"I was their guy in Virginia," Coleman says of the early days of their collaborations. After their production of Noriega's 'Super Thug' in 1997 put them on the map, they began to spend more time in Virginia Beach, and they soon became one of Master Sound's regular clients. Studio A control room at The Neptunes' Hovercraft Studios.Ĭoleman and the Neptunes became acquainted when the producers were clients of Master Sound, where he was a staff engineer. A blast of CVs after graduation in 1994 landed him a job at Master Sound, the largest studio in a small town on the East Coast, and a place that was about to become the world's busiest music factory. "I walked into that studio almost 15 years ago and said 'This is the coolest thing in the world. "It's been an amazing thing to be there in the middle of the creative process with Pharrell and Chad," says Coleman, 35, a native of Torrance, California, who learned recording as an apprentice at a small studio in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, where he went to college, before rounding out his education at the Full Sail academy in Florida. And, as you might expect, he loves every minute of it, even though 15-hour days in the studio are not unusual, and Coleman logs as many miles as a touring musician, following the Neptunes between studios in Los Angeles, New York, Miami and their home base of Virginia Beach. But it takes a lot of hard work to keep up with The Neptunes.Īndrew Coleman has what many would consider a dream job: primary engineer to hitmaking duo Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, better known as the Neptunes. It's not a bad gig being chief engineer to the world's hottest production duo, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo.
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