Experienced sound and video engineer available for touring, recording, and local events. I offer many services including tracking, mixing, mastering, voice over work, video capture/editing/projection, media transfers, and live sound mixing. My rates are very reasonable and I am extremely easy to work with. Feel free to contact me at: benwentz@gmail.com

A partial discography of my work can be found here:
www.discogs.com/artist/Ben+Wentz

I have mixed and/or assisted the following national touring artists:
Jonathan Richman, Alex G, Elf Power, Sharon Van Etten, DIIV, Japanese Breakfast, Black Mountain, The Tokens, Noname, Those Darlins, Man Man, MONO (Japan), Steve Earle, Jimmy Webb, Tobacco, Mitski, The Marcels, Diet Cig, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Hop Along, Blues Control, Why?, Pink Mountaintops, The War on Drugs, Generationals, Bad Bad Hats, Arborea, Shy Glizzy, Shawn Colvin, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Dum Dum Girls, Barrence Whitfield & The Savages, The Hotelier, Elephant Stone, Adia Victoria, Lost in The Trees, Devin, Don Conreaux, EPROM, Grooms, The Brooklyn Bridge, The Safes, Pages Matam, Todd Snider, The Spinto Band, Elvis Depressedly, Paul Metzger, The High Dials, Pretty & Nice, Glenn Jones, Twinsmith, The Cast of Beatlemania, The Lettermen, Snowmine, The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Balance and Composure, Toby Driver, Crocodiles, Kevin Devine, Nightbox, Hume, Sharon Kraus, and many, many others.

I have produced video content for The Discovery Channel, Engle Entertainment, Penn State University, Tiny Pirate Pictures, and C-NET. My filming credits for social media include Thrasher Magazine, Converse CONS, Dime MTL, and NHS Inc.

CURRENT GEAR LIST:

MICROPHONES:
Audio Technica 4050 (x2)
Shure SM7B
Rode NT5 (x2)
AKG D5
MXL 993, 992
Audio Technica MB3000
Blue Kickball
Shure: SM58 (x3), SM57 (x5), SM11
Shure: Unidyne 545 (x2), Beta 52a, 516eq
Audix omb3x
Audio Technica Ddr instrument/drum mics (x4)
RS highball omni
Superlux Eco88 (x2)

CONSOLES + PRE-AMPS:
Soundcraft Delta Dlx 16x4x2
Allen & Heath Mix Wz 16x2
Sytek mpx-4aii
UREI/JBL 7510 (8 Jensen + 4 JBL input transformers)
UREI/JBL 5600 2b (w/ direct out mods)
Rane fmi14 (pre/para eq)
Yamaha m-1500 channel strips (x2)
Alesis Studio 24 inline mixer (8x2x2)
Audio Technica rmx64 (6x4 mixer/recorder)
Radial Pro AV stereo direct box
Countryman Type 85 active direct box
Whirlwind Imp 2 direct box
Horizon DB1 direct box

DIGITAL RECORDERS:
Motu 16a (16x16 io's)
Behringer ada8000 (adat 8x8 io's)

TAPE MACHINES:
Teac 2340a (1/4" 4 track)
Tascam 424 mkII (cassette 4 track)
Teac 4010sl (1/4" 2 track)
Sony TC-570 (1/4" 2 track w/ echo function)

OUTBOARD SIGNAL PROCESSORS:
UREI 1176ln compressor/limiter
FMR Audio RNC stereo compressor (x2)
DBX 163 (original "one knob squeezer")
Biamp Quad-Limiter
UREI Room EQ 535
Biamp Graphic EQ230
Boss Loopstation RC20
Peavey Univerb (vintage digital reverb)
Roland gr-50 guitar synth
Ibanez ad9 (analog delay)
Ibanez ue 305 (9 series analog delay, compressor, chorus)
Boss comp/sustain, trem/pan, chorus, digital delay, auto wah,

MONITORING:
Event Electronics TR8
JBL Eon 612
B&W DM305
Ampex 515 wide range speaker system

AMPLIFIERS + SPEAKER CABINETS:
Vox AC15
Fender Twin Reverb
SG systems sg212 (70's 2x12 hybrid tube amp)
Ampeg V2 (early 70's - 50 watt all tube head)
Ampex 632 Suitcase Amp (15 watt all tube)
Marshall 4x12 straight face cab
SWR workingman bass head
SWR bass cabs 4x10 and 1x15
Sunn 15" custom cab w/ Black Widow driver
Peavey Envoy 110 (solid state angry amp)

DRUM KITS/MACHINES:
Tama Swingstar
Alesis SR16
Yamaha DD-20s

SYNTHS + KEYBOARDS:
Wurlitzer electric piano Model 120
Crumar Orchestrator (1970's analog synth)
Hammond M3 w/ Leslie 110 cab
Silvertone electric chord organ
Conn spinet (w/ leslie speaker)
Korg Micro Synth
Yamaha: DX21, MK16, Vss100
Casio: sk1(mod), sk5, mt, pt, ct series
Countless unique modified keyboards/devices