- Dave Aron
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David Royce Aron (born August 29, 1964 in Asbury Park, New Jersey is a multi-platinum recording engineer, live and studio mixer, record producer and musician. He has worked with some of the most influential icons of the past decades including 2 Pac, Snoop Dogg, Sublime, Wu-Tang, Prince, Nate Dogg, Perry Farrell, Bobby Brown, Dr. Dre and U2. David is currently touring with Snoop Dogg while continuing to pursue educational and business ventures worldwide.
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Early life
Aron is the son of 1950s be-bop trumpet player Al Aron and 20 year band director Dorothy Marshall. Dave's musical journey began in Asbury Park, New Jersey where he played clarinet in the high school's marching and jazz bands. In his senior year, he was voted most musically talented. In 1982, after attending Rutgers University for a year, he enrolled in the University of Memphis' recording program where he split his time between the recording studios and the football field as a walk on tight end.
Early career
As his musical journey continued, Aron took an internship at WHBQ radio and Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1987, he landed his first professional job at the world famous Sun Studios where he worked as studio manager and chief engineer. He quickly got a taste of working with a major artist when U2 recorded some songs for the Rattle and Hum album. In 1990, Aron moved to Los Angeles and found his first job at Music Grinder Recording. After a short stay, he found his first major career-break when he landed a staff engineer position at Larrabee Sound.
After working with multiple artists at Larrabee, he earned early credits working with Grammy Award -Winning artist, Prince, on "My Name is Prince", "Sexy M.F.", and an acoustic version of "7", which Dave mixed and was released as a single. This gained him a significant amount of clout and secured a flourishing career in the music industry. In 1993, Dave Aron began a long affiliation with Death Row Records. He served as engineer and mixer for Tupac Shakur's landmark album "All Eyez on Me", "Death Rows Greatest Hits", and worked on all of Snoop Dogg's albums from "Doggystyle" to "Paid the Cost to be the Boss". In addition, he also exclusively mixes all of Snoop Dogg's live performances. In 1996, when reggae-tinged rock band Sublime wanted a hip-hop producer at the desk for their major label self titled debut "Sublime", they hired Aron. His influence can be heard on their single "What I Got" which reached #1 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart and helped sell over Five Million copies of their album. Dave also collaborated a Snoop Dogg and Sublime remix for "Doin Time" released in 2005.
Dave currently owns his own studio in Los Angeles located high in the Hollywood Hills. He continues to work as Snoop Dogg's live mixer. He is also working on a series of instructional mixing DVD's entitled "Platinum Hip Hop Mixing" and educational seminars to help educate the generations of tomorrow about music, mixing, engineering and the music industry.
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Dave's credits include:
Year Album/Song Artist 1992 7 Prince 1992 My Name Is Prince Prince 1995 Dogg Food Tha Dogg Pound 1995 Friday Original Soundtrack 1996 All Eyez on Me 2Pac 1996 Death Row Greatest Hits Various Artists 1996 Sublime Sublime 1997 Gridlock'd Original Soundtrack 1999 Still I Rise 2Pac & the Outlawz 2000 Tha Eastsidaz Tha Eastsidaz 2000 2001 Duces n' Trays: The Old Fashioned Way Tha Eastsidaz 2002 Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss Snoop Dogg 2004 R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece Snoop Dogg 2005 Naked Truth Lil' Kim 2007 Double Up R. Kelly 2007 Running Your Mouth The Notorious B.I.G. 2008 Dubb Union Dubb Union External links
Categories: People from Asbury Park, New Jersey | Rutgers University alumni | University of Memphis alumni | 1964 births | Living people | American record producers
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