Biography

Third generation L.A. native, son of an Audiophile Guru and cousin of R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Daniel landed his first major industry gig at 22 with legendary music producer T Bone Burnett (O' Brother) after attending a sound production course at Citrus College in Glendora, CA. T Bone enjoyed the lo-fi acoustically focused roots sound that Daniel produced recording John R. Williamson's "Songs from Crescent Vale". Prior to Film Sound, Daniel was engineering records with live sound guru Mark Linett (Brian Wilson, Frank Zappa and Dave Alvin).

Evolving into TV & Film he went to work with Peter Guber ("Batman" & "Rain man") on AMCs "Sunday Morning Shoot Out", almost 30 years after Daniel's aunt Cece worked with Peter at Casablanca Record and Filmworks.

Daniel's first major feature film as a Production Sound Mixer was "Coffee Date". Winner of awards at BreckenRidge, Salem and Sedona International Film Festivals, Coffee Date's Production Sound Track consists of 90% of the Daniel's original recorded production audio.

On the set of "An Inconvenient Truth", Daniel was honored to be former Vice President Al Gore's personal sound engineer, micing him for each audience presentation for the film.

His recent work includes recognition for 2 Day Time Emmy Awards for "Best Live Audio Mix To Tape" for the "Ellen Degeneres Show" . Daniel's audio engineering work can be heard on a very special record which received a Grammy Award nomination for "Best Engineered Album" for Brian Wilson who won his first solo Grammy in 2005 for "Best Rock Instrumental Performance" for "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" from his best-selling SMiLE album.

In early 2008 Daniel became one of the youngest members of C.A.S. Cinema Audio Society.
- IMDb mini biography by: anonymous

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