As one of the most successful and influential music producers of the past 20 years, Pete Anderson has built a career on bucking the trends of the mainstream in favor of his own distinct and bold sound. So when the time came to outfit his new studio in Los Angeles in 2008, Anderson sought out a mixing console that would provide a certain level of convenience without sacrificing an ounce of sonic integrity.
From 1986 to 2003, Anderson was best known as Dwight Yoakam’s producer, lead guitarist and music partner. Since then, Anderson has produced albums for top country artists such as Tanya Tucker and Mark Chesnutt, while embarking on his own solo career and starting his own label, Little Dog Records. In all of Anderson’s work, his irreverence for the mundane is apparent, but so too is the respect he holds for his musical roots. This respect lies not only in the composition of songs he produces and plays, but in the sonic elements as well.
Anderson recently completed production of Mark Chesnutt’s latest release, Outlaw—a record of Chesnutt performing classics from the “Outlaw Country” sub-genre, featuring tracks from the likes of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Hank Williams, Jr. True to form, Outlaw represents Anderson’s rebellious-yet-reverential approach. “The idea wasn’t to take these songs and change them, but we did want to tighten up the arrangements from the originals,” Anderson said.
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