Michael Jack - Producer & Engineer For Recording Artists One Night Only Engineers & Producers Thursday, April 28 7PM-9PM How to Get Award Winning Performances in the Studio

Nelly Furtado

Phase One Studios To r o n t o B o n o T h e Tr e w s

R u s h The ‘Human Factor’ in Recording a Great Album Are you a recording artist? Are you a producer or engineer working at home Don’t miss your chance or in a studio setting? Or just interested in audio production? If you are interested in how to make stellar, standout albums and how to capture to learn with one of amazing performances in the studio, this seminar is for you. Canada’s master audio This highly interactive seminar focuses on the ‘human factor’ of recording a great engineers and album. Michael will give you insight into what he has learned working with some of the greatest recording acts and producers in the world. You will learn how to producers. ‘keep the feel’ in capturing performances. This seminar will help you when you are in the studio, whether you are recording an act, or being recorded. Michael Jack has 16 This intimate and informal seminar allows time for your questions so that gold & platinum you can get the information that you’re most interested in. Trying to get a certain sound? Have questions about how to get into the biz or what it’s like to albums, plus 2 Top-10 work as an audio engineer or producer? Want to find out how to give a better performance in the studio? Or what it was like to work with Rush or Bono? Billboard hits and has Michael will give ample time to address your questions in this exciting seminar. worked with some of Length: 90 minutes. the world’s top artists VIP PASS: $25.00, $20 ea for 2 or more (30 pp max) and producers. Event will be held at Long & McQuade Education Centre 2822 Nanaimo St, Victoria, BC. For more information and to RSVP: Event Sponsored by Groove Riot Visit www.grooveriot.com/mjseminar Michael Jack - Producer & Engineer

Credits & Background Information

Engineered Sessions For: The Trews, Bono, Nelly Furtado, , Rush, Big Sugar, Kardinal Offishal, Ludacris, Leahy, Jann Arden, George Canyon, Sass Jordan, Anne Murray, Jesse Cook, Natalie MacMas- ter, Dala, Michelle Wright, Jim Brickman, Mark Masri, The Canadian Tenors, Liona Boyd, Olivia Newton John, Simon Wilcox, Billy Ray Cyrus, Engelbert Humperdinck, Amy Sky, Marc Jordan, Canadian Idol, The Rails, Caro- line Neron, Somerset Entertainment, G.Q., Xquisite, Jodi Pedersen, Holly Stell, Belle Phoenix, Wooden Stars, Dawn Langstroth, Super Stack, Mayday Mother, Mary Simon, Adam Crossley, Justin Hines, Annie Marleau, Wayne Buttery, Aaron Garner, Zoe Bentley, Special Ed, Smith & Dragoman, Adam Simson, University of Toronto Gospel Choir, Michael Holt, George Evans and hundreds more.

I am a producer/recording engineer based in Toronto and Central On- Film & TV Credits Include: Men With Brooms tario. I’ve been in the music biz for 27 years, initially as a vocalist/- Soundtrack, Atomic Betty Soundtrack, Across The Uni- ist, then making the transition to the recording studio in the late 80’s. I verse Soundtrack, Too Fast - Too Furious Soundtrack, owned my own studio, Sessions Recordings, in Newmarket back in the Passchendaele Soundtrack (Sara Slean), Prom Night In late 80’s - early 90’s (when music was still recorded on analog tape) and Mississippi, Puck Hogs, Little Mosque On The Prairie, Wildcard, Canadian Country Music Awards, CBC’s The freelanced at several studios around Toronto, York Region and Barrie Hour, Train 48, Mr. Meaty, Mansions, Big Voice, Gold after that. From 1999 to 2007, I was senior engineer at the legendary Mind, What’s Your News, Atomic Betty, Stratusphere, Phase One Studios, working on numerous world-class projects. From Party Mamas, Producing Parker, Jimmy Two Shoes, 2007 to 2010, I was behind the controls of a new SSL/ProTools-based Crash & Burn, Keep Your Head Up Kid -The Don studio at Lenz Entertainment working on several music, film and TV Cherry Story and the soundtrack for the movie “Celine” projects. To date I have been awarded 16 gold/platinum albums and based on the life of Celine Dion. have scored two ‘Top Ten’ Billboard hits since 2009 with songs I’ve Selected Discography: recorded and mixed.

Michael has worked with, and learned from, some of the best record producers in the biz:

Jack Douglas (John Lennon, Aerosmith, , Cheap Trick) David Leonard (Prince, John Mellencamp, Paul McCartney, Col- lective Soul) Joe Chiccarelli (Elton John, Beck, Frank Zappa) Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd, Kiss, Peter Gabriel, Alice Cooper, Jane’s Addiction) Frank Filipetti (Hole, , James Taylor, 10,000 Maniacs) Russ Zavitson (The Wilkinsons, The Kinleys) Tommy West (Anne Murray, Jim Croce) Mark Plati (David Bowie, Prince) Bob Gallo (James Brown, Aretha Franklin) Nick Blagona (Deep Purple, Nazareth, Kim Mitchell, April Wine) Gilles Godard (Curb Music Publishing-Nashville) Rhett Lawrence (, , ) Lauren Wild (Carly Simon, Rod Stewart) Gordie Johnson (Big Sugar, The Trews, Joel Plaskett)