Mel Daneke

Owner + RECORDING + Mixing Engineer | producer | arranger
AUSTIN, TX, NYC

Mel Daneke is an award winning, internationally recognized producer, performer, arranger, and educator. 

As a producer through her company Viridian Productions, she has produced hundreds of albums nominated for over 80 and winning over 25 Contemporary A Cappella Awards, 15 A Cappella Video Awards. Her production and arrangements can be heard on compilations like Sing, BOHSA, BOCA, and Voices Only. She has been a voting member of The Recording Academy since 2022.

Mel currently performs with two internationally renowned and award winning vocal bands. Musae (as a Beatboxer + Live Producer) and Six Appeal (as a Vocalist). She’s traveled extensively headlining and performing at festivals across Europe, Asia and North America, at events such as the US Open and the Oscars, sharing the stage with Pentatonix, Jay Leno, Pink Martini, The Swingles, and New York Voices.

With degrees in Vocal Perfomance and Music Technology, she specializes in in-studio coaching and group masterclasses and has served as a featured educator at nationally recognized a cappella festivals and ACDA conferences.

David Shane

Editor | producer
boston, ma

Based north of Boston, MA, David is an aspiring recording engineer, producer, and performer of many different types of genres and music - especially a cappella. He is currently studying at Ithaca College where he is working towards his B.M. in Sound Recording Technology with a concentration in Cello Performance and is projected to graduate in the spring of 2021. His degree and his job at IC, Ithaca College Recording Services, has allowed him to explore his love for both live sound reinforcement and studio recording. He has worked with many different types of musicians and groups at IC ranging from choruses and orchestras, to jazz bands, even to a beatboxing flute artist.

Outside of college, David loves to work with various artists and groups on recording projects to help their music come alive. His most recent works include editing and mixing virtual recordings of Over The Rainbow for Ithacappella, as well as Earth Song by Frank Ticheli for First Church in Wenham, MA. He also enjoys producing, recording, and creating his own music influenced by various genres such as classical, jazz, rock, indie, electronic, and a cappella music.

Performing is also a very important part of David’s life. In college, he has been a part of many performing groups such as the IC Madrigal Singers, Chorus, Chamber and Symphony Orchestras, and multiple student-organized bands playing drums. One of the most important and impactful performing groups to him is Ithacappella - Ithaca College’s all-male-identifying a cappella group - where he sings bass, vocal percussion, and is the group’s Sound Manager. This group influenced and brought him his love and passion for the human voice, its endless capabilities, and a cappella.