About Underground Sun

The mission of Underground Sun is to provide the highest quality music production and engineering services available and to advance the careers and/or business objectives of its clients.

Underground Sun has been open for business since the summer of 2002.

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David Franz, owner of Underground Sun studio, wrote the book on Pro Tools—literally. Professional producer, engineer, musician, and expert Pro Tools user, Franz collaborated with Digidesign and Berklee College of Music to write the first-ever book about using Pro Tools, Producing in the Home Studio with Pro Tools, now a bestseller for Berklee Press and in its third edition. Franz uses Pro Tools everyday in his studio, on stage with his band, and in the classroom.


Working mainly from his own commercial studio, Underground Sun Studio in Boston, MA, Franz has worked with many musical artists from all over the globe in almost every genre of music. Recording, producing, mixing, and mastering music in home and professional studios for more than fifteen years, Franz is also a studio musician and tours with his band, The Bleedin Bleedins.


Translating his real-world studio and touring experience into transferable knowledge, Franz has contributed a column titled "Groundwork" to DigiZine, Digidesign's online and print magazine, for the past several years. He has also written another book for Berklee Press called Recording and Producing in the Home Studio.

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Franz wraps all these things together when teaching online courses for Berkleemusic.com. He has written two courses, Producing with Pro Tools and Recording and Producing in the Home Studio, teaching those along with the Production Workshop and Pro Tools 101 courses. He has been teaching online since the launch of Berkleemusic.com.


Franz holds a BS and MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, where he wrote his Master's thesis on mathematically modeling jazz improvisation. After Virginia Tech, Franz studied Music Production and Engineering at Berklee College of Music.