The Pyramind Team

In his twenty plus years of experience, Greg has developed an impressive list of high profile clients and recording artists including his own recent work mixing and mastering the in-game music and double CD soundtrack release for Microsoft Studios, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary.

In 2003, Greg expanded Pyramind Studios to create a world-class music production training center. For this he was awarded the “Established Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Renaissance School of Entrepreneurship and received certificates of recognition and merit from State Assemblyman Mark Leno, San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros and California State Senator Carole Migden.

Greg is also a published author and experienced moderator and panelist at numerous industry events including: The SF MusicTech Summit, The Flux Summit, GRAMMY Career Day and The California Music Summit. His vision for Pyramind has included the production of numerous significant events all hosted at Pyramind’s facilities including: Game Sound Con, TestPress, The Flux Summit, The Annual GANG Awards after party, and a number of video game post mortems including Uncharted 2 and God of War III.

In 2010 Greg worked with Harmonix and MTV Games (the maker and then publisher of the video game, Rock Band) to create a nationwide touring master class (sponsored by The Recording Academy, T-Mobile, Fender & Shure) to train recording artists and labels in the process of publishing their music into the Rock Band Network.

Greg graduated with honors from SFSU with an inter-disciplinary degree in Music, Business, and Broadcasting. He is a twenty-year voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (The Grammys) where he has served as Trustee and a member of The Board Of Governors and continues to serve on the Producers & Engineers Wing national advisory council. He is also a member of The Game Audio Network Guild and a BMI writer and publisher.

After signing his band to an indy record deal, his cross-country tour brought him to SF where the drummer exploded – how typical.

Matt quickly found himself in high demand in the studio scene as a rare experienced Pro Tools user and became an award-winning Regional Technical Director for Guitar Center, and the Pro Tools Support Lead for the Cutting Edge Audio Group where he served as studio designer, installer and trainer for the likes of Joe Satriani, Metallica, Benny Reitveld (Santana and the SF Jazz Fest) as well as hundreds of private studios including Wally World (Walter A., N’Sync, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion). A crowning achievement during this period was to install, troubleshoot, deliver and support 50 Pro Tools workstations for the legendary Skywalker Sound during production of Star Wars Episode 1.

In January 2000, he and Greg Gordon began working together exclusively at Pyramind where they began running the hybrid Production/ Training businesses successfully. Matt has served the company as Chief Engineer, Senior Producer/ Composer, Chief Technical Officer, Vice-President and now Chief Academic Officer. He has mixed/mastered a hundred or so records (including his own released in 2002) as well as publishing several magazine articles. Matt has also written two texts on Pro Tools (Pro Tools Overdrive V 6.9 and V7 for Thomson Press).

He also engineered the sessions for the orchestral recordings for Iron Man 2 the video game. Steve’s expert skills in the studio also include his production and mixing of the newest Bill Ortiz (Trumpet Player for The Santana Band) album as well as recording the dialog sessions and mixing the animated series for Halo “The Return” for Waypoint on XBox live.

Before becoming a full time staff member at Pyramind, Steve was the co-founder of Digital Art & Music: a recording studio specializing in hip-hop/rap and alternative rock music. A seasoned producer and keyboardist, Steve has worked on numerous albums and loves adding to that number. Steve has also written and produced music for live theater, film and corporate video.

Steve also co-authored the highly respected “Pro Tools 7 Session Secrets: Professional Recipes for High-Octane Results” for Wiley publishing, a book that brought numerous insider techniques to light for anyone using Pro Tools. Steve recently added his insight as a writer and designer to the upcoming Pyramind / Alfred publications “The Pyramind Training Series”.

His first professional studio experience came working outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in a local independent studio tracking local bands and burning as many hours in the studio as humanly possible. Shortly thereafter, he invested in his first home studio (remember ADAT??) and recorded six solo records before enrolling with Pyramind in 2005.

Hired by Pyramind in 2006, Bryan has gone on to gain Pro Tools Operator Music, Operator Post, and Expert Certification in Versions 7, 8 and 9. Now the Director of Education, Bryan teaches several classes a week and continues to record, produce, mix and master as much music as possible. Additionally Bryan has contributed guitar work to both the Iron Man II and Halo Anniversary video games.

Dheeraj’s formal education as a financial management graduate from Hillsdale College, MI. and his work as a financial analyst at Price Waterhouse & Coopers helped pave the way for his placement in the business division of Pyramind. Dheeraj’s deep understanding of analytics, web development, budgeting, and the current climate of the rapidly changing music industry now helps guide the marketing and events produced at Pyramind.

An early Pyramind student, Hideki has since graduated to become Pyramind’s IT Administrator and Assistant Technical Director. Deks works hard to maintain the technical infrastructure at both the 880 and 832 Folsom St. facilities, and the rigorous scheduling and technical requirements of a multi-room studio complex.

Additionally, he serves as Lead Videographer and Content Editor within Pyramind’s creative team, working to generate production content as well as regularly documenting Pyramind’s myriad events in the SF music community. When not cutting videos and wrangling video content, Charles enjoys producing genre-blending musical works with classical, acoustic and electronic influences. You can get a taste of his music on Epiphyte Records’ Evolution One and you can view his video work on Pyramind’s YouTube profile, PyraTube.

Starting out as a sax player, Kevin developed a love and inclination for playing music very early on.  He joined his first band in Vermont and took the stage opening for national touring bands at the age of 14.  By the time he hit Boston, he was writing and playing guitar for multiple bands,  played hundreds of shows and recorded on multiple albums.

After moving to San Francisco in 2008, he began focusing on composition and production while taking his Protools Certification Training at Pyramind. This led him to several credits including music for Bravo’s Top Chef.  As a production assistant at Pyramind, he has worked on Halo: Combat Evolved, Kinect Disneyland Adventures, and Ubisoft’s Rocksmith – to name a few.

When not in the studio or playing guitar he can be found drinking dark coffee or hoppy beer in the foggy sunset with his fiance, Megan.