After three great years at Bob Clearmountain's Mix This! studio - Ryan went out on his own in 1997 to engineer records for Aimee Mann, Joe Henry, Brett Dennen, Jim White, Jakob Dylan, Dan Bern, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Loudon Wainwright III, Alana Davis, Jonatha Brooke, & Christina Aguilera.

Ryan recently opened the newest incarnation of Stampede Origin Studios. It has a large control room with 3 overdub spaces, 2 amp closets, and all the equipment you could want. The main drum room has 15’ ceilings.

Ryan recorded two albums with Loudon Wainwright III - the soundtrack for the Judd Apatow film Knocked Up and Loudon’s current record which revisits material from his earliest albums.

Ryan recorded and mixed Joe Henry’s recent record due for release later this year - as well as Joe’s record Civilians - released September 2007.

Ryan also recorded & mixed the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Salif Keita, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot’s A Stranger Here, Mary Gauthier’s Between Daylight and Dark, & Rodney Crowell’s Sex & Gasoline with Joe Henry producing.

Ryan engineered and mixed @#%&*! Smilers, The Forgotten Arm, One More Drifter in the Snow, & Live At St. Anne’s by Aimee Mann. Ryan also recorded & co-produced Aimee’s Lost In Space - mixing three of the tracks as well.

John Doe, Joe Henry and Jakob Dylan have all recorded tracks for the Todd Haynes film "I'm Not There", about Bob Dylan. Ryan engineered and mixed tracks by all 3.

Other recent projects include Ingrid Michaelson, Jenny Owen Youngs, Lucy Schwartz, Sally Dworsky, Kristin Mooney, Kristy Hanson, Chris Garneau & Miss Willie Brown.

In 2001 Ryan was part of the team responsible for creating the sound of Moulin Rouge. Mixing for the soundtrack, creating musical cues, and playing piano, were some highlights of that project.

Please peruse the above links for more info and feel free to write:

freeland@earthlink.net

What folks are saying about Ryan:

Ryan Freeland is a brilliant engineer because he is a musician first. He approaches a project with few preconceived ideals, but rather responds in service to a song the way you hope any musician in the room will. I always begin from a point of performance when working -many people in the same room, much bleed with which to contend- and Ryan has never allowed me to feel i was sacrificing any control because of it. He is an endlessly creative problem solver, and there is soul in his every captured sound. He allows me the freedom to be fearless, which is the greatest gift any collaborator can offer.

-- Joe Henry

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Whether working on the fly during tracking sessions or providing his distinctive point of view during a mixdown, Ryan's skills have been indispensable to me as a producer and arranger. During the recording of Aimee Mann's last two albums,  @#%&*! Smilers  and  One More Drifter In The Snow , Ryan's attention to detail and his respect for a performance was always a given. His ability to balance the sometimes comfort-driven needs of an artist, producer and musicians while simultaneously keeping the quest for a fresh sonic environment alive was equally inspiring. 

I value that restless quality in an artist above all others, that rare ability to be comfortable with a seeming paradox and be brave enough to reach for the new, untested solution. It's where the fun part of recording begins and Ryan lives there. Always a pleasure.

-- Paul Bryan, producer Aimee Mann

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Ryan Freeland  has recorded and mixed my last 2 albums and my hope is to have him work on many more.He always gets it right sonically and the young man is a pleasure to work with.

-- Loudon Wainwright III

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I was delighted to work with Ryan Freeland, not just because his sounds are big, crisp and warm but because his presence in the studio is so positive and his instincts are always bang on.

Oh and he's really fast too !

-- Neil Finn

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Ryan Freeland is a force to be reckoned with. As a musician he has an amazing ear. As a Producer/Engineer he is technically advanced while still retaining what a lot of people have lost in the studio and that is "What is best for the song". I learned so much from him & can not wait to work on another project with him.

In a word "Genius".

-- Michael Lockwood (producer: Aimee Mann / Lisa Marie Presley)

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Ryan Freeland is a true professional on every level.

-- Gavin Lurssen (Lurssen Mastering)

07.02.09

Starting to mix Gaby Moreno’s next record.

06.29.09

Recording basic tracks for Amy Correia with producer Paul Bryan & Jay Bellerose.

06.22.09

Recording basic tracks for Kristy Hanson with soon to be thirty year old Mike Chiaburu.

06.10.09

Mixing Ian Axel’s record for producer Dan Romer.

05.18.09

Overdubbing & mixing Chuck Prophet’s new record with producer Greg Leisz.

05.04.09

Recording Grant Lee Phillips’ new record with producer Paul Bryan at Stampede Origin Studios.

04.21.09

Watching Gavin Lurssen master Joe Henry’s new record Blood From Stars.

04.16.09

Mixing Lamar Holley’s Confessions of a College Student.

04.01.09

Mixing Ingrid Michaelson’s new record with Producer Dan Romer at Stampede Origin Studio.

03.16.09

Recording & mixing Joe Henry’s new record with Jay Bellerose, Marc Ribot, David Piltch, Patrick Warren, Keefus Green, & Levon Henry at Garfield House Studio.

02.26.09

Recording basic tracks for Colbie Caillat with producer Ken Caillat at Record Plant.

02.17.09

Mixing African-American string band Carolina Chocolate Drops with Producer Joe Henry at Garfield House Studio.

02.09.09

Recording with Bill Frisell & Van Dyke Parks for a possible upcoming record.

01.26.09

Mixing piano rocker Jake O’Neal with producer Matthew Libman  at Stampede Origin Studio.

01.09.09

Recording basic tracks for Carolina Chocolate Drops with Producer Joe Henry at Garfield House Studio.

12.09.08

Mixing the new Son Volt record with Joe Henry at Garfield House Studio.

12.01.08

Mixing North To Glory for David Hallgren at Stampede Origin Studio.

11.16.09

Recording & mixing jazz artist Levon Henry at Stampede Origin.

11.10.08

Mixing Michael Miller with producer Brendan Buckley at Stampede Origin Studio.

10.29.08

Recording with John Fogerty for his upcoming album at Stampede Origin and Berkeley Street Studios.

10.28.08

Recording basic tracks for Jake O’Neal with producer Matthew Libman  at Stampede Origin Studio.

09.23.08

Mixing Jenny Owen Youngs with Dan Romer at Stampede Origin Studio.

08.25.08

Mixing Greg Copeland’s new record Diana & James with Greg Leisz at Stampede Origin Studio.

07.21.08

Recording and mixing Ramblin’ Jack Elliot’s new record A Stranger Here with Joe Henry at Garfield House Studio.

08.06.08

Recording Allan Toussaint with Joe Henry at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California.

06.12.08

Recording and mixing with Miss Willie Brown at Stampede Origin Studio.

04.28.08

Mixing Salif Keita with producer Joe Henry at Garfield House Studio.

03.24.08

Recording Salif Keita with producer Joe Henry at La Frette Studio just outside of Paris, France.

03.16.08

Mixing Clarence Bucaro at Stampede Origin Studio.

02.04.08

Mixing Gaby Moreno for producer Jay Bellerose at Stampede Origin Studio.

01.08.08

Mixing Chris Garneau at Stampede Origin Studio.

11.26.07

Mixing Rodney Crowell for Joe Henry at Stampede Origin Studio.

10.09.07

Recording Rodney Crowell for Joe Henry at Garfield House Studio.

09.20.07

Mixing Aimee Mann’s @#%&*! Smilers with producer Paul Bryan at Stampede Origin Studio.

06.12.07

Recording  Aimee Mann’s @#%&*! Smilers with producer Paul Bryan at Stampede Origin Studio.