 | Larry Crane [e-mail] [website] Larry Crane is the editor and founder of Tape Op Magazine, owner of Portland's Jackpot! Recording Studio, a freelance engineer (sessions in Seattle, Tucson, Brooklyn, Sacramento, Montreal and New Orleans) and archivist for the Estate of Elliott Smith. Tape Op Magazine started in 1996, and has 45,000 readers in the US and 10,000 in the EU and the UK. From 1994 to 1997 he ran Laundry Rules Recording, a home studio in Portland, and recorded artists like Versus, Stephen Malkmus and Cat Power in a basement studio. Since 1997 he's owned and run Jackpot! Recording Studio, Inc., a busy studio in Portland, Oregon, where he's worked with artists like Sleater-Kinney, The Joggers, Jenny Lewis, M. Ward, Go-Betweens, Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus, Quasi, Richmond Fontaine and more. He's spoken on and moderated panels about recording for TapeOpCon, SXSW, NXNW, NARAS and CMJ. He has worked in the past as a record label owner, radio station music director, DJ, record distributor employee, freelance music journalist, band manager and bass player (in bands since 1984, including Elephant Factory, Vomit Launch, Sunbirds, Foggy Notion and Flaming Box of Ants.) Crane currently resides most of the year in southern Arizona. |
 | Kendra Lynn [e-mail] After spending many days locked away recording bad demos of herself, Kendra decided to attend recording school in sunny Florida. Following the crash course at Full Sail she worked for several years at Transcontinental Studio and studied under renowned audio tech and studio designer, Niels Kastor. Kendra moved to Portland in 2004 and since then has been the studio manager of Jackpot! This has allowed her to assist for and learn from the best engineers and producers around, and has given her the chance to work with some truly amazing artists!! In the past several years Kendra has had the opportunity to engineer sessions for Heroes and Villains, Gill Landry, Nick Jaina, Ley Lines, Mr. Gnome, Sea Caves, Ginger Preston, Holcombe Waller and the Healers, The Gossip, The Portland Cello Project, Corin Tucker, Eddie Vedder, She and Him, Spoon and Quasi! |
 | Tucker Martine Tucker Martine is a Portland, Oregon, based producer, engineer and musician. In addition to his own studio Flora, he loves to work at Jackpot! whenever possible. Martine has worked with folks such as The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, R.E.M, Death Cab For Cutie, Bill Frisell, Mudhoney, Laura Veirs, The Long Winters, Jim White, Jesse Sykes, Mylab, Erin McKeown, Brian Blade and Orchestra Dim Bridges with Eyvind Kang. He has also released several records of field recordings including Bush Taxi Mali, Broken Hearted Dragonflies and Eat the Dream (Moroccan Reveries). Martine co-composed the startup sound for Microsoft's new Vista operating system with Robert Fripp and Steve Moore, following up Brian Eno's Windows 95 composition. Martine also leads his own project Mount Analog. |
 | Jeff Stuart Saltzman For over fifteen years, Jeff has had a really difficult time explaining to people what he does for a living. If pressed, he will say he "helps people make records"-something he has done in either the engineering or mastering capacity for the likes of Dolorean, The Standard, Stephen Malkmus, Sleater-Kinney, Death Cab For Cutie, Ian Moore, Menomena, Richmond Fontaine, among many others. To save time in the future, he will probably tell people he "works with computers." |
 | Jordan Richter Jordan Richter is a producer and engineer that has been involved one way or another with sound and music for over 20 years. Born in Milwaukee, WI, Jordan moved to Chicago, IL in 1991 where he played guitar in several touring power pop and punk bands and honed his engineering chops in basement studios. He opened a small project room in 1995 and recorded and produced many indie rock bands and thousands of commercial jingles. In 1997, Jordan relocated to Nashville, TN and worked as a freelance engineer in most of the major recording studios in Music City working with many top recording artists. In 2001 he opened Roswell East Recording Studios, a mid-sized independent studio catering to artists and producers on of all musical styles . In May of 2006, seeking a change of scenery, Jordan moved to Portland, OR with his wife and son. Jordan now finds a home here at Jackpot! and is becoming actively involved in the Portland music scene producing and recording bands and solo artists such as Caves and Andi Starr. Whether recording classical string quartets or bluegrass bands to speed metal bands or hip hop acts, Jordan is equally comfortable and competent. A partial list of bands and artists that Jordan has worked with (in no particular order) include: Sixpence None The Richer, The Legendary Shack Shakers, BR5-49, Aaron Neville, Will Hoge, Jello Biafra, The Rev. Horton Heat, Garrison Starr, Matthew Ryan, D.C. Talk, Jars of Clay, This Train, Matthew West, Big Country, Hammock, Bob Carlisle, Phil Keaggy, Doug Pinnick of Kings X, The Epoxies and (your name here)! |
 | Dean Baskerville Dean has been a freelance recording engineer/producer in the Portland area for over 22 years. His first professional job was in 1986 when a local studio owner called him to record bass overdubs on a late saturday night. After telling him he wasn't sure he was qualified, the owner replied, "act like you know what you're doing and I'll pay you 7 bucks an hour". Dean claims he's been acting like he knows what he's doing ever since. Since that time he has worked on a wide variety of projects. In 1998 he met up with Jeff Trott to record guitar overdubs on a song for the "Globe Sessions" record. This lead to him working with Jeff on numerous projects, including 2 more records for Sheryl Crow. In 2003 he received a TEC Award for recording her single, "Soak Up the Sun". He has recorded 2 records for Everclear as well as engineered artists produced by Art Alexakis. Other credits include, Tom Grant, Vagabond Opera, Dahlia, Ellen Whyte, Aaron Meyer, Pink Martini, Boka Marimba, Bonnie Knopf, Sometime Sunday, Tracey Bunch, The Devilles, Tragedy Ann, Oracle, and many more. |
 | Pat Kearns In 1997, Pat opened a small, 16-track recording studio in Portland named Studio 13, recorded tons of punk/garage bands as well as singer/songwriters. Since 2002 Pat has also been freelancing at Jackpot! He plays and records his own music in Blue Skies for Black Hearts. He has also toured as a live-sound engineer for John Vanderslice, Spoon, and Death Cab for Cutie. Pat has done sessions with: The Goddamn Gentlemen, The Exploding Hearts, Fireballs of Freedom, The Jolenes, Jerry Joseph, Very Foundation, The Nice Boys, Pat McDonald, Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons, The Observers and Autistic Youth. |
 | Adam Pike Born and raised in Indiana. Graduated from Indiana University 2001 where he ran live sound at Uncle Fester's House of Blues. He then graduated in the top 10% from the Recording Workshop in Chillocothe, Ohio and moved to Portland. There he learned his way around this city by working for producer Simon Widdowson (Papillon, Little Sue, The Decemberists, Pete Krebs, Man of the Year, Hindi Guns). Finally he made his way to Jackpot!...whom he had read and dreamed about in high school...ain't life sweet! When Adam isn't behind the board/Mac he is playing bass for The Greater Midwest and The Mediam. He is 6'1. 170 lbs. (varies). He loves chicken, the theme song from 'Taxi', and PBR. Adam had the pleasure of working with artists such as: Black Elk, The Empty, Red Fang, Diesto, Death Valley, No Go Know, Black Eyes and Neckties, The Icarus Line, The Burning Room, Fistful of Cash, Miss Anne Thrope, Filthy White Trash, Paint By Numbers, Used Wares, DJ Wicked, Accidental Gun Death, Crazydumbsaint, Marty Finkel, Bonanza City, 48 Thrills, Girl Friday (night),...and more. |
 | Matthew Morgan Matthew Morgan is an audio engineer from South Bend, Indiana. He owned and operated Camp Ironwood Recording Studio for four years before moving to the Northwest. Since his relocation, he has engineered dozens of projects with producer Pat Kearns (The Nice Boys, The Smokes, Autistic Youth...) produced the debut LP from Daytime Volume and has worked with The Motels. He is a ray of sunshine and enjoys various Americanized versions of Oriental cuisine. |
 | Jeremy Sherrer Deep within the bowels of the tobacco patch, Jeremy Sherrer began his audio journey with bluegrass music as an intern at Melody Hills studios in Kentucky. It wasn't long before he became restless. Hell bent on perfecting his craft, he headed westward to Portland,OR in 2003. Since his arrival in Portland, Jeremy has had the good fortune to have worked as a freelance engineer with a wide variety of artists such as the Ravonettes, Monstrous, The Nice Boys, Dandy Warhols, Swervedriver, Foreign Orange, the Upsidedown, The Village Green, J Mascis. When not in the studio, Jeremy can be found doing the tech thing for Hamptone, where he builds microphones and preamps, or beating on his drums for the inimitable pysch-rock outfit, Foreign Orange. He also likes to put Rick Bain in a headlock. |
 | Jay Pellicci Part garden gnome and part Chinese, Jay's been recording in studios for about 10 years. He's worked at studios such as Tiny Telephone, Supernatural Sound, Audible Alchemy, Hyde Street Studios, and of course Jackpot!. Some of the bands that he's been lucky enough to work with are: Deerhoof, Subtle, Erase Errata, Cody Chesnutt, and Gravy Train!!!!. He also plays drums in 31knots as well as other random projects. |
 | Justin Phelps Justin Phelps is a Portland native who has been living in San Francisco for the last 15 years recording with The Dead Kennedys, Cake, Mars Volta, Jolie Holland, Chuck Prophet, Mr. Bungle, Amanda Palmer, The Neville Brothers, Galactic, Joe Satriani, Sean Hayes, Eric McFadden, Slough Feg, The Funky Meters, Garaj Mahal, Omar Sosa, Secret Chiefs 3, The Motherhips and a bunch of other great artists. While he was there he spent a lot of time working in big, crusty, old studios, learning how to make records the old fashion way (with your ears and your heart). |
 | Christina Files Files is a sound engineer from Cambridge, MA, who recently moved to Portland to start a music project with some friends and experience life on the west coast. She has done recordings for Mary Timony, Shipping News, and June of 44 to mention a few. Files also tours as a live sound engineer with Shellac and Black Dice. |
 | Antreo Pukay Antreo spent his time fighting off alligators in the swamps of Florida along the Suwannee River before heading to Olympia, WA in search of a less stressful existence. While recording himself and his band on his well-loved Otari 8-track he studied under the well-respected teacher and mic builder Terry Setter at The Evergreen State College where he graduated from their infamous recording department. He interned here at Jackpot! Recording for six months where he picked the brains of Larry Crane and Jeff Saltzman, among others and recorded in the studio and in his 8-Track home studio at every opportunity. He has assisted on sessions for Larry Crane and has assisted on some live sound dates in London, England with Ben; live sound engineer for MIA. Some of Antreo's engineering credits include The Advantage, The Waxfire, Royce Riproy, The Splinters, Dustin Hamman (aka..Run-On Sentence), and recording vocal dubs for a Tommy Lee cover of "Fight For Your Right". Antreo is currently recording at Jackpot! and Tell Tale Recording, playing music in his own projects and always looking for other new and fun projects to get involved in. |
 | Brandon Eggleston Brandon Eggleston is a Portland based producer/engineer who loves his job. He works in studios all over the country but loves Jackpot! Over the last few years he has been in the studio recording The Mountain Goats, Josh Ritter, Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers, Pelican, The Pharmacy, Erin McKeown, The Hands, and Carcrashlander to name a few. He also spends a great deal of time touring as a FOH engineer and tour manager. |
 | Adam Selzer Adam Selzer owns and operates Type Foundry Recording Studio in Portland, Oregon. He has been fortunate enough to record, mix & produce such artists as M. Ward, Mirah, Decemerists, Jolie Holland, Laura Gibson, Weinland, She & Him, Loch Lomond, Builders & Butchers, Langhorne Slim, Tu Fawning and A Weather. He often draws on a wide swarth of musicians in the Portland music community to enhance recording projects. In addition to recording, Adam plays guitar, sings and produces for the band Norfolk & Western as well as The Alialujah Choir. He also plays bass and guitar while touring with M. Ward. |
 | Jon Cohrs Jon Cohrs is a recording engineer and visual/sound artist whose been affiliated with Jackpot! since 2001 at which time he also founded and continues to run Spleenless Mastering. He often works with bands and visual artists who are pursuing a specific concept in which there is a creative dialogue with the engineer such as Tin Hat Trio + Zeena Parkins, Tara Jane O'Neil, Laurie Anderson, Cory Arcangel, Eyebeam Atelier, Talkdemonic, Horsefeathers, and Japanese performance artist Ujino Muntenero, In addition, several of his recordings can be heard in the satirical comedy, Thank You For Smoking. Jon plays in several collaborative projects involving electronics and softer organic sounds such as his latest project, Rabbits without Spleens with Australian composer Rae Howell. |
