Amid Hollywood film studios and rock clubs, is a triple threat industry professional; expert audio engineer, music producer and film mixer, Michael McDonald. The former UCLA football player has several gold and platinum records on his studio wall. They stand as rewards of his successful career switch from grid-iron to guitar, from tackling to the top ten. "I was breaking and dislocating various joints of my body when one of my fingers went. I thought, "I'm not going to be able to play guitar if I keep going like this.'", laughs McDonald.
Since 1982, McDonald has engineered for an impressive roster which includes Patti LaBelle, Melissa Manchester, Ray Charles, Emmanuel, Wang Chung, Marilyn McCoo, Los Tiranos del Norte, Andy Williams, Billy Preston, The Whispers, Gladys Knight, Martika and hundreds of t.v. and film projects for Disney, NBC, PBS, HBO, Fox and Dick Clark. In recent years, McDonald was the highly requested engineer for albums by such artists as The Monkees (reunion album), guitar rockers The Hellecasters (his third album for them), legendary jazz drummer Alphonse Mouzon (three albums), poet and composer Rod McKuen and blues singer / actor Jim Belushi. In the last six years, Mike's advanced "ears" have been contracted for mastering (digitizing and re-mixing) over 400 albums for artists such as Sophie Tucker, Liberace, Gershwin, Cole Porter, Judy Garland, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Johnny Mercer.
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