Engineering · Production

Michael Wagener

Michael Wagener is credited on 1,876 releases across 314 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1979–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,876

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314

Albums

Decades active

970

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Biography

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Guitarist, audio engineer and producer. Born 25 April 1949 in Wuppertal, Germany.
Owner and operator of and.
In 1962 he bought his first guitar and as a 13 year old boy he started to make music with his band together with Udo Dirkschneider which later turned into Accept.
In 1972 he got introduced to the world of engineering at Stramp (Hamburg, Germany) where he built studio and stage equipment.
In 1979 he built his own studio called / (Hamburg, Germany) but moved the same year to Los Angeles (USA) where he started working at Larrabee Sound Studios (Hollywood, USA).
But he moved something like back to Germany where he worked with Accept on their tour through Europe in 1980 and at their first record.
From 1981 an 1984 he worked as engineer and mixer in Germany and founded the production company Double Trouble Productions together with Udo Dirkschneider in 1983.
In 1984 he finally moved to the USA for good because he got lots of good jobs offered and moved his company to Los Angeles (USA).
In 1996 he moved to Nashville (USA) and built his (Nashville, USA).
Wagener has worked with Ozzy Osbourne, Helloween, Metallica and Skid Row.

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