{"id":328,"date":"2018-08-09T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T23:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mi.edu\/?p=328"},"modified":"2019-01-23T12:57:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T20:57:26","slug":"life-and-career-of-francis-buckley-musicians-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/profiles\/life-and-career-of-francis-buckley-musicians-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life And Career Of MI’s Own: Francis Buckley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grammy Award\u00ae-winning record engineer Francis Buckley\u2019s broad range of experience has seen him occupy the studio seat for breakout bands, established chart-toppers and Hollywood films. Buckley started out working at W.E. Studios in Redondo Beach in 1979. He then went on to engineer and mix the pioneering punk act Black Flag\u2019s first album, \u201cDamaged\u201d, while working as chief engineer at Unicorn Records. It was in 1981, during his ten-year stand as Director of Recording Services at MCA Music Publishing, that he met producer and fellow Grammy winner Glen Ballard, with whom he had a fourteen-year partnership.<\/p>\n

Buckley won Best Engineered Album at the 1997 Grammy Awards\u00ae for the Quincy Jones album \u201cQ\u2019s Jook Joint\u201d. As an engineer and mixer, Buckley has contributed his expertise to other multi-platinum recordings, including The Pointer Sisters\u2019 \u201cBreakout\u201d, Paula Abdul\u2019s \u201cForever Your Girl\u201d, Wilson Phillips\u2019 \u201cWilson Phillips\u201d, Alanis Morissette\u2019s \u201cJagged Little Pill\u201d to name a few. His work can be heard on over 100 million records worldwide and past work includes Aerosmith, Van Halen, Steve Vai, Deborah Cox and Billy Dean.<\/p>\n

Buckley has worked on a variety of films, including the 1997 comedy hit \u201cThe Wedding Singer\u201d (additional music mixer), \u201cPhoenix\u201d (music mixing engineer) and \u201cThings You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her\u201d (music recordist). In 2009, he presented the TV show \u201cSpotlight On Designing Your Home Studio\u201d, a how-to guide for transforming an empty bedroom into a fully-functioning and professional recording environment.<\/p>\n

Along with artist development, Francis currently conducts session work and film, TV and commercial music production. Francis is currently working with singer-songwriters Noel, Tod McLeod and Michael Buckley, Lap-Pop Artist \u201cLo-Fi Sugar\u201d, Soul\/Rock group \u201cThe Underground Railroad\u201d and Mexican funk band \u201cPilaseca\u201d.<\/p>\n

Francis Buckley\u2019s Audio Engineering Fundamentals<\/a>, guides students through audio engineering by using some of the most successful and timeless tools of the trade. In this exclusive online course, the Grammy Award\u00ae-winning sound engineer and legendary producer gives students the scoop with hands-on instruction and real-world expertise, covering foundational areas like signal flow, console operation, what makes a great recording, and much more.<\/p>\n

Teaching was never on my radar but from the moment I stepped in front of my first class, a 4 hour lecture class with a 3 sentence syllabus. I have been hooked.\u201d Francis Buckley<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Get inside the trade with one of the most sophisticated engineers teaching today, and discover the magic where art and science meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grammy Award\u00ae-winning record engineer Francis Buckley\u2019s broad range of experience has seen him occupy the studio seat for breakout bands, established chart-toppers and Hollywood films. Buckley started out working at W.E. Studios in Redondo Beach in 1979. He then went on to engineer and mix the pioneering punk act Black Flag\u2019s first album, \u201cDamaged\u201d, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6556],"tags":[6564],"yst_prominent_words":[6916,1165,352,6918,6920,1162,6919,677,5898,1161,6912,1163,6911,39,273,3322,275,6913,3087,486],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profiles","tag-audio-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mi.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}