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My father, Aaron Sloan, used to sing The Midnight Rambler to me when I was
three years old. By the time I was thirteen I was playing guitar in punk-rock
bands around Hollywood and sneaking into Clash, Damned, and Dead Kennedy shows.
When I recorded my first demo at Radio Tokyo in Venice at 16, I decided right
then and there that I wanted to learn how to work everything in the studio. By
18 I was second engineering on Nina Hagen and WASP records during the day and
sneaking in Decry and The Jones late at night to record. I produced my own band
The Prodigal Sons and nearly got a record deal but ended up with a story to tell
instead.
After recovering from the LA Glam/Metal/Punk amalgamation of the mid-eighties
I decided to open up King Sound & Pictures in La’s Fabulous Fairfax Delta.
The Pico/Fairfax area of Los Angeles became “the real home to the Silverlake
Sound” where everyone from Social Distortion, J.Lo, Michelle N' Degeocello,
Weezer, The Offspring, Scritti Politti, Della Reese, Rod Stewart, Christion, and Monster Magnet, to The Blind
Boys of Alabama (Grammy Nominated), Ben Harper, The Carter Brothers, The Watts
Prophets, Lift Ticket, The Hangmen, Nikka Costa (certified gold), and Jack
Johnson (certified platinum) worked from 1991-2001.
Reinvent or Die: The New King Sound opened it’s doors in September of 2002
and has since then recorded the likes of Fishbone, Kenny Wayne Sheppard, The
Warlocks, Phranc, Scenario Rock, Greg Dulli, Rhino Bucket, Paul Plagens, and
The Slum Lords.
I became fascinated with vintage recording equipment and started buying and
selling it in the early nineties. I kept my “stash” and that’s what The
New King Sound is today. A lot of the old (Vintage Neumann and AKG mics, Neve
Mic-Pres, Fairchild limiters) and a bit of the new (Pro Tools HD, Apogee 96khz
24bit converters). Lately, I have been
getting in to mastering. I realized I have the same gear and just as good of a set of
ears as the mastering elite of LA. (no I have not been to Portland Maine.)
Besides producing The Hangmen, Gifthorse, Lift Ticket, and The Carter
Brothers, to name a few, I have engineered for The Blind Boys of Alabama, The
Offspring, Wayne Kramer and Brain James, Busta Rhymes, Rod Stewart, Fishbone,
Kenny Wayne Sheppard, Della Reese, Phranc, The Warlocks, Greg Dulli, The Watts
Prophets, Jennifer Lopez, Weezer, Scritti Politti, etc. (Have I left anyone
out?)
-Jimmy Sloan
The New King Sound Residential Recording
Producer/Owner
Email: jimmy@thenewkingsound.com
(323) 874-1073
Hollywood Hills, CA. 90068 |
