Jackpot! Recording Studio

ENGINEERS

	Larry Crane [e-mail] Larry Crane is the editor and founder of Tape Op Magazine, owner of Portland’s Jackpot! Recording Studio, a freelance engineer (sessions in Seattle, Tucson, Brooklyn, Sacramento and New Orleans) and archivist for the Estate of Elliott Smith. Tape Op Magazine is started in 1996, and has 40,000 readers in the US and 10,000 in the EU and the UK. From 1994 to 1997 he ran Laundry Rules Recording, a home studio in Portland, and recorded artists like Versus, Stephen Malkmus and Cat Power in a basement studio. Since 1997 he’s owned and run Jackpot! Recording Studio, Inc., a busy mid-sized studio in Portland, Oregon, where he's worked with artists like Sleater-Kinney, The Joggers, Jenny Lewis, M. Ward, Go-Betweens, Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus, Quasi, Richmond Fontaine and more. He's spoken on and moderated panels about recording for TapeOpCon, SXSW, NXNW, NARAS, Indie Music Forum and CMJ. He has worked in the past as a record label owner, radio station music director, DJ, record distributor employee, freelance music journalist, band manager and bass player (in bands since 1984, including Elephant Factory, Vomit Launch, Sunbirds, Foggy Notion and Flaming Box of Ants.) Crane currently resides most of the year in southern Arizona.
	Kendra Lynn [e-mail] After spending many days locked away recording bad demos of herself, Kendra decided to attend recording school in sunny Florida. Following the crash course at Full Sail she worked for several years at Transcontinental Studio and studied under renowned audio tech and studio designer, Niels Kastor. Shortly after moving to Portland Kendra met master engineer Jeff Stuart Saltzman and assisted on many of his recording sessions. Now that Kendra is the studio manager of Jackpot! she also gets to pick the brain of the legendary Larry Crane! In the past several years Kendra has had the opportunity to work with Heroes and Villains, Quasi, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Britt Daniel, The Fast Computers, Gill Landry, The Gossip, Nick Jaina, Ley Lines, The Builders and the Butchers, Mr. Gnome, Holcombe Waller and the Healers, Corin Tucker and Eddie Vedder.
	Jeff Stuart Saltzman [e-mail] For over fifteen years, Jeff has had a really difficult time explaining to people what he does for a living. If pressed, he will say he "helps people make records"–something he has done in either the engineering or mastering capacity for the likes of Dolorean, The Standard, Stephen Malkmus, Sleater-Kinney, Death Cab For Cutie, Ian Moore, Menomena, Richmond Fontaine, among many others. To save time in the future, he will probably tell people he "works with computers."
	Jon Cohrs [website] [e-mail] Jon Cohrs fell into the recording world by splicing cassettes and looping old 1⁄2" tape on a discarded Otari tape machine. Over the years he's played in many bands and recorded odd music in London, Zurich, Alaska, and now Portland. He's learned some of his tricks mixing records from British producer Fran Ashcroft (who worked with Damon Albarn of Blur, Abbey Road Studios, and Trident Studios). Lately, Jon's been stealing ideas from locals Larry Crane and Jeff Saltzman. Upon losing his spleen, he began mastering records under the assumed business name of Spleenless Mastering. At Jackpot! Jon likes to bring his odd collection of 7 dollar mics, his dedicated audio mulching laptop, and other assortments of electronics to spice up sessions. He's work with artists such as Talk Demonic, Tara Jane O'Neil, The Roulettes, The Dykeritz, ModernState, Quiet Countries, and The Volumes.
	Adam Pike [website] [e-mail] Born and raised in Indiana. Graduated from Indiana University 2001 where he ran live sound at Uncle Fester's House of Blues. He then graduated in the top 10% from the Recording Workshop in Chillocothe, Ohio and moved to Portland. There he learned his way around this city by working for producer Simon Widdowson (Papillon, Little Sue, The Decemberists, Pete Krebs, Man of the Year, Hindi Guns). Finally he made his way to Jackpot!...whom he had read and dreamed about in high school...ain't life sweet! When Adam isn't behind the board/Mac he is playing bass for The Greater Midwest and The Mediam. He is 6'1. 170 lbs. (varies). He loves chicken, the theme song from 'Taxi', and PBR. Adam had the pleasure of working with artists such as: Black Elk, The Empty, Red Fang, Diesto, Death Valley, No Go Know, Black Eyes and Neckties, The Icarus Line, The Burning Room, Fistful of Cash, Miss Anne Thrope, Filthy White Trash, Paint By Numbers, Used Wares, DJ Wicked, Accidental Gun Death, Crazydumbsaint, Marty Finkel, Bonanza City, 48 Thrills, Girl Friday (night),...and more.
	Tucker Martine [website] [myspace] Tucker Martine is a Portland, Oregon based producer, engineer and musician. In addition to his own studio Flora, he loves to work at Jackpot! whenever possible. Martine has worked with folks such as The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, Bill Frisell, Mudhoney, Laura Veirs, The Long Winters, Jim White, Jesse Sykes, Mylab, Erin McKeown, Brian Blade and Orchestra Dim Bridges with Eyvind Kang. He has also released several records of field recordings including Bush Taxi Mali, Broken Hearted Dragonflies and Eat the Dream (Moroccan Reveries). Martine co-composed the startup sound for Microsoft's new Vista operating system with Robert Fripp and Steve Moore, following up Brian Eno's Windows 95 composition. Martine also leads his own project Mount Analog.
	Justin Phelps [website] [myspace] Justin Phelps is a Portland native who has been living in San Francisco for the last 15 years recording with The Dead Kennedys, Cake, Mars Volta, Jolie Holland, Chuck Prophet, Mr. Bungle, Amanda Palmer, The Neville Brothers, Galactic, Joe Satriani, Sean Hayes, Eric McFadden, Slough Feg, The Funky Meters, Garaj Mahal, Omar Sosa, Secret Chiefs 3, The Motherhips and a bunch of other great artists. While he was there he spent a lot of time working in big, crusty, old studios, learning how to make records the old fashion way (with your ears and your heart). Now he's back with a lot of strange stories and a desire to reconnect with the amazing Portland music scene.
	Brandon Eggleston [e-mail] [myspace] When not being drug around the country as a front-of-house engineer for bands such as The Mountain Goats, Beulah, and John Vanderslice, Brandon calls Portland his home. Over the last few years you could find him in the studio recording with Josh Ritter, Pelican, The Pharmacy, Erin McKeown, Bone Thugs In Harmony, The Hands, The Light Footwork, and Carcrashlander to name just a few. After spending 4 years as a house engineer at Bear Creek studio in Seattle, Brandon moved back to his favorite city in 2006.
	Jordan Richter [myspace] [e-mail] [credits] Jordan Richter is a producer and engineer that has been involved one way or another with sound and music for over 20 years. Born in Milwaukee, WI, Jordan moved to Chicago, IL in 1991 where he played guitar in several touring power pop and punk bands and honed his engineering chops in basement studios. He opened a small project room in 1995 and recorded and produced many indie rock bands and thousands of commercial jingles. In 1997, Jordan relocated to Nashville, TN and worked as a freelance engineer in most of the major recording studios in Music City working with many top recording artists. In 2001 he opened Roswell East Recording Studios, a mid-sized independent studio catering to artists and producers on of all musical styles . In May of 2006, seeking a change of scenery, Jordan moved to Portland, OR with his wife and son. Jordan now finds a home here at Jackpot! and is becoming actively involved in the Portland music scene producing and recording bands and solo artists such as Caves and Andi Starr. Whether recording classical string quartets or bluegrass bands to speed metal bands or hip hop acts, Jordan is equally comfortable and competent. A partial list of bands and artists that Jordan has worked with (in no particular order) include: Sixpence None The Richer, The Legendary Shack Shakers, BR5-49, Aaron Neville, Will Hoge, Jello Biafra, The Rev. Horton Heat, Garrison Starr, Matthew Ryan, D.C. Talk, Jars of Clay, This Train, Matthew West, Big Country, Hammock, Bob Carlisle, Phil Keaggy, Doug Pinnick of Kings X, The Epoxies and (your name here)!
	Jeremy Sherrer [e-mail] Deep within the bowels of the tobacco patch, Jeremy Sherrer began his audio journey with bluegrass music as an intern at Melody Hills studios in Kentucky. It wasn't long before he became restless. Hell bent on perfecting his craft, he headed westward to Portland,OR in 2003. Since his arrival in Portland, Jeremy has had the good fortune to have worked as a freelance engineer with a wide variety of artists such as the Raventettes, Monstrous, The Nice Boys, Dandy Warhols, Swervedriver, Foreign Orange, the Upsidedown, The Village Green, J Mascis. When not in the studio, Jeremy can be found doing the tech thing for Hamptone, where he builds microphones and preamps, or beating on his drums for the inimitable pysch-rock outfit, Foreign Orange. He also likes to put Rick Bain in a headlock.
	Matthew Morgan [e-mail] Matthew Morgan is an audio engineer from South Bend, Indiana. He owned and operated Camp Ironwood Recording Studio for four years before moving to the Northwest. Since his relocation, he has engineered dozens of projects with producer Pat Kearns (The Nice Boys, The Smokes, Autistic Youth...) and he recently finished producing the debut LP from Daytime Volume. He is a ray of sunshine and enjoys various Americanized versions of Oriental cuisine.
	Pat Kearns [e-mail] In 1997, Pat opened a small, 16-track recording studio in Portland named Studio 13, recorded tons of punk/garage bands as well as singer/songwriters. Since 2002 Pat has also been freelancing at Jackpot! He plays and records his own music in Blue Skies for Black Hearts. He has also toured as a live-sound engineer for John Vanderslice, Spoon, and Death Cab for Cutie. Pat has done sessions with: The Goddamn Gentlemen, The Exploding Hearts, Fireballs of Freedom, The Jolenes, Jerry Joseph, Very Foundation, The Nice Boys, Pat McDonald, Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons, The Observers and Autistic Youth.
	Antreo Pukay [e-mail] Antreo spent his time fighting off alligators in the swamps of Florida along the Suwannee River before heading to Olympia, WA in search of a less stressful existence. While recording himself and his band on his well-loved Otari 8-track he studied under the well-respected teacher and mic builder Terry Setter at The Evergreen State College where he graduated from their infamous recording department. He interned here at Jackpot! Recording for six months where he picked the brains of Larry Crane and Jeff Saltzman, among others and recorded in the studio and in his 8-Track home studio at every opportunity. He has assisted on sessions for Larry Crane and has assisted on some live sound dates in London, England with Ben; live sound engineer for MIA. Some of Antreo’s engineering credits include The Advantage, The Waxfire, Royce Riproy, The Splinters, Dustin Hamman (aka..Run-On Sentence), and recording vocal dubs for a Tommy Lee cover of “Fight For Your Right”. Antreo is currently recording at Jackpot! and Tell Tale Recording, playing music in his own projects and always looking for other new and fun projects to get involved in.
	Christina Files [e-mail] Files is a sound engineer from Cambridge, MA who recently moved to Portland to start a music project with some friends and experience life on the west coast. She has done recordings for Mary Timony, Shipping News, and June of 44 to mention a few. Files also tours as a live sound engineer with Shellac and Black Dice.