# Mark Trombino

Mark Trombino (born May 23, 1966) is an American multi-platinum record producer, musician, and audio engineer. He has produced, engineered, and mixed tracks for many artists including Jimmy Eat World, Blink-182, The Starting Line, Finch, Motion City Soundtrack, and All Time Low. As a drummer, he recorded and toured with Drive Like Jehu, aMiniature, Night Soil Man, and First Offense.
Since 2013 Trombino has been active in the boutique food space, running a donut shop called "Donut Friend" in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. In 2019 a second location was opened in downtown Los Angeles. In January 2021, Trombino came under fire after an anonymous Twitter account claimed he terminated several employees for attempting to organize for better working conditions and form a union.

## Selected discography

| Year | Artist | Title | Label | Role |
| 1991 | Drive Like Jehu | Drive Like Jehu | Headhunter Records | Drums, composer, producer |
| 1994 | Heavy Vegetable | Amazing Undersea Adventures of Aqua Kitty and Friends | Headhunter Records | Producer, engineer, mixer |
| 1994 | Garden Variety | Knocking the Skill Level | Headhunter Records | Mixer |
| 1994 | Drive Like Jehu | Yank Crime | Interscope Records | Mixer, engineer, drums |
| 1994 | Drip Tank | Sprawl | Headhunter Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1995 | Sinkhole | Space Freak | Dr. Strange Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1995 | Swivelneck | Baby Cry Cry | Headhunter Records | Mixer, engineer |
| 1995 | Tanner | Ill Gotten Gains | Headhunter Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1995 | aMiniature | Murk Time Cruiser | Restless Records | Mixer, engineer, drums |
| 1995 | Heavy Vegetable | Frisbee | Headhunter Records | Mixer, engineer |
| 1995 | Boilermaker | Watercourse | Goldenrod Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1995 | Rocket from the Crypt | Scream, Dracula, Scream! | Interscope Records | Mixer, engineer |
| 1995 | Carlos | Amy Armageddon | Headhunter Records | Mixer, engineer |
| 1996 | Chune | Big Hat, No Cattle | Headhunter Records | Mixer, engineer |
| 1996 | Wank | Get a Grip on Yourself | Warner Bros. Records | Producer |
| 1996 | Jimmy Eat World | Static Prevails | Capitol Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1996 | The PeeChees | Do the Math | Kill Rock Stars | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1996 | No Knife | Drunk on the Moon | Goldenrod Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1996 | Sinkhole | Core Sample | Ringing Ear Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1996 | Boilermaker | In Wallace's Shadow | Goldenrod Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1996 | Thumbnail | Thumbnail | Headhunter Records | Mixer |
| 1996 | Creedle | When the Wind Blows | Headhunter Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1997 | Boys Life | Boys Life | Crank! A Record Company | Mixer, engineer |
| 1997 | Crumbox | Resident Double U | Time Bomb Recordings | Mixer, engineer |
| 1997 | Go Dog Go | Glad to be Unhappy | Ichiban | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1997 | Knapsack | Day Three of My New Life | Alias Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1997 | Fluf | Waikiki | Headhunter Records | Mixer, engineer |
| 1997 | Blink-182 | Dude Ranch | MCA Records | Producer, mixer, engineer, keyboards |
| 1997 | Thingy | Songs About Angels, Evil, and Running Around on Fire | Headhunter Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1997 | No Knife | Hit Man Dreams | Time Bomb Recordings | Producer, mixer, engineer, keyboards |
| 1997 | Three Mile Pilot | Another Desert, Another Sea | Headhunter Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1998 | The Specials | Guilty 'til Proved Innocent! | MCA Records | Mixer |
| 1998 | Fluf | Road Rage | Headhunter Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1998 | Mineral | EndSerenading | Crank! A Record Company | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1998 | Knapsack | This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now | Alias Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1998 | Smile | Girl Crushes Boy | Atlantic Records | Mixer, engineer, keyboards |
| 1999 | Action League | Interrupt This Program | Vegas Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1999 | Jimmy Eat World | Clarity | Capitol Records | Producer, mixer, engineer, keyboards, string arrangements |
| 1999 | Husking Bee | Put on Fresh Paint | Doghouse | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 1999 | The Hippos | Heads Are Gonna Roll | Interscope Records | Producer, engineer |
| 1999 | Helicopter | Helicopter | Headhunter Records | Mixer |
| 1999 | Sinkhole | Retrospecticles | Dr. Strange Records | Mixer, engineer |
| 1999 | Inch | This Will Fall on Dead Ears | Headhunter Records | Mixer, engineer, keyboards, programming |
| 2000 | Thingy | To the Innocent | Headhunter Records | Mixer, engineer |
| 2000 | Poor Rich Ones | Happy Happy Happy | Rec 90 | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2000 | Midtown | Save the World, Lose the Girl | Drive-Thru Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2000 | Mock Orange | The Record Play | Lobster Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2000 | The Jealous Sound | The Jealous Sound | Better Looking Records | Mixer |
| 2000 | Weston | Massed Alpert Sounds | Mojo Records/Jive Records | Mixer |
| 2000 | Jebediah | Of Someday Shambles | Big Wheel Recreation | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2001 | Creeper Lagoon | Take Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday | DreamWorks SKG | Producer, engineer |
| 2001 | The Moffatts | "Just Another Phase" | EMI | Mixer, engineer |
| 2001 | Bad Astronaut | Acrophobe | Honest Don's | Mixer |
| 2001 | The Icarus Line | Mono | Crank! A Record Company | Engineer |
| 2001 | Husking Bee | Four Color Problem | Doghouse | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2001 | Jimmy Eat World | Bleed American | Geffen Records | Producer, mixer, engineer, programming |
| 2001 | Boilermaker | Leucadia | Better Looking Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2002 | Ash | Intergalactic Sonic 7″s | Sony Music | Mixer |
| 2002 | Finch | What It Is to Burn | Drive-Thru Records/MCA | Producer, mixer, engineer, programming |
| 2002 | Midtown | Living Well is the Best Revenge | Drive-Thru Records/MCA | Producer, mixer, engineer, programming |
| 2002 | Stickfigure | Ape of the Kings | What Are Records? | Mixer |
| 2002 | Magna-Fi | Burn Out the Stars | Gold Circle Records | Mixer |
| 2002 | The Starting Line | Say It Like You Mean It | Drive-Thru Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2003 | Gob | Foot in Mouth Disease | Arista | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2003 | Something Corporate | Songs for Silent Movies | Drive-Thru Records/MCA | Producer |
| 2003 | Diffuser | Making the Grade | Hollywood Records | Producer, mixer, engineer, drums |
| 2003 | The Living End | Modern Artillery | Reprise Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2003 | Val Emmich | Val Emmich | Epic Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2003 | Sugarcult | Palm Trees and Power Lines | Fearless Records | Mixer |
| 2003 | Rilo Kiley | More Adventurous | Barsuk Records | Producer, engineer |
| 2004 | Denver Harbor | Scenic | Universal Records | Producer, engineer, mixer, programming |
| 2004 | Jimmy Eat World | Believe in What You Want | Interscope Records | Mixer |
| 2004 | Jimmy Eat World | Futures | Interscope Records | Producer, engineer |
| 2004 | Reeve Oliver | Reeve Oliver | The Militia Group | Mixer |
| 2005 | Motion City Soundtrack | Commit This to Memory | Epitaph Records | Mixer |
| 2005 | Gyroscope | Are You Involved? | Festival Mushroom Records | Producer |
| 2005 | The Bled | Found in the Flood | Vagrant Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2005 | Jimmy Eat World | Stay on My Side Tonight | Interscope Records | Producer, engineer |
| 2005 | Social Code | A Year at the Movies | Interscope Records | Mixer |
| 2006 | Madina Lake | From Them, Through Us, To You | Roadrunner Records | Producer, engineer, mixer |
| 2006 | Rock Kills Kid | Are You Nervous? | Reprise Records | Producer, engineer |
| 2007 | I Hate Kate | Embrace the Curse | Glass Note Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2007 | Silverstein | Arrivals & Departures | Victory Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2007 | Pinback | Autumn of the Seraphs | Touch & Go Records | Mixer |
| 2007 | Moving Units | Hexes for Exes | Metropolis Records | Engineer |
| 2007 | Steel Train | Trampoline | Drive-Thru Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2008 | Alive in Wild Paint | Ceilings | Equal Vision Records | Producer, engineer |
| 2008 | Socratic | Spread the Rumors | Drive-Thru Records | Mixer |
| 2008 | Sing It Loud | Come Around | Epitaph Records | Mixer |
| 2009 | The Audition | Self-Titled Album | Victory Records | Producer, engineer, mixer |
| 2010 | Valencia | Dancing with a Ghost | I Surrender Records | Producer, Mixer |
| 2010 | Steel Train | Steel Train | Terrible Thrills | Mixer |
| 2010 | Jimmy Eat World | Invented | Interscope Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2011 | All Time Low | Dirty Work | Geffen/Hopeless Records | Mixer |
| 2012 | Tonight Alive | What Are You So Scared Of? | Fearless Records | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2013 | The Wonder Years | The Greatest Generation | Hopeless Records | Mixer |

## Accomplishments

| Band | Album/single | RIAA Certification |
| Blink-182 | Dude Ranch | Platinum |
| Jimmy Eat World | Bleed American | Platinum |