About Us
Bryan Russell-Lowe
Owner, Audio Engineer
Hi, my name is Bryan Russell-Lowe and I run Brick & Porter Audio here in Tucson Arizona. We offer mixing and production services to bands and local artists in the Tucson area as well as remotely across the country. With over a decade of audio engineering experience - from interning at SubCat Studios to receiving my master's degree in audio production from the Newhouse School Of Public Communication at Syracuse University - I have had the privilege of working with a diverse range of talented musicians. I would love to use this experience to help you make your project sound the best it can.
Like many, my passion for creating music began at a young age with a cheap guitar. Nothing beat spending hours learning my favorite songs, and with every new guitar or amplifier or pedal, I got just a bit closer to getting the right tones to match my heroes. But when I bought my first loop pedal, everything changed, and the seeds of my love of music production were sown. I now had the tools to dive deep into the music I loved and replicate layers of instruments. I spent days trying to decode the layers upon layers of guitar on Led Zeppelin's "Ten Years Gone" (fourteen I later learned, though I think I only got to seven). It was a whole new world of musical discovery.
Over time, I began experimenting more with recording and mixing while playing in bands in the Boston area. I enrolled in an audio production and technology masters program several years later at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Communications. Working alongside industry professionals and talented musicians, I spent hundreds of hours in the school's state of the art recording studio learning all the intricacies of both classic analog and modern digital equipment.
Being surrounded by such a diverse bunch of artists, I was given the opportunity to work on projects spanning various different genres and mediums. Producing everything from rock to jazz to soul to classical to carnatic fusion, and from music to podcasts to film, I have learned the importance of diversifying your repertoire. There is a wealth of knowledge to gain from every new type of project you take on. This philosophy was further affirmed during my internship at Subcat Studios in Syracuse, NY. There, I was able to sit in and help out on an even larger array of professional recording projects and watch some of Upstate New York's top audio engineers in their element. Through it all, I have reaffirmed my love for the craft and the collaborative spirit that I bring along to every new project.
Now as a working audio engineer, my goal is to foster a creative and collaborative relationship with everyone I work with, because the only thing that is more important than producing something of professional quality is to make something that is original, unique, and represents the truest vision of the artist.
