Howard Benson

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Howard Benson (born in Havertown, Pennsylvania) is a Grammy nominated music producer and aerospace engineer.^[1]

Benson attended Lower Merion High School until his graduation in 1974, he then went on to attend Drexel University receiving a B.S. in Materials Engineering in 1980. He worked as a Mechanical Engineer and a Process Engineer until 1984.^[2]

Audio engineer Mike Plotnikoff often works with Benson. In the words of Cold drummer Sam McCandless: "The band had been playing with Manson and Staind, so I wanted the drums to sound huge," he explains, "like dump trucks falling from the sky. Howard and Mike got that right away, and since it usually takes a week or two to get the drum tracks down, I was blown away."

[edit] Credits

• Adema - Unstable (2003)
• AM Radio - Radioactive (2003)
• Bang Tango - Psycho Café (1989)
• Blindside - Silence (2002); About a Burning Fire (2004)
• Body Count - Violent Demise: The Last Days (1997)
• Cold - Year of the Spider (2003)
• Crazy Town - Darkhorse (2002)
• Daughtry - Daughtry (2006)
• Depswa - Two Angels and a Dream (2003)
• Dislocated Styles - Pin The Tail On The Honky (2001)
• Far Too Jones- Shame and Her Sister (2000)
• Flyleaf - Flyleaf (2005)
• Gavin Degraw - Gavin Degraw (2008)
• Grinspoon - Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills (2004)
• Head Automatica - Popaganda (2006)
• Hoobastank - The Reason (2003); Every Man for Himself (2006)
• Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview (1998); In With the Out Crowd (2006)
• Lucky Boys Confusion - Throwing The Game (2001)
• Mae - Singularity (2007)
• Masi - Downtown Dreamers (1988)
• Meriwether - tba (2008)
• Motörhead - Bastards (1993); Sacrifice (1995); Overnight Sensation (1996); Snake Bite Love (1998)
• My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (2004);
• Papa Roach - Getting Away With Murder (2004); The Paramour Sessions (2006)
• PAX217 - Twoseventeen (2000)
• P.O.D. - The Fundamental Elements of Southtown (1999);Satellite (2001); Payable on Death (2003)
• Pretty Boy Floyd - Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz (1989)
• Reveille - Bleed The Sky (2001)
• Relient K - Five Score and Seven Years Ago (2007)
• Saosin - Saosin (2006)
• Seether - Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces (2007)
• Sepultura - Against (1998)
• Single File - Title-To-Be-Announced (2007)
• Sound The Alarm - Stay Inside (2007)
• Skindred - Babylon (2002)
• Switched - Subject to Change (2002)
• Theory of a Deadman - Gasoline (2005), Scars & Souvenirs (2008)
• The All-American Rejects - Move Along (2005)
• The Buzzhorn - Disconnected (2002)
• The Ernies - Meson Ray (1999)
• The Starting Line - Based on a True Story (2005);Direction (2007)
• Third Day - Revelation (2008)
• Three Days Grace - One-X (2006)
• Vendetta Red - Sisters of the Red Death (2005)
• Zebrahead - Waste of Mind (1998); Playmate of the Year (2000)

Howard Benson has also produced these songs:

• Acceptance - Different (2005)
• Hawthorne Heights - "Come Back Home" (2007)
• The Panic Channel - Blue Bruises (2006); Half Hearted (2006)
• My Chemical Romance - Desert Song (2006)
• The Used & My Chemical Romance - Under Pressure (2005)
• Cold - Gone Away (2002)

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