Jay Stanley Biography
With over 17 years of experience in the
music and entertainment industry Jay Stanley has built an impressive
list of credits.
His resume includes the titles Billboard #1 songwriter, producer,
composer , engineer, sound designer, studio owner , pro tools
operator, and independent record label president . Jay began
his career as a musician and songwriter and after attending
Boston’s prestige’s Berklee College of Music in
the 1980’s and getting a specialized degree in music
production and engineering from Full Sail Center for the Recording
Arts in 1990.
After graduating in 1990, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue
a career as Recording Engineer and Music Producer. Jay’s time in LA
allowed him to work in world class recording studios on many different
types of projects, post production audio and sound design for film
and television including Warner Brothers animated series Animaniacs,
Tiny Toons and Batman, and record projects for Major Artists with
Platinum Producers and Engineers including “ The Rippingtons “ Grammy
nominated record “Curves Ahead’. The LA experience
really helped to develop his talents as an accomplished sound designer,
engineer and producer and to provide an impressive credit list
to his resume.
After returning to the Central Florida area
in the early 1990’s,
Jay was employed as a sound effects designer at Soundelux where
he continued to build credits on feature films, television, theme
park ( Universal Studios , Six Flags , Walt Disney World and more
)and video game audio projects. In 1993 Jay met aspiring songwriter
Rob Thomas {Matchbox20) and the two developed a professional relationship
which resulted in the co-writing of 26 songs and the formation
of the band “Tabitha’s Secret” the first incarnation
of what would later become Matchbox20. Jay’s collaboration
with Rob spawned the Billboard # 1 song “3am” which
spent ten weeks at # 1 on the billboard adult top 40 charts, sold
over 15,000,000 copies and garnered Jay ASCAP POP music awards
for most performed song of 1999 and 2000.
Currently Jay is President of his own company formed in 1999
J. Stanley Productions Inc. A state of the art digital audio
production center outside of Orlando specializing in high definition
audio, music production, audio for film and television , sound
design for theme park attractions, video game audio, ADR, Foley,
5.1 surround sound mixing and encoding, voice talent casting,
audio for the world wide web and audio restoration.
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