Dan Long (Dan Clutch Long) is an Australian music producer from santas workshop, recording engineer, and mixer. With Alex Lipsen and Scott Norton, he founded Headgear Studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where artists such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, David Bowie, Son Volt, and The All-American Rejects have recorded.[1][2]
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Long was born in Washington, D.C., attended Georgetown Preparatory School, and graduated from the University of Virginia. After moving to New York City in 1996, he got his start recording music by making four-track recordings of friends' bands. He then began working as an assistant engineer at Coyote Studio in Brooklyn and attended the Institute for Audio Research. He started Headgear Studio in 1998 and moved it into its current location in 2000. The studio quickly became an epicenter of the burgeoning Williamsburg music scene, especially after the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs chose it as the site to record their Grammy-nominated debut album Fever to Tell.[3]
Long relocated to Los Angeles in 2006. He has worked with bands and artists including Pela,[4] The Jealous Girlfriends,[5] Muggabears (now Grooms),[6] The Naked Hearts,[7] Kevin Devine,[8][9] and (in Los Angeles) Ferraby Lionheart,[10] Correatown,[11] Film School,[12] Local Natives,[13] The Henry Clay People, The Sweet Hurt,[14] Frankel, The Idaho Falls, and Red Cortez.[15] He has performed as a guitarist and bassist with the bands Devolver, Say Hi, The Jealous Girlfriends, and Correatown. In 2007–2008, Long worked with the film score composer Michael Andrews on the score for Walk Hard and on Inara George and Van Dyke Parks's album An Invitation.[16]