Who's behind this?

Dallas Hodgson has been programming microcomputers for as long as they've been around, and playing guitar for a few years longer than that. Some of his best-known projects include Deluxe Paint AGA, (Electronic Arts), SONAR (Cakewalk), AmpSim (Cakewalk), Project SHEPPi and the Amiga disk editor NewZAP. He is known to be an avid consumer of books, a political freethinker, a terror on guitar and a wizard in the studio. He loves to surf the Web from remote locales, cook spicy food and is an IndieVest executive producer for the upcoming Joe Lynch horror-comedy "Knights Of Badassdom" starring Summer Glau.

Although no one knows for sure, Dallas supposedly grew up in the smallish resort town of Monterey (Z-80 era) and lived there until college, briefly attending UC San Diego (LSI-11) before moving to the Silicon Valley (MC68000) to find his fortune while squeezing out a BSCS in order to ~~satisfy his parents~~ validate his years of hackery. After writing a bunch of popular applications for companies like IBM (i386), Metaphor (SPARC) and Electronic Arts (MC68030), he shifted gears to pursue his love of audio production at "Art Of Mixing" author David Gibson's California Recording Institute (Pentium). This led to advanced study with digital audio legend Ken Pohlmann (MC56002) at the University Of Miami, where he completed a Master of Science in Music Engineering. Along the way, he got married in Japan and lives with his wonderful wife Masumi and adorable daughter Michelle in California. When not working in the studio, he writes software plugins and performs a variety of technical and creative services for his consulting firm, Rock Island Productions.

The earliest version of this site was assembled back in '96 on a handbuilt AMD K6-2 PC clone with 128MB SDRAM, ATI "All In Wonder Pro" video capture card and Digital Research (no, not that DRI) 21" monitor running Windows '98 with a 9GB Seagate Cheetah HD. Back then, the music & sounds were recorded direct to ADAT on a Mackie 24x8 8*Bus mixer, and digitally transferred to PC. Needless to say, things are much better today.

Key West, '96

On Granger Pond (w/Michelle)

Project Studio Tan

At Wireworld w/Ty & Michael

Commodore-Amiga Era, '86

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Vikings dealt harshly with people who couldn't pronounce their last name correctly. Some of them were Hodgsons.

(I remember how the shortest kid in class used to challenge me at every opportunity, hoping to move up a rung. He never did.)