Bio
Ryan Ulyate has been a recording engineer and producer since 1978, with credits on over 120 albums. Ryan has worked extensively with Tom Petty. Other artists Ryan has worked with include Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Mick Fleetwood, and Juan Gabriel. Ryan has been mixing music in immersive formats since 2010, starting with 5.1 and then moving on to Dolby Atmos in 2020. His solo album “Act 3” was nominated for the Best Immersive Audio Album Grammy in 2024.
History
History
1979 to Present:Producer / Engineer / Mixer / Artist. Discogs has a very detailed discography with every record in every territory including several I forgot, or didn’t know about! *
All Music has a more limited discography
Other Career Highlights
1999-2001:Guest Lecturer at the MIT Media Lab. Co-Author of “The Interactive Dance Club: Avoiding Chaos In A Multi Participant Environment” presented at the 2001 New Interfaces For Musical Expression (NIME) workshop and published in the Computer Music Journal.
1998:Chairman of the Interactive Dance Club at Siggraph 98 in Orlando. (An idea ahead of it’s time!)
1994-1998:Interactive Audio Composer / Producer. Projects included: the Virtual Studio Tour at the CAA/Intel New Media Lab in Beverly Hills, the Magical Lagoon attraction at Hirakata Theme Park in Osaka. (Ask me about talking gnomes!)
1990-1994:Sound Designer. Working with Synclavier guru Craig Harris. Ad clients included: Budweiser, Chrysler, Michelob. Ad agencies include Chiat Day Mojo: Los Angeles, DDB-Needham: Chicago, J. Walter Thompson: New York. (4 years of national TV spots. Mostly cars and beer, but never cars with beer)
Before 1979: First 1/4” Mono session at age 7 (recording older sister’s singing group with dad’s mono reel to reel. Learned it’s not a good idea to absent-mindedly scratch the mic while recording! ). Got a 1/4” 2 track Teac (with “sound on sound”) at age 13 and became an expert at “bouncing”. Got a 4 track Teac (with “Simul-Sync”) at age 17 and created my first studio in the trailer I was renting from my sister and brother in law. Graduated “Recording School of America” (At Kaye-Smith Studios, Seattle- a real 16 track studio!) at age 20. Hit the streets of L.A. , swallowed my pride, got an a gofer job at George Tobin’s Studio Sound Recorders. 6 months later got my first engineering credit on a on a #1 record (Robert John’s “Sad Eyes”). All downhill after that ;-)
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* On the Discogs list there is the “Grease” soundtrack a Sinatra album and a Nat King Cole album that I did not work on. Those albums are included (by mistake) because my uncle, Lloyd Ulyate, played trombone on them.