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Eddie Ashworth (born in Inglewood, California) is a record producer, engineer, mixer, musician, university professor, entrepreneur and writer,  best known for his work in the alternative rock and indie rock genres. His primary instrument is mandolin, and also plays guitar and assorted keyboards. Ashworth has also worked with artists in a wide variety of other genres including dub, folk, hard rock, hip hop, tropicano, punk, and classic rock.

Early Life
As a child Eddie Ashworth found interest in music and would play with whatever consumer recording gear his father had around the house. Due to his early interest in music his parents bought him a Sears Silvertone, which he learned to play on. Later Eddie would go on to study English at UCLA and graduated with a BA in English literature.

Production Career
After college Eddie prospected the idea of recording records. Ripping out a piece of notebook paper and scribbling down his resume with a ball point pen he began searching for jobs around local studios. Eddie's biggest qualification was that had acquired nearly 3,000 records. Eddie landed a job at Larrabee Sound as a recording engineer, replacing another young engineer the studio had lost that day. After working on many disco records and over 100 hour work weeks Eddie quit Larrabee Sound and moved to New England. There he went on a four year hiatus in the recording industry.

Once asked by a friend from UCLA to work on a recording project at Normandy Sounds Eddie decided to get back into the recording industry. He moved back to L.A. to find work as an independent engineer for the next two years. Eddie came to know many of the local studios in the area. one of which was called Total Access. There he met the band Great White who then asked him to work on their upcoming album Once Bitten.... This album would be Eddie's first gold record. He is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) and the Audio Engineering Society (AES), Association for the Art of Record Production (ASARP) and, as a songwriter, is affiliated with Broadcast Music, Inc (BMI). In 2011, Eddie was named to the Editorial Board of the Journal for the Art of Record Production (JARP).

At Ohio University
Ashworth began working at Ohio University in 2003 where he received his MA in Advanced Sound Design/Music History and Literature and is still currently a member of the faculty, in the School of Media Arts and Studies within the Scripps College of Communication. Ashworth teaches music production and music industry related classes, including:


 * MDIA 320: Recording Industry Survey
 * MDIA 413: Commercial Multitrack Music Production
 * MDIA 414: Advanced Music Production
 * MDIA 486: Recording Industry Master Class

In MDIA 413, a national-level group (with Ashworth as their producer) is brought into the Ohio University recording studio. Students in the course are pressed into service as engineers, production assistants, or A&R for the project, and receive credit on the resulting album in addition to course credit. Artists who have recorded or mixed their projects as part of the class include:


 * Genuine Junk Band (Ashland, KY)
 * Meow Meow (Los Angeles, CA)
 * Frank Jordan (Sacramento, CA)
 * The Princes of Hollywood (Athens, OH)
 * The Peekers (Shreveport, LA)
 * Jeff Ellis (Huntington, WV)
 * Bargain Music (Long Beach, CA)
 * The Supersuckers (Seattle, WA)
 * Bud Carroll and the Southern Souls (Huntington, WV)
 * The High Strung (Detroit, MI)
 * Maza Blaska (Columbus, OH)
 * In Silent Movies (Athens, OH)
 * Duke Jr and the Smokey Boots (Athens, OH)
 * Mind Fish (Toledo, OH)

Ashworth also serves as Internship Coordinator in the School of Media Arts and Studies.

The University of Guyana invited Ashworth to teach a week-long sound workshop in April 2011. The workshop was made possible through support by Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).