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To read an interview with John Rodd from Music4Games.net click here (PDF)
To listen to a 12 minute interview with John Rodd talking about music engineering, acoustic treatments, and scoring for film, click here. iTunes will open on your computer and automatically take you to the SCOREcast page. Select episode 19 (free). The interview starts 24:30 in (you can download the Podcast and skip ahead to 24:30).
To read an interview with John Rodd in Millimeter Magazine click here (PDF)
To read an interview with John Rodd in Moving Pictures Magazine click here (PDF)
To read an interview with John Rodd in Mix Magazine click here (PDF)
To read an interview with John Rodd in EQ Magazine click here (PDF)
To see John Rodd lecturing at the American Film Institute with the Society of Composers & Lyricists click here (PDF)
BIOGRAPHY
John Rodd is a freelance music recording engineer based in Los Angeles who records, mixes and masters music for a wide variety of projects. He is most known for film score recording and mixing.
Over the last 20+ years John’s diverse career has encompassed hundreds of film scores and albums. While his specialty has always been orchestral projects, he has extensive experience recording and mixing all genres of music for film, tv, video games and CD. John is an expert regarding critical technical details such as frame rates, pre-records, surround and stem mixing.
Before going freelance in 2004, John spent seven years as orchestral scoring recordist at 20th Century Fox's legendary Newman Scoring Stage in Los Angeles. Films worked on at Fox include I, Robot, The Last Samurai, Spider-Man 2, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Matrix (trilogy), Cast Away, X-2, Jurassic Park III, The Bourne Identity, Road to Perdition and The Sixth Sense.
John works on everything from major studio feature films to smaller projects. From the solo singer to the gospel choir, from the string quartet to the 100 piece orchestra, from score to rock, electronica and jazz, John is equally comfortable working with acoustic performances, virtual-instrument projects, or hybrids of the two.
John works at a wide variety of recording and mixing studios, and recently opened his own studio on the westside of Los Angeles. The spacious new studio (built from the ground up) features superb acoustics and plenty of natural light, and it is well equipped with an extensive collection of boutique outboard hardware, ProTools HD, Digital Performer, and Logic for recording, stereo and surround mixing, and mastering work.
Prior to working at 20th Century Fox, John worked at Ocean Way Studios in Hollywood. Highlights of this time include working with The Rolling Stones, Porno for Pyros, Eric Clapton, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Ry Cooder, Madonna, Boys 2 Men, and many orchestral sessions.
John is very active in the film scoring community in Los Angeles, volunteering his time to provide educational workshops and lectures for The Society of Composers and Lyricists, The ASCAP Scoring Workshop, and The Composers Expo. John, his wife, and their lovely daughter live on the westside of Los Angeles.
For a list of credits, please follow this link. John was nominated as "Best Score Mixer" in 2007 by the Film and TV Music Awards. John also has credits on numerous gold and platinum selling CDs.
