Wikipedia's first sentence called it “music producer who has worked with bands such as sepultura”. Today it says “american record producer from havertown”.
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Howard Benson is a music producer who has worked with bands such as Sepultura , Motörhead , P.O.D. (producing their multi-platinum album Satellite and their 2003 release Payable On Death), Crazy Town (producing Darkhorse , the band's follow-up to their 2000 multi-platinum record, The Gift Of Game ), Reveille , Blindside , Cold (he produced 2003's Year Of The Spider ), Hoobastank (produced the successful 2004 album The Reason ). Working with him, there's audio engineer Mike Plotnikoff who works a really cool drum sound as described by Cold drummer Sam McCandless : "The band had been playing with Manson and Staind, so I wanted the drums to sound huge," he explains, "like dump trucks falling from the sky. Howard and Mike got that right away, and since it usually takes a week or two to get the drum tracks down, I was blown away." v t e1
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Howard Benson (born 1956 in Havertown , Pennsylvania ) is a two time Grammy nominated music producer and aerospace engineer .Benson attended Lower Merion High School until his graduation in 1974, he then went on to attend Drexel University receiving a B.S. in Materials Engineering in 1980.He worked as a Mechanical Engineer and a Process Engineer until 1984.
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Musical artist Howard Benson is an American music producer and multi-instrumentalist .Benson has produced such artists as My Chemical Romance , The All-American Rejects , Kelly Clarkson , Daughtry , Gavin DeGraw , Rascal Flatts , P.O.D. , Theory of a Deadman , Motörhead , Bon Jovi , Santana , Halestorm , Orianthi , Flyleaf , Skillet , Three Days Grace , Adam Lambert , Hoobastank , Creed , Chris Cornell , Blindside and Papa Roach .Benson has twice been nominated for Producer of the Year in 2007 and 2008.
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Musical artist Howard Benson is an American music producer and multi-instrumentalist . Benson was nominated for the Producer of the Year Grammy Award in 2007 and 2008.
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Musical artist Howard Benson is an American record producer.
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He has been nominated for two Grammy Awards for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical in 2007 and 2008, among two wins and 16 total nominations for his productions.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “music producer who has worked with bands such as sepultura”. Today it says “american record producer from havertown”. Read the current article and compare.
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music producer who has worked with bands such as sepultura
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american record producer from havertown
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