Dave Darlington
Dave Darlington is a performer, producer, songwriter, engineer, mix engineer and mastering engineer[1][self-published source?] based in New York City.
Darlington grew up in Miami, Florida in the 60s and started playing bass at an early age. He attended college initially for architecture, but switched to music and studied classical and jazz seriously enough to consider a career as a classical musician. He ultimately moved to NYC to try to make it as a bass player instead. Over the next few years, through playing live gigs and tracking bands on an “8-Track home recording setup,” Darlington was involved enough in the scene to be able to find his way into the studio by tagging along with musicians with whom he’d collaborated. He used his experience from live gigging and his music education to learn enough from those sessions to understand what engineers were actually doing to create records.[2]
As a touring musician, Darlington played with C+C Music Factory, and Seduction (group), and his credits on records like New Kids On The Block, No More Games show that his work with the personnel from those two bands carried into the studio.
The “Percussion Programming”, “Keyboard Programming”, and “Drum Programming” credits from these and other records from the early 90s corroborate Darlington’s own story of how he got started working in New York studios. In an interview with Waves he references his ability to understand MIDI programming as his starting point as a studio engineer. In that same interview, he names Secret Sound as the first studio that hired him as a substitute, saying that from there he moved to a studio named “Counterpoint” at the invitation of his “boss.” There he worked on at least one record with Jerry Ragovoy, Rachel Cappelli’s self-titled album for Atlantic Records.
Two notable songwriting credits are for Phyllis Hyman’s Don’t Wanna Change the World and the soundtrack to the HBO series Oz.
As a music producer, Darlington’s credits include [Blowout Comb|Digable Planets], Chuck Loeb, Vanessa Williams, The Funky Poets album To Life which includes their single, “How Can You Leave Me Now” featured on the [Free Willy #Soundtrack|Free Willy Soundtrack], and Kim Waters.
Mixing and Mastering credits include two GRAMMY Awards for mixing Algeria by Wayne Shorter and Simpatico by Brian Lynch and Eddie Palmieri.
Apart from the GRAMMYs, some other notable credits include If On A Winter's Night - Sting, [Gershwin’s World #Personnel|Gershwin's World] - Herbie Hancock, and At Fillmore East (Box Set)- Miles Davis.
Dave Darlington continues to work out of his studio, Bass Hit Recording, in New York City.
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