videos and documentaries for many ensembles, bands and performers including the Art of Time Ensemble (featuring Steven Page, Margot Timmins, Brent Carver, Melanie Doane, Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, Molly Johnson, Tom Wilson, Jackie Richardson, Andy Maize, Margaret Atwood and more), NYO Canada (with CBC’s Tom Allen), Canadian National Brass Project, National Academy Orchestra with Boris Brott, the Musical Stage Company, KW Symphony, the Festival of the Sound and the Juno-nominated recordings of Canadian composers Timothy Corlis and Leonard Enns.

Recent livestreams/broadcasts include the Montreal Symphony Orchestra on medici.tv, the world’s largest classical music video channel, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and a PBS broadcast featuring Canada’s First Lady of the Guitar, Liona Boyd.

He has provided live sound for recent tours/shows including Steven Page and Art of Time Ensemble (2 US tours, and one cross-Canada with major symphony orchestras), Liona Boyd, Dan Hill, Madeleine Peyroux and Buffy St Marie.

The Farm Studios, located on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada, offers a state-of-the-art professional recording studio experience while being surrounded by nature. The property offers comfortable accommodations so musicians, engineers and producers can immerse themselves in the experience and focus on making their best music.

The Farm Studios began its storied career in 2002, by award winning music producer and engineer Garth “GGGarth” Richardson (Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chile Peppers, Hedley, Nickelback,  Chevelle, Shihad, Rise Against, Ten Second Epic, Kittie, Atreyu, Biffy Clyro and Head of the Herd, to name a few).

Deryck has 25 years experience in the music industry backing up national and international artists for live music tours.

Deryck has toured locally and around the GLOBE with, Liberty Silver, The Nylons, The Ethnocentric Bubbleheads, Ozzy Girly & The New Crew, Devon Martin – EMI Recording Artist (Tours and Videos), Maestro Fresh Wes – Attic/LMR Recording Artist (Performances and TV), Keisha Chante – Universal Recording Artist (Tour), Ellis Hall aka “E3” and have also performed with Jamie Fox (Indian Motor Cycle Club) and for Aretha Franklin (Somewhere Else Night Club) and many more.

Deryck has played at Concert Halls around the world such as, Maple Leaf Gardens – Toronto, ACC – Toronto, Toronto Amphitheatre, Radio City Music Hall – New York, SIR Stage 37 – New York, THE Roxy Theatre – West Hollywood, to name a few!. I’ve also managed several successful local Toronto bands for Corporate gigs, “VOLUME 1”, “Peppa Seed”, “Sump’n Different” and “The Chicken & Waffles Band”.

Performed in many Music Videos, TV Shows, and Films such as, “Ear To The Ground” – CBC Special w/ Devon Martin, Ralph Benmergi Show w/ Devon Martin, Much Music Spring Break in Daytona Florida, St. Kitts Music Festival Caribbean Islands, International TV Show “Soul Food”, International TV Show “KOJAK” starring Ving Rhames, International Film “Stepping Up”, International Film “Talk To Me” starring Don Cheadle.

Deryck pursues playing live, studio sessions and music production. I’ve been fortunate to work with allot of great musicians and artist(s) on quite a few album projects and remixes (nationally & internationally) since 1998.

I began teaching audio production in 2003 at Harris Institute  showing students the latest music production techniques using LOGIC Pro for the APP2 CAP course which I now teach the APP3 CRP Course which involves various music production techniques, remixing and sound design techniques. Since 2008 my focus  has been TV Post Production, Game Audio Production, VO Audio Production and I’ve gained allot of knowledge and experience from some of the best companies in North America, eg. S&S Post Productions, Marble Media, Cadesky Dyer Music, Platform Productions and Leader Media.

Leonardo ‘Leo’ Valvassori is a bassist,[1] cellist, and audio engineer.

Valvassori interned as a member of Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks between 1981 and 1982. His career path has taken him to stages and studios with a list of luminaries that includes blues and rock and roll legends like Mel Brown, Snooky Pryor, John Lee Hooker, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, to country and native artists such as Susan Aglukark and Jamie Warren, to young up and comers like FeFe Dobson and Jay Englishman.

Since 2006, he has been working with Martha Johnson, Mark Gane and Jocelyne Lanois writing songs and recording. He collaborated on the Martha and the Muffins record Delicate (released 2010), credited with “bass, keys, guitar, percussion, ‘cello, ‘cello cloud, key bass, loudhailer, loops, vocals, and bowed bass”.

Toronto native Jaimie Vernon has been a musician for 42 years and producing since 1984. His band Moving Targetz led to the creation of Bullseye Records in 1985 which became a full-time entity in 1999.

From 2000 until 2010 the label released nearly 200 independent albums including Canadian classic rock releases by Klaatu, Brave Belt, Goddo, Honeymoon Suite, Bob Segarini, The Kings, and many more. Jaimie also wrote the critically acclaimed, best-selling book ‘The Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia’ and most recently “Sunny Days: The Skip Prokop Story.” During the pandemic he’s been working a new solo project to be released later in 2021.