--Dustin Ryan

The Formulation Room Founder...Dustin Ryan has been a recording engineer for over 9 years. Starting out as a high school passion, Dustin spent time interning at Sound Lab under Justin Dehart. In college, he then enrolled in Sacramento City College's recording program. Before long, Dustin started purchasing his own recording equipment.

Dustin spent a few years recording his own musical projects and frequenting local "open mic" nights, to find local artists looking for recordings of their original work. Although recording and engineering was still a large part of Dustin's focus, most of Dustin's time was divided up between his own band rehersal, recording his bands albums, and his regular day job. Dustin decided in late 2005 to step back from his routine to make his passion--engineering--his full time project. Wanting to take his recording knowledge to the next level, Dustin began another Internship; this time at J Street Recorders. He gained invaluable knowledge working under Brian Wheat and Michael Rosen, on the Neve 8108 console.

You can find Dustin toiling away the hours at The Formulation Room and you'll also find him at the sound board as a live sound engineer for Cache Creek Casino & Resort mixing for national touring acts.

--David Marler

David Marler has been a professional freelance recording engineer for over 4 years now. As a lifelong musician David honed his recording and mixing skills while recording his own bands early on. After putting away the guitar David put full focus on his recording skills. Now graduated from the Sacramento City Audio Recording Program, he splits his time between engineering at The Formulation Room and working at Carvin.