Ed Stasium ; Producer/Engineer/Mixer and much more!

04/07/17 • 63 min

Producer/engineer/mixer, Ed Stasium would rather just talk about the music when pressed for highlights of his career. Helping an artist clearly bring their vision to fruition while taking care to make sure the sound shines, Ed has always taken a role as "another member of the band" while leading a project to completion; in fact Ed has contributed guitar, vocals, keyboards, and percussion on every record he has worked on. He recorded, and was a member of countless garage bands during his formative years. While attending the School Of Visual Arts in Manhattan, Ed joined a local New Jersey group named "Brandywine. In 1972 he left the band and had a chance meeting with Tony Camillo and Tony Bongiovi, owners of Venture Sound Studios in Somerville, NJ. There he became involved with the building and wiring of the room and became a staff engineer where he received his first "hands on" experience in professional recording. Ed recorded and mixed his first gold single, Gladys Knight & the Pips' "Midnight Train to Georgia" at Venture Sound. In the three decades since, Ed has recorded and produced such diverse artists as The Ramones, Talking Heads, Julian Cope, Peter Wolf, Mick Jagger, Jeff Healey, Joan Jett, Marshall Crenshaw, Living Colour, Soul Asylum, The Smithereens, Motorhead, Baby Animals, Biohazard, The Reverend Horton Heat, Shirley Caesar, Misfits, The Coal Porters, Hoodoo Gurus, The Chesterfield Kings and The Empty Hearts. Today, Ed lives in Southern California. He enjoys listening to his 78, 45, and LP record collection while enthusing about the creative musical possibilities of working in the ever-changing analog/digital recording environment.

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