Greg Thompson, audio engineer.

I've been a pro audio engineer for about 15 years. I live and work in NYC, and I travel when necessary.

My first love is making rock records. I also spend a lot of time doing broadcast, live recording, and crew work. I'm comfortable working with most anything: vintage consoles in $2500/day rooms, basement ProTools rigs, 2" 24-track, live-to-2 jazz and classical, three month rock lockouts, jingle sessions, voiceovers, whatever.

I'm the chief engineer at Kampo in Greenwich Village. I  work regularly as a crew member on ABC's Good Morning America, on the Record Plant Remote truck, and I freelance when I can. I have a Protools HD rig that is racked and available for location recordings or mixing at your chateau in the mountains, if that's what you want.

Selected Work

Discography

Here's my allmusic page.

Great News! "Here Come the 123s" by They Might Be Giants. (which I mixed half of) won a Grammy award for Best Musical Album For Children.

With ABC Good Morning America

I do everything from running cables and clipping lavalier mics to doing the on-air mix. I try to stick to the music side of things, but it doesn't hurt to do production audio too. I've done so much from ABC's Times Square studio and on location that I can't remember all of them - not surprising given the time of day. Some notable shows:

Remotes: Concert Summer Series from Bryant Park (since 2002). Faith Hill live from Fort Bragg. Bon Jovi live from Miami Beach. Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus live from Nashville. Kenny Chesney live from the Hard Rock Cafe in NYC. Janet Jackson live from the Nokia Theater in NYC. Whitney Houston live from Lincoln Center.

My mixes that have gone to air: The Fray. Jazmine Sullivan. David Cook. Metro Station. Leona Lewis. Jordin Sparks. Jamie Foxx. The Cast of Rent. Donnie and Marie Osmond. Chaka Khan. Boyz II Men. Ingrid Michaelson. Blake Lewis. Imagination Movers. The Wiggles. Dan Zanes and Friends. The Cast of Grease. Emmy Rossum. The Cast of Gypsy featuring Patty LuPone. Sara Evans. Jennifer Hudson. Rick Springfield. Liza Minnelli. Rocky Lynne. Julianna Hough. Craig Morgan. Anthony Hamilton. Clay Aiken. Wynonna Judd. 5 For Fighting.

For Clearchannel's "Stripped"

I tracked and mixed these live in concert and in studios around NYC.

Fabolous w/Ne-Yo. Alicia Keys. Sara Bareilles. Colbie Callait. Jonas Brothers. Duffy.

You can hear and see these recordings on the Stripped site.

For iTunes Exclusives

I tracked, edited, and mixed these in studios around NYC.

PJ Harvey. Anthony Hamilton. Sheryl Crow.

These are available from the iTunes store.

For Morning Becomes Eclectic (KCRW, Santa Monica)

Live to broadcast from Kampo in NYC. I engineered and mixed.

Morcheeba. Supergrass. Ryuichi Sakamoto. Tindersticks. Cousteau.

These are available on the KCRW Archives.

On crew with Record Plant Remote

Albums: Corinne Bailey Rae Live in London & NY CD. Korn & Various Artists Family Values Tour 2006 CD/DVD. Simon & Garfunkel Old Friends DVD/CD. Kiss Rock the Nation DVD. Billy Joel 2000 Years CD. Dar Williams Out There Live CD. Dream Theater Live Scenes from New York CD. Bela Fleck & The Flecktones Live at the Quick CD/DVD. Matchbox 20 Show - A Night In The Life of Matchbox 20.

Tapings for TV broadcast: CMA Music Festival (ABC Exclusive Broadcast 2005, 2006, 2007). Kenny Chesney - Somewhere in the Sun (ABC Exclusive Broadcast 11/23/05). Michael Jackson - 30th Anniversary Concert (2001 Madison Square Garden). La Nueva Estrella Awards (WCBS 2 NY Broadcast).

Other notables: Rolling Stones at Fenway Park 2005. Recording from inside Brushy Mountain State Prison for Mark Collie documentary. Garth Brooks on the Navy aircraft carrier Enterprise. Tito Puente: Mambo Birdland (Grammy winner).

For Sessions@AOL

These shows started out as modest audio-only, live-to-2 performances at Kampo, intended for AOL's budding music section. They have since expanded to 4-5 camera shoots on the biggest soundstages, multitracking to Protools and mixing on zillion-input Neve and SSL consoles. I've had the opportunity to work at almost all of the major studios in NYC - Sony, Hit Factory, Right Track, Quad, Platinum Sound, Avatar.

I've done tons of these, engineering and mixing...

Sting. 50 Cent. Norah Jones. Daughtry. Tori Amos. Evanescence. Alanis Morrissette. Story Of The Year. My Chemical Romance. Gavin DeGraw. Morcheeba. Jewel. Robert Plant. Hawthorne Heights. Simple Plan. Blondie. Montgomery Gentry. Shannon Brown. Big & Rich. Kanye West. Jamie Foxx. Joss Stone. Sugarland. Rascal Flatts. Lonestar. Jet. Damian Marley. James Taylor. The Donnas. Jace Everett. My Morning Jacket. John Mayer. Ludacris. Alicia Keys. Paul Westerberg. Vanessa Carlton. Iggy Pop and the Stooges. Pink. Puddle of Mudd. Dave Brubeck. Keith Urban. The Killers. Lindsay Lohan. Breaking Benjamin. Faith Evans. Al Green. Dierks Bentley. Sheryl Crow. Train.

You can hear and see these recordings on the AOL Sessions site.

Contact Info

email: greg@injuredear.com
phone: 917-658-6548