Producer and Mixing Engineer from the Gold Coast Australia.
For over 15 years Nik Carpenter has been a major contributor to the Australian and international heavy music scene. Nik had his first number 1 album In 2001 as frontman for one of the countries pioneering metal exports Devolved. He was voted number 1 metal vocalist ahead of legends Maynard James Keenan (Tool) and Cory Taylor (Slipknot), and has toured the globe sharing the stage with bands like Machine Head, Fear factory, Opeth, Nile, Carcus and many more. In 2003 Carpenter opened Core Studios on the Gold Coast which quickly became the go to for many SE Queensland artists. Over the last 15 years core has produced countless albums for bands and artists from many genres and sub genres as diverse as metal, hardcore, punk, rock, pop, hip hop, blues, a huge amount of these returning time and time again to work in Carpenters professional yet relaxed environment. Nik has worked with many of the worlds biggest names in record production; Zeuss (hatebreed, Whitechapel) , Josh Schroder (in hearts wake, king810) Kurt Ballaou (Converge) Will Putney, Hertz studios ) and mastering legends like Alan douches (Fleetwood Mac, beastie boys) UE nastasi (AC/DC , Wu-tang clan) and more.
With the addition of Dylan Smith to the team, Core Studios reputation is only getting stronger through the S/E QLD Scene. At 26, Dylan's experience ranges from 606 Studios in LA to Studios 301 in Sydney.
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I was the Producer, Mixing and Mastering Engineer in this production
3 revisions are included in final mixing cost.
- Audient ASP4816 Analogue Recording Console
- Rupert Neve Portico II Channel