Hi, I'm Noel. I've worked for a digitization service bureau called Creekside Digital since 2011, and on the side I record bands and run a record label called Grimoire Records with my friend Phil. Writing and playing weird music was my first passion. Helping bands craft amazing sounding records without going deep into debt has now become my main passion.
Since 2013, I've engineered, mixed and mastered something like 70 albums - click the "my portfolio" button to check out like 60 of them on the Grimoire Records bandcamp page. Before Grimoire Records, I was just a musician with little interest in audio engineering - I just wanted to make weird, heavy music. When we would step into the studio, however, I was always left scratching my head at why our drums never sounded the way I thought we actually sounded "in the real world." I would show engineers examples of the kind of drum sound I was looking for, and get answers like "there's gated reverb on those drums." So, I said "cool, lets put gated reverb on the drums!" Womp womp.
As a musician, it took me years to discover that the sound I was craving came from the severely under-utilized art of capturing the sound of the drum room in addition to the drum kit. Now, as an engineer, I'm just obsessed with roomy drum sounds.
I graduated from UMBC with a bachelor's degree in graphic design in 2005. Then, in 2011 I was given an amazing opportunity (by my dad, Bill Mueller, a life-long audio engineer who worked at Sheffield for almost 30 years) to learn studio recording techniques at the Sheffield Institute for the Recording Arts. Even though I had been bitten by the recording bug, I knew working in a commercial studio setting wasn't for me. I settled into my day job at Creekside Digital, and started recording bands on the weekends. In 2016, my wife Lauren and I finally bought a house with recording functionality in mind, and here we are!
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