David Kalmusky

David's father Kenny Kalmusky was a bassist, audio engineer, pioneer and basement scientist who made records at Bearsville Studio, near Woodstock NY with Todd Rundgren, Jerry Reed, Ronnie Hawkins, Ian & Sylvia, Members of "The Band", David Clayton Thomas… the list goes on. Kenny taught David about recording, microphone proximity, splicing tape, pre amp saturation, cross talk, head alignment, demagnetization, and the possibility of aliens before David turned 5 years old.

Fast forward to current day… Well over 100 albums later, David's body of work on record, has been Juno Awarded (Canadian Grammy), CCMA Awarded, Top 10 Charting, USA Billboard #1, Grammy Nominated, Gold and Platinum selling.

As a guitarist, David has toured the world, playing The Music Hall in Berlin, to The Grand Ol Opry In Nashville. He's recently been featured in Canadian Musician Magazine, listing him as one of the Top Guitarists in North America in their 2008 "Guitar Edition". David's recently had had an amplifier bearing his name, and partial design, go into Production for 2010, is currently producing the new, forthcoming record, for Multiple Grammy Nominated Act "The Wilkinsons" 2010 release on Universal Records, and is the Mix Engineer on the last 4 top 10 singles, for Grammy nominated group "Emerson Drive". David is currently in the studio with iconic rock band Journey, mixing and mastering their forthcoming album.

Visit www.kalmusky.com for a more complete list of credits, and recent news.

David Kalmusky and FabFilter

"Well, the FabFilter wasn't a 'Fad'. I look at many of the tools I've used, and most of them, I tire of, or find replacements, only a few in my workflow have become 'Staples', and the FabFilter plugin set, have definitely become a staple."

"FabFilter Pro-C is the only compressor I use on the drum bus, finally... expressive parallel compression, down to one simple plugin."

"FabFilter Timeless, on a Bus / Aux send on every session, always gives me something unique, that other mixers wouldn't come up with, even guys WITH FabFilter. I find it's so configurable, customizable, that dialing in something unique, is almost instant."

"I use the synths, somewhere, in A LOT of productions, and Pro-Q is on EVERY master fader, in every mix session I have done in the last year and 1/2 (since I discovered FabFilter)"

"These tools allow me to express something unique, and different inside a mix, but aren't just 'Icing on the cake' plugins... they are at the core of every production & mix I do."

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