The Engineer

Clear Creek Recording's owner and engineer is Dave Ogden, who has been a musician since he was ten years old. After graduating high school in Spokane, WA, Dave moved east to attend college in Amherst, MA, and then moved to Boston.

After a stint in the early 1980's playing with bands in Boston and interning at various recording studios in the Boston area, Dave began working in the recording industry in 1985 as the Director of Sales and Marketing for Ursa Major, a Boston-based manufacturer of analog delay line and digital signal processing equipment for recording and broadcast. Ursa Major's products, such as the Space Station, are still used in recording studios worldwide. Ursa Major was purchased by the Austrian company AKG Acoustics in 1988, and Dave went to work for AKG first as their Digital Products Manager (responsible for the introduction and marketing of the ADR 68K Digital Reverb), then as Western U.S. Regional Manager, and then for many years as Product Manager.

During his term as AKG's Product Manager he was part of the team that designed and introduced such microphone products as AKG's MicroMic series, the D112 kick drum mic, the D-3000 series "TriPower" dynamic microphones, the C-1000 condenser microphone and many others. During that time Dave built WhyNot Studios in Berkeley, CA, where Dave's critical listening skills were consistently relied upon, both by AKG Acoustics and by clients in the acoustic music and New Wave scenes in the Bay Area.

Dave then moved to L.A. to work for Sennnheiser Electronic in the early 90's, where he acted in a similar capacity doing market research and development for new products from both Sennheiser and Neumannn microphones. He moved to the Tehachapi mountains and founded Clear Creek Recording in 1999.

Dave has played guitar since he was ten years old, primarily fingerstyle guitar in the "celtic" style these days, though he can fill in on most guitar styles when asked. He also plays mandolin, cittern (a large mandolin family instrument), banjo, bodhran (the Irish traditional frame drum) and wooden flute. He feels that being an active musician is an important quality in a recording engineer; first-hand experience with the sounds an instrument makes form the background a recording engineer calls upon when getting sounds in the studio.