A Bit About Dave Brown
 Before his 20th birthday he was hooked on the music, and the industry...
David started playing music at the age of 3 years old, taught by his uncle who played piano for Frank Sinatra. At age 13, he started his own rock and roll band in Rome Italy before moving back to California at 17. He then landed a job in the aerospace industry...and started another band. "My parents hated it when we nailed down the drum kit to the hardwood floor in the living room".
In the aerospace industry he developed a vast knowledge of electronics, production and quality control...
He also received a Nasa certificate in soldering and was promoted to production control supervisor at Teledyne. David was in charge of building guidance control systems, of a clean room and a fiber optics lab. During that time he built his first recording studio in his parents garage in Northridge California where he worked on his own music as well as some other artists including some ghost writers for Bob Dylan and the Bee Gees.
He left the aerospace industry and started a career in the music industry at Magic Wand Recording Studios in Burbank California...
There he hand built a custom 32 channel recording console with a 24 channel monitor section. Multitrack recording had only been around for a couple of years so this was a big console for that time. While at Magic Wand Recording Studios David worked with such artists as Chaka Kahn, Janis Joplin , the Pointer Sisters and many others, as both an engineer and a technician.
David was offered a job at The Village Recorder in West Hollywood...
He accepted, and during his 6 ½ year stay at the Village he continued to hone his technical and engineering abilities while rebuilding Studios “A” , “B” and “C” and then Studio “D” where Fleetwood Mac did their “Tusk” album, and where he also installed a video studio.
During his stay at The Village he also installed Frank Zappa’s studio “The Utility Muffin Kitchen” in Laurel Canyon, and Lindsey Buckingham’s (Fleetwood Mac) studio and Rumbo Recorders (Captain and Tennille).
David went on and engineered Lindsey Buckingham's first solo album “Law And Order” and continued working with Fleetwood Mac for several years...
During this time he also installed a 72 input SSL recording console at Davlin Recording Studios in North Hollywood California where he did some work with Elton John and also met Steven Paul. This is when David got interested in vintage microphones and started doing repairs on vintage tube microphones.
The old Trident “B” range console that was in Davlin Recording studios was sold to Vintage Recording Studios in Scottsdale Arizona, where David went to install and rebuild that console and ended up there for almost 5 years working on the pre production for Stevie Nick's first 2 solo albums, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Alice Cooper and others.
David then decided to leave Arizona...
He returned to California where he became the Technical and Engineering Director at Cherokee Recording Studios, and still holds that title to this day. Currently working as an independent contractor, David maintains an office and a tech shop at Entourage Recording Studios in North Hollywood California, and in his home in the Santa Monica Mountains.
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