For the songwriter, please see Roger Nichols (songwriter)
For Roger Nichols the recording engineer, please see Roger Nichols Roger Nichols, born in Missoula, MT, is a Grammy-nominated composer and songwriter. ...

Roger Nichols was a nuclear engineer until he turned his hobby of audio recording into a career as a recording engineer and producer. He is most known for his work with Steely Dan, but his client list includes the Beach Boys, John Denver, Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa, Crosby Stills & Nash, Al Di Meola, Roy Orbison, Cass Elliot, Plácido Domingo, Gloria Estefan, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Rickie Lee Jones, Kenny Loggins, Mark Knopfler, Eddie Murphy, Michael McDonald, James Taylor, Toots Thielemans, and many more. His work has been nominated for Grammy Awards many times, of which he won seven. Nuclear engineering is the practical application of the principles of nuclear physics and the interaction between radiation and matter. ... Audio engineering is a part of audio science dealing with the recording and reproduction of sound through mechanical and electronic means. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Steely Dan is an American rock band centered around the core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. ... The Beach Boys, originally the Beech Boys, a small team of four brothers from the south of Poland, emigrated to America in the early 1950s in search of a fortune to be made in the Arizonian logging industry. When it soon became evident they had been the victims of... John Denver (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. ... Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris),[1] a singular musical talent, is an African American singer, songwriter, record producer, musician, and social activist. ... Frank Vincent Zappa[1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, guitarist, singer, film director, and satirist. ... ... Al Di Meola (born July 22, 1954 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American jazz fusion guitarist. ... Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988), nicknamed The Big O, was an influential American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades. ... Cass Elliot (September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), born Ellen Naomi Cohen, was a noted American singer, best remembered as Mama Cass of the pop quartet The Mamas & the Papas. ... Plácido Domingo Plácido Domingo [1] (born January 21, 1941) [2] is a world-famous Spanish operatic tenor, well-known for his versatile, strong voice that is possessed of a ringing and clear tone throughout its range. ... Gloria Estefan (born Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García on September 1, 1957 in Havana, Cuba) is a five-time Grammy Award-winning Cuban-American singer and songwriter. ... Béla Fleck and the Flecktones is a primarily instrumental group that draws equally on bluegrass, fusion and jazz band, sometimes dubbed blue_bop. ... Rickie Lee Jones on the Duchess of Coolsville album cover. ... Kenny Loggins on the cover of his collection Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: The Greatest Hits of Kenny Loggins Kenny Loggins (born Kenneth Clark Loggins on January 7, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter. ... Dr Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE (born August 12, 1949, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British guitarist, singer, and songwriter. ... Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Golden Globe-nominated and Grammy Award-winning actor and comedian. ... Cover of The Ultimate Collection from 2005 Michael McDonald (born February 12, 1952, in St. ... James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Belmont, Massachusetts. ... Jean Toots Thielemans (born Brussels, April 29, 1922) is a Belgian jazz artist well known for his guitar, harmonica play and also for his highly accomplished professional whistling. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music...

In 1978, Nichols pioneered the technique of "digital drum replacement" by inventing the Wendel sampling drum machine, which was used to provide drum and percussion sounds on Steely Dan's acclaimed Gaucho album. This technology is now commonplace in music production around the world. 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Steely Dan is an American rock band centered around the core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. ... Gaucho was Steely Dans last album before the bands 10-year breakup from June 1981 to October 1991. ...

Nichols is also an airplane pilot, and was close friends and flying buddies with singer/songwriter John Denver. He helped Denver pick out the new airplane in which he later died. Nichols was on his way to California to meet with Denver (to help him to learn how to fly said plane) when he learned of the crash that took Denver's life. John Denver (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...

Roger Nichols also invented and produced a rubidium nuclear clock under his company name Digital Atomics. The purpose of the clock was to provide the accuracy of nuclear timekeeping to better synchronize digital recording equipment in the studio, but at a lower cost than the typical cesium clocks such as those used in military and aviation applications. General Name, Symbol, Number rubidium, Rb, 37 Chemical series alkali metals Group, Period, Block 1, 5, s Appearance grey white Atomic mass 85. ... Atomic clock Chip-Scale Atomic Clock Unveiled by NIST An atomic clock is a type of clock that uses an atomic resonance frequency standard to feed its counter. ... General Name, Symbol, Number caesium, Cs, 55 Chemical series alkali metals Group, Period, Block 1, 6, s Appearance silvery gold Atomic mass 132. ...

Nichols is also an avid amateur astronomer, scuba diver, radio-controlled model airplane enthusiast, and auto racing photographer. A giant Hubble mosaic of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant. ... Scuba divers exploring fish and coral. ... A Die Cast Boeing 747 static model. ... Racing cars redirects here. ... Cameron Frost is a good photographer! Photography is the process of making pictures by means of capturing light on a film. ...

He and his wife, writer/musician Conrad Reeder, [[1]] have two daughters, Cimcie [[2]] and Ashlee [[3]]

Roger Nichols Digital

Nichols started a company called Roger Nichols Digital [4] in late 2005. With this new company Nichols is introducing his own Plug-In Software for digital audio processing.

He has been mentor to many young and upcoming engineers such as James Blount of RecordNOW and Kevin "Vic" Martin of Seventeen Grand Studios.

Grammy awards

• 1977 "Best Engineer Non-Classical" Steely Dan Aja
• 1978 "Best Engineer Non-Classical" Steely Dan FM
• 1981 "Best Engineer Non Classical" Steely Dan Gaucho
• 1997 Producer "Best Children's Album" John Denver Train Songs
• 2000 "Best Album by Duo or Group" Steely Dan Two Against Nature
• 2000 "Album of the Year" Steely Dan Two Against Nature
• 2000 "Best Engineer Non-Classical" Steely Dan Two Against Nature

Aja (pronounced the same as Asia) is an album by the rock band Steely Dan. ... Two Against Nature is an album by Steely Dan, released in 2000. ...

External links

• Roger Nichols home page
• Roger Nichols Digital Homepage
• Roger Nichols demos his plugins at NAMM show