For over two and a half decades, Marc Daniel Nelson has built a career rooted in musicality, technical rigor, and a deep respect for the lineage of recorded sound. A Grammy-winning producer, mix engineer, and creative director, Marc’s work spans an unusually wide spectrum – moving fluidly between records, film, television, software design, and large-scale creative direction while simultaneously maintaining a consistent fingerprint. His music credits...
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Scott Burns
By Sam Retzer
For a certain breed of bored and angry teenagers at the dawn of the ‘90s, nothing made us feel more alive than Florida death metal. Pumped out of Morrisound Recording in Tampa at an alarming rate, albums by Obituary, Death, and Cannibal Corpse raised the bar on sonic extremity, opening up a brutal new world of neck-snapping riffs and inhumanly fast drumming. At the center of the whirlwind sat producer Scott Burns, bringing a new level of definition and impact through drum triggering and tight, close mic’d guitars. Hard-working, meticulous, and just plain cool, Scott developed a tight rapport with bands and created a standard for extreme metal production that still resonates today, as chronicled in the book, The Scott Burns Sessions: A Life in Death Metal 1987-1997 by David E. Gehlke. Having witnessed the explosion of the genre as one of the aforementioned teens, I was eager to hear more about the recording tech of Morrisound, as well as Scott’s...
