Mark Ignoffo

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Mark Ignoffo
ArtistsThe Smashing Pumpkins
RoleProducer, engineer
Years active1988–1989
Instagram@markignoffo

Mark Ignoffo is a producer and engineer who worked with The Smashing Pumpkins during their sessions at Reel Time Studios in the late 1980s. He played a synthesized organ on the original 1989 recording of "Rhinoceros". Sometime after the sessions concluded, Ignoffo moved his studio to Florida.[1]

As the story goes, Ignoffo was talking to a musician who insisted he meet an "incredible guitar player" named Billy Corgan, and that's how the collaboration began. The Pumpkins and Ignoffo worked together for about a year. In an interview with SPFreaks, Ignoffo said "I think to this day that [Corgan's] amp was one of the loudest I ever recorded in the studio".[1]

Production credits[edit | edit source]

Year Album
1989 Moon Demo
1989 The Smashing Pumpkins

Studio sessions[edit | edit source]

Session Albums
Late 1988 – Reel Time Studios Light Into Dark
Summer 1989 – Reel Time Studios Moon DemoThe Smashing Pumpkins (promo)
Summer 1989 – Reel Time Studios (acoustic) Reel Time Sessions II

References[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Folkers, Geo (June 24, 2014). "Mark Ignoffo Talks Smashing Pumpkins". SPFreaks. Retrieved May 4, 2021.