Next PTUG Meeting:

Thursday, November 18th at Futura Productions

Located at:
4 Belgrade Avenue
Roslindale, MA 02131

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John Weston

John Weston is a Grammy nominated and platinum awarded producer/recording engineer whose projects for music albums, film, TV and video games range in styles from classical, modern pop, R&B, rock, jazz, folk, a cappella, world music and more. John has worked with ProTools from the very beginning (SoundTools, Sound Designer & the original 4 channel ProTools system!!!)

Owner of Futura Productions, a state-of-the-art studio with the largest recording room in New England, John Weston has worked with such Grammy winning and gold and multi-platinum major artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Philip Glass, Richard Stoltzman, Beyonce, Shakira, the Bulgarian female vocal choir Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares, P. Diddy, Joey McIntyre, Aerosmith, Collective Soul, Turkish pop star Tarkan, Chinese-American pop singer Lee-Hom Wang, and Pope John Paul II. In 2007, Weston was nominated for the Latin Grammy Record of the Year for his work with Beyonce and Shakira on the song "Beautiful Liar". Mr. Weston has also recorded and mixed numerous film scores, including 2010 Emmy nominated documentary "Mosque in Morgantown", the award-winning documentary "Encounter Point", 2009 Cannes FIPRESCI Prize winner "Amreeka", which premiered at Sundance, and the Ken Burns documentary about WWII called "The War".

John will be speaking about his approach to using ProTools in studio production for a variety of musical styles, show how the ProTools system at Futura Productions is configured, and discuss several recording and editing techniques used for some recent projects.