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Who is this guy?
Brad Huett's background, and where each part of it can be checked: the public record with links, the documents he can show, and the parts that are his own account, said as his.
In brief
A Navy veteran, a music producer, and a cloud architect.
Brad Huett is a U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam era, a producer and studio engineer, and a retired enterprise cloud architect. He runs the ABA Media Platform studio in Greeley, Colorado.
- U.S. Navy, 1973–79. Six years, honorable discharge. Data Systems Technician, Petty Officer Second Class, discharged from USS Dwight D. Eisenhower after her first Mediterranean deployment.
- Los Angeles, 1980s to 1991. Session guitarist, then audio engineer and session guitarist (1987–88) and digital editor and producer (1988–91) at Screen Music International. Did the editing on the Wilson Phillips debut album (1990), a nominee for Album of the Year at the 33rd Grammy Awards.
- Technology, five decades. Founded Development Technologies (DevTec) in the San Francisco Bay Area, then worked as an enterprise and cloud architect. Certified ScrumMaster (2014).
- Today. Designed AudioVibes, a free tool that measures a mix in the browser, and the ABA production method behind his studio. Has published his own music at museguitarist.com since 2015.
- Guitar since 1964. Studied in Colorado with Tommy Bolin and with jazz guitarist Johnny Smith, and with Howard Roberts in 1976.
Public record
Each line can be checked in a minute.
Where the record backs the setting but not Brad's own part in it, the table says so.
| Claim | What the record shows | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam-era veteran | US law defines the Vietnam era, for service outside Vietnam, as 5 August 1964 to 7 May 1975. Brad entered active duty on 31 August 1973. | 38 U.S.C. § 101(29) |
| Served aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower | Commissioned 18 October 1977; first Mediterranean deployment 16 January to 13 July 1979 (Naples, Haifa, Athens, Lisbon and others). Brad was discharged from her on 30 August 1979. | USCarriers: CVN-69 history |
| Wilson Phillips debut album | Released 27 March 1990 on SBK Records; nominated for Album of the Year at the 33rd Grammy Awards, 20 February 1991. The album's printed credits do not name its editors; Brad's part is his account (below). | 33rd Grammy Awards, Wilson Phillips (album) |
| Screen Music International | A film-score editing house of the period: the Delta Force 2 (1990) score credits it as the facility where the score was edited. The credit names the company, not a person; Brad was its digital editor from 1988 to 1991 (his account). | Discogs: Delta Force 2, Intrada 2016 |
| Dyaxis digital editing system | A 16-bit, Macintosh-based editing system of the period, reviewed in Sound On Sound in 1990. That Brad edited on it from 1988 to 1991 is his account. | Sound On Sound review, 1990 |
| Akai S900 sample library | The S900 was Akai's 12-bit sampler of 1986, followed by the S950 in 1988. That Brad and one other engineer built a replacement sample library for it is his account. | Akai S900 |
| Music editor, Nickelodeon, 1989 | IMDb credits “Bradley J. Huett, music editor” on the segment “Thanksgiving Nightmare” of Nick's Thanksgiving Fest, which aired 22 November 1989. It is his one individually credited job from those years; the rest was done at houses that sold their clients anonymity. | IMDb: full credits |
| Studied with Tommy Bolin | Bolin lived and played in Colorado from the late 1960s until 1973 (Zephyr, Energy). The lessons themselves are Brad's account. | Tommy Bolin |
| Studied with Johnny Smith | Smith moved to Colorado Springs in 1958, where he ran a music store and taught. The lessons themselves are Brad's account. | Johnny Smith |
| Studied with Howard Roberts | In the mid-1970s Roberts left studio work to teach, traveling the US to present guitar seminars, and went on to found the Guitar Institute of Technology. The 1976 lessons in Honolulu are Brad's account. | Vintage Guitar: Howard Roberts |
Shown on request
Documents Brad can show.
Held by Brad and shown, not posted, because they carry personal details.
- DD-214, the Navy discharge record. Active duty 31 August 1973 to 30 August 1979; character of service honorable; Data Systems Technician, Petty Officer Second Class (DS2, E-5); discharged from USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- Colorado driver's license with the veteran designation, which the state adds only on proof of service.
- Certified ScrumMaster certificate (2014).
His own published work
Open it and try it.
His music
About 40 songs across eight albums, jazz through electronic, published since 2015.
The records
Three productions made with the ABA method, with players.
In his own words
The work that was never credited by name.
This part is Brad's account, stated as his. Much of his studio work in the late 1980s was done at editing houses that sold their clients anonymity, so the work carried no individual credit by design.
- Wilson Phillips. Did all the editing on the debut album and sequenced its running order, at Screen Music International.
- Digital editing, 1988–91. Worked on Dyaxis, a 16-bit Macintosh-based editing system of the period, while most samplers around it ran at 8 and 12 bits.
- Akai sample library, 1987–88. With one other engineer, was contracted to create a replacement sample library for the Akai S900 after the factory samples from Japan were poorly received in the US. The S900 was Akai's 12-bit sampler of 1986, followed by the S950 in 1988.
- Nickelodeon, 1989. As music editor on “Thanksgiving Nightmare” (the IMDb credit is in the table above), assembled the segment's music on the Dyaxis and synced it from beginning to end.
- Navy band. Served as the Eisenhower's ship's Band Director, leading the ship's bands on the 1979 Mediterranean deployment.
- Technology career. Founded Development Technologies (DevTec) in the San Francisco Bay Area in the dot-com era; later enterprise and cloud architecture roles.
- Guitar. Playing since 1964. Studied weekly with Tommy Bolin in 1971, in a back room of a sewing shop on South Broadway near Littleton; the first three months were Eric Clapton licks, one after another, then Bolin's own style. Also studied with Johnny Smith in Colorado. Studied with Howard Roberts for about six months in 1976 in Honolulu, between Roberts's mainland seminar tours, while Brad's ship was at Pearl Harbor; that is how he moved from rock to jazz. Took courses from Roberts's school, the Guitar Institute of Technology, around 1981–82 after moving to Los Angeles.