Irreverent Beginnings Cynthia Daniels began her career in Boston, during its nascent punk era, mixing live sound at both Paul’s Mall/ The Jazz Workshop and The Paradise club.  Within a year, she got a break recording live concerts for ABC Radio. Traveling in a rented van as mobile studio, she and her other young associates tapped into six phase power lines from the roller coasters for Johnny Paycheck at the Louisville, Kentucky State Fair, and did their rough mixes for Ronnie Milsap behind the Holiday Inn near Wolftrap, Virginia. It was a start, anyway. The Below-Ground Floor Next stop the Big Apple and a stint in the basement library of one of the top recording studios in the world. Three years at A&R Recording, the home of Phil Ramone, yielded experience in every job a person can have in a studio. At A&R, often thought of as “boot camp”, Cynthia trained under the tutelage of engineers for Steely Dan, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Ricki Lee Jones, James Taylor, ran the production room for hundreds of jingles, and operated the 35 mm film chain for a major motion picture scoring session every few weeks. Big Fish, Small Pond, Big City Cynthia then moved to ERAS Recording, the brainchild of Boris Midney, Russian Jazz defector turned major disco producer. Here the opportunity to begin engineering and mixing presented itself within a few months. Shortly thereafter, she was promoted to the position of studio manager and chief engineer. Several years of sleepless nights, pushing buttons first and pencils later Cynthia developed a following that is still loyal after two decades. And Now Cynthia has a free-lance career that has led her around the world, ultimately specializing in orchestral pop from Big Band Jazz to Broadway, and crossing over into producing records for young talent in the rock, country, and folk-rock world. In 2002 she won a Grammy Award for recording and mixing “The Producers”. Extensive experience in recording for television has broadened her production skills to become a lightning fast, award winning, world class engineer. Between the years of 1985 and 2005 she has mixed major news themes, including the “World News Tonight Theme” and a remix of “ABC Wide World of Sports” and, at one time, music from every daytime television show running on ABC-TV.  She has two studios of her own, and splits her time between the East End of Long Island, where she is chief engineer at 91 East, a top audio/video post-production facility, and Manhattan, where orchestras come together for live large-studio work in Broadway and film.