AAA RECORDING

Joe Haley

Joe Haley is best known as the guitarist and song writer for Psycroptic. Forming in 1999 with brother Dave, Psycroptic have established themselves as one of the leading Australian extreme metal bands over the course of their 15 year career. In that time Psycroptic have released 6 studio albums, a live DVD and toured extensively throughout 25 countries. Joe has appeared in 6 music videos, and in 2009 was featured in Guitar World’s ‘Betcha Can’t Play This.'

As a producer, engineer and mixer, Joe has 6 of the Psycroptic releases credited to his name along with over 40 releases from other artists, both local and international of many different styles. In addition to this Joe has been involved in the recording of albums by Ruins, King, Aborted, Nervecell, The Amenta and many more. Joe has also performed and is available as a session guitarist, bassist or drummer for recordings that he works on. In the past 5 years Joe has published 5 tab books including 4 guitar tab books for the Psycroptic albums Ob(Servant), The Inherited Repression, Psycroptic and Scepter of the Ancients, as well as a bass tab book for the self titled album Psycroptic

Sebbington Von Krugal

Sebbington spent his mid/late teens training at Hobart studio Philmac under the watchful eyes of Phil McKercher as well as receiving instruction from Phil’s brother, three time Aria Award winner of "Engineer of the Year", Paul McKercher.

After receiving multiple certificates in the music industry for both live and studio Sound Engineering he went on to study Guitar and Studio/Live Sound Engineering at The Conservatorium of Music at UTAS.

Seb is now a proud member of the team at AAA gathering as much knowledge as he can while working as a house engineer. He also plays guitar in Hobart “prog rock” band, Lunar Rampage.

Patrick Neumayer

Like thousands of other young aspiring musicians, Patrick began his drumming career by driving his parents insane as he practiced his drums in a granny flat underneath the family home. By the age of 15 Patrick had joined his first band and not long after was invited to record his first track as part of a high school complication CD. Now at the age of 34 Patrick has racked up five album recordings and many more accolades.

With Gape, Patrick has become a signed recording artist with Gape’s second album ‘Exploit the Moist’ being picked up by Canadian label ‘CDN Records’. Renowned as one of Tasmania’s most loved slam bands, Gape has played alongside the likes of Psycroptic, Grave, Intense Hammer Rage and Ruins, just to name a few. Along with their recent record signing, Gape has been invited to tour America.

Aside from Patrick’s two main bands, he has also created a solo project called Nebulae, in which he produces experimental drum tracks and then selects musicians from near and far to contribute. As this is purely a studio project, Nebulae relies on social media to gain recognition.

To mix things up a bit Patrick is also a session drummer and recently worked with a local rock funk band who played The Tasmania’s Falls Festival in 2016 to help them achieve third place at the Australian Global Battle of the Bands after winning the Tasmanian heat. Furthermore, Patrick has performed in many of MONA’s (Museum of Old and New Art) ‘Mofo’ festivals and exhibition events under the instruction of MONA’s musical arts director Brian Ritchie (of the Violent Femmes), plus worked as a drum technician for drummer David Jones while David performed at MONA.

In his spare time, Patrick works as a studio assistant at AAA Recording. In this role, Patrick assists with equipment set up, recording, management of rehearsals and promotion of the studio. With years of experience both on stage and in the studio, Patrick knows how to get the sound he wants from his equipment.

Alan Andrewartha

Alan began his recording career after meeting ex-Sherbet guitarist Clive Shakespeare and assisting him with the construction and installation of his 16 track recording studio Silverwood. Working as Clive’s assistant he learnt the finer points of recording and worked with various artists including Tommy Emmanuel and Doug Williams as well as various other projects, demo’s, jingles and documentary sound tracks.

Part of being a good recording engineer/producer is having musical knowledge and experience playing music. Prior to working with Clive Shakespeare, Alan played guitar in various Sydney bands who performed on the same bill as bands such as Sherbet, Rose Tattoo, AC/DC and Hush. Eventually Alan became Stevie Wright’s musical director and toured with him across the eastern states of Australia. While working with Stevie Wright, Alan’s band, Silverwing, were signed to Festival Records. Unfortunately they disbanded shortly afterwards due to artistic differences. Alan then went on to tour with The Ike and Tina Turner Revue and English band Osibissa as part of the production crew.

In 1976 Alan set up Roadsound, a sound and lighting production company specializing in large concert production for artists such as Billy Thorpe, Marcia Hines, Ol’55 and The Daley Wilson Big Band (just to name a few). Roadsound also set up a rehearsal and demo recording studio. After Roadsound came to an end, Alan toured with The Silver Studs and Air Supply as sound mixer.

Alan began work at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1980 firstly in radio and then moving to television. He worked as a sound recordist, sound mixer and sound editor as well as recording, tracking and mixing various programs and animated segments. He also composed, recorded and produced themes and incidental music for sporting, current affairs and children’s programs.

During his time at the ABC he pioneered the use of digital samplers and Midi sequencing for the creation and editing of complex sound effects and also recorded and edited Foley and ADR on various dramas. In addition he also worked with Ampex and Studer 24 track analogue recorders in the ABC’s “Neve-Necam” automated mix-down suite and was instrumental in the design and installation of equipment in editing and production suites.

In 1989 Alan moved to Cairns and started his own studio, Alan Andrewartha Recording, and recorded CD’s, demos, jingles, voice overs, documentaries, tourist videos and much more. He also worked as a freelance sound recordist on documentaries, commercials and corporate videos. While in Cairns he travelled with the Tjapukai Dance Theatre on their World Tour as sound recordist for the ABC documentary, “Proud to Be”; worked for Air Niugini in Port Moresby on their in-house training videos; and a documentary featuring Bonita Mabo for CAAMA / Film Australia.

Alan re-located to Hobart in 2012 and started AAA Recording with his son-in-law Patrick Neumayer, running Pro Tools as well as conventional analogue recording and also offers on-line mixing, mastering and rehearsal space. Over the past 5 years the studio has produced a wide range of recordings of various styles and continues to grow its clientele.