Dean has held the envied position of being Gggarth Richardson's engineer for the last three years. He started his career as an assistant at several high-profile recording studios in Vancouver and has recently gone freelance. Credits include everything from the superheavy Bloodsimple and Project 86 to recording piano for Elton John and mixing rising country star Aaron Prtichett. Most recently he's been working with Xavier Rudd and Trapt on their newest albums.