Rich Renken has spent a lifetime in music, working professionally in a dizzying number of areas of the industry. His incredible depth of experience starts from an early age, mixing live sound (among others, Mom had a classic rock band!), to playing rock and roll (his college band featured Bryan Carlstrom, future producer/engineer for Alice in Chains & Offspring), to attending the Dick Grove School of Music (for bass and engineering), to building guitars with luthier extraordinaire James Tyler, to mixing and/or mastering projects for artists, broadcast, and DVD in music and film. He is a member of ASCAP and the Recording Academy (Grammys).