Darian Cowgill (born November 7, 1972, San Marino, California, United States), is an American audio engineer, mix engineer, mastering engineer, record producer, College Professor, and Commercial Voice Over Artist.

Career

Darian is an independent audio engineer and co-founder of Atrium Music,^[1] Atrium has been operational since 1998. Atrium Music,^[2] a music licensing and publishing firm, focuses not only on the individual artist, but their independent and continual growth.

The Atrium library consists of over 3000 composers and independent artists licensed from around the world for the purpose of placement in television, film, and all broadcast media opportunities.

Darian's musical career began with singing and touring with the Pasadena Boys Choir... followed by theater performances, solo performances, live sound, and in-studio production.

In 1998, he began an internship with Warped Tour creator, Kevin Lyman giving Darian a unique insight into the inner workings of the longest-running (Punk Rock Summer Camp) tour to date.

From his foundational experiences, he fell in love with exploring the other side of the studio glass as an engineer and producer.

He has since produced over 500 unique local, independent, and major label artists to date.

His work in national and international digital and terrestrial radio began while working as a content producer and Production Director for Pyramid Radio from 2005 until 2009, under former Radio legend and then CBS president Steve Rivers,^[3] and former owner of Boston's Kiss 108 - Richie Balsbaugh.

Darian was Steve Rivers's last production director before Steve Rivers's untimely passing. (Steve Rivers, former SVP/Programming for CBS Radio and the legendary programmer of such stations as WXKS/Boston, KIIS-FM/Los Angeles, and KMEL/San Francisco has died from cardiac arrest - 2012)

Darian continued to work full time in Radio as a producer, audio, and mix engineer for Los Angeles Burbank based independent radio syndication company Radio Express...^[4] where he produce multiple international top 20 count-down radio format, and mix format shows weekly including The World Chart Show with Lara Scott (current K-Earth 101 Los Angeles) and The World Chart Show with PJ Butta (current 93.5 KDAY Los Angeles)^[5] Other productions include but are not limited to the Airtel, Heineken, Coke, and Ford sponsored syndicated English, Spanish, and French shows for various countries worldwide.

He has worked as an independent record producer and engineer for the American rock band, Oedipus.^[6] He has also worked with a number of other bands as a Producer, Editor, Mixer, and Mastering engineer.

These bands include but are not limited to Middle Class Rut, Beware of Darkness, Flagship, Zen Robbi,^[7] Katastro, The Graves, Kevin Sandbloom, Jonny Santos (Silent Civilian), Rafael Moreira, When in Rome, Jimmy Gnecco, Sleeping Giant, and many more.

In addition to mixing and producing individual single-release songs, complete albums, radio shows, television/film projects, and commercial broadcast content.

He is also a desired voice artist for national and international brands and continues to voice nationwide commercials for Benztown (Benztown is a leading international radio imaging, production library, programming, jingles and voiceover services company with over 1,900 affiliations on six continents. Benztown was named to the Inc. 5000 for the past three years as one of America’s Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies).

He is also a current and continued professor of Critical Listening for Engineers, and Digital Audio Technology II (advanced Pro-tools) as an AVID Certified Pro Tools instructor within the Citrus College Recording Arts program in Glendora, California

Education

Two-year AA/AS in Recording Arts from the Citrus College Recording Arts program.

Bachelor of Science degree in Business/Leadership from Azusa Pacific University.

Master's Degree in Communications from the University of Southern California.

Awards and accolades

Cowgill was the Grand Prize winner of a Pensado's Place^[8] sponsored Indaba Music mix contest,^[9] for "Muffaletta" on Billy Martin's 2013, Heels Over Head album.^[10] Subsequently, Cowgill was interviewed by Dave Pensado^[11] on his weekly show, "Pensado's Place",^[12] regarding his victory.

He was a producer on the "Get Your Music in Film and TV" panel^[13] at the 32nd Westcoast Songwriter's Conference held in Los Altos, California. He was elected to the board of directors for Westcoastsongwriters.org in June 2014 and will continue to be a guest speaker for the music production, mixing, and mastering seminars.

Darian is also an AVID certified Pro Tools instructor. He also endorses Slate Digital,^[14] THD Electronics, Dean Markley Strings and Mesa Boogie.

Partial discography

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