# Nicolas Vernhes

Nicolas Jean Vernhes is a French record producer, recording engineer and record label owner. He is best known for his work with the American indie rock acts Animal Collective, Deerhunter, The Fiery Furnaces, Dirty Projectors, Wild Nothing and The War on Drugs.
Vernhes operates out of his own studio, Rare Book Room Studios, in Brooklyn, New York.

## Biography

Vernhes was raised in Paris, France, before moving to the United States at a young age: "I grew up in Paris and moved to the states when I was 12. I ended up in New York at 20 to finish college, thinking I might go back to France afterwards and knew I could not go back before living here. I never left."
Vernhes was also a member of the short-lived indie rock band Baby Tooth, playing guitar and backing vocals. The band released one single and an EP before becoming inactive in 1994. His studio, Rare Book Room Studios, is named after the band's EP of the same name.

## Discography

| Year | Title | Artist | Credits |
| 1994 | Rare Book Room | Baby Tooth | Guitar, backing vocals |
| 1995 | Eponymous | Pumpernickel | Recording |
| 1996 | Guv'ner Goes To Catpowerland | Guv'ner/Cat Power | Recording |
| 1996 | Yeah You | Versus | Recording |
| 1996 | Glitter of Love | Versus | Recording |
| 1996 | State of the Union | Various Artists | Recording |
| 1996 | Only Cowards Walk Like Cowards | Containe | Producer, recording |
| 1996 | Soundtrack For Disaster | Shove | Recording, mixing |
| 1996 | Evergreen | Evergreen | Recording |
| 1996 | Nothing Changes | Humidifier | Recording |
| 1996 | Umbrella Wars | Spent | Recording |
| 1996 | A Seat Beneath The Chairs | Spent | Recording |
| 1996 | The Hunt | Guv'ner | Engineer |
| 1996 | Deep Red | Versus | Recording, producer |
| 1996 | Secret Swingers | Versus | Recording |
| 1996 | Break A Promise | Guv'ner | Engineer |
| 1996 | French | French | Recording |
| 1996 | Heroines | Ruby Falls | Engineer |
| 1996 | Dear Sir / Bricks | Crown Heights | Recording, mixing |
| 1997 | Rodeo | Les Savy Fav | Recording |
| 1997 | It's Alright, You're O.K. | Chisel | Recording |
| 1997 | The Van Pelt | The Van Pelt | Recording |
| 1997 | 3/5 | Les Savy Fav | Recording, mixing, mastering |
| 1997 | Set You Free | Chisel | Recording |
| 1997 | Birds Don't Think They're Flying | The Pacific Ocean | Recording, producer |
| 1997 | Sit Down | Run On | Recording, mixing |
| 1997 | French 2 | French | Recording |
| 1997 | The Feud Versus Yr Universe | The Feud | Recording |
| 1998 | Betrayal! | The Lapse | Recording |
| 1998 | American Water | Silver Jews | Producer |
| 1998 | Our Coastal Hymn | Les Savy Fav | Recording |
| 1998 | Two Cents Plus Tax | Versus | Recording |
| 1998 | Spectral Worship | Guv'ner | Mastering, recording, mixing |
| 1998 | Trifecta | Stratotanker | Engineer |
| 1998 | The Zeppelin Record | Dogbowl | Engineer, mixing |
| 1998 | Malamute Jute | Doug Gillard | Mastering |
| 1998 | Never Kept A Diary | Various Artists | Mixing, recording |
| 1998 | 3Sounds | Hippopotamus/Project 3 | Engineer |
| 1998 | Ma Colère | Françoiz Breut | Recording |
| 1999 | Everything Is Nice (The Matador Records 10th Anniversary Anthology) | Various Artists | Recording, engineer |
| 1999 | Remué | Dominique A. | Recording |
| 1999 | The Cat and the Cobra | Les Savy Fav | Producer |
| 1999 | Afterglow | Versus | Recording, producer |
| 1999 | Let's Start A Family | Bonnie Prince Billy | Recording |
| 1999 | The Cat and the Cobra | Les Savy Fav | Recording |
| 1999 | Medium Crash | Perio | Recording, mixing, producer |
| 1999 | Sawgrass Subligette | Fly Ashtray | Mastering |
| 1999 | It's So Good To Be Here In Paris | Pilot to Gunner | Recording |
| 1999 | Less Than The Needle, More Than The Shotgun | The Pacific Ocean | Producer, recording |
| 2000 | The Covers Record | Cat Power | Engineer |
| 2000 | Elysian Fields | Various Artists | Recording |
| 2000 | The Spectrum Between | David Grubbs | Recording |
| 2000 | Rome | Les Savy Fav | Recording |
| 2000 | Heaven Ain't Happening | The Lapse | Recording |
| 2000 | Peregrine | Tara Jane O'Neil | Mixing |
| 2000 | Hall of Fame | Hall of Fame | Mixing |
| 2000 | Up With What I'm Down With | The Holy Childhood | Recording, engineer |
| 2000 | The Coxcomb/Avocado | David Grubbs | Recording |
| 2000 | Torch Song/All In Doubt | Unwound/Versus | Recording |
| 2000 | Fischerspooner | Fischerspooner | Producer |
| 2000 | [Technology] (A Compilation of Remixes) | Various Artists | Recording |
| 2000 | Rubic Records 01 | Various Artists | Engineer |
| 2000 | Revival | Reid Paley | Recording, mixing |
| 2000 | Lights at Night | The Hong Kong | Recording |
| 2001 | Emerge | Fischerspooner | Producer |
| 2001 | Thirty Minute Raven | David Grubbs | Mastering |
| 2001 | Sun and Steel: The Lost Recordings of Yukio Mishima | Theo Angell | Mixing, mastering |
| 2001 | New Problems | k. (Karla Schickele) | Mixing |
| 2001 | Inner Boroughs | Dan Brown | Recording, mixing |
| 2001 | Rickets & Scurvy | David Grubbs | Recording, electronics |
| 2002 | Beaches & Canyons | Black Dice | Recording |
| 2002 | Lost Valley | Black Dice | Mixing |
| 2002 | S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. | Out Hud | Recording |
| 2002 | Purely Evil | The Rogers Sisters | Recording, mixing |
| 2002 | The Fist and the Laurels | Speedking | Producer, mixing |
| 2002 | Act Five Scene One | David Grubbs | Mastering |
| 2002 | Heaven, Hell, or Houston | The Naysayer | Mixing, mastering |
| 2002 | Ultra. 80's vs Electro 01 | David Waxman | Producer |
| 2002 | Le Détour | Dominique A. | Recording, mixing, drums |
| 2002 | Hearts of Oak | Ted Leo and the Pharmacists | Recording, producer |
| 2002 | Are You Down?? | Panthers | Recording |
| 2003 | Here Comes the Indian | Animal Collective | Engineer |
| 2003 | Gallowsbird's Bark | The Fiery Furnaces | Engineer, mastering |
| 2004 | Blueberry Boat | The Fiery Furnaces | Engineer, mixing, drums |
| 2007 | Cryptograms | Deerhunter | Mixing |
| 2007 | Fluorescent Grey | Deerhunter | Mixing |
| 2007 | Strawberry Jam | Animal Collective | Engineer, mixing, tracking |
| 2008 | Water Curses | Animal Collective | Mixing, tracking |
| 2008 | Microcastle | Deerhunter | Engineer, mixing, keyboards |
| 2008 | Real Emotional Trash | Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks | Mixing |
| 2009 | Dark Was the Night | Various Artists | Engineer, mixing |
| 2009 | Rainwater Cassette Exchange | Deerhunter | Engineer |
| 2009 | Got Nuffin | Spoon | Engineer |
| 2009 | Bitte Orca | Dirty Projectors | Additional production, mixing |
| 2010 | Transference | Spoon | Engineer, mixing |
| 2010 | Mount Wittenberg Orca | Dirty Projectors & Björk | Engineer, mixing |
| 2011 | Sondre Lerche | Sondre Lerche | Co-producer, mixing, engineer |
| 2011 | Parallax | Atlas Sound | Producer, engineer, mixing, programming |
| 2012 | Silent Hour/Golden Mile | Daniel Rossen | Mixing |
| 2012 | Nocturne | Wild Nothing | Producer, engineer, mixing |
| 2013 | Monomania | Deerhunter | Producer, engineer |
| 2013 | Id | Wise Blood | Co-producer, engineer, mixing |
| 2014 | Lost in the Dream | The War on Drugs | Engineer, mixing, organ, tambourine |
| 2014 | At Best Cuckold | Avi Buffalo | Mixing |
| 2014 | Le Monde Möö | Moodoïd | Producer, engineer, mixing |
| 2014 | Eight Houses | She Keeps Bees | Producer, engineer, mixing |
| 2014 | Imaginary Third | The Van Pelt | Mixing, recording |
| 2015 | Sprinter | TORRES | Mixing |
| 2015 | Foil Deer | Speedy Ortiz | Producer, mixing |
| 2015 | Jaakko Eino Kalevi | Jaakko Eino Kalevi | Mixing |
| 2015 | Best Blues | Small Black | Mixing |
| 2016 | Not to Disappear | Daughter | Producer, mixing |
| 2016 | SVIIB | School of Seven Bells | Engineer |
| 2016 | Sleep Cycle | Deakin | Recording, mixing |
| 2016 | Eyes on the Lines | Steve Gunn | Mixing |
| 2017 | Hard Love | Strand of Oaks | Producer, engineer, mixing, various instruments |
| 2017 | A Deeper Understanding | The War on Drugs | Engineer |
| 2018 | Room Inside the World | Ought | Producer, various instruments |
| 2018 | Constant Image | Flasher | Producer |
| 2018 | Roadhouses | Roadhouses | Producer, mixing, synths |
| 2918 | Eazy Dazy | Fraser A. Gorman | Mixing, producer |
| 2019 | All The Black | Cat Clyde | Producer |
| 2019 | War on Love | Patti Yang Group | Mixing |
| 2019 | Institute | Kotokoto | Recording, writer |
| 2020 | Jerome/Rolex | Endless Boogie/Weak Signal | Recording |
| 2020 | The New Water | Pia Fraus | Producer, mixing |
| 2021 | Cheap Dreams | Small Black | Mixing |
| 2021 | Making And Then Unmaking | Derek Piotr | Technician |
| 2021 | Hope/Staying | Opera Alaska | Mixing |
| 2021 | Always Dancing | Mazey Haze | Mixing |
| 2022 | HX | Moss | Mixing |
| 2022 | Forever (and More) | Beau | Producer, engineer |
| 2022 | Cockroach in a Ghost Town | Slang | Mixing, mastering |
| 2022 | Best Piece of Shit Vol. 4 | The Hated | Mixing, transferring |
| 2023 | No More Blue Skies | Gold Dime | Mixing |
| 2024 | So Sick | Cig Corpse | Mixing |