PERSONNEL: Mastering/Recording & Mixing

Andy Krehm: For over two decades, Andy worked as a first-call studio/theatre musician and music producer/arranger prior to working as a mastering engineer on a full-time basis. As a musician, he was associated with names such as the Pointer Sisters, Aretha Franklin, Oscar Peterson, Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six, Vivienne Williams, Concert Productions International, O'Keefe Centre, Royal Alexandra Theatre, Imperial Room Orchestra, Canadian Musician, etc.

Since moving to his current career, he has mastered well over 4,000 albums plus 100's of singles and EPs and 44 albums he mastered have been nominated for Juno Awards (the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys). 7 have won Junos.

Literally scores of albums mastered at Silverbirch appear on the nomination and winner's lists of other prestigious award granting bodies, such as the JC Handy Awards, Canadian Independent Music Awards, National Jazz Awards, Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards, NAR LifeStyle Music Awards and the Maple Blues Awards. Almost every year, a glance at the Maple Blues Awards nomination list will show that over 30% of the listed artists/groups mastered and/or manufactured at Silverbirch!

Andy's extensive experience in the music industry has given him a background that is much broader than most mastering engineers. His former career as a musician/arranger/producer background is often helpful during a mastering session.

A few of his credits are Adrian Miller (Indie-1997 Reggae Juno Award Nominee), Anvil (Hypnotic), Blackie And The Rodeo Kings (True North), Bruce Cockburn (True North), Cadence (Indie - 2000 Best Engineer Juno Award Nominee), Citizen Kane (Page), Colin Linden (Sony), Ed Bickert/Sonny Greenwich/Rob Piltch/Peter Leitch, etc (Portraits In Jazz - Radioland/Polygram), Fathead (Electro-Fi, 1999 & 2008 Best Blues Album Juno Award Winner & 2003 Best Blues Album Juno Award Nominee), Frankie Wilmot (inaj-1998 Reggae Juno Award Winner), Grimskunk (Hypnotic), Jack DeKeyser (Blue*Star- 2003 Best Blues Album Juno Award Winner), Jake (Reunion/CMC-2002-Contempory Christian/Gospel Juno Award Nominee), Jamie Bonk (Indie-NAV's '99 Album Of The Year), Jeff Healey (HealeyOPhonic), Jimmy Bowskill (Festival), Joydrop (Tommy Boy/BMG - 2002 Best New Group Juno Award Nominee), Kevin Breit/Sisters Euclid/Folk Alarm (Poverty Playlist), Madagascar Slim (Amok, 1999 World Beat Juno Award Winner), Mae Moore/Lester Quitzau (Festival), Matt Dusk (Decca/Universal), Mel Brown & Snooky Pryor (Electro-Fi/Festival - 2001 Best Blues Album Juno Award Nominee), Morgan Davis (Electro-Fi - 2004 Best Blues Album Juno Award Winner), O'Luge (Indie-1999 Reggae Juno Award Nominee), Out Of Your Mouth (ViK/BMG), P.J. Perry (Justin Time Records), Roger O'Donnell (keyboardist with The Cure), Simon Wilcox (SHErecords/BMG), The Drifters, featuring Rick Sheppard (EMI), The Lincolns (Attic), The Nylons (Attic), Tommi Swick (Warner), Wendy O. Williams And The Plasmatics (Plasmatics Media), etc., and scores of commercials edited for BMG and Virgin Records

Recording And Mixing:

TED ONYSZCZAK:

Ted Onyszczak is our staff recording/mixing engineer. He had worked for Silverbirch on a part time basis, averaging about twenty hours a week for the four years prior to being hired full-time in 2005. When Terry Sawchuk left us for Nashville, it was a natural evolution for both Ted and Silverbirch.

Ted is very familiar with our gear, room and the high level of service we offer our clients. His regular clients will be pleased to discover that he now has more hours available for them.

We are confident you will enjoy his work

BIO:

In his over 10 year career Ted Onyszczak has engineered and provided studio support for such Canadian music icons as Rush, Tom Cochrane, and Kim Mitchell, including work on the latest Rush EP "Feedback". He has also engineered, mixed, and produced Cynthia Hallett's two CD's "Sweet Like Poison" and "Miracle", which are featured in the CBC Water Street Pictures TV series "Edgemont".

At Silverbirch, Ted has worked with numerous acts such as Mit City, Pablo Terry, Eileen Quinn, Toronto hip hop artists, Ivy League/Nighthood and Reggae artist Selassi I Power. He recently recording Michael Pickett's harp parts for Doc McLean's album, Narrow House, produced by Colin Linden. One of the highlights of 2006 was mixing the DiggingRoots album, "Seeds", which was released on the Jericho Beach label and nominated this year for a "Maple Blues New Artist/Group of the Year" award. And in a heavier vein, Ted put the finishing touches on Kill Cheerleader's album entitled "All Hail" for indie label Spinerazor / Corporate Punishment

He also has extensive credits in post audio, including sound fx editing for the Gemini award wining documentary series "Counterforce", Associated Producers' series, "Penn & Teller's Magic and Mystery Tour" and Canadian Geographic. He's also worked on such feature documentaries as Paul Jay's "Lost In Las Vegas", which has aired on A&E and Simcha Jacobovici's, "The Struma", which has aired on HBO. His post experience has included everything from dialog and sound FX editing, to ADR/voice over recording, and music supervising and composing. He is currently mixing and authoring a DVD for Electro-Fi artist, Mel Brown.

As a solo artist he's released an eponymous album and movie soundtrack work under the moniker Measuring Man.

A veritable renaissance man, Ted also helps out by doing some of the graphic design/file checking and website design work as well as transfers and edits re the video/DVD/Enhanced CD work at Silverbirch

Sales, Graphic Arts, CD, DVD, CD-ROM and In-House CD-R Production:

Our manufacturing numbers had grown beyond expectations so in September 2001, we hired Ron Arnold. He is currently our Manager Of Operations. Following in the Silverbirch tradition, Ron is an accomplished musician and brings us a different set of skills, having worked in sports and entertainment management and administration.

Ron is the man who keeps the manufacturing/duplicating jobs flowing from start to finish!

Some of his more interesting pre-Silverbirch jobs were as Patron Services Representative - Winnipeg Symphony, Group Sales Manager - Winnipeg Cyclone Basketball Team, Sales Manager - Legends In Concert, Group Sales Account Receivable Manager, Livent Inc. and Ticketing Operations, Toronto Blue Jays.