2008 & 2009 Wammie Award Winner for Best Live Sound Engineer
Welcome to the home of DHS Sound. My name is Daniel Schwartz and I am a freelance audio engineer in the Washington, D.C. area. My work in audio ranges from studio recording to live sound reinforcement, field and in-studio television audio to radio board operations. I have a Bachelors Degree of Science from The Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University in Audio Production with a minor in Music. I’ve recently worked for The National Press Club, MSNBC & CNBC, & Bias Recording Studios in Virginia. Additionally, I regularly run front of house sound at local area music venues Iota Nightclub in Arlington, Jammin’ Java and The Barns at Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA.
Aside from work as an audio engineer, I am an area musician. Currently, I am playing with local area music acts including The Justin Trawick Group, Margot MacDonald, The Sweater Set, Robbie Schaefer, Sir Alan and the Calypso Ponzi Schemers, Victoria Vox, Jamie Marie, Stripmall Ballads, and Jennifer Cutting’s Ocean Orchestra.
Finally and perhaps most close to my heart, is that I am one-fourth of the DC based production company BandHouse Gigs. Since 2004, the production team have staged allstar tributes to artists including Nils Lofgren, The Band, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Nick Lowe, Joni Mitchell, Warren Zevon, Allen Toussaint, The 40th Anniversary of Woodstock, and most recently Neil Finn and Crowded House. All were showcased at The Performance Center at Strathmore in Bethesda, MD and at The Barns at Wolf Trap. Over the course of these tributes, I have had the privilege to perform behind such artists as Margot MacDonald, Jon Carroll, Heidi Martin, John Jennings, Daryl “Jr.” Cline, and Steuart Smith.
Check out my Grandsons US Virgin Islands Tour Diary
Read the profile of me from the Washington Post Express
