Lou Giordano
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Lou Giordano is a record producer and recording engineer who worked at Radiobeat Studios and Fort Apache Studios. He has produced a wide variety of bands, including Hüsker Dü, the Goo Goo Dolls, and many others.
While he was a student at MIT and a member of the local band The Vacuum Heads he created two famous guitar effect pedals for seminal post-punk act Mission of Burma: the Vacu-Fuzz ("a Big Muff Pi on steroids") and the Vacu-Trem a souped up Tremolo unit. Both units are often cited as key to the Mission of Burma sound. ([1])
[edit] List of bands produced by Lou Giordano
- Belly
- Bim Skala Bim
- Boys Night Out
- Deep Wound
- DYS
- Goo Goo Dolls
- Hüsker Dü
- Jewel
- King Missile
- Live
- Millencolin
- Mission of Burma
- Negative FX
- Paul Westerberg
- Pere Ubu
- Greeley Estates
- Samiam
- Sherwood
- Siege
- Small Ball Paul
- S.S.Decontrol
- A Static Lullaby
- Sugar
- The Connells
- Sunny Day Real Estate
- Taking Back Sunday
- The Ataris
- The Lemonheads
- The Smithereens
- Treble Charger
- Yo La Tengo
- Halifax
- The Bats
- Waking Ashland
- Plain White T's
- The Color Fred