Robert Venable
Encyclopedia
Robert Venable is a GMA Dove Award-winning producer
, mixer
, and engineer
, currently based in Nashville, TN
.
in Tempe, AZ, where he graduated top of his class. While in school, Robert interned at several studios in the Phoenix
metropolitan area, such as The Saltmine Studios and Phase Four, quickly making the transition from assisting to engineering. In 2005, he was hired as head engineer at Paradise West Recording Studios in Scottsdale, AZ. In 2009, Robert relocated to Nashville, TN and worked in various studios as he built his own.
With years of experience in the studio
, Robert has worked on hundreds of singles, EPs, and full length albums, and worked with Grammy Award
-winning and Gold and Platinum-selling recording artists.
Robert has mixed, engineered, and/or produced music for respected artists
in a variety of genres, including Megadeth
, Kutless
, Tamia
, Disciple
, Scott Stapp
, and INXS
. He has also worked with Seventh Day Slumber
, Building429, Me In Motion
, You Hang Up (featuring Frankie Muniz
), Stars Go Dim
, Saint Chaos (featuring members from P.O.D.
, Spoken
, Disciple
, and Pillar
), NBC (Saturday Night Live
), Fox (Glee
, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
), Burning Yesterday, Cord of 3
, Katelynne Cox, and more.
Robert currently resides in Franklin, TN and works out of Off The Wall Studios, his private recording studio, where he produces and mixes pop
, rock
, R&B
, metal
, CCM
, hip hop
, gospel
, and country
. He is noted for his ability to work with a wide variety of genres and for developing a personalized "sound" for each of his artists.
In addition to producing and mixing, Robert is actively involved in artist development.
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
, mixer
Audio mixing (recorded music)
In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
, and engineer
Audio engineering
An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
, currently based in Nashville, TN
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
.
Biography
Growing up in Springdale, AR, Robert Venable performed in several bands and eventually made the decision that he wanted to pursue a career in music. He attended the Conservatory of Recording Arts and SciencesConservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences
The Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences is a for-profit technical school specializing in audio recording, engineering and production education with locations in both Tempe, Arizona and Gilbert, Arizona, in the United States....
in Tempe, AZ, where he graduated top of his class. While in school, Robert interned at several studios in the Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
metropolitan area, such as The Saltmine Studios and Phase Four, quickly making the transition from assisting to engineering. In 2005, he was hired as head engineer at Paradise West Recording Studios in Scottsdale, AZ. In 2009, Robert relocated to Nashville, TN and worked in various studios as he built his own.
With years of experience in the studio
Recording studio
A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...
, Robert has worked on hundreds of singles, EPs, and full length albums, and worked with Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
-winning and Gold and Platinum-selling recording artists.
Robert has mixed, engineered, and/or produced music for respected artists
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
in a variety of genres, including Megadeth
Megadeth
Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...
, Kutless
Kutless
Kutless is a Christian rock band from Portland, Oregon formed in 1999. Since their formation, they have released six studio albums including their latest, It Is Well. The band has also released a live album, Live from Portland. Currently, they have sold almost 2 million records.-Biography:Formed in...
, Tamia
Tamia
Tamia Hill , and known professionally as Tamia, is a four-time Grammy-nominated Canadian R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, model, entrepreneur and philanthropist, as well as an occasional actress.She is best known for her 2000 hit "Stranger In My House" and Fabolous' 2003...
, Disciple
Disciple (band)
Disciple is a Christian metal / rock band from Knoxville, Tennessee, formed in 1992.-History:Disciple was formed in 1992 by high school friends Kevin Young, Brad Noah, and Tim Barrett. The band released their first CD, What Was I Thinking in 1995...
, Scott Stapp
Scott Stapp
Scott Alan Stapp is an American musician and singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Creed, of which he is a founding member. His debut solo album, The Great Divide, was released in 2005. A second album, Between Lust and Love, is currently in production...
, and INXS
INXS
INXS are an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on guitar/keyboards, Jon Farriss on drums, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/sax...
. He has also worked with Seventh Day Slumber
Seventh Day Slumber
Seventh Day Slumber is a Christian rock band from Dallas, Texas formed in 1996. They were an independent band for five years. until signed to Tooth and Nail Records in 2007. They are best known for their songs "Oceans from the Rain" and "Surrender". "Oceans from the Rain" was the 14th most played...
, Building429, Me In Motion
Me in Motion
Me in Motion is a Christian Rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. The members consist of Seth Mosley , Tim Wilson , Brian Dexter .- Biography :...
, You Hang Up (featuring Frankie Muniz
Frankie Muniz
Francisco "Frankie" Muniz IV is an American actor, musician, writer, producer, and racecar driver. He is known primarily as the star of the FOX television family sitcom Malcolm in the Middle. In 2003, he was considered "one of Hollywood's most bankable teens". In 2008, he put his acting career...
), Stars Go Dim
Stars Go Dim
Stars Go Dim is an American pop rock band from Tulsa, Oklahoma that formed in late 2007. The band consists of Chris Cleveland , Joey Avalos , Michael Wittig , and Lester Estelle II . They released their first self-titled EP in October 2008...
, Saint Chaos (featuring members from P.O.D.
P.O.D.
Payable on Death is an American Christian metal band formed in 1992. The band's line-up consists of vocalist Sonny Sandoval, drummer Wuv Bernardo, guitarist Marcos Curiel, and bassist Traa Daniels. Their Christian faith is an important part of their music.They have released seven studio albums and...
, Spoken
Spoken
Spoken is the past tense verbal form of "to speak".Spoken may also refer to:*Spoken , a Christian rock group from Arkansas*Spoken , an album by Spoken...
, Disciple
Disciple (band)
Disciple is a Christian metal / rock band from Knoxville, Tennessee, formed in 1992.-History:Disciple was formed in 1992 by high school friends Kevin Young, Brad Noah, and Tim Barrett. The band released their first CD, What Was I Thinking in 1995...
, and Pillar
Pillar (band)
Pillar is a Christian rock band currently located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Their sixth studio album, Confessions, was released in 2009.- Formation and independent albums :...
), NBC (Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
), Fox (Glee
Glee (TV series)
Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...
, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (film)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Thor Freudenthal and based on Jeff Kinney's book of the same name. The film was released on March 19, 2010. It was released on DVD, iTunes, and Blu-ray on August 3, 2010.-Plot:...
), Burning Yesterday, Cord of 3
Cord of 3
Cord of 3 is an American Christian rock band, originally formed in Bowling Green, KY. The band consists of Randall Erskine , Robbie Bennett , Evan Butler, and Tim Miller . Cord of 3 released their debut album "" in 2010, and span from genres such as alternative metal, hard rock, and Christian...
, Katelynne Cox, and more.
Robert currently resides in Franklin, TN and works out of Off The Wall Studios, his private recording studio, where he produces and mixes pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
, rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
, R&B
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
, metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
, CCM
Contemporary Christian music
Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith...
, hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
, gospel
Gospel music
Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
, and country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
. He is noted for his ability to work with a wide variety of genres and for developing a personalized "sound" for each of his artists.
In addition to producing and mixing, Robert is actively involved in artist development.
Albums
- Burning Yesterday - We Create Monsters Not Machines
- DiscipleDisciple (band)Disciple is a Christian metal / rock band from Knoxville, Tennessee, formed in 1992.-History:Disciple was formed in 1992 by high school friends Kevin Young, Brad Noah, and Tim Barrett. The band released their first CD, What Was I Thinking in 1995...
- Horseshoes And Handgrenades* (INO/Sony) - Katelynne Cox - One Girl (Red Hammer)
- KutlessKutlessKutless is a Christian rock band from Portland, Oregon formed in 1999. Since their formation, they have released six studio albums including their latest, It Is Well. The band has also released a live album, Live from Portland. Currently, they have sold almost 2 million records.-Biography:Formed in...
- It Is Well** (BEC/EMI) - Liars, Thieves & Fools - EP
- MegadethMegadethMegadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...
- The System Has Failed (Sanctuary/Universal) - Seventh Day SlumberSeventh Day SlumberSeventh Day Slumber is a Christian rock band from Dallas, Texas formed in 1996. They were an independent band for five years. until signed to Tooth and Nail Records in 2007. They are best known for their songs "Oceans from the Rain" and "Surrender". "Oceans from the Rain" was the 14th most played...
- Anthem Of Angels (BEC/EMI) - Stars Go DimStars Go DimStars Go Dim is an American pop rock band from Tulsa, Oklahoma that formed in late 2007. The band consists of Chris Cleveland , Joey Avalos , Michael Wittig , and Lester Estelle II . They released their first self-titled EP in October 2008...
- EP (Yeah Siam); Love Gone Mad (Yeah Siam)
Singles/Songs on Compilations
- Building 429Building 429Building 429 is a Christian rock band signed to Essential Records. They were the Gospel Music Association 2005 New Artist of the Year. Their name is derived from a Biblical passage known as Ephesians 4:29, which, in the New International Version of the Bible, reads as follows: "Do not let any...
- "What Child Is This?" (Essential/Sony) - Me In MotionMe in MotionMe in Motion is a Christian Rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. The members consist of Seth Mosley , Tim Wilson , Brian Dexter .- Biography :...
- "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" (Centricity/EMI); "Give It Away" (Centricity/EMI)
GMA Dove Awards
- DiscipleDisciple (band)Disciple is a Christian metal / rock band from Knoxville, Tennessee, formed in 1992.-History:Disciple was formed in 1992 by high school friends Kevin Young, Brad Noah, and Tim Barrett. The band released their first CD, What Was I Thinking in 1995...
- Horseshoes And Handgrenades: Rock Album Of The Year, 42nd GMA Dove Awards42nd GMA Dove AwardsThe 42nd Annual GMA Dove Awards were held on April 20, 2011 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. The show will be broadcast on gmc on April 24, 2011. It will be hosted by Sherri Shepherd from The Newlywed Game....
Current
- Off The Wall Recording Studios (Franklin, TN) - 2009–Present (Owner)
Past
- Phase Four (Tempe, AZ)
- The Saltmine (Mesa, AZ)
- Paradise West Recording Studio (Scottsdale, AZ)
- The Givens House (Franklin, TN)
External links
- Robert Venable Official website
- Off The Wall Recording Studio
- [ Robert Venable's Credits Page on AllMusic.com]
- Official Facebook Page
- Official Twitter