Editing Sean Beavan (section)

==Biography and career==
Beavan started his career as a musician and engineer in his hometown of [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. He played bass and sang in various local bands and also played fretless bass with Clevelander [[Eric Carmen]] (of [[Raspberries (band)|Raspberries]]) on the song "Hungry Eyes" on the [[Dirty Dancing]] Soundtrack. From 1989 to 1990 he was a member of [[Humble Pie (band)|Humble Pie featuring Jerry Shirley]]. While working as an engineer at [[Midtown Recording|The Right Track Studio]] in downtown Cleveland,<ref name="Cleveland">[[HitFix]] Staff (December 8, 2011). [https://www.cleveland.com/music/2012/11/eavan_returning_to_cleveland_a.html] [https://www.cleveland.com ''Cleveland.com.''] Retrieved July 25, 2019.</ref> Beavan met [[Trent Reznor]] who worked as the in-house programmer. Reznor also played keyboards in several local bands that Beavan mixed.

Reznor asked Beavan to mix the demos of what would eventually become ''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]'', which had received multiple offers for record deals.  Beavan mixed sound during Nine Inch Nails' live concerts for many years, eventually becoming an unofficial member of the live band, and even singing live backup vocals from his place at the mixing console.  Reznor invited him to work on ''[[The Downward Spiral]]'' <ref name="Sound On Sound">{{cite journal | url = https://www.soundonsound.com/people/classic-tracks-nine-inch-nails-closern | title = CLASSIC TRACKS: Nine Inch Nails 'Closer' | accessdate = 2019-07-25 }}</ref> as well as mix several songs on Marilyn Manson's debut record ''[[Portrait of an American Family]]''. After contributing to several Nine Inch Nails remix releases (including ''[[Closer to God]]''), Beavan mixed and co-produced Marilyn Manson's ''[[Antichrist Superstar]]''.

In 1996, after 8 years, Beavan left the Nine Inch Nails camp to mix front of house for the "Antichrist Superstar" world tour.  In late 1997 Beavan and Manson moved into the [[Hollywood Hills]] and started production on ''[[Mechanical Animals]]''.

Beavan went on to produce and mix records for artists as diverse as [[Guns N' Roses]], [[God Lives Underwater]], [[System of a Down]], [[Depeche Mode]], [[No Doubt]], [[Slayer]], [[Kill Hannah]], [[Hyde (singer)|HYDE]], [[P.O.D.]], [[Paloalto (band)|Paloalto]], [[Thrice]], [[Unwritten Law]], [[Moth (band)|MOTH]], [[Kidneythieves]], [[Tommy Stinson]], [[Tiger Lou]], [[Hypernova]], and [[Chronic Future]].  He also returned to work with Manson, mixing ''[[Eat Me, Drink Me]]''.

In 2005 Beavan travelled to Chile with [[8mm (band)|8mm]] for 2 concerts. Also to record the second album of the Chilean band E-MEN. He joined [[Rod Sáez Chávez]], [[Diego Sagredo]] and [[Daniel Cartes]] for the recording of the album at [[Agharta Studios]].

Beavan is currently involved in his own band with his wife Juliette Beavan, called [[8mm (band)|8mm]]. 8mm has an album entitled ''[[Songs to Love and Die By]]'' which was released in late 2006. Having supported [[Sean Lennon]] on the west coast leg of his North American tour the dynamic [[Trip hop]] band are currently regulars in the [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] music scene and have toured the US and Great Britain. After recently producing and mixing Denver Colorado favorites [[Meese (band)|Meese]] for Atlantic records, Beavan worked in the studio with [[Marilyn Manson]] on his forthcoming album with [[Chris Vrenna]] and [[Twiggy Ramirez]] at Sage and Sound in Hollywood, then mixed "The High End of Low" at his home studio, The Blue Room. This March found Sean Beavan mixing fellow Clevelanders [[THIS IS A SHAKEDOWN!]]'s debut record on the newly formed [[Reversed Image Unlimited]] record label. Produced by Multi-Platinum producer [[Michael Seifert (producer)|Michael Seifert]] and recorded at Michael's [[Ante Up Audio]] located in the heart of downtown Cleveland, Sean mixed the record in their new SSL suite. Beavan recently Mixed 4 songs for Japanese-American Sony Records artist Kylee produced by [[Jeff Turzo]] of God Lives Underwater fame, and is currently starting production and mixing duties with Long Island indie faves [[Envy on the Coast]].