Lance McVickar owner, producer and head engineer at mcVaudio has had an eclectic career in the music business spanning over 20 years. Working his way up in the music industry starting in the mid 80‘s as a studio apprentice at Evergreen in Manhattan, then became an assistant engineer, and finally a recording engineer. During those years Lance got the opportunity to work with some of the industries top producers and engineers in the business.

Including:

Bill Laswell, Carlose Alomar, Rob Stevens, Robert Musso, Tommy Faragher, Lotti Golden, Sly and Robbie, Jelly Bean Benitez, Gary Katz and others.

Working on projects for artists

including:

Michael Stipe, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Johnny Rotten, Golden Palominos, Brenda K Starr, The Jet’s, Boys Club, Eg Daily, Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, The Isley Brothers, The Weather GIrls, Aurther Baker, Hue Masekela  and many others.

Lance’s early days were spent working with SSL and Neve consoles, and analog tape. Midi and digital were just starting to come onto the seen. Lance was a freelance engineer for many years working out of some of the most well none studios in NYC including:

The Hit Factory, Right Track, Sound Tracks, Clinton, Electric Lady, Unique, The Power Station, 39th Street, Evergreen, Clinton and many more.

Later Lance became the head engineer of Audio Paint located on the upper west side for ten years.

Working on a wide range of projects from TV spots, Broadway shows, original music for Cinemax, HBO, The Discovery channel, Nickelodeon,  Disney and others. Also getting hired as producer on several indie band projects, please have a look at the

credits page.

With his great background, years of experience and wide range of clients hiring Lance McVickar to engineer and or produce your next project is a no brainer.