109 HITMAKER DAVE ARON MAKING TRACKS BACK TO MTSU

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 4, 2006EDITORIAL CONTACT: Professor Dan Pfeifer, 615-898-5944

Man Behind the Music of Prince, Snoop Dogg and Tupac Sets Oct. 20-22 Visit

(MURFREESBORO)—Middle Tennessee State University’s Audio Engineering Society and Urban Music Society will host the return to campus of renowned music producer/engineer Dave Aron Oct. 20-22 with a series of informational sessions featuring plenty of advice and hands-on experience for recording industry students.
Aron, whose career kicked off at Memphis’ Sun Studio as an assistant engineer for U2’s 1988 Rattle and Hum, has worked with musicians ranging from Prince to Jane’s Addiction to Sean Combs to Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead.
His long affiliation with Death Row Records led to work on award-winning albums with Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg. Aron works as a live sound engineer with Snoop’s touring band and also operates a production company and project studio in Hollywood.
Aron, who’s making his fifth visit to MTSU, is scheduled for a discussion of his education, career and recording/touring experiences, followed by an open Q&A session, on Friday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. in the State Farm Room of the university’s Business and Aerospace Building. A tracking session will follow at noon on Saturday, Oct. 21, in Studio B of the Bragg Mass Communication Building, capped off by a mixing session at noon on Sunday, Oct. 22, in Studio C in the James Union Building.
During the tracking and mixing sessions, Aron is set to produce a track from an MTSU student chosen from demos submitted earlier this semester. Students will be the songwriters, performers, audio engineers and production assistants.
”Dave brings meaningful real-world experience to the table and always finds ways to include as many students as possible during the lecture, sessions and social events,” said Dan Pfeifer, the recording industry professor who arranged Aron’s visits. “His wealth of knowledge, uncompromised skill and desire to see the students succeed makes for a learning experience that cannot be duplicated otherwise!”
The Oct. 20 lecture is free and open to the public, but studio size will limit attendance in the tracking and mixing sessions to 50 to 75 students, Pfeifer said.
The MTSU Distinguished Lecture Series, College of Mass Communication and Department of Recording Industry are supporting the event. For more information, call 615-898-5944 or e-mail dpfeifer@mtsu.edu.
Considered the largest program in mass communications in the nation, the MTSU College of Mass Communication offers degree concentrations in 14 major areas—ranging from journalism to digital media and media management to recording industry management.
The Department of Recording Industry is one of the largest and best equipped in the country. Undergraduate recording industry students choose between two concentrations: music business or production and technology. The department also offers a unique graduate program in recording arts and technologies.

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ATTENTION, MEDIA: For a color JPEG of Dave Aron with MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee during a previous visit to the university, contact Gina E. Fann in the Office of News and Public Affairs via e-mail at gfann@mtsu.edu. Thanks!