Program Chair, Sound Design for Visual Media
A graduate of The Institute of Production and Recording in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Colt Leeb is a young and gifted instructor with an already impressive and expanding set of credentials. He is an Avid Certified Pro Tools Instructor, with specializations in audio recording and production, MIDI, digital recording and editing.
Colt has spent countless hours behind the console, recording, producing, engineering, editing and creating music for many local and national artists as well as worked at Master Mix Studios, Minneapolis, and Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN.
According to Colt, “Being able to edit audio at a professional level is arguably the most essential skill for the recent graduate. It makes me feel great when students complete my advanced editing class knowing they will be a valued employee at any studio on the world.”
Aside from his work in the music industry, Colt enjoys writing music for his band, Absent I, and considers himself to be an avid outdoorsman as long as the weather is nice and he gets to go home at the end of the day to sleep in his own bed.
Education
- Diploma, The Institute of Production and Recording
Client Highlights
- Soul Asylum (The Silver Lining), Assistant Engineer 2005
- Staija (Show Yourself), Engineer/Mixer 2005
- A Verse Unsung/New Medicine (The Autaum EP), Engineer/Mixer/Producer 2006
- Rise or Rust, Engineer/Mixer/Producer 2006
- Golden Smog (Another Fine Day), Assistant Engineer 2006
- Staija (Unreleased), Engineer/Mixer/Producer 2006
- Far From Falling (EP), Engineer/Mixer/Producer 2006
- Casey Golden (Peddling Medicine), Recording Engineer 2006
- Adrianne Lenker (Stages of the Sun), Recording Engineer 2006
- Lucky Boys Confusion (How To Get Out Alive), Assistant Engineer 2006
- Jason Karaban (Doomed to Make Choices), Engineer 2006
- A Verse Unsung/New Medicine (Sleeping Tigers), Engineer/Mixer/Producer 2007
- Copasetic (Everything Is…), Engineer/Mixer/Producer 2007
- Smilin Liar (Shotgun Melodies), Recording Engineer 2007
- Meat Puppets (Sewn Together), Mixer 2008
- Quiet Drive (Deliverance), Drum Engineer/Assistant Engineer/Loops 2008
- Drift Effect (EP), Producer/Engineer/Mixer 2008
- The Honeydogs (Sunshine Committee), Assistant Engineer 2009
- Tonic Sol-fa, Recording Engineer/Editing Engineer 2005-2010
- Tonic Sol-fa (Boston to Beijing), Engineer 2005
- Far From Falling (The Weight of it All), Mixer 2009
- Kidnap Kings (Flashing Lights and Sound), Engineer/Producer 2009
- Robert Robinson, Engineer 2009
- New Medicine, Engineer/Producer 2010
- Absent I (For You), Engineer/Producer/Mixer/Writer 2010