AES Member Profile

Matt Donner

Job Title: Owner/ CAO/ COO
Company: Pyramind

Status: Associate
Member since: 2012
Section: San Francisco

Facebook Address: http://www.facebook.com/matt.donner
LinkedIn Address: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattdonner
Twitter Name: @donnerpartysf

Audio Fields:

• Educational Institutions - Educator
• Recording Industry - Music Recording/Mix Studio
• Recording Industry - Mastering Studio
• Recording Industry - Post Production
• Recording Industry - Film/Video Sound
• Recording Industry - Game Audio
• Educational Institutions - Student

Job Duties:

• Educator
• Author/Journalist/Technical Writer
• Consultant
• Mastering Engineer
• Mixer
• Owner/Director
• Producer
• Recording Engineer

About

Matt Donner has been playing music his whole life. He played throughout college while earning a Bachelor's degree in quantitative Business Analysis but left to cut his Producer and Engineering chops in NYC. He found himself working for high-profile studios like Sound on Sound (Diddy, Anita Baker) and Greene Street (Run DMC and Public Enemy) right after earning his Masters in Music and Music Technology at NYU. He went on to perform for various TV studios and John Cale (Velvet Underground) that included 3 feature film scores using Pro Tools version 1.0 and a two-day live event to open the Andy Warhol Museum.
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After signing his band to an indy record deal, his cross-country tour brought him to SF where the drummer exploded — how typical.


Matt quickly found himself in high demand in the studio scene as a rare experienced Pro Tools user and became an award-winning Regional Technical Director for Guitar Center, and the Pro Tools Support Lead for the Cutting Edge Audio Group where he served as studio designer, installer and trainer for the likes of Joe Satriani, Metallica, Benny Reitveld (Santana and the SF Jazz Fest) as well as hundreds of private studios including Wally World (Walter A., N'Sync, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion). A crowning achievement during this period was to install, troubleshoot, deliver and support 50 Pro Tools workstations for the legendary Skywalker Sound during production of Star Wars Episode 1.


In January 2000, he and Greg Gordon began working together exclusively at Pyramind where they began running the hybrid Production/ Training businesses successfully. Matt has served the company as Chief Engineer, Senior Producer/ Composer, Chief Technical Officer, Vice-President and now Chief Academic Officer. He has mixed/mastered a hundred or so records (including his own released in 2002) as well as publishing several magazine articles. Matt has also written two texts on Pro Tools (Pro Tools Overdrive V 6.9 and V7 for Thomson Press). Most recently, he authored and project managed a 3-book release for Pyramind with Alfred Publishing (largest in the world) as well as provided 5.1 surround mixes for Halo Anniversary and the upcoming CellDweller LIVE DVD.

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