User:Sclazemonkey/"Ethan Mates"

Ethan Mates Ethan Mates is a Los Angeles-based mixer,recording engineer, producer, and programmer. He has worked with artists including Linkin Park, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tupac, Korn, Cee-Lo, the Black Eyed Peas, Sting, Staind, Redman,Stone Temple Pilots, Lionel Richie, Anastacia, Mars Volta, Cypress Hill, Jennifer Lopez, Celine Dion, Mandy Moore, Jadakiss, Good Charlotte, Tom Petty, and many more. Mates has also written and produced original music for TV shows and DVD's including Van's Triple Crown of Surfing, Uptown Girls, 16 and Pregnant, Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory, The Cho Show, Vans Snowboard ad campaign, The Pickup Artist, MLS:History of the Cup, the T.O. Show, among many others.

Ethan began his musical career at age 3 studying the violin, adding piano and later guitar while still in elementary school. He continued to study musical performance and theory while in high school, including time at the Manhattan School of Music, performances at Carnegie Hall, and jazz guitar studies with guitar legend Mark Elf. His parents bought him a cassette 4 track as a birthday present in jr. high so he could record his bands, and he and a friend quickly built a "studio" in the basement, made mostly of wrestling mats and radio shack microphones.

Following a brief stint at NYU studying sound design and electronic music, Ethan was offered a job working for producer Ric Wake as a second engineer at his NYC Dream Factory complex. One of the few engineers at time who was able to use traditional analog techniques as well as the then brand-new Protools technology,he moved up the ladder and became a staff engineer.

Ethan remained there until 2000, when a few trips for projects in Los Angeles convinced him to relocate and go freelance