Beau Burchell
American guitarist and record producer
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Beau Burchell (born December 17, 1978) is an American guitarist, record producer, and audio engineer from Orange County, California. As a performer, he is best known as the guitarist and backing vocalist in Saosin. He is one of Saosin's founders, and the band's only remaining member who has played with the band through its entire existence. He has previously been a member of Kosmos Express[1] and Open Hand.[2]
- Musician
- record producer
- audio engineer
Beau Burchell | |
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Burchell on stage with Saosin at The House of Blues Anaheim | |
| Background information | |
| Born | December 17, 1978 |
| Origin | Orange County, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1997–present |
| Member of | Saosin |
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| Website | saosin |
Burchell also has a prolific reputation as a record producer. He has been credited on over thirty albums of various types of punk rock. He also owns the record label Death Do Us Part.
Career
In addition to his work as a guitarist and producer, Burchell has participated in music-production education. In 2016, he appeared on the Nail the Mix platform as a guest instructor, providing a full mix breakdown of Saosin’s song “The Silver String.”[3][4]
Burchell has also collaborated with audio-software companies on signature production tools. He partnered with Room Sound to release the Beau Burchell Signature Series drum sample library, designed to replicate his recording and mixing style.[5] He also worked with STL Tones to create the Beau Burchell Kemper Pack, a collection of guitar amp profiles based on his studio tones.[6]
Gear
On stage, Burchell has been seen playing a Gibson Les Paul Custom, a Gibson SG Standard, a Burny Les Paul Custom, a Fender Jaguar, and a Balaguer Guitars Thicket BB. He plays a Hughes & Kettner Triamp MKII amp through both a Hughes & Kettner 4x12 cabinet with Vintage 30 speakers and a 2x12 cabinet with Greenback speakers. He has also stated that onstage he uses a Bob Bradshaw Custom Audio Electronics Looper, a RS-10 MIDI Switching Module, a Line 6 Echo Pro Delay Unit, TC Electronic G-Major, Shure U4D wireless Unit, a Boss noise gate, and a Dunlop Tremolo Pedal.
To record Translating the Name, Burchell played both a Gibson Les Paul Standard and Gibson SG Standard. He used a modded Mesa/Boogie 2-Channel Dual Rectifier amp through a Marshall 1960B cabinet for the rhythm tracks.
Discography
Kosmos Express
As Hope Dies
- Birth Place and Burial Site (2002)
- Legions Bow To A Faceless God (2003)[9]
Saosin
- Translating the Name (2003)
- Saosin (2006)
- Come Close (2008)
- The Grey EP (2008)
- In Search of Solid Ground (2009)[10]
- Along the Shadow (2016)
Production credits
| Band | Album | Role | Release year |
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| Kosmos Express | Simulcast | Arranger[8] | 1998 |
| As Hope Dies | Birth Place and Burial Ground | Engineer, mixing | 2002 |
| ForeverIRise | Go Where They Sleep And See If They’re Safe | Producer, Engineer, mixing | 2002 |
| As Hope Dies | Legions Bow To A Faceless God | Producer, engineer, mixing[9] | 2003 |
| Name Taken/Bayside | Split | Producer, engineer, mixing | 2003 |
| The Bronx | The Bronx | Engineer, mixing[11] | 2003 |
| Various Artists | Different Shade of Green: Tribute to Green Day | Producer, mixing[12] | 2003 |
| Various Artists | Bad Scene, Everyone's Fault: Jawbreaker Tribute | Producer, engineer, mixing[13] | 2003 |
| Various Artists | A Santa Cause: It's a Punk Rock Christmas | Producer[14] | 2003 |
| Death on Wednesday | Songs to To | Engineer[15] | 2003 |
| The Higher | Star is Dead | Producer, engineer, mixing[16] | 2003 |
| The Bled | Pass the Flask | Producer, engineer, mixing[17] | 2003 |
| Scars of Tomorrow | Design Your Fate | Engineer[18] | 2003 |
| Salem | Love It or Leave Me EP | Producer, engineer[19] | 2003 |
| Saosin | Translating the Name | Producer, engineer, mixing | 2003 |
| Taken | Between Two Unseens CD/DVD | Producer, engineer[20] | 2004 |
| Name Taken | Hold On | Producer, engineer, mixing[21] | 2004 |
| Saosin | Saosin EP | Mixing[22] | 2005 |
| Reel Big Fish | We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy | Engineer | 2005 |
| Scars of Tomorrow | Beginning Of | Engineer | 2005 |
| Various Artists | Punk Goes 90's | Producer, mixing | 2005 |
| Saosin | Come Close | Engineer, Mixing[23] | 2008 |
| Underoath | Survive, Kaleidoscope | Mixing | 2008 |
| Saosin | In Search of Solid Ground | Engineer, mixing[10] | 2008 |
| Taken | This Is Forever | Mixing | 2008 |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous | The Hot N' Heavy | Mixing | 2009 |
| It Prevails | Capture and Embrace | Mixing, mastering | 2009 |
| History Of... | Alcheringa; The Dreaming | Mixing, mastering | 2010 |
| Guiltmaker | The Emerald Coast | Mastering | 2010 |
| Trash Talk | Eyes & Nines | Mastering | 2010 |
| It Prevails | Stroma | Mixing, mastering | 2011 |
| Hideouts | Obsessed | Producer, engineer | 2014 |
| Emery | You Were Never Alone | Mixing | 2015 |
| Hands Like Houses | Dissonants | Writer (track 11)[24] | 2016 |
| Saosin | Along the Shadow | Engineer, mixing | 2016 |
| Moose Blood | Blush | Producer, engineer, mixing[25] | 2016 |
| Senses Fail | In Your Absence (EP) | Mixing (tracks 1–3)[26] | 2017 |
| Hundred Suns | The Prestaliis | Producer, mixing[27] | 2017 |
| Senses Fail | If There Is Light, It Will Find You | Producer | 2018 |
| Moose Blood | I Don't Think I Can Do This Anymore | Producer, recording, mixing[28] | 2018 |
| Limbs | Father's Son | Producer, engineer, mixing[29] | 2018 |
| Erra | Neon | Producer, engineer[30] | 2018 |
| Hail the Sun | Mental Knife | Producer, engineer, mixing[31] | 2018 |
| Emery | Eve | Mixing[32] | 2018 |
| It Prevails | A Life Worth Living (EP) | Mixing[33] | 2019 |
| Senses Fail | From the Depths of Dreams (EP) (Re-imagined) | Recording[34] | 2019 |
| Emery | White Line Fever | Mixing[35] | 2020 |
| Lightworker | Fury By Failure | Producer, Mixing | 2020 |
| Erabella | The Familiar Grey | Producer, Mixing, Mastering | 2020 |
| Boston Manor | Desperate Times Desperate Pleasures (EP) | Mixing[36] | 2021 |
| Senses Fail | Hell Is in Your Head | Producer, engineer (all tracks), mixing (track 2)[37] | 2022 |
| The Bled | Silent Treatment | Remixing, remastering[38] | 2022 |
| Boston Manor | Datura | Mixing[39] | 2022 |
| He Is Legend | Endless Hallway | Mixing[40] | 2022 |
| Project 86 | OMNI, Pt. 1 | Producer, engineer, mixing[41] | 2023 |
| Lightworker | How the Beautiful Decay | Producer, engineer, mixing[42] | 2024 |
| Chevelle | Bright as Blasphemy | Mixing[43] | 2025 |